Utility Locating for Engineers, Geotech and Survey Firms

Three things engineering and geotech firms ask us for. Boring and test-pit locations checked before the rig arrives, priced per point. A site marked ahead of a topographic survey so the crew can shoot the utilities along with everything else. And a record: a markout summary, a photo log, and the GPS positions of the marks as placed, delivered as KMZ or shapefile so they drop straight into the drawing.

On method and on paper, we are careful with words. We locate with electromagnetic line-tracing and ground-penetrating radar, and we mark at the approximate horizontal location. We do not give depth. We are a private utility locator, not a licensed engineer or land surveyor; how the data is classified is the engineer of record's call. Anything we could not detect is documented rather than left unsaid, so the drawing shows the gaps as gaps.

From the job log: a parking lot in Boulder marked for an engineering firm ahead of a survey for EV charging stations, with the written record delivered the same week; geotechnical boring locations checked on South Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs for a national geotech firm; three days of underground locates across a school campus in Telluride for the district; sixteen water valves traced and marked for a property manager in the Denver Tech Center. We also measure utility footage off civil plan sets for estimators, remotely.

Send the site, the scope and the date you need it through the request form, or call or text (719) 800-4937. Half-day and full-day bookings, hours counted on site, with a firm number before we mobilize.

Utility designating for engineering firms: electromagnetic and radar field work across the design limits, every mark logged with GPS and delivered as KMZ, in support of the engineer of record's QL-B. How utility designating works and soil boring locates.