Digital Utilities recognised
Four Australian utilities and one individual were recognised for their achievements last April as the winners of the Inaugural Digital Utilities Awards, announced at the Digital Utilities Conference in Melbourne on 19 April.
The leak-revealing sounds of water
What if you could listen to the sounds of water flowing through underground pipes to detect leaks and transient pressure surges that can stress pipes, eventually causing fractures?
To map underground infrastructure take to the air
Aerial photography might seem an unlikely tool for the location and mapping of underground infrastructure, but a particular form of aerial photography from Australian company NearMap is proving to be a useful tool.
Mornington Peninsula Shire deploys PelicanCorp’s PermitAccess
The Mornington Peninsula Shire in Victoria has become the first local council in Australia to adopt PelicanCorp’s cloud based system, PermitAccess that integrates Dial Before You Dig enquires with applications for access to the road corridor to carry out excavations following the DBYD enquiry.
Construction industry conference celebrates boom times
The construction industry in Australia is on a roll. According to the organisers of the forthcoming Construction Materials Industry Conference (CMIC18), Australia is on the cusp of the biggest influx of public and private infrastructure investment in decades, and the coming infrastructure boom will be one and a half times the size of recent Australian mining boom.
When ground-penetrating radar meets augmented reality
Ground penetrating radar is a valuable tool for the location of underground infrastructure, but it has its limitations: it needs an expert operator and only provides an indication of the buried infrastructure as the device is moved over it.
Brits develop standard for info on underground infrastructure
In the UK the British Standards Institute earlier this year released a new standard for the recording of information on the location of underground infrastructure, and related above-ground infrastructure.
Pinpointing pipe locations, with satellites
In March 2017 wereported on a two year trialof Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) being undertaken with the backing of the Australian and New Zealand Governmentsthat,if successful would offer position fixing much more precise than the several metres accuracy provided by the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Canadian One Call services to merge and move to PelicanCorp OneCallAccess
Three Canadian provinces — Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba — are unifying their One Call underground utility location services. They are consolidating their service under OneCallAccess, which is developed and operated by PelicanCorp.
Connecticut One Call streamlines damage reporting with PelicanCorp DamageAccess
Connecticut’s One Call service, Call Before You Dig (CBYD) has signed up to use PelicanCorp’s cloud-based service, DamageAccess, to improve and streamline the reporting by utilities and contractors of damage to underground assets and violations of safe digging regulations.