METHOD OF STATEMENT FOR SURVEY

1. Planimetric Control

Planimetric control shall be provided by Total Station Traversing. Traverse shall be tied up
to any nearby cadastral survey marks with a closing error better than 1 in 4000. Boundary
marks, if found within the specified survey corridor shall be located and tied to the proposed
control traverse line.

2. Height Control

a) All works shall start from at least 2 Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan Malaysia (JUPEM)
bench marks (BM). The height control shall be established by leveling from existing
BM and for the purpose, the surveyor shall take the shortest and most practical route.
b) All Temporary Bench Marks (TBM) shall be connected by a closed leveling net which
shall be tied to a minimum of two JUPEM bench marks.
c) The accuracy of the survey between the Survey Department’s BM shall not exceed the
lesser of the following:
i) ± 16mm
ii) ± 20√ k mm, where k is sum of distance leveled in kilometers. Every day’s work
shall be tied back to the starting point of the day.

3. Monumenting

a) This involves the construction of special type of reference markers. TBM and
intersection points.
b) The surveyor is required to establish TBM at the proposed facilities.
c) The TBM shall be constructed out of a 1 meter length of 25mm diameter. Galvanized
iron pipe set in concrete of dimension 300mm x 300mm x 150mm. The pipe shall be
filled with concrete of cement and brass bolt or stud shall be affixed onto the mortar at
the top of the pipe. Nails embedded on tarred or concrete surfaces shall be allowed or
TBM on existing roads and footpaths.
d) The TBM number and the reduced level of the TBM shall be written in red paints on
the concrete. All TBM must be related to the Approved Government Bench Marks of
second order.

4. Field Survey And Traversing (Land Survey Work)

The surveyor shall perform all field survey work necessary to locate accurately the location
and dimensions of the following existing features within the proposed area for survey:
a) Roads, track and paths, including pedestrian crossing and bridges, culverts, kerb lines
and road furniture.
b) Railway track and levels crossing
c) Structures, indicate whether dwelling, industrial or other use, type of construction,
tanks sewage disposal works etc.
d) Manholes and valve markers of water, sewer and gas pipeline.
e) Water courses, drains and their discharge direction, lakes or mining pools and swamps.
APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY

Survey Method

1) The survey shall be carried out with up to date instrument using total station.
2) Back sights and foresights for level surveys should be approximately equalized at each
instrument set up in order to cancel any possible instrument errors.
3) The prism stands and/or staves must be kept efficai (with a staff bubble) and placed on
metal base plates at all change points.
4) The observer will avoid reading the bottom 20cm and the top 20cm of the staff.

Book Keeping

Manual booking shall be done in bound field books, in good style and according to the best
practice. All entries shall be made in pencil, wrong entries shall be neatly struck out and
rewritten and there shall be no erasures. All field books shall be made available for inspection
by the S.O or his representatives at all times throughout the progress of the survey work.

Electronic and manual field books shall record all relevant information such as observer,
time/date, station instrument number, general sketch and description at any point (a site datum,
BM, wooden pegs) and adverse weather and light conditions.
Electronic field books shall be suitable for down loading into surveyor’s database and reduction
software. Diagrams of traverse, levels, tachometry, longitudinal and cross sections shall be
made.