01Services
Eight service lines, one standard — tied to national control, independently checked and documented so it can be defended later.
We establish and re-establish parcel boundaries, recover lost beacons and prepare the survey documentation that supports a Certificate of Title. Every job is tied to national control and lodged in the format the Ministry of Lands expects.
Terrain, levels, drainage, existing structures and services captured to the density your design team actually needs — supplied as a clean, layered CAD model rather than a cloud of unlabelled points.
From regularisation of unplanned settlements to greenfield layout design, we prepare planning drawings and subdivision schemes ready for authority submission and approval.
Reliable control is the part of a project nobody sees and everything depends on. We observe, adjust and document control networks so that every downstream survey on the site closes.
Ground-controlled aerial capture producing survey-grade orthomosaics and surface models — particularly suited to large estates, quarries and corridor projects where conventional ground survey would be slow.
We design and populate spatial databases, digitise legacy records and build the map products that let institutions manage land holdings rather than merely file them.
Grid establishment, foundation and column setting out, level control through the build, and as-built surveys confirming what was actually constructed against what was designed.
Corridor strip surveys, longitudinal sections and cross-sections, plus the way-leave and acquisition mapping that has to happen before construction can start.
09How we work
The order exists because doing it any other way is how errors get built into a file.
We walk the ground with you, confirm the extent, check existing records at the registry and tell you plainly what the job needs.
Control is observed and adjusted first. Only then does detail capture begin — GNSS, total station or UAV depending on the terrain.
Observations are reduced, checked against independent closures and drafted into the plan set your approval pathway requires.
A second surveyor checks every plan before it leaves the office. We then lodge it and follow it through the approval queue.
10Questions
Field work on a typical urban plot takes a day. The determining factor is almost always the approval queue at the lands office, not the survey itself — we will give you a realistic timeline at the briefing stage.
Yes. Mpanda is our base, but we mobilise across the western regions and beyond for corridor, estate and UAV projects.
Any existing title documents, prior survey plans, sale agreements or sketch plans you hold. If nothing exists, we start with a records search.
We can re-establish boundaries from record evidence and produce a technical report on the findings. Where a matter is in dispute, that report is prepared to be defensible.
Yes — layered DWG or DXF as standard, alongside PDF plan sets. GIS deliverables are supplied as shapefiles or geopackage.