Toowoomba first council to require certified locators
The Toowoomba Regional Council in Queensland has become the first local government in Australia to require the use of Dial Before You Dig certified locators.
Colorado struggles to tighten gas line regulations
Have a care for anyone digging up the ground in Colorado. According to the local paper, the Denver Post, seven years into a surge in oil and gas production, there are hundreds of kilometres of underground lines carrying volatile, and flammable, hydrocarbons near people, and more than 120,000 “segments” are known to be buried within 300 metres of buildings, but it’s not known exactly where.
CGA details current and future damage control technologies
The Common Ground Alliance (CGA) — the association of 1,700 individuals, organisations and sponsors involved in every facet of the underground utility industry in the USA — has issued the first of what will be annual reports detailing the state of current and emergent technologies available to the damage prevention industry.
Underground infrastructure is a load of rubbish
Underground infrastructure carries all sorts of things essential to the functioning of a modern society: electricity, gas, water, sewage, information. And now, rubbish!
PelicanCorp partners with Murphy Surveys to boost Ireland’s beforeUdig service
PelicanCorp has partnered with Irish company Murphy Surveys to upgrade Ireland’s beforeUdig service, already powered by PelicanCorp’s OneCallAccess software, and to have the service adopted as Ireland’s nation service for the prevention of damage to underground infrastructure.
PSMA to democratise access to geospatial data
PSMA Australia — a government owned company set up in 1993 to collate, transform and deliver location data — says it is removing the silos in the highly-specialised geospatial industry and taking location data to the mainstream.
Fires, fines and flattened buildings
In November 2017 contractors hit a gas line in Camby Indiana belonging to Vectren,the utility providing natural gas to more than 690,000 retail customers in central, southern, and southwestern Indiana.
Legislation stalled, but Canadian Government signs damage prevention MoU
The Canadian Government, through Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), has signed a MoU with the Canadian Common Ground Alliance (CCGA) to improve the protection of underground infrastructure located on federal lands.
Let LARA guide you to the location of underground infrastructure
Six European countries have created the LARA consortium that aims to combine precise location information using multiple satellite systems with virtual reality to create a handheld device that will show the location of buried infrastructure.
Vintage excavators: it’s amazing what some people will collect
Name just about any object you like and somebody will build a collection of examples: of every age and variety.