Subsurface Utility Engineering (S.U.E.)
SoftDig® provides S.U.E. services with licensed engineers to certify work to ASCE Standard 38-02 when required.
You have found the home of the premier Utility Locating and SUE service company in the United States! Underground Services, Inc. or SoftDig® for short, can provide highly accurate, safe and economical utility locating services for your engineering design and construction project. In addition to our SoftDig® vacuum excavation for utility test pits, and surface markouts of utilities, we now offer mapping of existing utility lines utilizing CAD and GIS software, GPS-based utility mapping in the field, video pipe inspection services, and concrete floor and wall scanning. We primarily offer our services to professional engineers and architects, government agencies, construction contractors, industrial facility owners, universities and schools, and other complex projects requiring mapping out the locations of existing utilities. Please call us at 1-800-545-1531 for your projects in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic states as well as in Texas!
SoftDig® provides S.U.E. services with licensed engineers to certify work to ASCE Standard 38-02 when required.
SoftDig® operates Vacmaste rs and Excavac trucks capable of digging test holes up to 20 feet deep, depending on soil conditions.
SoftDig® uses advanced Radio Detection® video pipe imaging to locate utilities and inspect the interior of utility lines through any access point.
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a mobile utility locating device that can be used to locate underground utilities, storage tanks, voids, and other underground anomalies.
SoftDig® provides private utility locating on both public and private property, beyond the scope of 811 One Call services.
SoftDig® provides high quality utility and infrastructure mapping. Utility and infrastructure mapping is available in a wide variety of GIS products to clients.
SoftDig® safely trenches and clears utilities using powerful Vacuum Excavation trucks.
SoftDig® uses Mala® technology for concrete scanning, capturing 2D and 3D images to locate embedded conduits, rebar, and steel mesh within slabs and walls.






























