Category: Subsurface Utility Engineering
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Nick Zembillas: Passion for Worldwide SUE Standards
With over 47 years of experience, Nick Zembillas has a lot to offer, to both our clients and our colleagues. Read to find out how he is able to mentor his colleagues and apply lessons learned previously to projects today.
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Accelerating Our Client’s Success – Leaders Collaborate for 2023 Plan
As Colliers Engineering & Design continues to expand across the nation, keeping in touch with discipline leaders has been a priority. Our talented Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE), Utility Coordination and Survey professionals have grown exponentially, becoming one of the most in-demand services. To keep up the great work and make connections in person, National Discipline Leader…
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What Actually is a Cross Bore?
One of my first assignments at Colliers Engineering & Design was to do research into cross bores, as it relates to Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE), for an article. New to the world of engineering, I decided to jump into finding articles and white papers about a dangerous intersection hidden under the surface. The Threat Beneath…
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SUE Goes to Boca Raton!
Meet our SUE professionals who have been vested and working in this region for many years.
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Frontline Workers Say “Call Before You Dig”
811, Know Before You Dig We all know that we’re surrounded by utilities. But we don’t often think about how many of them are out of sight, underground. Whether you are a contractor, developer or a homeowner, if you plan to dig on your property, you might run the risk of accidentally hitting buried electric,…
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Maintaining Pipe Casing Integrity
Because gas or oil pipelines tend to be buried in soil or immersed in water, they are prone to corrosion. As such, statutes 192.467 and 195.575 from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) state, “Buried or submerged pipelines must be electrically isolated from other underground metallic structures, unless the pipeline and the other structures…