Your beloved yard — the same yard you think you know so well — may be hiding something from you. And that something could shatter your spring and summer home improvement projects. Many homeowners ...

As I write this, I’ve been watching a crew working near my front yard, preparing for a fiber-optic cable being laid in our neighborhood. All around are colorful little flags, and the sidewalk, streets ...

A buildup of flammable gases, combined with Baltimore’s overcrowded underground infrastructure, triggered the Sept. 2024 fire ...

Platinum Contracting of Nevada workers are busy this weekday morning at a new housing subdivision in southwest Las Vegas, digging 16-foot trenches that will run under the street for sewer lines along ...

Construction surveyors must account for many factors — seen and unseen — when preparing a site for building. From visible topography to invisible property lines, countless aspects require accurate ...

Your solution for underground utility locating (line designation) and high-accuracy utility mapping. Well established for more than 16 years, UCS is a leader in finding location of privately owned ...

Distribution companies are continually looking for ways to improve system reliability, all while conserving capital investments and operational costs. With an aging infrastructure, one of the main ...

Roland Alden says he is “willing to pay almost anything” to see the utility poles that dot the streets and yards of his Palm Desert neighborhood disappear. Standing in the backyard of his home on ...

A new 115,000-volt transmission line will double the electricity supply for the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island without adding new power poles to the scenic vista of the Intracoastal Waterway.

Balboa Island resident Lee Pearl says he’s actually looking forward to the day his alley is shut down for two or three weeks while a project to place utilities underground takes place, because the ...

The Laguna Beach City Council this month gave the go ahead for the formation of a new utility undergrounding project, this time upon a key stretch of roadway in South Laguna. The project will remove ...