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CAPABILITY STATEMENT

2016

WWW.SURVEYGROUP.COM.AU

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Contents

ABOUT SURVEY GROUP .......................................................................................................................... 2

About Survey Group ............................................................................................................................ 2

Who We Are ........................................................................................................................................ 2

OUR CAPABILITY ...................................................................................................................................... 2

Our Commitment to Quality ................................................................................................................... 4

Our Commitment to Safety ..................................................................................................................... 4

OUR LOCATIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Perth Office ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Newman Office ................................................................................................................................... 5

Port Hedland Office............................................................................................................................. 5

OUR STAFF ............................................................................................................................................. 6

Key Staff .................................................................................................................................................. 7

Ben Simpson – Managing Director...................................................................................................... 7

Brendan Evans – Director ................................................................................................................... 7

OUR SERVICES ......................................................................................................................................... 8

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION .................................................................................................. 8

MINING ............................................................................................................................................... 9

CADASTRAL ....................................................................................................................................... 10

TERRESTRIAL LIDAR SCANNING ........................................................................................................ 11

3D IMAGE CAPTURE AND ASSET MAMAGMENT .............................................................................. 12

GIS ..................................................................................................................................................... 13

UAV AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY & MAPPING ........................................................................................ 14

UNDERGROUND SERVICE DETECTION & MAPPING .......................................................................... 15

KEY PROJECTS .......................................................................................................................................... 7

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ABOUT SURVEY GROUP

About Survey Group Survey Group is an industry leader in

providing quality, efficient and local surveying

information to the Pilbara and the wider

community. Survey Group’s professional team

combines decades of experience using the

latest equipment and techniques to deliver

high quality survey solutions. Survey Group

employs a permanent team of 65 surveying

specialists. We maintain two regional offices,

at Newman and Port Hedland, with a head

office in Perth.

Survey Group has the capability and

experience to deliver survey solutions for

engineering, construction, civil, mechanical,

structural, open pit and underground mining,

cadastral and land development projects.

Who We Are Established in April 2004 by Ben Simpson

(Managing Director), Mine Survey Services Pty

Ltd, T/A Survey Group strengthened and

appointed Brendan Evans into a Technical

Director’s role in 2007, followed by Greg

Cooney as a Director in 2011, who manages

our Port Hedland Operations.

Survey Group is proud in our vision of

standing alongside our clients to provide

timely, accurate and project specific survey

solutions.

The company supplies Surveying services to

Mining, Exploration, Construction, Civil, Oil,

Gas and private sectors throughout Australia.

It is our policy to utilise the most

sophisticated surveying technology, training

regimes and quality assurance systems

available. The implementation of this

policy has enabled our company to grow

whilst continually providing high quality

services for multiple, large and varied

resource and development projects.

Survey Groups comprehensive inventory of

both human and technological resources,

means clients are provided with an overall

Survey solution. Any prospective client need

only engage in one consultancy, as the

responsibility of coordinating all the survey

services for the project rests with Survey

Group

OUR CAPABILITY Ben Simpson - Managing Director - Survey Group

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“…Survey Group’s core business philosophy is that projects should be completed safely and

correctly first time, on time, every time. …”

From Survey Groups “Quality Policy”

We are intuitive and progressive in meeting the challenges associated with all projects within the

Construction, Mining, Civil and Marine and Land Development industries throughout Australia.

Survey Group provides a level of expertise and experience which gives our clients the reassurance

that the highest quality standards are met, from inception to completion of all projects.

Exemplary quality of client service and communication is core to Survey Groups philosophy, with

employees and management sharing the same beliefs. This is demonstrated in the way projects are

structured to ensure that the company directors themselves have a guiding influence and oversee all

projects.

Our company provides a complete professional service in Project Management, Audit Surveying,

Structural and Mechanical Surveying, Engineering Surveying, Civil Surveying, Bulk Earthworks,

Construction Surveying, Licensed Land Development Surveying, Authorised Mine Surveying,

Terrestrial Laser Scanning, 3d Spherical Camera Asset database, GIS Analysis, UAV airborne

photography and volumes.

Every Facet of our business is guided through our polices, processes and procedures that ensure that

we can achieve our philosophy of our projects being “completed safely and correctly first time, on

time, every time…”

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Our Commitment to Quality

Survey Group is committed to providing our client with a quality service.

This is something we hear form every supplier, but what does this really

mean? We see the “5 tick” symbol when a business has “ticked the boxes”

for external certification, but how do you know that it doesn’t just

represent a paper trail?

Survey Group developed its quality system around its core philosophy,

ensuring our employees are provided with the guidance and training to

maintain this philosophy and have the tools anytime they need them

through the innovative and intuitive use of intranet based quality

processes that logically lead our staff down the correct path.

We gained certification with SAI Global, but at Survey Group we believe

that this certification is not the only goal of the process, but a vilification of

our systems and philosophies.

Our Commitment to Safety

Similarly our philosophy towards safety is guided by our core belief

that our staff should “Get Thinking, Get Safe, Get home”.

We support our staff in “getting home” through our stringent

processes, workshops and encouraging our staff to develop our safe

work procedures. After all, who knows best how to safely and

effectively complete a project than the people who are actually

doing it!

In further developing a safe working environment for our staff

Survey Group has partnered with a leading fleet tracking business to

develop a cutting edge automated remote journey management,

and remote worker monitoring systems. This will be available to

vehicles, whether or not they are fitted with GPS tracking devices.

Our health and safety systems are fully certified and monitored by

SAI Global.

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OUR LOCATIONS

Survey Group is located in two key locations within the Pilbara region of Western Australia to best

serve our client’s needs. From these offices we can support our surveyors efficiently and

professionally to ensure our clients receive the best possible and most effective survey services.

These offices are in turn supported by our Perth Corporate office located in Osborne Park, a key hub

of the resource and development industry in Western Australia.

Perth Office Contact: Ben Simpson

Ph: 0407 479 686

Newman Office Contact: Greg Cooney

Ph: 0447 900 632

Port Hedland Office Contact: Greg Cooney

Ph: 0447 900 632

PERTH

NEWMAN

PORT HEDLAND

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OUR STAFF

“…our employees are our greatest asset. We will actively mentor, support and train our staff

to be the best they can be and so become the trusted face of Survey Group to our clients…”

From Survey Group Vision Statement

Survey Group prides itself on recruiting; mentoring and developing our staff into professional client

focused surveying professionals.

Spatial sciences remain the core knowledge of our business at all levels. Be it mining, engineering,

scanning, cadastral or any other existing or developing survey sector. Through this philosophy we

ensure that our clients are dealing with people who understand their needs precisely, and can

provide the most cost effective and innovative approach to meet their requirements, now and into

the future.

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Key Staff

Ben Simpson – Managing Director Ben has eighteen years of engineering, mechanical, structural, civil, mining and cadastral surveying

experience and holds a current grade 2 certified mine surveyors authorisation. He has managed

many intriguing mining, construction, civil and engineering projects throughout Western Australia.

Ben has grown and developed Survey Group into the successful consultancy it is today and

continuously works alongside clients in developing strategies, techniques and innovative survey

solutions.

Through its relationships with their clients, Survey Group appreciates the ever changing scope of the

industry. In response to this, Ben practices a hands on approach to research and development to

gain knowledge to integrate technologies and benefit our clients. Ben is passionate about being an

industry leader in quality, service, value and technical knowhow.

Brendan Evans – Director Fulfilling his appointment as Co-Director of Survey Group, Brendan Evans has comprehensive

experience within the sphere of survey. Fifteen years of actively operating within the industry, he

has built a strong foundation which encompasses a vast array of projects.

His extensive exposure to engineering, construction, civil earthworks, terrestrial laser scanning and

mining has created the strong foundations to develop and grow Survey Group’s operations.

Brendan possesses exceptional attention to detail and is readily equipped to assess an assignment,

propose and implement a strategy, based on the scope of work required and execute it efficiently. A

highly motivated individual, he will source best practise methods and prioritise work commitments

to streamline and achieve desired outcomes. Brendan effectively communicates across all levels of

management and employs a practical approach to business and mentoring our staff.

Brendan’s involvement on large scale construction projects encompasses raw materials such as iron

ore, LNG, bauxite and titanium throughout the Pilbara and Western Australia.

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OUR SERVICES

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION

The surveyors at Survey Group combine decades of experience with the latest equipment and

techniques to deliver the highest quality outcomes for some of Australia's most challenging

engineering and construction projects. Survey Group can provide engineering, civil, construction,

mechanical and structural surveying for projects such as:-

Mechanical positioning and alignment;

Concrete footing setout;

Hold down bolts;

Structural Steel erection;

Drainage construction;

Building setout;

Road formation;

Road Alignment Design;

Railway alignments;

Bridge construction;

Camp construction;

Project Audit Surveying.

New technology is presenting opportunities for survey innovation and cost efficiency every day.

Survey Group surveyors keep up to date with latest trends and software development to ensure the

most accurate outcomes and cost synergies.

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MINING

Survey Group is an industry leader in providing surveying information to the resources sector.

Western Australia's mining sector is still a global economic centre. In that pressure cooker of

productivity and development, it is vital that projects are built with sound information right from the

beginning. There's confidence in knowing you have the right intelligence - which is why Survey

Group has been so successful in working with mining projects to deliver services such as:-

Open cut surveying;

Underground surveying;

Survey control networks for mine sites;

Exploration borehole set out and location surveys;

Underground services mapping;

Legislative advice and preparation of mining lease applications;

Setout of Lease boundaries;

Fixed plant alignment and monitoring;

Volumetric surveys and flyover reconciliations;

Structural deformation monitoring;

Preparation and certification of statutory mine plans;

Mine audit surveys.

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CADASTRAL

Survey Group are a highly skilled group of Surveyors who can take any scale of project from the

application stage through to the Issue of Title.

Whilst providing generalist advice across all survey disciplines, we have ample experience and

deliver specialist advice in:-

Land Subdivision Survey;

Strata Surveys, Built and Survey Strata;

Amalgamations;

Boundary Re-establishment;

Feature Surveys;

Setout of Buildings on property;

As-constructed Surveys;

Pastoral Lease boundary establishment;

Condition Surveys.

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TERRESTRIAL LIDAR SCANNING

Survey Group maintains an advanced vehicle mounted, long range, terrestrial laser scanning system.

From vast expanses such as open pit mines, through to built-up urban survey challenges, our laser

scanning system can produce top shelf

survey information quickly and risk-free.

Laser scanning is an effective means of

delivering survey information for:-

Open Pit Mine Surveys;

Stockpile and Volume Surveys;

Accident Incident Surveys;

Underground mining Surveys;

Feature surveys;

Topographical Surveys;

Architecture;

Plant and Fixed Structure Surveys.

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3D IMAGE CAPTURE AND ASSET MAMAGMENT

Survey Group’s Spheron Camera is a 360° High Dynamic Range (HDR) camera system and software

package. The camera takes full 360° images in a single scan, meaning that the images are seamless

as they are not stitched together like other panoramic or spherical image systems. The camera’s

applications are varied, from asset management and tracking, to virtual walkthroughs or use of all

light levels in an area for use in image and video modelling and manipulation.

Data is collected and processed from its raw image format and compiled into a standalone end

product “Scene Case”, which requires no additional software and can be easily opened and used on

any PC , or converted to other image formats such as TIFF or JPEG, for use in websites or other

applications.

The Spheron system provides:

360° three dimensional image capture;

Data image processing;

Creation of virtual sites;

Virtual Condition surveys;

Integration between images, GIS, laser scan data and site documentation;

Visual asset management system (Site documentation can be loaded directly onto the

image);

Visual platform for Safety, Maintenance and Training;

Visual and intuitive user interface.

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GIS

Survey Group’s GIS specialists can handle all aspects of design, analysis, compilation, management

and maintenance of spatial data in any format to a deployable GIS Database. From initial collection

of spatial information by our team of GIS surveyors, utilizing the latest technology capable of

incorporating both spatial and attribute data at the time of collection, through to audit, quality

control and analysis and finally to transformation into a spatial database for deployment.

Experience working on GIS projects in multiple industries such as Mining, Oil and Gas and Civil

Construction, Survey Group has the necessary expertise to see your project from inception through

to completion, using the latest GIS technologies and always keeping an eye on the future.

Survey Group can provide your project with:-

Spatial Database Design and Management;

ESRI ArcGIS Databases and Deliverables;

Data Manipulation and Integration;

Spatial Analysis;

3D Visualisation;

Digitization and Conversion;

Asset Management.

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UAV AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY & MAPPING

Survey Group has invested

considerable research and

investigation into this area to

establish solid benchmarks in what

this technology can deliver.

It is a requirement by law that these

pilots are certified by the Australian

Aviation Authority, Survey Group

upholds this through utilising only

certified pilots.

UAV Aerial photography can provide:-

Cost effective feasibility imagery and terrain models for infrastructure and transport corridors;

Ideal for fast economic volumetric surveys for the resources industries;

Baseline data for Vegetation Mapping;

Interval mapping of both the Built and Natural environments to assess impacts of both natural

and manmade impacts, e.g. flood events.

Broad area data capture to large scale detail (feature) surveys (as illustrated above):

30mm per pixel resolution.

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UNDERGROUND SERVICE DETECTION & MAPPING

For a long time now the detection, marking and mapping of

Underground Services has required expensive third party service

providers, as well as survey, to complete the task.

With Survey Groups integration of the SPAR 300™ service

detection unit we can now locate, mark up and survey the

underground services at the same time.

Saving you logistical planning, time and ultimately considerable

money in the process.

We can locate services in

inaccessible areas as we do

not need to be directly over

the service being detected, if

fact the service only needs to

be within 3m of the surveyor for us to accurately locate the

service. The system can locate underground power without any

additional equipment! We also have as signal generator known as

a “Sonde” which can then

locate any underground

service where the signal

generator cable can be drawn

or connected to an existing

buried trace or conducting

service.

We can locate:-

Underground Power cables without

“trace”;

Communication lines with trace;

Any Conduits using Sonde Tracking;

Storm or Sewer lines with Sonde Tracking.

We cannot locate:-

Service detection using the “Sonde”

Direct Survey of services without the use of the “Sonde”

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Underground Water pipelines as they do

not generate a signal themselves and we

are not able to pass the Sonde Tracking

device along the pipe.

KEY PROJECTS

Sino Ore Cape Preston – MCC Mining and Citic Pacific

Audit surveyor construction of Cape Preston Site.

Coalfield Hwy Collie - Brierty

Civil Construction 8km new road

West Angelas - Calibre

Audit Surveying for West Angelas Depoist F

Mooka Siding Ore Car Repair Workshop BHPBIO - MacDow

Construction Surveying for Mooka Ore Car Repair Workshop

FMG – North Star – NRW Mining

Construction Surveying

FMG

Anderson Point Engineering survey for shutdowns

Underground Service Detection and Mapping.

Pindan

Wanneroo Civic Centre Extension