Insite SJC

25/08/2026

Today's survey find was this 1890 survey tree that was then cut out in 1970!

21/08/2026

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11/03/2026

Joe took the drone out for a spin yesterday afternoon (11th March) at around 5:30pm to check out the flood waters around Bundaberg. The water level was falling and was at around 7m at the time.

27/02/2026

Tonight our team celebrated Joe's 20 years of dedication and service as a surveyor at InsiteSJC.

Congratulations on 2 incredible decades Joe. Twenty years is more than a milestone!

Thank you for your loyalty, hard work and always raising the benchmark. We are proud to have you on our team.

13/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations on Your Retirement David! 🎉

Today we celebrate an incredible milestone in your life. After a planning career spanning 46 years, 8 months and 2 days. Your hard work, dedication, and positive spirit have made such a lasting impact on everyone around you.
As you step into this exciting new chapter, may it be filled with relaxation, joy, and all the adventures you’ve been dreaming of. Thank you for everything you’ve contributed—you’ll be truly missed but never forgotten.
Enjoy every moment of your well-deserved retirement!

25/10/2025

💫We think our surveying team is pretty awesome!!💫

Taking home an award from the Excellence in Surveying & Spatial Information Awards last night, just backed that up!

Congratulations on your award Pat! 🥳🏆

Don't they scrub up well? Not an orange shirt in sight. 😎

06/10/2025

Proud moment from our little corner of Bundaberg, QLD 💪
Our small but mighty surveying team at InsiteSJC has been featured in the current edition of The Surveyor (Surveyors Australia). It’s proof you don’t need a capital-city postcode to kick goals on a national stage - just good people, solid practice, and curiosity.

The project in a nutshell: we surveyed ~69 ha for concept designs for a biofuel facility using drone-mounted LiDAR, then ground-truthed the surface with 370 RTK GNSS checks across different land covers. By comparing LiDAR vs RTK in roads/tracks, cane, low/medium grass, tall grass, and woodland/scrub, we gained an understanding of the conditions where our drone LiDAR is reliable, where it struggles, and why.

Key takeaways:
• Thick, low-lying vegetation is the natural enemy—it blocks returns and can confuse filtering.
• Minimum-bin processing generally improves results versus averaging.
• Bin size matters—the choice can materially change outcomes and should be considered with site topography in mind.

If you’re a surveyor, engineer, or planner and want the slide deck (methods, stats, and processing comparisons), DM us and we’ll share a copy. Happy to compare notes on workflows, pitfalls, and where LiDAR pays back vs where conventional pickup is still worth it.

01/09/2025

We are looking for the perfect person to join our team and begin a career in surveying. If you are interested in a traineeship in surveying, complete an application form at - www.insitesjc.com.au/trainee

28/08/2025

We dug up a piece of history—literally! 🧭📍
While doing a boundary identification in Mount Perry, our trainee Lachlan spotted an original survey post placed by J. Conran in 1907—that’s 118 years of holding the line!
What’s a survey post?
Back in 1907 this post would have been crafted on site from local timber: a 4x4 inch post with a pointed top, cut and chiseled in the field. The maker left the full diameter of the tree on the bottom of the post, then buried it about 2 feet deep to mark a boundary corner. Old-school precision, still doing its job.

These originals are getting rarer, so this was a proper field-day find. Today Lachlan learned two things:
1. what a survey post is, and
2. how excited surveyors get when they find a really old mark (answer: VERY).

22/08/2025

We might be biased, but we think we have the best team of Surveyors from Hervey Bay to Agnes Waters! Being such a busy time at the moment definitely made it a challenging task to have them all in the same place at the same time.