Before any excavation, construction, landscaping, drainage upgrade, or civil works begin, understanding what is below the surface is critical. Every day, Geoscan helps clients across Victoria reduce underground risk on projects ranging from: residential landscaping...
Interview with Jon Armstrong Even small mistakes during construction or landscaping can lead to major disruptions. A recent project in Werribee highlights why working with a professional utility locator in Geelong is essential when underground services are damaged,...
Accurately locating underground services is essential for any construction or excavation project. As a trusted cable locator in Geelong, Geoscan follows a structured and safety-focused process to ensure underground assets are identified correctly before work begins....
Global warming - over the last decade, the effects and consequences have already been witnessed by our planet. Led to the rise in severe weather, climate change has become a threat to the well-being and safety of people worldwide. Utilities is one of the major...
Warmer weather is the perfect time for outdoor work! Every year, many homeowners and contractors work towards property improvement or excavation projects. But do you know 40% of them risk hitting an underground utility while they are digging?
Everyone will agree to the fact that it is a huge deal working near underground utility infrastructure. The complexities related to underground utility locating and performing excavation is gaining more and more traction every day due to the financial and safety impact related to it.
In 2020, when the pandemic hit – every industry suffered including the utility location industry. With an increasing need to enable remote work, many underground utility mapping companies drastically invested in the technologies to ensure that all the workers are still protected on the site.
Underground utility locating is a job that brings many occupational hazards alone. Challenges don’t only include working with heavy equipment but also working in a dangerous environment, from tunnelling depths or towering heights.
In recent years, there’s an unexpected rise in the frequency of the natural disaster. This is where Hazard Mapping, comes to rescue by helping to locate natural hazard along with their physical relationship to people.
With the rapid urbanization, industries have started relying on more complex and larger utility networks underground. You’ll be surprised to know that utility surveying has been with us since the beginning of the 20th century.
In recent years, there’s been a sudden increase in burying the utility lines for phone, cable, electricity, etc. While underground utilities have definitely improved the aesthetic of the city and its protection from the storm but unfortunately it has also created numerous problems for utilities and people involved in doing excavation or underground work.
You’ll be surprised to know that underneath your feet, there’s a massive network of cables, pipes and other conduits carrying gas, electricity, water and digital information. This labyrinth of underground utilities plays an essential role in fuelling our life quality.
Are you planning to conduct excavation or digging anytime sooner? Need to locate and map the underground utilities like gas, electricity, water lines or underground storage tanks? You definitely need to hire professional utility location services.
Excavation or digging is one of the most essential parts of not only construction projects but also of the installation and maintenance of the underground utilities.
If you are working on a contract project, certainly there might be several things occupying your mind. However, there are certain things that you need to cross off. For example, you need to call Dial Before You Dig for a reliable utility location services before you began your digging project.
Many times you might have heard that induction should be used only as a last resort. In most of the cases, that’s a good thumb rule to follow, but when you need to use it, it’s extremely important to be aware of the technical know-how.
There is no denying that with the technological advancement and urban development in Geelong, the underground has become a spider’s web of utility networks. The underground assets include electric cables, gas pipes, water pipes, etc. It also includes inactive pipes, cables and storage tanks.
For any construction company or public work departments, having precise information about the underground utility lines is of utmost importance. As the amazing network of roads, bridge and rails a city like Geelong have, the underground structure is the even more intricate arrangement with several utility pipes for water, gas, sewers, electricity, etc.
While we are constantly building and remoulding properties, excavation is inevitable and can be undertaken for a variety of reason. What we are going to find out in this article is while performing an excavation, you must find out any underground running cables to avoid any casualties. Moreover, there can be cable faults lying down there just to create havoc.
Locating underground utilities and underground utility mapping is a tough job. Before developing a property or building a commercial space, it is very important to call for professional services in order to clear up the underground space prior to construction.
For detecting underground cables, an array of tools is used. Each of the locating tools is used for a specific function and is available with some limitations too.
The need of locating important pipes and cables on the construction location beforehand is indispensable. There is a possibility of exposing an important network of underground pipes in case you start digging in the wrong location.
Digging on your own, without locating pipes and cables under the ground with established detection methods can have disastrous consequences. Every property has many cables and pipes buried underground which can get damaged by penetrating. For instance, if you hit the...
GPR is a major breakthrough in ground investigation used for scanning, detection, and locating underground objects.
Public utility systems like telecommunication, electricity distribution, natural gas, cable television, fiber optics, traffic lights, street lights, water mains, wastewater pipes are run underground. In most of the cases, these systems run under the main public roads....
Tree roots are generally shallow in the soil and can travel well beyond the dripline of the trees crown. Tree root growth is opportunistic and occurs where the essentials for growth are present and is not always symmetrical in form and depth.
Geoscan surveyed over a kilometer of the picturesque coastline, ascertaining all underground services. The information was collected and compiled into a comprehensive Underground Service Map in CAD and hard copy form.
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical method that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface. This nondestructive method uses electromagnetic radiation in the microwave band of the radio spectrum, and detects the reflected signals from subsurface structures.
Underground digging can be a very difficult and cumbersome task which demands a lot of accuracy and precision. In addition, it can also be risky because of utility pipes underground. If not done carefully and properly, it may lead to leakage and breakage of underground utility pipes.