Subsurface Utility Engineering
KCI’s Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) professionals deliver quality, accurate mapping of existing underground utilities, helping clients avoid costly utility conflict or construction delays caused by unknown or misrepresented utilities. Amid a rapidly advancing and sometimes volatile utilities environment, KCI has been successful in reading markets and applying the expertise of engineers, designers, inspectors, and surveyors to provide clients with new technologies that offer practical, cost-effective solutions to project challenges.
Subsurface Utility Engineering
- Utility designating
- Utility locating
- Utility connectivity
- Pre-engineering design
- Raise/repair gas/water valves
- Global positioning system (GPS) surveys
- Directional boring slurry removal
- General purpose wet/dry vacuuming
- Cathodic protection installation
- Manway and valve box cleaning/maintenance
- Natural gas pipeline bell joint leak repair
- Turnkey engineering services
Subsurface Utility Mapping
- Carrier-phase GPS surveying technology
- Utility designating
- Utility locating
- CADD
- Geographic information system (GIS) surveying and mapping
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
- Non-invasive geophysical investigation method
- Metalic/non-metalic detection
- Soil and shallow rock strata
- Underground utilities
- Storage tanks
- Rubber
- Sink holes
- Voids
Underground Utility Locating
- Horizontal utility locating
- Vertical utility locating
- Non-intrusive methods
- Vacuum excavation
Underground Utility Designating
- Geophysical prospecting techniques
- Electromagnetic technology
- Horizontal utility designation
Utility Engineering/Surveying Services
- Potable water
- Gas/petroleum/steam/oil
- Power distribution
- Telecommunications
- Cable TV
- Sewer and drains
- Reclaimed water
Construction Inspection
- As-builts
- Telephone structures
- Appurtenance inventory
- Conduit and buried facilities
- Safety monitoring
- On-site inspection
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