Underground Utility Locating

Pinpoint every buried service — power, comms, water, gas, sewer and stormwater — before a shovel hits the ground.

Overview

About the service

Utility locating is the foundation of every safe excavation. Our crews combine Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to identify the exact position, alignment and depth of buried infrastructure across metallic and non-metallic assets.

Every locate is captured against high-precision GPS and delivered through our GIS portal, so your project team has a durable, auditable record — not just a set of spray marks that fade after the first rain.

Why SSA

What sets our underground utility locating apart

By integrating EMI, GPR and CCTV verification, our locators build a complete picture of the underground environment. That means fewer strikes, fewer variations and design decisions backed by real subsurface data.

In the field

Real crews. Real jobs. Real results.

A look at our teams delivering underground utility locating on live sites across Australia.

Ground penetrating radar sweep along a live pipe corridor

Vivax vLoc3-Pro confirming HV power depth at 1.46 m

Capabilities

What's included

Detection through concrete

Locate services concealed beneath slabs, pavements and reinforced structures without breaking the surface.

Water leak detection

Acoustic and correlation techniques isolate pressurised leaks fast, protecting assets and reducing loss.

Cable fault detection

High-voltage locating rigs identify cable faults precisely, so repairs happen once and in the right spot.

Concrete X-ray / scanning

Structural scanning reveals reinforcement, post-tensioning and embedded services before you core or cut.

High-accuracy GPS capture

Every mark is recorded in a project GIS with sub-decimetre accuracy and photographic evidence.

Detailed location reports

AS 5488-aligned deliverables covering position, depth, quality level and asset ownership.

Applications

Where we deploy this service

Every job is scoped in writing so you know exactly what will be delivered on site — and what won't.

Clamp induction — signal applied around a conductive service to trace depth and alignment.
Direct connection — signal injected directly into a target service for the sharpest signal-to-noise.
Drop-box induction — broadcast a signal into the ground where no direct access point exists.

Have a project that needs underground utility locating?

Send us the address, the scope and the timeframe. A project manager will respond within one business hour with a fixed proposal and a mobilisation date.

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