Somerset / Pennsylvania / United States
Cortese Associates was founded in 1956 and is a family owned and operated land surveyor with over three decades of experience. We are located in Windber, PA and serve the entire Pennsylvania Area. All research, field work and drafting are completed in house by our staff and we also have long standing relationships with area Title Companies, lenders, Mortgage Companies and local governments, which helps to expedite the completion of your survey. Our most popular services include: *ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey: a surveying standard jointly proposed by the American Land Title Association and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping that incorporates elements of the boundary survey, mortgage survey, and topographic survey. *Archaeological survey: used to accurately assess the relationship of archaeological sites in a landscape or to accurately record finds on an archaeological site. *As-built survey: a survey carried out during or immediately after a construction project for record, completion evaluation and payment purposes. An as-built survey also known as a works as executed survey documents the location of the recently constructed elements that are subject to completion evaluation. As built surveys are typically presented in red or redline and overlayed over existing design plans for direct comparison with design information. *Boundary survey: a survey that establishes boundaries of a parcel using its legal description, which typically involves the setting or restoration of monuments or markers at the corners or along the lines of the parcel, often in the form of iron rods, pipes, or concrete monuments in the ground, or nails set in concrete or asphalt. *Engineering surveys: those surveys associated with the engineering design (topographic, layout and as-built) often requiring geodetic computations beyond normal civil engineering practice. *Foundation survey: a survey done to collect the positional data on a foundation that has been poure
