“The Infra-Eng, or Infrastructure Engineering, method of subsurface utility locating and permit-generation- takes a mere two months versus the industry standard of one entire year.”
Infrastructure Pre-Engineering Service (InfraEng) is a full suite of Pre-Engineering services for Engineering companies in infrastructure, construction and Oil & Gas industries. This is more upscaled and integrated subsurface utility engineering (SUE) than the conventional SUE services. It starts with private locates, 3D geomatical and geophysical mapping, GIS enabled CADD and finally the Municipal Permit. The service provides accurate surface and depth GIS Data and Analysis which ranges from facilities and buildings, water and sewage, electricity, roads and railways, telecommunications and gas lines.
Infra-Eng combines the following in one pass:
- Bringing engineering directly to the field
- Integrating city maps as locating, mapping, surveying, and hydrovacing are completed
Infrastructure Engineering, or “Infra-Eng”, is the expedited process of subsurface utility engineering.
Subsurface Utility Engineering (known as SUE), is the collection of data in the form of ‘drawings’ to represent what is located subsurface in an area and is necessary to submit in order to acquire permits from a municipality (typically for utility installations). Normally, subsurface utility engineering focuses on gathering the data of four separate components- utility locating, mapping, surveying, and hydrovacing. Each of these components requires its own separate crew and then, data is passed along to an engineer before it can be submitted for a permit.
The data and ‘drawings’ required for a permit need to be updated from the original drawing (which is called an ‘as-planned’) every time something in the area is changed, or certain environmental elements/vital infrastructure are found . Each change to the original ‘as-planned’ is called an ‘as-built’. As can be imagined, this entire process is costly and timely. The typical time it takes to receive a permit with this current process is roughly a year.
Infra-Eng will be applied by INTUS Smartcities as a solution to the long and inefficient process of subsurface utility locating and acquisition of permits. With that know-how and crews, INTUS Smartcities can complete the entire process of subsurface utility engineering in one pass, bringing the engineering directly to the field, integrating city maps as locating, mapping, surveying, and hydrovacing are completed (instead of passing the data along to an engineer).