Land Surveying

Looking to Start a Surveying Project?

Give us a call at (907) 243-8985 or submit a request and we will reach out to you as soon as possible.

Give us a call at (907) 243-8985 or use our Surveying Request Form to and we will reach out to you as soon as possible.

As-Builts and Mortgage Surveys

These surveys are typically used for buying/selling a home or planning for a new addition. As-Built surveys locate improvements on a site relative to the property lines. Features shown on these include buildings, sheds, driveways, and other visible, above ground improvements. As-builts also show easements recorded on the record plat, legal access, and the record boundary information. A specialized type of as-built survey is a utility as-built survey which shows the existing above ground and underground utility locations.  LCG Lantech has performed as-built surveys all over the state and have an extensive amount of As-Built information in the Municipality of Anchorage to offer Recertified As-Builts. 

Lot Stake/Boundary Survey

If you’re building a new fence, developing a vacant lot or just wondering where the extents of your property are, LCG Lantech can perform a lot stake survey. During a lot stake a survey crew will search for monuments on your lot and in your subdivision to determine the location of your boundary lines. If monuments are missing and need to be reset, a record of survey or a record of monumentation is filed at State of Alaska Recorder’s Office. Once the boundary lines are established, LCG Lantech can set a variety of markers along the lines like wood stakes, wood hubs, metal spikes and flagging to ensure you or your contractor can locate them.  In some jurisdictions, prior to building a house or subdividing the land, the corners may be required to be marked with survey monuments.

Plot Plan

LCG Lantech begins a plot plan by completing an as-built survey of your property to locate and show all improvements. Once these have been located, a topographic survey is performed to show drainage and the lay of the land on your site. The new proposed additions or structures are shown on the as-built survey to create the plot plan. Plot plans are useful for determining the best location to add an improvement while making sure to avoid building in property line setbacks or existing easements. Plot plans stamped by a State of Alaska, Registered Professional Surveyor are typically required in some jurisdictions in Alaska before proceeding with construction.

Topographic Survey

These vary from small sites to surveying the whole property to observe the slope of the land for future development. Part of doing these involves getting tied into existing local control for vertical elevations, then measurements are taken across the subject land which we then generate contours and slopes to show on the plan. These are useful for determining where to build a new home and where to build a new road. The topography may be required to reference a vertical benchmark that has a known elevation. This can be referred to as a vertical datum and is commonly referenced in Anchorage as GAAB 72. Contour maps are generated from topographic surveys.

Building Stake

Building a new structure on a lot throughout the state requires property research to verify the building is not being placed in an easement or too close to the property line. LCG Lantech provides a service for staking out foundation corners to help assure that the building you are planning to construct ends up in the same spot per the plan you designed it from.  Information from a plot plan is used to determine the location of the building relative to the lot lines.  LCG Lantech can also provide construction staking for roads, excavation, cell phone towers, and other proposed structures.

Platting and Subdividing

A process by which lot lines are created or removed from a parcel of land. LCG Lantech has extensive experience performing subdivisions throughout the state. An as-built survey, topographic survey and search for existing monuments may be needed.  The region you’re in defines which platting authority to use and the requirements for the plat. An example of a local jurisdiction would be an area such as Anchorage; an example of a borough jurisdiction, would be the Matsu Borough.  Other platting jurisdictions include Federal and State.  One of the first tasks for a plat is to submit a preliminary copy of your plan to the corresponding platting authority to ensure what you’d like to do is possible within the platting authority’s requirements for subdivisions.  LCG Lantech works closely with the client and the platting authority to ensure the preliminary plat meets the needs of the client.  After approval by the platting authority and the client, LCG Lantech typically sends out a survey crew for monument reconnaissance and boundary line delineation to determine the exterior and interior boundaries of your subdivision. After this, the survey crew sets monuments at the corners of the new property lines. After the monuments are set the final plat is finished, then it is signed by the respective owners and submitted to the local platting authority for recording the plat in the appropriate State of Alaska Recording District.

Thank you for your interest in LCG Lantech’s Surveying services. Please give us a call if you have any questions.

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