Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) is a subdiscipline of civil engineering that investigates buried utilities and identifies the potential design conflicts they may pose to mitigate associated risks. These hazards are identified using utility owner record drawings, geophysical methods to discover a utility’s horizontal position, vacuum excavation to determine the vertical position, and a survey of this data referenced on a topographic map or other types … Continue reading What is Subsurface Utility Engineering?