The primary objective of interventions such as one-call centres, pipeline safety and other regulations, and national programs such as ROADIC in Japan is the reduction of damage to underground infrastructure during excavation. Collecting reliable statistics […]
The recent PR19 comprehensive price review of the water industry by Ofwat, the economic regulator of the water sector in England and Wales has targeted an aggressive “reducing leakage by 15% within base costs” and […]
Uncertain knowledge about what lies under the surface is a major cause of delays and budget overruns on construction projects. It is well known that not knowing the location of utilities and other infrastructure is […]
Last week the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released a new report in the Failure to Act series “Electric Infrastructure Investment Gaps in a Rapidly Changing Environment” that estimates the investment gap through 2039 […]
Last night, September 2 at 11:51 p.m. EDT at the Arianespace satellite launch base in Kourou, French Guiana (UTC-3) the VV16 mission launched 53 satellites, ranging in weight from 145 kg to 7 kg. Among […]
Most of underground utility damage during construction is attributable to incomplete, inaccurate and out of date records and network documentation. This data is the result of an inefficient, error-prone, and paper-based information flow from engineering, […]
Mixed reality applications for visualizing underground utilities in 3D have been available from many companies for years, but have not been widely used. There are signs this is changing. For example, vGIS is an augmented […]
Annual emissions of methane (CH4) have risen by almost 10% in the past two decades. The primary sources of methane are the oil and gas industry and agriculture, in large part from livestock. Methane emissions […]