COMPASS CONSULTING SURVEYORS

DIRECTION IN DEVELOPMENT

COMPASS CONSULTING SURVEYORS

Compass Consulting Surveyors is a complete service development consultancy, created from the partnership of Doherty Smith & Associates consulting surveyors and Clarkstone Surveyors in 2021.

Backed by a long history and extensive experience, Compass Consulting Surveyors aims to provide the highest quality services for all your development requirements. With our focus firmly on the future, we choose to source all our surveying equipment and software from world leaders in the industry such as Leica Geosystems, Civilcad and AutoCAD. We strive to attain and maintain a high standard of skill and knowledge by continued professional development and training. All our processes are subjected to rigorous quality control checks to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.

With staff located in both Orange and Dubbo, we deliver high-quality service with a focus on the Central West. We offer surveying, town planning and civil engineering services in-house, allowing us to complete your development proposal from one contact point.

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MEET THE TEAM

ERIC SMITH

Director/Registered Land Surveyor

Eric grew up on a farm at Yeoval, south of Dubbo. Eric has had a passion for surveying since 1989, when he completed work experience with local surveyor, Neil.

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He graduated from the University of Newcastle in 1998 and after gaining experience in different locations across the country, has settled in the Central West where he has been a small business owner and company director since 2005.

Eric has a wide range of experience, from rural and suburban subdivision and design to UVA (drone) surveys for asset management and terrain modelling, and much more. Eric’s articles, published on the Compass Consulting Surveyors blog, are referenced by the University of NSW for their students, and are used by a wide range of people seeking plain-English explanations of complex surveying and planning matters.

He is an amateur photographer, with his location photos bringing real world substance to your development proposals as well as colour to our website.

PAT CLARKSTONE

Director/Registered Land Surveyor

Pat Clarkstone is a Registered Land Surveyor with over 14 years of professional experience in cadastral, engineering and mining projects.

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Pat is committed to ensuring he is actively engaging with current developments within the surveying industry. He prides himself on his strong client focus, as well as his ability to provide an accurate, efficient and professional service.

KATE SMITH

Business Manager/Planner

Kate is Business Manager at Compass Consulting Surveyors. She is responsible for strategic planning, financial direction and HR matters.

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Along with multifaceted administrative duties, Kate also oversees planning projects and legislative research as well as assisting with surveying fieldwork when required. Kate is completing her Town Planning qualification through UNE. An animal lover, Kate likes the occasional opportunity to have an office dog or two in residence.

PAULA HILDEBRANDT

Client Liaison/Administration Coordinator

Paula’s key role is to liaise with Compass Consulting Surveyors clients and ensure they have the most up to date information regarding their projects.

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Paula facilitates the day to day running of the office and provides administration support for the rest of the team. A keen gardener, Paula prepares our landscape design plans, and is developing the drafting skills to bring her vision to life on paper. This adds a new and exciting challenge to complement more than 15 years of administration experience.

RILEY HAYCRAFT

Draftsperson/Administration

Riley is a valued and deft member of the drafting team. Their creative flair and attention to detail ensures your survey plans are as attractive as they are accurate.

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Riley brings outstanding customer service skills to Compass Consulting Surveyors from a background in hospitality management, and always happy to help out in the field or in the office when needed.

NATHAN “TEX” EXELBY

Survey Technician

Nathan is new to the surveying industry, and provides assistance to the team both in the field and drafting in the office.

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Nathan brings a wide range of technical skills including AutoCAD drafting from his background in Live Theatre production. Outside of the office, Tex is a musician and a car enthusiast.

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY & PROCEDURES

We aim to achieve a level beyond our duty of care obligations by implementing and following strict Workplace Health and Safety policy. All employees of Compass Consulting Surveyors undergo the necessary induction training and risk assessments when working on sites under our control.

All members of the team have completed the National WHS General Construction Induction Training and hold nationally recognised White Cards.

SUSTAINABILITY IN PRACTISE

Compass Consulting Surveyors are endeavouring to implement a range of Sustainable Business Practises. These strategies of Sustainability must be both affordable and practical to realise and ensure that the Quality of Service always provided by Compass Consulting Surveyors is strictly maintained.

We anticipate that by putting these principles into practise we will take the very important step towards being considered a Sustainable Business.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Compass Consulting Surveyors, like all spatial professionals are under increasing ethical, business, regulatory and consumer pressures to perform at the highest level of efficiency and accuracy.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Compass Consulting Surveyors make every effort towards Continuous Improvement. We are implementing Sustainability and Transparency initiatives to ensure Customer Satisfaction and Quality Management Systems are sustained.

COMPASS CONSULTING SURVEYORS

DIRECTION IN DEVELOPMENT