A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE
THE LAROCQUES ARE SURVEYING THEIR GROWTH
SURVEYING // LAND PROFESSIONALS // LAND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Our firm has grown over 50 years to encompass a wide range of services related to the land. From small severances (Planning Consents) and residential surveys (for owners or mortgage purposes), to Condominium and Subdivision Development and Land Information Management Systems.
We are very proud to be a family run operation. Our business provides services not just in the Niagara Region but in many areas across Ontario, in a timely manner to the public, government and development industries.
Brent Larocque is the President of the Hamilton and District Regional Group. He also sat on the Chamber of Commerce Budget Committee that reviewed the Niagara Region, City of St. Catharines, and City of Thorold proposed budgets for the year. He is a member of the A.O.L.S, and is on the Fees and Mediation Committee. Brent has his Commissioner's certification and can witness legal documentation.
OUR PRINCIPALS
Brent Larocque
B.Sc., Ontario Land Surveyor and Ontario Land Information Professional, President, Partner
Brent Larocque is a graduate of the University of Toronto and a Licensed Ontario Land Surveyor. He has had over 30 years of experience in Surveying and a passion for what he does. He has extensive knowledge in Surveying related to Condominiums, Conversions and New Condo Development seeing them through to the registration. He also continues to research new equipment and technology that can better serve our firm and clients. Our new eBee RPAS is just another way for us to continue to serve our cliental in new and better ways.
Noelle Bachner
O.A.C., Office Manager, Partner
Noelle has been running the firm for over 15 years and has full responsibility for many aspects of the business. Human Resources, Advertising and Promotion along with all Accounting aspects of the firm are all overseen by Noelle. Her previous experience includes a Management position in the Agricultural Industry, as well as experience in Government, Sales and Advertising.
OUR TEAM
AUTOCAD DEPARTMENT
Our principle AutoCAD technician is an Engineer and a graduate of the University of Waterloo. This employee oversees the day to day operations that involve all AutoCAD requirements for our firm. Our firm currently is using AutoCAD 2018 that is compatible with our RPAS work.
SURVEYING & UAV CREW
Our crew is trained in using GPS/Glonass Reference Station, RTK GPS Leica and Survey level accuracy UAV Drone. Our Employees are graduates of both University and College Geography and GIS programs.
Our RPAS is an AgEagle (formerly senseFly) eBee X. Through the use of this RPAS we are able to achieve large coverage with Photogrammetric Mapping. Utilizing the RTK capabilities allows us to have survey grade accuracy from the air. Our crew and RPAS are Transport Canada Certified and Registered.
In striving to give our clients the best in customer service and accuracy we have installed a Leica GPS / Glonass Reference Station. This allows our crews to achieve Real Time Kinematics (RTK) in the field and ensures the integrity of the data. The reference station is more accurate, more powerful, more versatile and more reliable than ever before.
In conjunction with the GPS / Glonass Reference Station, our crews are using the RTK GPS Leica SmartAntenna. The SmartAntenna is a lightweight computerized system with a controller that includes Windows CE and Bluetooth wireless technologies. It also has SmartTrack and SmartCheck features. This allows us to acquire all visible satellites within seconds, measure under trees and in areas of interference and at low elevations while ensuring centimeter accuracy in our measurements by obtaining low residuals.
We also use the Leica TS15 and TS60 Total Stations for fast, continuous, high-accuracy, ease-of-use and reliability. The TPS is reflector less which allows us to measure to wall corners, inaccessible objects, façades, rock faces, in fact any feature that is difficult to set up a reflector.
