Entries Tagged Vivax-Metrotech

Dave Marzio was getting burned out at his previous job as a manufacturing engineer. He knew he needed to make a change. That...

The vScan utility avoidance tool from Vivax-Metrotech was designed to make buried utility detection a simple and cost-effective process. It offers seamless...

If ever a company was aptly named, it’s Diversified Underground, based in Aurora, Colorado. Since its inception in 2000, the company has...

While working for another company, Mike Arme saw a need for a safer and more efficient way of locating utilities, and wanted...

When Pat Aubin founded AEI Subsurface more than four decades ago, the company’s primary focus was site preparation for residential construction projects....

The Spar 300 from Vivax-Metrotech is a precise utility surveying system that collects positions in site coordinates, in a package that adapts...

After years of working in the hotel and restaurant business, Matt Bellmann knew it was time for a change. He didn’t want...

As the area with the lengthiest settlement history in the United States, the Mid-Atlantic region presents some unique underground challenges. “The history...

The vScan Utility Avoidance Tool from Vivax-Metrotech makes buried utility detection a simple and cost-effective process. Dual active frequencies, together with power...

In 1999, veteran underground-utility and site-prep contractor John Newell clearly saw his business future lying along a busy roadway in Houston.“I happened...

It can take up to a year before a new employee at The Underground Detective is ready to take on a job...

One of the big misconceptions in the “locating” world is that 811 finds everything. However, any utility beyond the service meter is...

People have long searched for things underground: Water, food, metals, minerals, gems and fuel were early targets. Divining rods, aka dowsing rods,...

Horacio Franco was ready to control his own destiny. He’d worked six years in the plumbing industry and had earned his master...