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Experts in Service Locating

About Underground Service Locating

D-Tech have a team of dedicated underground service technicians who can trace & map out subsurface utilities at your site, allowing these assets to be protected & understood.
Our technicians lift all on site pits and manholes, collecting & recording information such as pipe and chamber sizes, depths, direction of flow, conduit sizes, materials, configuration and utility type.
D-Tech uses both electromagnetic cable locating (EML) and ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology to trace & locate underground utilities.

  • EML Locating – Used to locate conductive utilities such as metallic pipes, electrical and communication cables
  • Ground Penetrating Radar – Used to locate non conductive material such as Poly or Nylon gas lines, blue brute and PVC water mains, empty conduits, underground storage tanks, underground voids & abnormalities in subsurface compaction.
  • Traceable Rod with EML – Used to locate accessible empty pipes or conduits, i.e. Sewer and Storm water pipes and empty conduits.

We provide all our clients with detailed reports. Our technicians will photograph and note on plans on site findings. With our in-house draftsman we can work with existing CAD files, providing our clients with the most accurate results and plans.

All our work complies to the Australian Standard AS-5488.1:2019 classification of subsurface utility information.

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When Would You Need Underground Service Locating?

D-Tech can undertake such investigations for the following purposes:

  • Development Sites – to ensure that all existing services are located to avoid any complications to ongoing works or to new services being installed.

  • Construction Sites – to determine the extent of services within the concrete for old and new buildings prior to core penetrations of redevelopment of any one area.

  • On Site Data Collection – detailed drawings obtained from site and collated with plans and exisiting service provider infrastructure drawings from relevant authorities.

Certificates & Accreditations

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