Survey Works provides as-built surveys for residential, commercial, civil, and infrastructure projects across Texas. An as-built survey documents where constructed features actually ended up, capturing their real-world location, elevation, and configuration once the build is complete. Engineers, developers, contractors, and municipalities use the deliverable to confirm the project matches the approved plans and is ready for final inspection.
As-built surveys are sometimes called post-construction surveys. The deliverable is a sealed drawing, CAD file, or report showing the actual as-built condition of walls, foundations, utilities, grading, and hardscape overlaid against the design plans, with any deviations called out for the record.
What an as-built survey documents
Our field crews capture the precise location and elevation of features the scope requires. That typically includes building corners, foundation edges, utility line inverts, manhole rims, parking layouts, and drainage structures. We return the data in the format the design team or municipality requires, most often as a sealed PDF plus a CAD file keyed to the project coordinate system.
Projects that need documentation at multiple stages (foundation, framing, MEP rough-in, final) can run as a staged effort instead of a single post-construction survey.
Another reason as-built surveys are requested is to confirm existing conditions for the site.
When clients order an as-built survey
Most as-built surveys happen at one of four moments in a construction timeline. A commercial owner orders one before the certificate of occupancy to verify the building sits inside its permitted envelope. A civil engineer orders one to close out a grading or utility package and confirm plan quantities match what was installed. A contractor orders one to document tie-ins on utility work before anything is covered. In some cases, a municipality or permitting agency requires one as part of the final submission.
Survey Works handles as-builts across commercial development, utility infrastructure, site grading, road and paving work, and telecommunications projects. On telecom builds, the as-built ties back to FAA and zoning compliance through an associated FAA 1A certification.
Survey Works has run as-built scopes on Texas projects for over 10 years, from single-lot commercial builds to multi-acre civil packages. Every project gets the same field-tested methods and dependable coordination.
If you are approaching a certificate of occupancy, closing out a civil package, or need a construction monitoring scope on an active build, request a proposal and we will walk you through the scope, timeline, and deliverable format.