ACI Survey Consultants, Ontario Land Surveyors


	NON-TRADITIONAL SERVICES
	ACI seeks ways to enhance service to our clients

	Sales Networking:
	Through our client base of builders we can help promote the sale of lots. This is only done at a time and in a manner approved by our client. This can consist of simple referral or a more active role of hosting a function to promote lot sales.
	Sales Promotion Materials:
	We can provide "camera ready" graphics for sales brochures (subdivisions, condominium, etc.) or provide the design, production and arrange for the printing of your complete brochure or other promotional materials.
	Site Grading Review:
	As a company with extensive experience in siting houses and doing grading design we can review grading plans to help optimize grading design for final house construction. We offer a service (usually to smaller custom builders) where we help them review the grading on lots prior to purchase to ensure their suitability for the styles of houses that they are marketing. Where it is desirable to integrate a new home on land with valuable natural features, we have a network of consultants (landscape architects, architect engineers, environmentalists) that can assist us and/or the client.
	Qualification Based Selection:
	The traditional method of obtaining professional services is to obtain cost estimates and proposals from several sources and select one primarily on the basis of a cost/quality evaluation. An alternate method is to select a professional on the basis of the most suitably qualified and on an agreed to hourly rate(s). The professional then becomes part of the development team and helps devise the project schedule, budget and methodology. For certain types of clients this approach is much more cost effective because it results in long-term efficiencies, avoids duplication, and helps projects to develop more realizable schedules.
	Land Purchase Investigations:
	Contaminated soil, environmentally sensitive areas, archaeological significant areas, boundary problems, etc. are some of the risks that developers face when purchasing land for future development. Surveyors are, in many ways, historians. We have access to old records that can be useful to clients when they are considering the purchase of a property. We will make a site inspection, registry office review, survey record review, municipal records review, archaeological review (to rate significance of area only) and other investigations to help find any information useful to our client in assessing the value of a property for future development. This review is relatively low cost and is cursory in nature. Its purpose is to discover potential problems only.