The release of the new ASCE Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data (also referred to as the utility as-built standard) developed under the auspices of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE’s) […]
There are nearly a million natural gas and oil wells in the United States, most of which have used fracking to release natural gas and tight oil from underground geological strata. To gather and collect […]
Statistics on incidents of underground utility damage from the Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA) 2018 DIRT report reveals a trend since 2014 of increasing utility damage suggesting that new measures are required to drive […]
A remarkable initiative within the Federal government in Canada to improve mapping of Federally regulated underground infrastructure and infrastructure on Federal lands was presented at the Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA) 2020 Symposium in […]
I have blogged previously about research at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. that found that the indirect and social cost of underground utility damage was 29 X the direct cost. At the Ontario […]
With about 55,000 substations in the U.S. and the average age of the transformers in these substations over 40 years old, many substations are going to be refurbished, retrofitted, extended or upgraded. Utilities are opting […]
In the 2017 autumn budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an important initiative to increase the value of the contribution of spatial data to the UK economy. The Geospatial Commission was created in the […]
In the U.S. in 2017 there were 316,422 incidents of damage to underground infrastructure reported to the Common Ground Alliance in 2017. In the Netherlands in 2018 there were 41,169 incidents. Remarkably the number I […]