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Land Surveying, 3D Mapping, and Drafting in Northern California

Find the best spot to build your project, identify environmental issues, or avoid boundary disputes with services from QRLS. We offer quality drafting, 3D mapping, and land surveying for Northern California clients.

Design Professionals

After a lifetime career of serving and working directly with all types of engineering and architectural designers, our leadership team and technicians have built a solid reputation in the industry. We understand the difficulties and risks of engineering and architectural design projects and the designer’s requirement for accurate, complete, and responsive survey data.
Our team listens and works with our clients to understand various project parameters, priorities, and scope. We anticipate their needs and try to exceed their expectations.
Our attention to detail has resulted in countless successful projects, strong relationships, and many years of repeat business and collaboration. As a result, we can produce detailed, thorough, design-grade, and existing-conditions topographic surveys and digital mapping deliverables.
Our Projects Include:
  • Civil Engineering: Street Improvement, Grading, and Drainage Design Projects
  • Architectural Design/Development: Residential and Commercial
  • Water/Sewer System Engineering Design Projects: Pipes, Routes, and Tanks
  • Landscape Architecture: Specialized Topography Projects and City Park Upgrades
  • Solar Canopy-Array Engineering: Site Surveys of Parking Lots, Buildings, and Array Layout

Municipal Services for Bay Area Cities, Government, and Regional Agencies

QRLS has the fortune and privilege of serving the engineering and public works departments of many cities in and around the San Francisco Bay Region. We have handled on-call contracts and teamed up with other professionals for municipal and agency capital improvement projects. Our land surveying and mapping services are recognized as valuable, responsive, and competitive.
As a firm affiliated with Operating Engineers Local 3, we are a prevailing-wage employer familiar with manning and apprentice requirements and DIR submittals.
Our Projects Include:
  • Specialized Design-Grade Municipal Engineering Topography for All Types of Capital ImprovementArchitectural Design/Development: Residential and Commercial
  • Easements and Legal Descriptions for Recording Purposes: Acquisitions and Property Transfers
  • Utility Location Surveys, Route Surveys, Drainage, As-Builts, and Underground Pipe Surveys with Depths
  • Curb Ramps, Curb/Gutter/Sidewalk, Traffic Calming, Right-of-Way Surveys, and Determination
  • Construction Staking, Project Layout, and Grading Services
  • Lagoon and Pond Dredging

Wireless Telecommunications Site Development and Compliance Services

Since 1995, our leadership team and employees have served all sectors of the wireless telecom industry throughout California, starting with Pacific Bell Mobile Services. We helped create and establish industry standards and templates for the specialized wireless telecom site mapping and the 1-A survey - coordinate/elevation form in use today.
After delivering thousands of surveys and maps, our knowledgeable team continues serving major wireless carriers and their development, construction, and compliance teams 28 years later. We provide responsive and valuable surveys, maps, construction staking, and consulting services for all wireless network projects.
Our Projects Include:
  • Site Permitting and Development Telecom Surveys (Raw Land, Urban Interface, and Tower/PG&E/Microwave Sites)
  • Rooftop TI Surveys: Difficult/Complex Roof Detail Surveys
  • 1-A/2-C Survey and ASAC Coordinate Forms, Network Audits, COW, and Height Verifications (Tape Drop)
  • DAS Network Urban Surveys: Pole Surveys and Right-of-Way Determinations

General Land Surveying for Commercial and Residential Client Projects

QRLS also serves commercial and residential clients in the Bay Area that require a nimble approach and tight turnaround times. We provide surveying, mapping, and consulting services for the following:
  • Commercial Land Sales
  • American Land Title Association (ALTA) Maps
  • Solar Canopies
  • Utility Location and Mapping
  • Residential Property Boundary Surveys for New Construction, Additions, Fence Lines, and Property Boundary Disputes
Our Projects Include:
  • Property Boundary, Fence Line, and Retracement Surveys
  • Determination of Property Lines, Rights-of-Way, and Steel Property Corner Markers Setup
  • County Record of Survey Maps, Corner Records, and Lot Line Adjustment Submittals
  • Detailed Existing Conditions Topographic Mapping for Residential and Commercial Design Projects
  • ALTA/NSPS Commercial Lending
  • Parcel Maps and Tentative Maps
  • Carlson/AutoCAD Civil 3D Mapping Deliverables and Full-Scale Map Printing
  • FEMA Flood Elevation Certificates
  • Building Inspector Certificate Letters (Foundation and Ridge Height)