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Registration & Title
The survey record that lets a development be sold, registered and handed over.
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Dubai · Abu Dhabi · UAE
Measured on site.Defined on record.
Petra Point Survey Services is a surveying company based in Dubai, working across the United Arab Emirates. We produce the measured record that lets a development be registered, sold and handed over, from site control and 3D laser scanning through to authority submission.
- Projects
- 200+
- Specialist services
- 18
- Coverage
- UAE
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Between a building and its registered record, there is a survey.
Nothing in Dubai gets sold off-plan, titled, or handed over on the strength of a drawing alone. It gets there on a measured record that a specific authority has accepted, in a specific format, against specific areas. That record is what we make.
- Made for the authority that receives it
- A survey is not finished when the measuring stops. It is finished when the receiving authority has what it needs, in the form it expects. We work backwards from that.
- Measured, not inherited
- Areas come from the building, not from the design set. Where the two disagree, and on a completed tower they usually do, the measurement is what gets registered.
- One file, followed through
- Scanning, drawing, submission and resubmission sit with the same team. Queries do not get handed between three consultants who each blame the last one.
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02Selected developers
Trusted on work that matters.
A selection of developers Petra Point works with across the UAE.
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03Project register
Buildings you already know.
A selection from more than two hundred projects, including some of the most recognisable developments in the UAE.
04Expertise
Four service lines. One accountable team.
Grouped by what the client is trying to achieve, not by which instrument produced the data.
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Authority Compliance
Independent survey evidence, prepared in the form each authority actually requires.
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Reality Capture & BIM
The building as it was actually built. Captured, registered to control, and delivered as data the next discipline can work in.
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Development Support
The drawing and administrative work that sits between a development and its approvals.
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05Method
Reality in. Authority-ready record out.
Seven states. Each one produces something the next one needs, and skipping one is how a submission comes back. Reality capture runs the full chain. A registration file takes the short route through it.
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Site
The work starts on the ground, with the building or the plot as it actually is, not as the design set describes it. Scope is agreed against the receiving authority’s requirement, so the survey is shaped by what has to clear at the end.
Output: Agreed scope and access
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Control
Every subsequent measurement has to sit on something. Control is set and referenced to a known datum, so scans, boundaries and unit areas all resolve into the same coordinate framework rather than three incompatible ones.
Output: Referenced control
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Capture
3D laser scanning records the built condition at density no tape survey reaches. Where the deliverable is a boundary or a demarcation, conventional instrument survey does the same job with less data and more speed. The method follows the deliverable.
Output: Raw scan and instrument data
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Point cloud
Individual scans are registered into one coordinated cloud tied to control. This is the measurable record of the building. It is the point at which the site stops being a place you have to visit and becomes data you can interrogate.
Output: Registered point cloud
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Model
The cloud is drawn up into whatever the next discipline needs: 2D plans, elevations and sections; a 3D CAD model; or a coordinated BIM environment. Areas are taken from the measured condition, not carried over from the design intent.
Output: 2D documentation, 3D CAD, BIM
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Verify
The record is checked against the requirement it has to satisfy before it leaves the office. Most rejections are format and completeness failures, not measurement failures. That makes this the cheapest step to get right and the most expensive to skip.
Output: Checked, submission-ready record
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Submit
The file is lodged in the receiving authority’s own format, then followed through every query and resubmission it draws. Sending the file is not the end of the work. Following it through is.
Output: Submitted record
06Coverage
Every jurisdiction sets its own requirements.
Petra Point works across the United Arab Emirates. A file that clears in one emirate is not the file the next one expects, and knowing the difference is most of the work.
AuthoritiesDubai
- DLDDubai Land Department
- Holds Dubai’s property register. Off-plan (Oqood) registration, title deeds and common area records are transacted here, against measured survey data.
- Dubai MunicipalityDubai Municipality
- Building permits and construction approvals across Dubai, outside the jurisdictions that run their own building control.
- TrakheesTrakhees
- The regulatory arm of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, governing development and building control across PCFC jurisdictions.
- DDADubai Development Authority
- Development and building control across its designated Dubai zones, with its own submission requirements.
- DSOADubai Silicon Oasis Authority
- Building control for the Dubai Silicon Oasis jurisdiction, now operating within Dubai Integrated Economic Zones (DIEZ).
07The namePETRA · ΠΕΤΡΑ · ROCK
Precision before the first cut.
Petra Point is named for Petra in Jordan, where the Nabataeans cut tombs and temple facades directly into the sandstone. Stone that is removed does not come back, so the geometry had to be settled in advance.
Two thousand years of weather have worn the surfaces. The cuts are still in the positions they were given. A survey record is not carved, but it is relied on the same way: once it is registered, sale, title and handover all rest on it being right.
- iPermanence
- A boundary has to outlast whoever set it. Petra’s rock-cut facades are still legible after two thousand years because their position was fixed in the cliff itself. A registered record has to hold the same way.
- iiSubtraction
- Carving only removes. A misjudged cut cannot be filled in and tried again, so the geometry has to be resolved before the work starts. A measured area is the same: taken from what is already there, and expected to be right first time.
- iiiDifficult ground
- Petra sits in terrain with almost no surface water and a gorge that floods. The Nabataeans answered it with dams, graded channels and cisterns. The tools have changed. The requirement has not: understand the ground before committing to it.
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Tell us what has to clear, and by when.
The fastest way to a useful answer is the deliverable and the authority. Send those and we will come back with scope, method and timing.
- Office
- Office 2907, Silver TowerBusiness BayDubai, United Arab Emirates
- Hours
- Monday – Friday · 08:00–17:00 GST