PAS 128 (underground utility detection)

The demand curve

Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.

The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.

The receipts

Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.

• JV SCS Multi-Site Utility Connection Works

  SCS JV

  Sub-surface Utilities: Operating in congested underground service environments utilizing PAS 128 (Type B/A) utility mapping and GPR scanning prior to excavation.

• GI - A34 SB Kennington GA14915

  National Highways Limited

  Undertake PAS128 and topographic survey and provide Principal Contractor duties

• Ground utilities survey plus CCTV drainage survey

  The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London

  to undertake PAS 128 below ground utilities survey plus CCTV drainage survey at CLFS

• Squire Lane Enabling Works

  City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

  This is to allocate work to them to undertake tree felling, site strip of low level vegetation including treatment with herbicide to prevent further growth to allow PAS 128 Type B survey at the Squire Lane site.

• Balfour Beatty - Roads North of the Thames-LTC - GPR Survey & Utility Mapping Works

  BALFOUR BEATTY CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED

  PAS128-compliant underground utility detection surveys (Type B - M1 and M2)

• Land Surveying Utility Detection Equipment (Sygma-Solutions)

  Derbyshire County Council

  Purchase advanced utility detection equipment and provide comprehensive training for our team to expand our current topographical surveying services to include comprehensive PAS 128 surveys.

• Birmingham Site Investigation Surveys

  Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency)

  PAS128 Utility Survey Report

• Topographical, Building and Utility PAS128 Surveys

  London Borough of Hackney

  Topographical, Building and Utility PAS128 Surveys

• Topographical and Utility Suverys Framework

  SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED

  Utility mapping to PAS128:2014 standard.

• Technical Survey and Testing Contracts - Topographical

  Highways England

  o Utility Surveys (over ground and underground) in accordance with PAS 128

• BSH/CPS/PSDS and Network wide GPR surveys

  Bristol City Council

  PAS128 Underground Utility Detection Survey and post processing and associated data and drawings as described in the scope

• Underground Utility, Verification and Location- Halifax Town Centre

  Calderdale Council

  …identify underground utilities and the location of their associated surface features using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) or similar approved techniques under PAS 128 (PAS 128 was sponsored by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and was published under licence from The British Standards Institution).…

See it live

1 open tender demand PAS 128 (underground utility detection) right now.