Cadastral Survey of the Year Award
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This award celebrates excellence in the field of cadastral surveying, gives recognition to the achievements of members at the top of their game and provides a way to inform others of the impressive achievements of our members.
2024 CADASTRAL SURVEY OF THE YEAR
Previous Winners
2023 CADASTRAL SURVEY OF THE YEAR
The winners of the 2023's Cadastral Survey of the Year award were announced at the Dunedin conference Awards dinner.
GOLD – Ben Smith, Newton Survey
(DP 572823)
Mount Ella Station – conversion of a remote dairy farm, east of
Murchison, to a large scale hop growing operation. View Ben's survey poster
SILVER
– Mark Geddes, TL Survey Services (DP 548099)
The Oddity – a highly complex subdivision which encountered
numerous conflicts with the cadastral record. View Mark's survey poster
BRONZE
– Alex Harrington, BECA (SO 577255)
Legalisation survey involving the survey and establishment of
over 5.5km of new MHWS boundary with UAV in Manukau Harbour. View Alex's survey poster.
2022 CADASTRAL SURVEY OF THE YEAR
The winners of this year's Cadastral Survey of the Year award were announced at the Rotorua conference Awards dinner held at Rydges Hotel.
GOLD - Alexander Liggett, Fox & Associates Ltd (DP 519637) - view Alex's entry
Removal of Limitations for historical and native bush restoration
GOLD - Anthony Nikkel, Nikkel Surveying Ltd (DP 515021) - view Tony's entry
Incorporating the drone capture of water boundary and resolution of complexities with esplanade strips.
BRONZE - Simon Reid, CKL Ltd (City Rail Link Tunnel Surveys - view Simon's entry
Defining horizontal and vertical boundaries of strata boundaries for tunnels.
2021 CADASTRAL SURVEY OF THE YEAR
GOLD - WALLY SANFORD, LANDPRO LIMITED (SO 486878)
A Crown
subdivision of the 8,800 Ha Omarama Pastoral Lease (Omarama Station) to
facilitate the creation of Freehold land, reserves, conservation
covenants, marginal strips, access easements and hydro parcels. Survey
works required field investigations into definition at various locations
around the 48km perimeter. Definition was predominately from plans
dating from 1915. The job involved an elevation range of around 1150m
and spanned around 15km by 10 km across it's length and breadth. Around
53km was surveyed for covenant and section boundaries and around 44km of
access tracks were surveyed to create public access across the station.
SILVER - NICK TAYLOR, CUTTRISS CONSULTANTS LIMITED (DP 547240)
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purpose of this survey was to give effect to the first stage of a 7-lot
rural subdivision at Akatarawa Road, Upper Hutt. The site features
challenging topography of heavily forested areas with a rise of
approximately 300m from the western boundary to the highest point along
the eastern boundary. A large gully runs eat to west across the site.
Conventional (Total Station and GNSS) and innovative (RPAS/Drone)
solutions were employed for the survey.
BRONZE - SIMON REID, CKL LIMITED (LTs 533290 & 550385)
Engaged
by Vector to protect their rights over the Penrose-Hobson Tunnel in
Auckland, by way of 3 dimensional easements. The tunnel is approximately
9.5km in length and runs from the Penrose Substation beneath motorway,
private land and local roads, to the City Centre terminating at the
Hobson Substation. The survey involved the creation of complex 3D
easement parcels calculated from horizontal and vertical curves.
2015
GOLD TONY NIKKEL - DP 461455
A land transfer survey to complete a
large boundary adjustment involving very old survey work, poor
definition information, large miscloses, errors in underlying work and
in difficult hilly terrain covered mostly in bush.
The Judging
panel believed this survey stood out due to it being an exceptional
example of good survey practice, with thorough reporting and excellent
attention to detail.
SILVER - BRIAN CURTIS, SO 460481
A complex and innovative
three-dimensional legalisation survey of the replacement Newmarket
Viaduct; comprising over 200 parcels with inclined air space parcels and
a subterranean tubular easement.
The Judging panel rated this survey highly due to its high complexity and innovative use of technology.
BRONZE - STUART WALLACE AND TONY NIKKEL, DP 466668
A land transfer
survey to remove limitations from a limited title that had one
boundary, in particular, that was significantly incorrectly represented
in Landonline.
The Judging panel believed this survey was carried
out using exceptional investigation, research and innovation to
determine the water boundary location. They were also impressed with the
good survey practice, thorough reporting and excellent communication
with LINZ.
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