How much would a Topographic Survey of this parcel go for in your area? With trees located? Lakes asbuilt/cross sectioned?
Just want to see how the rest of the world/Beerleg compares...
Hard to estimate without some dimensions/areas on the lakes, but I think I would be in the ballpark of $38K to $43K.
Possible to fly it and do Lidar photogrammetry on some or all ?
Cheers,
Derek
I wouldn't be that high, maybe $10,000 to $20,000.
Is aerial ok?
> I wouldn't be that high, maybe $10,000 to $20,000.
Are you out of your mind? I though the 38-43k was low.
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> The worst enemy of our profession is ourselves.
IKR?
Lots of variables there.....
I was thinking 2 months; @ 1k a day that's about 60k-give or take.....
lidar: but only with a GOOD firm that knows what they are doing, then you do the water and void areas, couldn't even guess until I chatted with the lidar folks.
They can't afford to hire me. And, even if they tried, I would want every dollar upfront. As a one-crew shop, we would have to chase off far too many regular clients if we dedicated ourselves to this project.
> Possible to fly it and do Lidar photogrammetry on some or all ?
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> Cheers,
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> Derek
The site is densely wooded with yellow pine and under brush.
Elevations throughout the site don't vary more than 3'-5'...flat and low. Drainage will be a challenge for any future development.
Doesn't having to locate trees negate the advantages of Lidar? You are going to have to traverse the entire parcel anyway ... locate the trees in 3D and your topo is almost done.
You could buy or rent one of those R/C boats that have GPS and sonar, to do the lakes. From what I've seen, those things would make short work of those lakes.
The company I used to work for did one similar in 2006 (no lakes, but lots of "wetlands") for about $60K.
BTW, is this some defunct development from the 00s? You can still see where someone cut out the roads and the man-made lakes to fit a subdivision with mostly "waterfront" lots ... then probably ran out of money when the economy crashed.
80K...
I am new at estimation, but I would guess $35,000 for the topo + $5 per tree (thats going to be the expensive part, maybe double the topo cost) and I am not sure how much the hydro would cost (I figure that would be the easiest part, maybe 4k-5k).
As a stand alone survey I would be in Joe's range or higher; but I can't see anyone doing this without development work in the pipeline, so a multidisciplinary firm would probably discount the initial survey to buy the design and stake out.
About what I get. 2 days per pond/soundings, 24 days topo/trees,8 days boundary, 160 hours office/calcs/drafting.
$1000 an acre. Of course I would offer options that could be less expensive up front. Such as limit to areas of certain veg types and or tree size limits, contour intervals less than 2, whatever, etc.. But I wouldn't put much time into it. They will just use your advice to hire someone else for cheaper; unless you convince them up front they should retain you, and then discuss options and costs. I have found theses things are a waste of time for the most part unless you really need work and are willing to do it the cheapest. Otherwise, convince them to retain your services, then discuss costs. I know, it's a tough sell.
Now we're talking
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