According to the Common Ground Alliance, excavation practices have been the root cause of between 30 – 50 % of annual damage incidents between 2015 and 2020. Now an innovative technology Live Dig Radar (LDR) […]
TThe recently published Digital Underground: Imagining a digitally enabled future is full of insights derived from a four year effort by the Singapore Land Authority in developing a road map for a coherent national mapping […]
The subsurface is composed up man made infrastructure; utility, transportation, and other infrastructure and the natural environment comprised of geology and geotechnical properties of the subsurface. A comprehensive subsurface digital twin requires a digital twin […]
In Canada the goal of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) S250 Standard, first published in 2011 and revised in 2020, is to specify mapping requirements for the recording and depiction of newly installed underground utility […]
Since 2002 there has been a standard, ASCE 38, for investigating and documenting existing underground utility infrastructure. Now in the US a new standard ASCE 75 is imminent that will define a standard way to […]
Public infrastructure projects frequently experience delays and cost overruns – often due to underground utilities – but delays and cost overruns are rare on P3 projects. Furthermore because P3 projects include not only the design/build […]
Recently national standards relating to underground infrastructure have been revised or are being revised. These include the US ASCE 38 with a new title Standard Guideline for Investigating and Documenting Existing Utilities, the UK PAS […]
The foundation for digital twins of cities, regions and nations are digital geometric models. Developing these models have become a priority for a number of jurisdictions around the world. To date the emphasis has been […]