EV Charging Point Surveys
As part of our Green Energy series, for the next few weeks we'll be focussing on how we can help you in projects involving sustainable energy solutions.
Increasingly, it is becoming clear that adapting to green energy is necessary to ensure the health of our planet for future generations. In accordance with this, electric vehicles are being promoted as the sustainable option for drivers. But while electric cars remain a minority on the road, lack of access to charging points is a real issue.
As a result of this, many drivers opt to install a charging point on their own property. Not only does this ensure convenience, but it presents the possibility of charging your car overnight, ready for a full day of driving the next morning. But what does the process involve?
Car charging points are installed by qualified electricians or dedicated EV charging point providers. When choosing a location for the point, you'll need to consider factors like accessibility, convenience, and suitability. For instance, if your car charging point has smart features, you'll want to place it within the range of your Wi-Fi connection.
The installation process of your home charging point will depend on whether it's installed inside or outside your home. Once you've decided, you can place your point on a wall, a post, or a driveway.
How Bury Associates Can Help
Your EV charging cable must be separated from other electrical cables such as gas pipes. This means you can install a post-mounted charger, or you can commission an underground services survey to check the location of subsurface utilities.
At Bury Associates, we offer underground utilities tracing as part of a topographic survey. As such, you can have the services beneath your property mapped out so that there will not be any obstruction. This will save you time and money in the installation process.
How is an Underground Utilities Survey carried out?
We use radio detection equipment and ground penetrating radar (GPR) in our underground utilities surveys. Once the data has been processed and the site modelled, you will see all your services at their true position and depth. Radio detection equipment detects electromagnetic signals emitted by metallic objects, while GPR emits high-frequency radio waves into the ground. Both methods can precisely map underground features without causing damage. When tracing drainage systems, we combine GPR with sondes for the best results.
We can deliver the results as a 2D or 3D CAD overlay of your topographical survey or a 3D Revit model. This means you can understand the routes and depths of your underground services in relationship to surface features.
When fitting an EV charging point, choose Bury Associates to carry out your underground utilities survey. With our decades' long experience and history, you can trust us to get it right.
Steve Bury is the Managing Director of Bury Associates, a land and measured building survey company based in the UK. With over 40 years of experience in surveying, Steve Bury established Bury Associates in 1997 to combine the provision of high quality digital surveys with exceptional customer service. Steve has also designed software applications for measuring buildings to automatically create survey drawings.