HSIIDC GPR Survey for IMT and Industrial Estate Works

Why does an HSIIDC utility survey matter in an industrial estate?

Estate roads carry heavier, more crowded services than housing sectors, and one strike can stop several factories. HT feeders, process lines, effluent mains, fire lines and fibre share the same verges. An HSIIDC utility survey puts them on one drawing before a new connection, road upgrade or plot extension.

HSIIDC, the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, develops industrial estates and Industrial Model Townships (IMTs) such as IMT Manesar, IMT Bawal, IMT Rohtak, IMT Faridabad and IMT Kharkhoda. It also built the Kundli–Manesar–Palwal Expressway. Each estate grew in phases, so services from different decades sit side by side with patchy records.

Which estates do we scan, and what is under them?

We work in every Haryana estate, and ground and services change from one to the next. Every job is confirmed on site.

Table note: where a Gurugram road or trunk service sits with the metropolitan authority, see GMDA utility survey for Gurugram sites.

Is a survey possible while the plant keeps running?

Yes, and most of our HSIIDC estate jobs are done that way. Shift handovers and permit-to-work rules set the timetable, the crew wears the plant's PPE, and the radar cart keeps out of forklift lanes and docks. Inside sheds, concrete floors hide cable trenches and drains; yards may hold tanks, hydrant mains and earth pits.

An electromagnetic locator follows energised cables and metallic pipes in the yard before excavation; each technique's limits are covered in more on underground cable detection. Plastic pipes carry no signal, so radar finds them and a trial pit confirms critical ones. Radio waves from the antenna bounce off buried objects, a geophysical response that the GPR data displays in real time.

How does the survey connect with road-cutting and city bodies?

The survey drawing is the evidence your application leans on. A line crossing an estate road needs its route, method (open cut or bore) and crossed services shown to the owning body. Beyond the estate gate the road may belong to a city corporation, which changes who approves it.

Each agency sets and updates its own procedure and fees, so no amounts appear here. Haryana's pattern is similar town to town, and the Faridabad version is walked through in our article on this.

Udyog Vihar and other Gurugram-side sites have ground, traffic and access notes under details of GPR survey in Gurugram. Roads held by the city corporation go to our MCG utility survey team.

Which estate jobs come up most often?

Estate enquiries sort into five types, each with its own scan layout.

1. New connections: a water, gas or HT link from the estate main, trenched across a crowded verge.
2. Plot extensions: a new shed, tank farm or wall over ground where earlier owners laid unrecorded lines.
3. Road and drain upgrades: widening or drain rebuilding, with every service shown before design freeze.
4. Fibre and telecom: new ducts through crowded verges, often by HDD under the carriageway.
5. Due diligence: a buyer or lender checking what runs under a plot before the deal closes.

For the first three we scan a corridor wider than the planned trench, as utility lines rarely sit where old sheets show them. Due diligence covers the whole plot on a grid. The crew first walks the site with your engineer to settle safety rules, gate passes and hours.

What do you hand over?

• An AutoCAD file on the estate or project grid, one colour per utility
• Depths at set spacings along every line and at each crossing
• A spreadsheet of the utility data: chambers, valves and joints
• Spray or peg marks that match the drawing
• A GIS layer if the estate is compiling combined utility maps

For a new HT connection we also note feeders close to the trench, so the power utility can plan shutdown or protection.

What are the rates for HSIIDC estate work?

Per metre of route, with a minimum per order. A standard GPR scan is ₹24 per metre and an L-section with depth profile ₹32 per metre. The minimum order is ₹50,000 for Delhi NCR estates such as Manesar, Kundli or Faridabad, and ₹1,00,000 elsewhere in Haryana or India. Orders above 100 km get 25% off, above 500 km 40% and above 1,000 km 50%. GST is extra.

Example: a 4 km L-section through an estate's internal roads comes to 4,000 × ₹32 = ₹1,28,000 plus GST. A plot frontage of 300 metres is billed at the minimum.

Scanning inside a plant is measured along the lines walked, so a yard grid is priced by total line length. Night shifts, shutdown windows or an estate GIS layer appear as separate quote lines.

When you have the estate name and plot or road details ready, price your Gurugram job or any other Haryana estate with us in writing.

Factory plots in IMT Manesar and Bawal

IMT plots are large, fenced and often handed over before the estate's service corridors are complete. When an allottee extends a shed or a contractor lays a feeder, the question is where the plot line and the estate corridor sit. We bring DGPS coordinates in from the estate control and set out the plot boundary with a total station. Traced HT cables, effluent mains and gas lines are drawn against it. The same visit gives levels at gates and culverts for the estate's storm-water design. Read up on DGPS for industrial estates and boundary set-out by total station.

HSIIDC estates: direct orders and contractor work

HSIIDC has placed survey work with Mezux Touch on its estates, and allottees, EPC firms and their consultants engage us for their own plots and packages. Each ground penetrating radar survey goes out with company staff and kit, 58 GPR systems among it, and nothing is outsourced. The firm has surveyed since 2003 and holds ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001. For HSIIDC utility mapping, send the estate name and plot numbers through the quote form.

Frequently asked questions

Must the estate office approve a scan on my plot?

Inside your plot, the owner's permission is enough. On estate roads, the contractor or allottee informs the estate office, and we work to whatever access letter you hold.

Can you find old earth pits and buried tanks?

Radar shows large buried utilities and objects such as tanks, chambers and foundations. Earth pits are small, so we mark likely ones and confirm them by hand.

How long does a plant survey take?

A medium factory yard is a one-day field job in most cases. Large plants or several sheds take longer, and we agree the sequence with the plant team.

Do you also work in Gurugram outside the estates?

Yes. City streets and private sites there are covered if you read about utility line survey in Gurugram.

Will radar work on reinforced concrete floors?

Yes, with a high-frequency antenna. Dense steel mesh limits what we can see below it, which we state in the report.

Can you work on a weekend shutdown?

Yes. Shutdowns are often the best time to scan busy yards, so share the dates early.

Written by Saniya Parveen · Technically reviewed by Rahul Rai · Updated 8 November 2026