UNDERGROUND SURVEYING
Utilities Survey
Underground utilities mapping provides a clear understanding of buried services and any potential hazards to the development. Our PAS 128 utilities surveys locate all mains services including electricity, sewers, gas and water mains, fibre optics, heating, lighting cables, communication networks and traffic signalling cables.
Early identification of any buried services ensures projects can progress smoothly throughout the entire design and build phase and reduce the risk of unplanned delays. The useful data you will receive from a utilities survey minimises the need for any follow-on excavations and is an excellent way to identify safe areas to carry out excavations, boreholes and piling.
Survey Solutions have teams across the UK covering projects in all construction sectors. Our experience, and the scope of pas 128 survey types we can provide, will help you with the data you need across industrial brownfield sites earmarked for major residential development, through to verifying existing underground records at wind farms in the Scottish Highlands.
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How will a Utilities Survey benefit my project?
We will identify, trace and map of all major underground buried services, as a standalone utilities survey or as part of an integrated package that can include CCTV drainage, topographical or measured building survey depending on the project’s needs.
Your supplied results are PAS 128 specification compliant with additional statutory record services also available, and are overlaid onto a topographical survey prior to issuing in both CAD and PDF formats. Identifying and mitigating potential hazards and challenges at an early stage will allow your project to progress based on knowledge. We can plan the surveys to meet your timescales and offer potential cost-savings and consistency in the final drawings and output.
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Our utilities surveys case studies
Just some of the utility surveys case studies from our work with clients.
- Navigating challenges and accelerating progress for AECOM’s road design
- Surveys for transforming historical buildings on behalf of a Manchester based charity, Embassy
- West Yorkshire Culvert for client Avison Young
- Perth Royal Infirmary survey
- Port of Ipswich
- Asda recycling sites
Our full range of underground and utilities services are listed below.
Underground Surveying Services
To provide a full understanding of below ground site conditions and to confirm evidence of previous site use. Essential to complete prior to excavations, drilling, piling and many other construction processes.
Full range of high-pressure drainage solutions undertaken as a separate exercise or as part of a full CCTV condition survey and assessment.
Location and confirmation of the layout of structural reinforcement. A fast and efficient method of identifying voids in a variety of applications.
Remote inspections using state-of-the-art CCTV cameras to provide high definition visual imagery in pipes, voids and areas of restricted access.
Permanent identification of underground services assets to complement your utility survey. Effective and clear marking of the purpose of each inspection chamber.
Our geophysical surveys utilise non-invasive, high volume data capturing instruments, providing our clients with maximum data whilst maintaining minimal time and disturbance on site.