Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
Subsurface Utility Engineering
Utility Solutions Start Here
When it comes to buried utilities, what you don’t know can really hurt your budget and schedule. Start your project off on the right foot with comprehensive and accurately mapped existing utility data.
TBS’ SUE team of expert engineers, surveyors, and technicians delivers reliable buried utility data to keep clients’ projects on track and within budget.
Benefits of SUE
Our Utility Risk Management solutions start with uncovering what is buried under your proposed project site, minimizing utility-related risks and uncertainties.
- Safer Projects
- Expose potentially hazardous utilities
- Minimize Utility-Related Project Delays
- Reduce Costly Re-design Costs
- Minimize Traffic and Service Interruption
- Help curb Negative Media due to Damage, Interruption, and Delays
- For every $1.00 spent on SUE there is a related $4.62 estimated cost savings.
- Purdue University Study – Cost Savings on Highway Projects Utilizing Subsurface Utility Engineering, December 1999
SUE Quality Levels
TBS works closely with clients to arrive at the appropriate quality level(s) for each project and performs SUE services in accordance with the ASCE 38 guideline and industry standards. This is achieved by collaboratively determining specific project and client needs, then employing an iterative approach in pursuit of each Quality Level.
With decades of experience and an extensive in-house equipment suite, we achieve all four (4) Quality Levels (QL) of utility depictions.