Pipe and cable locating

Before any excavation it pays to know what runs beneath. A severed supply cable or a fractured main stops the job and costs many times more than tracing it first.

What we locate

• Metallic and non-metallic water and drainage pipes.
• Live cables, and de-energised ones.
• Communication and power network routes.
• The exact burial depth, not merely the direction of the run.

The equipment

• Radiodetection — the world standard for underground tracing, location and depth measurement.
• Vivax-Metrotech — industrial locators and cable finders for mapping complex buried networks.

On drainage runs we also use the sondes built into our survey cameras: we stop the camera at the defect and mark the point at the surface with a ground receiver.

When it is needed

Before excavation and construction, when designing new routes, ahead of foundation and landscaping work, and wherever as-built documentation for existing services is missing.