Return on investment (ROI) studies of subsurface engineering utility engineering (SUE) surveys applied to highway construction projects conducted since the late 1990s have consistently revealed a large return-on-investment from conducting SUE surveys as part of […]
A definitive study of twenty-two projects utilizing subsurface utility engineering (SUE) and eight non-SUE projects from Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) districts has revealed that $11.39 can be saved for every $1 spent on SUE. […]
A revision to the PAS 128 2014 standard for locating underground utilities is available for public comment through March 16. PAS 128 defines a hierarchy of detection methods for detecting underground utilities in terms and […]
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 […]