Not only do we have a range of services for smaller projects, we have a team of experts who can work with your people to ensure the highest standards while following all government guidelines and requirements.

Planning and designing your project

The planning and engineering design are critical stages in determining the feasibility of any project especially the financial side. During these phases 1300LOCATE can give your project an advantage financially by providing you with the necessary technical knowledge and experience to help you avoid unnecessary design changes and utility strikes in construction.

Our expert team will work with you during these phases to help with industry best practises and safe standards when working around buried utilities and we guarantee that our systems will save you time and money and increase your top end profits.

1300LOCATE can act in a utility consulting role providing desk top studies for utility conflict areas and also recommend and or implement utility damage avoidance systems and procedures.

Construction

During construction, utilities are at their most vulnerable point, if you haven't utilised forward planning or located, marked and mapped utilities prior, your project could be heading for disaster.

Before ground excavation can commence it is the principal contractors responsibility to know where all the utilities, on and around the site are, this includes works associated with the site such as infrastructure upgrading. Once this information is collected the PC should discuss with subcontractors the hazards associated with each individual scope of work. Utility locating must be done before each stage of work commences. It is good practise to use one locating company for the entire project as they will become intimate with the site, this alone will save you money.

Utility locating should be done for the entire site and associated works by the Principal Contractor, A plan of utility whereabouts should be given to sub-contractors and all concerns should be discussed with sub-contractors, then it is the sub-contractors responsibility to locate and expose utilities within their scope. You should utilise vacuum potholing to expose utilities.

All too often PC's pass the buck to the sub-contractors when, had they identified utilities first, the chances of damage could have been greatly reduced, especially if you are using a number of different locating companies on each site. Early detection of utilities will save you money and you will find you project will streamline early.

Utility detection utilised correctly will;

1. Save you time
2. Increase your profits
3. Streamline your project
4. Give your sub-contractors peace of mind
5. Keep you in good stead with the general public and utility owners
6. Reduce down time
7. Reduce safety issues
8. Create awareness