Building Surveys

About this book

The Oxford Dictionary defines a surveyor as, among other things, 'a person professionally engaged in surveying', and to survey as 'let the eyes pass over, take general view of, form general idea of the arrangement and chief features of, make or present survey of; examine condition of (building etc); determine boundaries, size, position, shape, contour, etc, of (land, coast, district, estate, etc);' whence surveying!