Underground Service Locating Toowoomba

Engage an experienced certified and fully insured locating company, like Utility ID, that can do the planning, preparation, potholing and protection of underground utilities in house to ensure all duty of care requirements are being met with minimal hassle, increasing your project productivity and minimising cost. Once Utility ID have conducted our work, you will need to comply to all outcomes provided by us and to keep all Dial Before You Dig plans until all digging and excavation has been completed. Dial Before You Dig plans will have an expiration date and you will still be liable if damage occurs during excavation and your plans have expired. If your project has been delayed after we have completed our work, please contact us again to further discuss the circumstances once you have a firm date of when excavation is to occur.  

Plans are merely step one of the process and they do not provide the exact location, route and depth of the services. Rather they are typically a simple line diagram or schematic for awareness purposes only. Also not all utility asset owner’s register with Dial Before You Dig, meaning there is likely unknown services in the vicinity of your project. So for any construction project, big or small, you must ensure that an experienced certified locator, like Utility ID, is engaged at the commencement to provide you with the assurance that your duty of care obligations are being met and to avoid potential conflicts and costly delays at the construction phase of your project.

DBYD Certified Locators have a nationally recognised industry qualification that distinguishes them from ‘DIY’ or self-authorised locators. With DBYD certification there is no need to guess whether the locator you are hiring is competent. Hiring locators that are not DBYD certified may be putting your business and the community at risk.

Utility ID are a DBYD certified locating organisation with DBYD certified locators.

Dial Before You Dig (DBYD) are an online central repository of utility owner plans for the underground networks, dial before you dig are also the governing certification body for the underground service locating industry.

There is a whole world of infrastructure that has been placed underground to provide services such as power, water, internet, gas, sewer etc for our day to day lives. Due to the large amount of services underground the network is complex and intricate making design and excavation around existing infrastructure difficult.

To ensure these services or utility assets are recorded accurately in a design phase or not struck and damaged in a construction or excavation phase, they need to be located at the commencement of the project. This will reduce overall project costs, minimise project risk, increase safety and protect against costly damages and liabilities.

Industry best practice is known as the 5Ps – Plan, Prepare, Pothole, Protect and Proceed. At Utility ID we conduct the first 4 essential steps in house so you can Proceed safely and lawfully with your project.

Underground service locating is achieved by a combination of different methods and devices to find infrastructure that is buried underground. There are many terms to describe underground infrastructure including, services (most common description), utilities, assets or more simply underground cables or pipes. The most effective methods include electro-magnetic locating, Ground Penetrating Radar, and potholing or strip trenching via vacuum excavation. At Utility ID we undertake all these services in house providing you with the full end to end service locating facility, saving you time and money.