Construction set-out verification report app
Every point a surveyor sets out on a building site — gridlines, column centres, slab edges, bolt groups — becomes someone else’s reference for concrete that cannot be moved later. When a dispute comes, the question is what was set out, from which control, and whether it was checked. SurveyThanks records each set-out with its check measurement and the control it came from, so the verification report is written from the day’s actual work.
Built for surveyors running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Set-out verification report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Set-out verification report
Set-out record — Level 3 slab, gridlines A–F
- Site
- Fictional Apartments, Block B
- Date
- 11 May 2026
- Control used
- Site stations CS1, CS3 (from the mark register)
| Point set out | Check measurement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gridline A/1 intersection | Taped check to B/1: 8.400 m (design 8.400) | Status: Pass |
| Column C4 centre | Offset pegs 1 m north and east | Status: Pass |
| Bolt group F2 | Diagonal check 3 mm long | Status: Pass |
| Slab edge E–F | Formwork already placed 15 mm outside line | Status: Advised |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the set-out verification report where your template puts it.
Set-out
- Point or line set out
- Design reference (drawing and revision)
- Mark type and offset
- Control stations used
Check
- Check method (tape, diagonal, re-observation)
- Check result
- Within tolerance (yes / no)
Site
- Person advised
- Photo of marks
- Conflicts with existing works
How the set-out verification report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the construction set-out record form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your marks, stations and monitoring points
Enter marks, stations and monitoring points once, as a register. Every one of your observations, rounds and movement readings then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The set-out verification report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a set-out verification report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The movement summary reports 4 mm at PM3; the round’s readings put it at 11 mm.
Checks a surveying framework usually carries
- Control, datum and epoch are stated for every deliverable
- Quoted tolerances match the project specification being reported against
- Every mark named in the text exists in the register
- Assumptions and sources of error are recorded rather than assumed
Questions
- Can we record which drawing revision was set out from?
- Yes. Drawing and revision are fields on each set-out, so the record shows exactly which design the marks were placed against — the first thing asked when a revision is missed.
- Can the site engineer receive the record the same day?
- The report renders once the crew is in coverage, and can go out as a Word or PDF file or a password-protected web link.
- Does this replace our set-out calculations?
- No. Coordinates and stake-out stay in your instrument and office software; SurveyThanks records what was placed, how it was checked and who was told.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
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- Utility locating recordsLocate mark-up report
- Volumetric drone surveysVolume report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your set-out verification report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.