Oct 5, 20233 min read

In this post - Land slips and slip surveys around Rodney area, local Apps from Matakana Coast and Warkwoth and Warkworth School community support

Name: Buckton Surveyors and Planners
Brand: Buckton Surveyors and Planners
Rating: 4.8 (16 reviews)

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Buckton's manager - Gabriel Hare surveying with drone

Buckton Surveyors and Planners have done lots of Slip Surveys helping with cleanup after the unfortunate recent events in 2023.

The unfortunate weather of 2023 caused flooding and land slips leading to a large amount of damage to private property and our public infrastructure. It has been a long cleanup. Some of the damage can be tidied up by contractors without any surveying or engineering input. More serious slips require a Slip survey, engineering design, and remedial works.

What We’re Up To - Slip Surveys From Warkworth to West Auckland

Buckton Surveyors and Planners were proud to be involved in the efforts to repair the damage. From helping a Warkworth local just a few hundred metres from our main office to spending days in Piha where the damage was more serious.

Our Slip survey datasets are a combination of conventional survey measurements (GPS and total station) together with UAV data. The UAV photo clearly shows the slip extents in relation to site features. The UAV data can also be used to create a 3D surface of the slip face. Not only does this speed up the survey, but it also means our field crew can completely avoid walking on the steep and dangerous faces. On all Slip surveys, we combine this modern technology with the old-school surveying techniques of boundary definition. This ensures we are providing a dataset where the boundaries are accurately defined, and the extent of the slip on each property is correctly shown. Buckton Surveyors and Planners have recently joined forces with both the Matakana Coast and Warkworth apps.

We're proud to have our base in Warkworth and proud to give our support wherever we can.

Onboard with our Local Apps from Matakana Coast and Warkwoth

Not only do we look forward to both keeping up-to-date with all things local, but also reaching out to prospective customers and offering all our surveying and land development services through these exciting new platforms.

If you haven't done so already, we would seriously recommend joining these thoroughly informative and up-to-date apps on the links provided below.

Matakana Coast and Warkworth Apps Links

https://warkworthapp.co.nz/

https://matakanacoastapp.com/

Buckton helps Warkworth Primary School to second win

Buckton were very happy to be part of Warkworth Primary School's second consecutive win of the "NZ Dance Challenge" competition.

To participate, the school must submit a video of their Dance Challenge routine and our experienced and able drone pilot, Gabriel Hare assisted with the filming from the air of Warkworth Primary's special Matariki routine. The children did such an amazing job that their routine was deemed the best in country!!!

It was an especially rewarding experience for our team to be able to utilise our skills and technology in this manner, and to be able help our in the local community once again.

Kids from Warkworth Primary School being filmed by Buckton for the dance competition

Buckton Surveyors and Planners welcome the return of the Kowhai Festival

After a three year absence the fun filled and much enjoyed Kowhai Festival is returning to Warkworth, and Bucktons have once again stepped up to help the organising committee with design and drafting of a stall layout plan.

We placed a plan of festival stalls over a current aerial photo to create an accurate and easy to follow layout plan. We hope that this image has made life much easier for the committee and organisers.

Buckton design and drafting of a stall layout plan of the 2023 Kowhai Festival

We wish the Kowhai Festival organisers every success with the return of this annual event to Warkworth's riverside and look forward to being able to help out again next year as the festival returns to the scale and glory of former years.