While our partners at Hexagon and Voyansi are able to use construction visualization technology that allows VDC teams to virtually examine a project for clashes before any actual building occurs, there’s incredible value in a pre-construction site survey.
And while site survey construction photography occurs before crews break ground on the project, the photos and data collected remain useful and important all the way through to build completion. And they can save projects a lot of money.
What is a site survey?
A site survey is an insurance plan for your jobsite. Before anyone breaks ground on a jobsite, Multivista reality capture experts come on site with high-definition cameras to capture a complete record of the existing conditions of the jobsite and the immediate surroundings—streets, curbs, sidewalks, landscaping, structures, and neighboring facilities—before any work is done.
Those inspection-grade property photographs are then tied to the project plans to create an indisputable archive that can easily be accessed and reviewed at any time during construction or after handover.
So, if a municipal worker or neighbor shows up mid-way through the project and claims that your work crews have cracked the pavement in their sidewalk, you can turn to the site survey to resolve the dispute. After all, it’s a time-stamped, third-party photograph that proves those cracks were there before construction began.
“Towards the end of our project [there was] a load of damage on an adjacent road,” says Sam Green, a senior site manager with Morgan Sindall Construction. Green and his team contracted Multivista for a school project in Scotland. “We went back to the site survey, which has really clear HD photos, so we could say to them, ‘Look, we haven’t caused that damage, this photo was taken on this date.’ And it covered us, and they ended up picking up the cost themselves.”
Benefits of site survey reality capture
- High-definition record of exact area conditions before construction or demolition.
- Third-party, time-stamped photographs expedite dispute resolution and liability issues.
- If damage does occur, site survey photos provide a baseline for repair or remediation.
- Photos tied to floor plans on a cloud-based platform for easy searching, annotating, and sharing by any project team member.
Full-service coverage
Multivista reality capture specialists are trained to know exactly what images and areas to capture for total site survey coverage. In just the first ten months of 2025, our specialists shot more than 660,000 site survey photographs over 1,293 project visits.
Site survey is just the beginning. Top construction companies also utilize Multivista’s aerial site maps, which provide an accurate, measurable resource for site layout, planning, and equipment tracking purposes. Once construction begins, Multivista reality capture has several resources—from 3D scanning services to security webcams to AI-empowered schedule and progress reporting.
Contact us to discover the exact solutions your project needs, from pre-construction solutions like site surveys or construction visualization, all the way through handover.
Site surveys are an quick-and-easy way to establish an indisputable baseline of all existing conditions and protect your teams for the future. Reach out to us today if you have any questions or want to get a site survey of your next project.
