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About Design & Survey

Horizontal Directional Drilling is a very specialized method of pipeline installation with many factors and requirements that need to taken into consideration. Trans American Underground maintains a design team of a Licensed Professional surveyor and field technicians who are experts in these requirements; they are available to assist our clients with proposals and presentations for pipeline alignments or perform a comprehensive review and HDD Profile for a current project. This provides an optimized value design for the client.

In our design department, we offer services at three different levels depending on your individual project needs: The Proposed HDD Alignment, Preliminary HDD Plan and Profile and HDD Design Plan & Profile with Utility Survey.

Level 1 Design – Proposed HDD Alignment

• Drive out route
• High resolution aerial photography at cost plus 10% or low resolution at no cost
• Drawing to provide general route corridor
• Route lengths
• Temporary work space size
• No on ground survey (alignment or topography)
• No profile on drawing
• No existing utilities on drawing
• No existing utilities survey
• Finished product for this level of design will be an aerial map showing proposed alignment of HDD and temporary work space need to complete HDD.

Click here to download a Level 1 design sample.

Level 2 Design – Preliminary HDD Plan & Profile

• All Level 1 Design information
• High resolution aerial photography at cost plus 10%
• Digital terrain model at cost plus 10% (where available)
• Supplemental ground survey with topography
• Profile on drawing
• No existing utilities survey

Click here to download a Level 2 design sample.

Level 3 Design – HDD Design Plan & Profile with Utility Survey

• All Level 1 & 2 Design information
• Complete ground survey with topography
• Survey of known existing utilities
• Add collected existing utility information to HDD design in plan & profile.

Click here to download a Level 3 Traditional (in as-built format).

Click here to download a Level 3 Geo-Referenced (in as-built format).

 

TAUG cannot guarantee alignments without completed survey of known utilities.

TAUG does not provide engineering services or boundary surveying for HHD designs.