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Health and safety for excavations



Civil engineering and excavating contractors now, more than ever need accurate, highly reliable and up-to-date information about underground utilities - available for immediate use. Consideration should always be given to knowing the exact location of all buried utilities before excavation and construction processes start, reducing the risk of utility strikes and enabling efficient planning.

Using latest Leica detection technologies, localising underground assets becomes a simple and efficient task, increasing safety of crews on-site and assuring protection of buried utilities, ultimately minimising health and safety risks, unplanned costs and downtime. Leica Geosystems Detection Solutions provide the most streamlined and integrated detection process in the field, covering avoidance, verification and mapping workflows combined with positioning systems and machine control.



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Ground Penetrating Radar, A Step-By-Step Walkthrough Of The Leica DSX Detecting Utilities

The Leica DSX does all the heavy lifting, by interpolating the ground penetrating radar results, through a set of sophisticated computational algorithms. Whether you are performing utility repair and maintenance, civil engineering and surveying companies, the Leica DSX utility detection solution allows even beginners to look like pros with its intuitive software interface.

Educational Articles & Insights



What is Detection?

Join the Leica Geosystems Utility and GPR expert, Steve Davies, taking you through the basis for a good detection workflow.
Join the Leica Geosystems Utility and GPR expert, Steve Davies, taking you through the basis for a good detection workflow.

Utility Detection Survey - Project from A to Z

Join Steve Davies, Detection Expert in a webinar on how a project needs to be planned to and executed to get the best results.
Join Steve Davies, Detection Expert in a webinar on how a project needs to be planned to and executed to get the best results.

Utility Detection Survey - Project from A to Z - GPR

Join Detection Expert, Steve Davies in the second part of the webinar series from planning through to execution of a utility survey project to get the best results from EML and GPR.
Join Detection Expert, Steve Davies in the second part of the webinar series from planning through to execution of a utility survey project to get the best results from EML and GPR.

How to best protect buried assets

Andrew Allen, utility detection product manager explains a comprehensive approach for protecting underground utilities
Andrew Allen, utility detection product manager explains a comprehensive approach for protecting underground utilities

Principles of Tracing Buried Utilities

公用事业是一个雨淑缇的追踪和映射al part of any project looking to build on a site, whether it’s for the design team to find utilities to connect with or for avoidance for the ground workers to excavate safely.
公用事业是一个雨淑缇的追踪和映射al part of any project looking to build on a site, whether it’s for the design team to find utilities to connect with or for avoidance for the ground workers to excavate safely.

Principles of Buried Utility Detection

Global expansion necessitates the expansion of existing and the development of new utility networks, which inevitably requires companies to undertake excavations to verify utility positions.
Global expansion necessitates the expansion of existing and the development of new utility networks, which inevitably requires companies to undertake excavations to verify utility positions.

Why do utility strikes occur?

Smart Cities are growing at a blistering pace, relying on larger and more complex utility networks to help stimulate their rapid growth. Conversely, ageing cities struggle to maintain the existing infrastructure or find space for new installations.
Smart Cities are growing at a blistering pace, relying on larger and more complex utility networks to help stimulate their rapid growth. Conversely, ageing cities struggle to maintain the existing infrastructure or find space for...

Simple way to uncover utilities and reduce utility strikes with Leica DSX

Learn how the disruptive DSX utility detection solution in simple way helps to reduce utility strikes and brings additional layer of safety and efficiency by integrating into excavation and survey workflows.
Learn how the disruptive DSX utility detection solution in simple way helps to reduce utility strikes and brings additional layer of safety and efficiency by integrating into excavation and survey workflows.

Understanding GPR

Locating underground utilities without breaking ground can be a headache, especially in challenging environments.
Locating underground utilities without breaking ground can be a headache, especially in challenging environments.

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Locating underground utilities without breaking ground can be a headache, especially in challenging environments.
Locating underground utilities without breaking ground can be a headache, especially in challenging environments.

Ground Penetrating Radar for everyone with Leica DSX

The newly-announced Leica DSX utility detection solution is about to democratise GPR technology, bringing it to less experienced users
The newly-announced Leica DSX utility detection solution is about to democratise GPR technology, bringing it to less experienced users

Detection Educational Articles & Expert Insights

Take no risk and prevent utility strikes. Discover detection solutions that increase health and safety of crew on-site and minimise downtime and unplanned costs during excavation works.
Take no risk and prevent utility strikes. Discover detection solutions that increase health and safety of crew on-site and minimise downtime and unplanned costs during excavation works.

Ground Penetrating Radar, A Step-By-Step Walkthrough Of The Leica DSX Detecting Utilities

Get a step-by-step walkthrough of how easy it is to unlock the power of ground penetrating radar and detect utilities with the Leica DSX Utility Detection Solution.

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Meet the underground utility detection expert

Andre Fischer, utility detection specialist at Leica Geosystems, explains how you can detect faster, safer and simpler underground utilities at Bauma.

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Utility Detection Made Easier, Faster, and Safer

Leica's DSX utility detection solution, consisting of a portable hardware with intuitive software, allows users to easily locate and visualise utilities.

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GPR for Everyone: Easy Utility Mapping and Detection

The use of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology has been limited to highly skilled professionals trained on interpreting radargrams.

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