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Surveying under control

ArkhangelskTISIz operates in different parts of
the Russian Federation. It has an almost sixty years
of experience in Northern and North-Western Rus-
sia, including Nenets and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous
Okrugs, where the country’s largest industrial con-
struction projects have been deployed in recent years.
The company offers a full range of engineering
and construction surveys, including geological, geo-
detic, environmental and hydrometeorological, as
well as complete package of development-related ca-
dastral surveys.
“We carry out turnkey contracts that span abso-
lutely everything from field research to report sub-
mission for state review,” says Alexander Kabanikhin,
General Director at ArkhangelskTISIz. “And we are
supported by a team proven subcontractors we know
we can always trust.”
ArkhangelskTISIz leader believes that his compa-
ny’s strong competitive edge on the engineering and
construction surveys market results from well-estab-
lished reputation and quality service. There has been
a decline in customers’ competency in recent years.
Much to the dissatisfaction of investors, projects of-
ten tend to achieve cost savings at the expense of the
surveying, causing the “invisible” increase in costs at
later stages of construction.
“In pursuit of low-cost surveying, some compa-
nies deliberately violate the standards, using their
imagination to compensate for insufficient scopes
and quality on paper,” says Alexander Kabanikhin.
“The customer who rashly entrusts the survey works
with dubious surveying parties and gives up due su-
pervision is running the risk of ending up with in-
flated volumes of building materials and structures
at the later stages (design and con-
struction).”
Therefore, large companies
such as Gazprom, Rosneft, Lu- «Мы всегда комфортно чувствуем
koil and their subsidiaries order себя в условиях контроля со
engineering surveys from parties стороны заказчика, поскольку
with proven track record and ex-
tensive projects portfolio. Survey- тщательно соблюдаем все
ing should be at all times be mon- стандарты, нормативы и
itored by the customer: target технологии»
number one is quality and scope,
which must be covered in detail “We feel comfortable being monitored
in relevant documentation, and by the customer, because we never fail
target number two is compliance to observe standards, regulations, and
with occupational and industrial
safety standards. Alexander Ka- technologies”
banikhin emphasizes:
“We feel comfortable being
monitored by the customer, be-
cause we never fail to observe standards, regulations,
and technologies. Our task is to perform the works
as efficiently as possible, and the customer can always
make sure we are working to standard. Larger com-
panies exercise control at every stage of the survey-
ing: their supervisors will always be there in the field,
laboratory, and report preparation desk. We welcome
this approach.”
With extensive experience and high qualifica-
tions, ArkhangelskTISIz itself acts in the capacity of
supervisor in a number of projects. Its reputation as a
reliable party with quality performance enables it to
be hired by large customers to supervise performance
of other contractors.

Sea and land
ArkhangelskTISIz currently employs more than
one hundred people – geologists, drillers, laboratory
technicians, environmental engineers, surveyors, hy-
drographers, cadastral engineers. Its teams are ser-
vicing the projects across the Arctic Zone. The cen-
tral office and production base of the trust are located