Infrastructure in the older cities of Canada was installed more than 100 years ago when as-built drawings, if any existed, referenced surface features that may have disappeared. Recording the accurate location of such utilities was […]
We are beginning to see data from real world projects that offer tangible evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM+geospatial full lifecycle approach for construction projects. A few firms such as Parsons Brinckerhoff, Atkins Global, […]
Vegetation is a significant source of outages for many utilities. In some regions from one quarter to one half of all outages can be ascribed to vegetation. Vegetation encroachment initiated the massive North American northeastern […]
During natural and man-made emergencies, a major problem that emergency managers have to face is that, as Scott Sternfeld emphasized at the December Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Energy Summit at EPRI in Charlotte, there is […]
One of the challenges of disaster response for utilities is situation assessment which involves sending utility personnel to the areas affected by a storm to assess the state of utility infrastructure. Skilled staff are often […]
On this blog most of the discussion relating to underground infrastructure has been focused on construction focussing on the risks to workers and the public and the drag on the economics of construction. There are […]
Many utilities’ GIS contains only a small part of what is required for managing a smart grid. Often even the data in the GIS is too unreliable to use for smart grid applications. For example, […]
Every construction project involves devoting significant efforts to locating underground utilities prior to and during construction. But this information is rarely shared and the location of underground infrastructure is recaptured over and over again. At […]