Site types
The kinds of sites the work applies to
Every site is different, but the conditions that make utility investigation difficult tend to repeat: dense services, incomplete records, restricted access and live operations to work around. These are the site types we scope for, and what each one usually needs.
Please note: these are illustrative site types, not a list of Precision Tech clients or completed projects.
- Linear infrastructure
Transit corridor
Typical conditions
Long, narrow work areas following a road or rail alignment, where services run close to track, structures and live traffic and the work is staged in short windows.
What the investigation usually needs
Locating and mapping that holds together across a linear corridor, re-checked as stages advance, documented so the information can be handed between crews and phases.
- Public grounds
Zoo and recreational grounds
Typical conditions
Large, publicly accessible grounds with services feeding buildings, enclosures, water features, irrigation and lighting, often in landscaped areas where access and timing are constrained.
What the investigation usually needs
Mapping of detected services and visible features across a working public site, with access and scheduling agreed around visitors, operations and site rules.
- Campus
University campus
Typical conditions
Dense, historic campuses where buildings, duct banks, tunnels and services have accumulated over decades, records are often incomplete and excavation is tightly constrained.
What the investigation usually needs
Records review and locating across congested areas, with findings documented so a design or construction team can plan around what is already in the ground.
- Institutional
Institutional campus
Typical conditions
Hospitals, schools and public facilities with live operations, critical services and access restrictions that shape how and when field work can be done.
What the investigation usually needs
Careful, staged investigation with clear documentation of the areas covered, the methods used and what could not be confirmed.
- Commercial / urban
Urban commercial corridor
Typical conditions
Busy downtown streets and commercial blocks with dense networks of live services, transit infrastructure, traffic and pedestrian activity close to the work area.
What the investigation usually needs
Locating and marking within a confined work area, coordinated with traffic, access and site requirements, with findings recorded for the project team.
Other site considerations
Site type is only part of what shapes a scope. These conditions come up across all of them, and each is worked through when the scope is agreed.
Access and timing
Work areas behind gates, inside buildings or on live sites, where access windows and site rules decide when the work can happen.
Record quality
Areas where records are incomplete, out of date or missing entirely, so what is expected below grade has to be established from the field as well as the drawing set.
Congested services
Areas where several services share a narrow corridor and the difficulty is telling them apart rather than finding them at all.
Ground conditions
Soils, fill, moisture and surface materials that affect how well locating and radar perform, and therefore what can be reported.
Have a site that needs eyes under it?
Send the address and what you are planning. We will come back with a practical scope for the investigation the job actually needs — and a clear quote.