Built on the understanding that accurate documentation changes outcomes.
Alturascope exists because the documentation most project teams receive doesn't match the decisions they're trying to make. Survey reports with no useful structure. Digital twins delivered without context. Conditions information that arrives too late, or in a format nobody can actually use.
We built something different. Every Alturascope visit produces the same structured deliverable architecture — not because we're rigid, but because consistency is what allows project teams to compare sites, brief consultants, and move forward with confidence. The brief changes. The standard doesn't.
Our background is in construction and the built environment — nearly two decades of it, across commercial fit-out, conservation, and project delivery at every scale. That experience includes hands-on construction work, collaboration with architects and conservation specialists on some of Britain's most significant historic buildings, and documentation work across almost every US state and every Canadian province. We know what buildings look like from the inside — not just through a camera.
We are based in Montreal and operate a national travel model across the US and Canada, with a dedicated UK operation for work in Britain. We take on a relatively small number of projects at any time, which means every one gets the same attention.
Who You Are Dealing With
Andrew Harris
Founder — Alturascope
Eighteen years in construction and the built environment, across commercial fit-out, conservation and project delivery. Before Alturascope that meant hands-on work on site, and collaboration with architects and conservation specialists on some of Britain’s most significant historic buildings.
Since then, documentation work across almost every US state and every Canadian province — several hundred commercial sites, most of them retail and office units being handed over, stripped out or fitted for their next occupier.
It is a small operation by design. When you send a building or a bid package, it is dealt with by someone who has stood in that kind of space with a tape in their hand, not routed to a queue.
The Estimating Desk
Thirty-three years, and a machine that checks the work.
In 2026 we added a second service: construction estimating. Contractors send us a bid package and we send back a priced, white-labeled quote under their own name, usually inside two working days.
It came out of the same observation the survey business came out of. Documentation answers “what am I working with?” The very next question anybody asks is “what will it cost?” — and the two are far better answered together, because renovation estimates go wrong in the gap between what the drawing says and what the building actually is.
The desk brings together eighteen years in construction and, in Selwyn Doling, fifteen years in professional estimating, working inside a contractor operations platform that handles the take-off, the rate library and the document generation — and that refuses to release an estimate carrying a quantity with no source or an exclusion with no stated reason. Every pack is reviewed and signed off by a career estimator before it is issued, and it is issued to the client as a draft for them to release under their own name.
We do not contract, we do not supply materials, and we do not take a percentage of the job — so we have no reason to want a number to be anything other than right. And we will not price work on a site we have documented for the other side of the table.
What Sets Us Apart
We built ScopeWalk because email folders aren't good enough.
Every deliverable lives in a structured, permanent portal — not a WeTransfer link. Your team can access every project at any time. For multi-site programmes, you can compare any two properties side by side.
We include travel. Always.
Nationwide coverage means nothing if travel costs arrive as a surprise. Our pricing includes travel to any location in the US, Canada, or the UK. You brief us once. We handle the logistics.
We scope before we quote.
Every project starts with a conversation about what you're trying to decide. That shapes what we capture, which shapes what you receive. We don't send a standard package when a tailored brief would serve you better.
If you have a project — straightforward or otherwise — we'd like to hear about it.
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