Lethbridge land surveyors with construction and engineering expertise

From our Lethbridge office, Brown, Okamura & Associates Ltd. has been serving Southern Alberta since 1951. We cover a broad scope of legal, engineering and construction surveys, and our crews are trained in conducting many different survey types. The experience level of our employees has enabled our firm to establish a trusted reputation throughout Alberta

Find out how we can help with land surveying in Lethbridge:

Give us a call at 403-329-4688 and tell us about your land or construction surveying needs—we are happy to help.

What customers are saying about Brown, Okamura & Associates:

“Great service! Very quick to get an RPR (real property report) completed.” ~ Stephen, Google reviewer

What surveying services are provided by Brown, Okamura & Associates?

We proudly offer the following land surveying and construction surveying services in Lethbridge:

Subdivision design and development We help you through the entire process by preparing:

• Conceptual design schemes
• Tentative plans of subdivision
• Subdivision applications
• Sketches showing location of buildings and other required improvements
• Sketches showing locations of abandoned wells
• Final plans of survey
• Legal descriptions for easements, transfers of land
• Utility right-of-way plans
• Access right-of-way plans

Real property reports (RPR) Contact our office for a quote on completing your RPR. We can also obtain a letter of compliance from your local municipality to accompany your RPR.

We prepare RPRs for:

• Residential buildings
• Industrial buildings
• Commercial buildings

Construction surveys Contact our construction department to discuss how we can assist you with your construction project.

We can:

• Prepare pocket plans
• Prepare plot plans
• Prepare grading plans
• Stake building locations (with offsets)
• Stake pile locations
• Stake grid lines
• Stake wall locations on footings
• Stake grades
• Survey and prepare Real Property Reports (after construction)
• Survey and prepare Grade Certificates

Property line surveys

We locate the survey evidence defining your existing property boundaries and re-establish any missing survey evidence. Property lines are visually marked for your reference.

Please contact one of our surveyors, and they will work with you to determine what boundaries you require to be delineated, along with the type of survey markers you would like the boundary marked with.

Easement or Right-of-way surveys

We help you through the entire process.

We prepare:

• Individual Ownership Plats (IOPs)
• Crossing sketches
• Legal survey plans
• Legal descriptions for easement agreements
• As-built surveys after construction

We can also survey and mark the boundaries of new and existing utilities right-of-ways.

Condominium surveys

We have been involved in many different types of condominium projects.

We can assist you in planning, surveying and registering condominium projects, such as:

• Bare land condominium subdivisions
• Building condominiums
• Condominium conversions of existing buildings
• New condominium construction
• Phased condominiums

Contact one of our surveyors, and they will work with you to determine what your options are to complete your project.

Engineering, monitoring and control

We provide survey services for engineering design and layout, and relevant monitoring services as required. We can also help you geo-reference your project.

How long ago was your Lethbridge construction and land surveying firm established?

Brown, Okamura & Associates Ltd. was established originally as H.W. Brown & Co Ltd. back in 1951, owned by Harold Brown, ALS, SLS. In 1968 it was re-organized under its current name by Tak Okamura, ALS, P.Eng.

J.D. (Dave) Williams, ALS, CLS operated the company from 1997 to 2009. David Amantea, ALS, CLS, P.Eng and Thomas Penner, ALS, P.Eng have been operating the company since 2010 and continue to run it under the name Brown, Okamura & Associates Ltd.