CD Surveys Ltd

David Watterston - Managing Director
(AmInst.C.E.S.)

David is the Managing Director, and has been in the industry since 1972. Starting as a surveyors assistant for Land Services (Tolworth) Ltd for approximately 2 years, David was then sent to Zambia for three months for the sister company, Mike Campbell Surveys. After the 3 month tour turning into 3 years, David then joined Engineering Surveys (ESL) based in West Byfleet for almost a ten year period.

Although involved in major control, transmission lines and housing schemes in Zambia, with the odd period of transmission tower design, positioning and setting out, David had to start again as an assistant with ESL for a few months. With Engineering Surveys, David was at times overseas surveying in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Zaire and on the Brent Field oil rigs in the North Sea. Leaving ESL to help form Survey and Engineering Services with Barry Darling, David helped install and set up the Eclipse ground modelling software system, which revolutionized the company and the work it was able to take on. With a staff of almost 50 people, along with Neil Harwood running the engineering part of the business, David dealt with the organizing and running of the surveyors, the survey processing and CAD office. He also was involved in helping to run the accounts office, dealing with quotations, invoicing etc. and also managed to fit in some actual surveying as well. Survey and Engineering Services closed in the summer of 1992 and with a period back at ESL, David felt it was time to venture out on his own to offer a complete service to the client base he had personally set up at Survey and Engineering Services. Now with this wealth of practical knowledge and resilience, David has brought CD Surveys Ltd, to a position that is an important asset to all the clients that use the company's services.

Andrew Finn - Business Operations Manager
(HND in Building Studies)

As the acting survey and office manager, Andrew's work is extremely varied and interesting, whilst organizing the 6 - 7 survey crews that work for CD Surveys.

With Stephen Wheeler, they both confer to place the most appropriate survey/engineering crew for the task in hand and have a personal involvement all the way through to the completion of the project.

Andrew, although only in the industry since 1998, has a wealth of experience and has a great ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently. This with an excellent eye for good presentation, which is essential for our finished product. With help from the CAD technicians, Mike Brett, Andrew Larch and Nathan Renmant, Andrew has the ultimate control over this busy survey office. Andrew also finds time to field/office verify the final survey drawings, to check on drawing office completeness and the surveyors field work in relation to the clients specification.

Stephen Wheeler - Survey Support Manager

Stephen has been a surveyor since 1987 when he joined Survey and Engineering Services as a surveyor’s assistant, he then quickly graduated through to a junior surveyor. Proving to be very useful in the office, processing the survey data on the Eclipse survey modelling software systems. He was promoted to the senior processing surveyor and CAD manager. A period with Engineering Surveys of West Byfleet, proved to be very useful again in honing his skills as a surveyor, manager of large surveys and in the processing and CAD work that followed on. Since joining CD Surveys in 1993, Stephen has proved himself to be a very valuable member of our team and is taking on more and more challenges every day.

Barry Sinnott – OND Land Surveying

Barry, as the senior surveyor on large projects, has a pedigree of knowledge that goes back to the early 1970’s. On one of CD surveys larger projects, which is a new village in 350 acres just outside Fleet in Hampshire, Barry has continued to be an integral part of the surveying/engineering and maintenance of the major control and land parcels at Elvetham Heath. With his experience, technical abilities and good sense of humour, Barry has a wealth of as yet untapped contributions to the team at CD Surveys.

Peter Dibley – AmInst. C.E.S.

Peter joined CD Surveys after many years at ESL in West Byfleet, working alongside David Watterston on many projects within the UK and overseas. Peter is an excellent, robust surveyor, that has a wealth of experience on Topographic, Building, Monitoring and Detail surveys. He is extremely thorough in his methods and technical abilities, and is a very solid part of the CD Surveys team.

Other surveyors/engineers that are a major part of the CD Surveys team are; Alistair Forno, a Bsc qualified individual that is quickly becoming an integral part of the team. Tim King, a unique individual that again has many years experience in all forms of surveying and is very consistent in his accuracy to the job in hand, regardless of the survey scale or specification. Antonio Reina and Simon Brimfield, are junior surveyors that are quickly becoming dependable members of the CD Surveys team.