Electromagnetic locating
Trace conductive services using suitable active and passive locating methods where access and asset construction allow it.
Plans start the conversation
Physical evidence finishes it.
Underground records tell you what should be there. Locating and potholing tell you what can actually be found.
Before drilling or excavation, known and suspected services should be reviewed, traced where practical and physically confirmed at critical crossings or conflict points.
The ground has never been required to read the plan.
Route marking
Mark detected service alignments and relevant site information so the work team can plan around them.
Depth indications
Collect locator depth information as a guide, then physically verify critical locations before relying on clearance.
Crossing verification
Pothole proposed crossing points so bore path, excavation depth and separation can be based on actual exposure.
Daylighting
Expose services and structures sufficiently to understand their position, direction and practical effect on the job.
Site coordination
Compare plans, markings, surface evidence and exposed services rather than treating any one source as infallible.
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Subsite locating equipment
Useful information in competent hands.
Locating equipment helps identify and trace underground assets. It does not create certainty where records, connections, access or service construction make certainty impossible.
We use locating alongside plans, site evidence, potholing and practical judgement.
A screen showing a number is not the same thing as an exposed service.
Before work begins
Build the bore path around what exists.
The useful outcome is not a collection of paint marks. It is enough reliable information for the drilling or excavation team to choose a safer, workable method.
- Review utility plans and site records
- Inspect visible service indicators
- Trace accessible assets
- Mark the detected alignment
- Pothole critical crossings
- Measure and record actual exposure
- Adjust the work plan where required
Locating equipment provides information.
It does not replace records, physical verification, safe excavation practices or a functioning brain.Holland Underground
Need a route checked before work starts?
Send the plans, proposed alignment and site location. We will identify what needs to be traced and exposed.