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      <title>How to choose a surveying company in Riyadh: 7 questions to ask before you sign</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>To choose a surveying company in Riyadh, compare facts: how many teams it can field, which instruments it uses, how it sets up and re-checks survey control, whether a technical office checks the data, what it delivers in writing, and its exact role on the projects it lists. Ask for bilingual reports.</description>
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      <title>Laser scanning historic buildings: what YAZ’s work in Diriyah shows</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>3D laser scanning suits historic buildings because it records irregular walls, openings and façades as a measurable 3D point cloud. In Diriyah, YAZ scanned historic buildings to document existing conditions, giving project teams a geometric reference for engineering review, restoration planning and drawings such as plans, elevations and sections.</description>
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      <title>Surveying a super-tall tower: field teams, survey engineers and laser scan checks at Jeddah Tower</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Surveying a super-tall tower combines field setting-out, a technical office of survey engineers and verification of 3D laser scanning against approved survey references. At Jeddah Tower, YAZ supports Saudi Binladin Group with field teams and survey engineers for structural and mechanical works, and follows up and verifies laser scanning within its scope.</description>
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      <title>Surveying a metro: how YAZ supported Riyadh Metro stations, viaducts and tunnels</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>On Riyadh Metro, YAZ provided more than 30 surveying teams and a survey technical office within the FAST Consortium package for Lines 4, 5 and 6. The teams handled survey control, station setting-out, viaduct alignment and level control, tunnel and TBM surveying and as-built checks, working with Samsung C&amp;T, Strukton and Freyssinet Saudi Arabia.</description>
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      <title>Surveying teams for contractors: what 20 to 30+ crews look like on Saudi mega projects</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Saudi mega projects often need 20 to 30 or more surveying teams at once, one or more per work front. YAZ supplied more than 30 teams on Riyadh Metro, more than 25 crews at NEOM and more than 20 teams each on King Salman Park and Misk Schools, covering control, setting-out, earthworks and as-built checks.</description>
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      <title>What a GPR survey can and cannot tell you before excavation: notes from Qiddiya</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Technology</category>
      <description>A GPR survey shows where, within the surveyed area, radar responses suggest buried utilities, with positions tied to site coordinates and indicative depths where the data allows. It cannot guarantee every utility or confirm what a response is: detection depends on ground conditions, depth and access, so findings need checking against records and physical verification.</description>
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