UTILITY LOCATING
Know where underground pipes, cables and utilities are located with our utility locating services.
Think Before You Dig
Prevent worker injuries and keep your team safe with comprehesive reporting.
Avoid Repair Costs
Avoid major delays and costs from potential utility strikes.
Leading Detection
Ensure early detection of underground frameworks under strict Australian standards.
UTILITY LOCATION BENEFITS
Utility location services are essential for any construction, excavation, or renovation project. These services involve accurately identifying and marking underground utilities, such as water lines, gas pipes, electrical cables, and telecommunication infrastructure before the execution of any excavation works. We work with industry experts who use specialized equipment, including ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electromagnetic locating devices, to detect and trace the path of buried utilities.
By conducting comprehensive utility location surveys, potential risks associated with striking or damaging underground utilities are significantly reduced. This ensures the safety of workers, prevents service disruptions, and helps avoid costly repairs or legal liabilities. With utility location services, project planners and contractors can proceed with confidence, knowing the precise locations of utilities and taking the necessary precautions to prevent accidents and minimize disruptions.
Avoid Utility Strikes
Utility locating services help prevent accidental damage to underground utilities during construction, excavation, or renovation projects. By accurately identifying and marking the locations of utilities, workers can take appropriate measures to avoid striking or damaging them, reducing the risk of service disruptions, injuries, and costly repairs.
Ensure Worker Safety
Underground utilities can pose significant safety hazards if not properly identified. Utility locating services prioritize worker safety by providing crucial information about the presence and location of utilities, enabling workers to take necessary precautions and work around them safely.
Minimise Service Disruption
Accidentally damaging utilities can lead to service disruptions for entire neighborhoods or facilities. Utility locating services help minimize these disruptions by allowing contractors to work precisely and avoid hitting or severing utility lines, thus ensuring uninterrupted services for residents, businesses, and public infrastructure.
Mitigate Legal and Financial Liabilities
Damaging underground utilities without proper identification and planning can result in legal and financial liabilities. Utility locating services help mitigate these risks by providing accurate information about utility locations, demonstrating due diligence, and reducing the likelihood of costly legal disputes and financial penalties.
Save Time & Money
By accurately identifying utility locations before a project begins, utility locating services help avoid unexpected delays, rework, and repairs. This saves time and reduces overall project costs by enabling efficient planning, design, and execution.
Regulatory Compliance
Our utility locating services help ensure compliance with local regulations and industry standards regarding safe digging practices. Following these guidelines promotes responsible construction practices and helps maintain the integrity of underground utility infrastructure.
VACUUM TRUCK PERFORMANCE
Our vacuum trucks boast enhanced capabilities, equipped with larger blowers that create the efficient extraction of heavy materials from greater depths and longer distances. Manufactured with high levels of mercury content, increased airspeeds and velocity, our vacuum truck blowers create a powerful vacuum and flow. With an impressive 8000L tank offering superior carrying capacity, our skilled operators can excavate, collect, transport, and dispose of spoil in significantly reduced timeframes.
This cutting-edge technology distinguishes our vacuum trucks from traditional models that are limited in their ability to handle heavy materials found at specific depths and distances. By harnessing this technology, our vacuum trucks not only dig alot faster, they are guaranteed to remove a larger volume of bulk materials from greater depths and distances.
Our vacuum trucks are equipped with an impressive 270-degree horizontal swing capability, allowing for a wide range of manoeuvrability.
The boom’s versatile movement enables it to reach a maximum height of 1.4 meters and a minimum height of 1.4 meters from a starting angle of 0 degrees.
Furthermore, when combined with boom connections, our vacuum trucks can achieve an impressive total reach of up to 4 meters. This extensive range of motion and reach ensures that our vacuum trucks can effectively access and extract materials from various heights and depths, making them ideal for a diverse range of excavation and waste removal tasks.
Common Questions & Answers
Why should I use utility locating services before digging?
Any excavation, irrespective of size, has the potential to damage assets located around the work site, leading to service interruptions, delays to the project, costly repairs and in the worst-case scenario, injury or death.
Obtaining information from what is under the surface significantly minimises these risks by providing information about the work site. Safety is a fundamental aspect of any excavation project and so utility locating services should always be the first point of contact.
Are underground utilities installed in a straight line?
No. Mainly due to obstacles that may have been in the vicinity when the cables or pipes were installed. And NEVER assume the depth or alignment of pipes and cables. Due to the possible deviation in alignment, manual excavation (if instructed by the asset owner) may be required to determine the exact location of infrastructure assets to avoid any mishaps.
Could I be financially liable if damages were to occur to infrastructure networks?
Yes, court proceedings may commence against individuals and/or companies for the recovery of the cost of repairing or reinstating damaged assets where negligence appears to be a contributor.