Underground Utility Surveys for Planning, Design and Excavation

Accurate underground utility surveys for development, engineering, construction and groundworks projects. Survey2Plan locates and maps detectable buried services, helping your team plan with better information before excavation begins. 
Reduce uncertainty around underground cables, pipes, ducts and drainage within your project area. 

Plan and Excavate With Better Underground Information

Incomplete utility records and unknown service routes can create problems before design or groundworks begin. Buried cables, pipes and ducts may affect drainage, foundations, access roads, landscaping and proposed service connections.  An underground utility survey gives your project team clearer information about detectable buried services, helping reduce assumptions during planning and excavation. 

Typical Project Risks

  • Incomplete or outdated utility records
  • Unknown cable and pipe routes
  • Conflicts with proposed works
  • Excavation delays or service damage

Usable Utility Survey Data

  • Detectable utilities mapped on site 
  • Clear service routes and annotations
  • Better information for design teams
  • Improved coordination before groundworks

Underground Utility Survey Data Based on Your Project Scope

Choose the Right Underground Utility Survey Scope 

Utility Records Search 

Best for early feasibility,  planning and initial site review. 
    Includes:
  • Statutory utility records
  • Known asset-owner information
  • Existing service plans
  • Initial utility risk review
  • Collated records information

Site Reconnaissance

Best for comparing available records with visible evidence on site.
    Includes:
  • Utility records review
  • Visible surface features
  • Manholes and inspection covers
  • Utility cabinets & markers
  • Record-to-site comparison

Utility Detection Survey 

Best for design, development and planned groundworks.
    Includes:
  • Electromagnetic locating
  • GPR survey
  • Detectable utility routes
  • Surface utility features
  • Utility mapping
  • CAD and PDF deliverables

Planning Groundworks or Excavation?

We’ll help you confirm the right utility survey area, detection methods and final deliverables.

How We Deliver Your Underground Utility Survey

1. Project Brief

You send us the site location, survey area, intended work, required outputs and project deadline. 

2. Scope Confirmation

We review the available project information, utility records, survey requirements and site access.

3. Site Survey

Suitable detection methods are used across the agreed survey area to identify and trace detectable buried services. 

4. Drawing or Model Production

Survey findings are processed, classified and added to the utility survey drawing. 

5. Delivery and Support 

You receive the agreed drawings, CAD files and supporting information, with clarification support available after delivery. 

The Survey2Plan Advantage

Need Better Underground Info Before Work Begins?

Tell us what work is planned and where it will take place. We’ll help you confirm the right utility survey scope and outputs.

Underground Utility Surveys for Design and Construction Teams

  • Civil and Drainage Engineers
  • Contractors and Groundworks Teams
  • Property Developers
  • Project Managers
  • Architects
  • Landscape Architects
  • Building and Estate Teams
  • Infrastructure and Utility Teams

Case Studies

Building the future of the construction industry, one project at a time.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a measured building survey?

A measured building survey records the existing layout, structure and key dimensions of a building. It is used to create accurate drawings or models for design, planning, refurbishment and construction work. 

This depends on the project scope. It can include floor plans, elevations, sections, roof plans, reflected ceiling plans, levels, site plans, point cloud data and Revit-ready outputs.

We can provide survey data in DWG, PDF, point cloud and Revit formats, depending on what your design team needs.

Yes. We can provide Revit-ready outputs and Scan to BIM support for projects that need 3D design, coordination or BIM workflows.

This depends on the building size, access, level of detail and required deliverables. We confirm the expected timescale before work begins.

Survey2Plan supports measured building survey projects across the whole UK.

We work with CAD, Revit and point cloud workflows, so your survey outputs can be prepared in a format suitable for your architectural team.

Yes. We use professional 3D laser scanning equipment where detailed, complex or irregular buildings need to be captured accurately.

We regularly support projects for schools and universities, offices, residential properties, refurbishments and existing building records.

You get clear survey scope before work begins, clean usable drawings, CAD and Revit support, transparent pricing, up to 10 post-delivery revisions and experienced support for architectural projects.

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