Why to Incorporate Utility Mapping in Renewable Engineering Projects

There has been a fairly constant rise in Utility Strikes according to the most recent report from the Precision Utility Mapping. 

However, even with these stats, there aren't clearcut utility records from a lot of development and construction sites that showcase the impact of the safety of the workforce and that showcase major cost implications both over the short and long-term.

One of the easiest and least costly solutions is looking at an Underground Utility Survey that can utilise the latest GPR technology. This can help accurately locate both known and unrecorded services.

Beyond being able to reduce the risk of these strikes, they can also positively impact site workers and provide many other benefits. These benefits include:

1. It Can Help With Project Completion

These surveys can help to assist developers to keep their projects on-time. This is especially true when you look at the potential impact of being able to accurately locate unexpected utilities during the construction portion.

This type of survey can help to eliminate potential surprises and it can also assist in minimising the chances of having to pay for additional bills for expensive and avoidable repairs.

Even more, having to increase the timeline of a project following a strike can end up costing a lot more through higher labour costs, increased construction work and having to renew contracts.

2. It Can Reduce Intrusive Investigations

By getting underground utility surveys, you can minimise the need to pay for invasive underground inspections. 

While this can vary from project to project, these surveys can be used along with topographical surveys which can help produce a utility draw. This entire process can offer non-intrusive detection including the accurate mapping of underground pipes, cable ducts, and more.

This will also allow developers to use a different process which is known as 'Slit Trenching.'

3. Compliance With BSI Standards

As the demand continues to increase with more and more developments, utility surveys have become very important to construction sites to keep the development process as safe as possible for everyone involved. These utilities have become much easier to detect through the new BSI standard procedures which can help provide enhanced detection and verification of all utilities.

Utility surveys end up representing a very accurate indicator of either the presence or absence of different underground utilities that can be seen before ever having to begin the construction process which can help both before and during the construction and development of any project.