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Boyen Group

Monitoring Services

Prove the building next door didn't move.

Chapter 33 requires monitoring whenever you excavate, blast, drill or demolish near an existing structure. We file the plan, install the instruments, hold the baselines and produce the record that protects you from a damage claim.

What we install

Instrumentation matched to the risk

Wireless autonomous arrays where continuous coverage matters, attended manned monitoring where a person has to be there to make the call.

Vibration Monitoring

Continuous seismographs on adjacent structures through blasting, drilling, excavation, pile driving and demolition, with alert thresholds agreed before work starts.

  • Wireless autonomous arrays with remote alerts
  • Attended manned monitoring for sensitive work
  • Threshold exceedance notification within minutes
  • Reports keyed to construction activity logs

Optical Monitoring (Total Station / AMTS)

Horizontal and vertical movement tracked to sub-millimetre precision using Automated Motorized Total Stations — required by Chapter 33 during excavation near existing structures.

  • Monitoring point installation and baselines
  • Automated readings on your reporting interval
  • Certified settlement reports
  • Coordination with your engineer of record

Crack & Structural Monitoring

Existing defects in adjacent buildings tracked from baseline through closeout, so movement that predates your work never becomes your liability.

  • Crack gauge installation and baseline survey
  • Sensor-based and visual monitoring
  • Movement, expansion and risk assessment
  • Photographic record at every interval

Pre- & Post-Construction Surveys

Independent, defensible documentation of every structure adjacent to your site — completed before mobilisation and again after closeout.

  • Photographic and written condition records
  • Interior and exterior where access allows
  • Neighbour coordination and scheduling
  • The record that defeats unwarranted claims

Filing & compliance

We handle the paperwork, not just the sensors

Plan & protocol filed

We prepare and submit the monitoring plan to the DOB, coordinating with your engineer of record before anyone mobilises.

Instruments installed, baselines held

Points established, sensors mounted, baseline readings taken and locked before the first machine starts.

Reporting on your interval

Daily, weekly or exceedance-triggered — formatted for the department and readable by your project team.

Start here

Planning excavation, demolition or structural work?

Send us the address and the phase. We'll tell you exactly what the DOB will require and what it costs — inside a business day.