Mapping underground utilities is very important as it affects the planned excavation and construction activities later.

1. Underground Utility Mapping Using Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys
Kozhikode, India: Just as in a modern city, there are confusions occurring below the ground too. Power, telephone,
fiber optic cables, water, waste water drains and sewer pipes makes the things a little clumsy beneath the earth.
Installation of new utilities makes the issue even more complicating. Excavating and encountering buried utilities
may lead to costly delays and financial or other penalties. This may also lead to disruption of services, which causes
the risk of injury and loss of life to workers.
Taking the necessary precautions is the only way to avoid such accidents at work sites. Before starting excavation,
detection of buried utilities holds much importance in this aspect. Contractors need to put an effort to locate the
buried utilities before commencing their work because it affects the planned excavation and construction activities
later.
Utility tracking services like Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) services prove helpful for contractors, especially in oil
and gas sectors. The maps available with them could be incomplete, inaccurate, or sometimes the utilities may
have been added, removed or relocated without notice. So, it is advisable for excavating contractors to engage
themselves in services of well qualified, experienced and equipped utility surveyors and utility mapping services.
It is possible to locate the buried utilities of metallic and non-metallic pipes and cables using modern methods and
technologies like electromagnetic detectors, radio detection and ground penetrating radar systems (GPRS).A
combination of traditional survey techniques, GPS and geographical information systems (GIS) software can be
used to map these utilities effectively.
Tech27.com is a leading service provider in underground utility mapping. Their comprehensive underground utility
surveys combine the techniques of Radio Frequency Location and Ground Penetrating Radar to detect and map all
metal pipes, plastic pipes, foul and surface drainage systems, electricity cables, telecoms and fibre optic cables.
Final survey results are presented in the form of a CAD drawing with all underground information accurately
recorded on to a topographical survey plan.
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