New technologies have advanced subsurface utility mapping, but defining a standard of care remains important. The American Society of Civil Engineers published ASCE 38-02 in 2002, which established guidelines for subsurface utility data collection, depiction, and deliverables. It introduced common terminology and standards to inform users of utility information reliability. Many other countries now also have similar guidelines informed by ASCE 38-02. As designs increasingly require 3D utility data, practitioners must ensure their work meets standards of care to accurately communicate reliability.
CSA s250 Mapping of Underground Utility InfrastructureBob Gaspirc
Public comment on this standard is open till Nov 6, 2010 at https://review.csa.ca/opr/opr_list.asp
Slides provide an overview of the work completed to date
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Public comment on this standard is open till Nov 6, 2010 at https://review.csa.ca/opr/opr_list.asp
Slides provide an overview of the work completed to date
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Mobile technologies have become imperative for
utilities. In conjunction with analytics, mobile
technologies help promote operational efficiency,
increased productivity, enhanced safety and expanded
service delivery alternatives. To fully realize these
benefits, utilities will need to embrace the technology.
By redesigning work processes and activities from a
“mobile first” perspective, the industry will be positioned
to aggressively innovate and evolve with rapidly
changing energy markets.
El "incipiente" mercado relacionado con el uso de drones está capacitado para generar oportunidades de negocio por un valor total de 127.300 millones de dólares (111.846 millones de euros), donde las infraestructuras, la agricultura y el transporte serían los sectores más beneficiados.
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Nowhere is the gap between the possibilities offered by these leaps in technology and what is available as commercial solutions more apparent than in the commodity trading and risk management software category. There are many aging, legacy, solutions still being utilized, marketed, and deployed and yet, this is an industry that is experiencing unprecedented demands and change, which in turn, are placing increasing demands on the software it utilizes. What most commodity firms are seeking is more agile software platforms that can allow them to adapt and evolve through these changes. This growing demand is also accentuated by the younger, more tech-savvy people entering the business whose expectations are not being met by many existing solutions.
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Assystem has over 50 years of experience providing industrial infrastructures with engineering services and managing projects complex in size, technological content, and safety requirements.
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During this webinar, you will:
Get an overview of their pathway towards MBSE approach to structure projects more and more complex and organizations more and more transverse, their MBSE motivations as a communication means for extended organization, and for co-development within other engineering team.
Discover how their initiative architecture has provided both a modeling platform and methodology that can be flexibly adapted to best fit their engineering, construction and research context.
Understand how their systems architects can closely collaborate with engineers responsible for multiple design, construction and commissioning tasks, within a robust framework to ensure both quick and long term added value.
Locating and Mapping underground infrastructure. Using Lidar to survey the above ground site conditions with 3D utility information from an EMI investigation.
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ew and emerging technologies have advanced the profession of the Sub-
surface Utility Mapping (SUM) industry in many countries around the
world. These new technologies have driven great technological advance-
ments in the acquisition and processing of data for SUM deliverables. But
as all SUM professionals recognize, the fundamental component of SUM
should never be overlooked: Defining a Standard of Care for SUM projects. With continu-
ous growth of professional Subsurface Utility Mapping in many countries around the world,
the need to adopt a Standard of Care is a topic of conversation among many of our clients.
These stakeholders include owners, architects, engineers, designers, and other consultants
whose respective professions and industries already work within a well-defined regulatory
and ethical framework of best practices and defined responsibilities.
To that end, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), in 2002, published a brief
but concise document known as ASCE 38-02: Standard Guideline for the Collection and De-
piction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data. This publication, for the first time, gave all U.S.
mapping consultants a simple guideline which defined the SUM technologies, best practices
and project deliverables formats. Inside ASCE 38-02, a common language of industry termi-
nologies was introduced to describe the various technologies available to detect underground
utilities. More importantly, however, ASCE 38-02 recommended and defined a common
standard for annotation of existing utility line work as depicted on contract plans, a standard
that would inform all end-users regarding the quality and reliability of the subsurface utility
information presented on contract plans.
What is most important about ASCE 38-02, more than just the simplicity of the docu-
ment itself, is its directive to all utility industry professionals to communicate, request,
contract, provide and deliver Subsurface Utility Mapping projects to a defined Standard of
Care which can ensure that end-users will obtain professional services in a clear and con-
sistent manner. Moreover, clients and practitioners in the SUM industry can align clients’
expectations, the SUM Scope of Work, Project Plan of Execution, and Project Deliverables
with a high degree of certainty.
Although ASCE 38-02 has now been in place for over a decade, its widespread accep-
tance in the U.S. has been slow in coming. It is encouraging, however, that many agencies
across the country, most prominently the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), have recognized the value guideline and have done
much to promulgate it as a national standard. Within many other countries around the world,
there has been an appreciation of the need to publish their own similar guidelines and they
have utilized ASCE 38-02 as a reference and start-
ing point. As examples, in recent years, officials in
Canada published CA 250-11, the UK published
PSA 128 and Australia Published AS 5488-2013,
to mention just a few.
So today, as designers and engineers around the
world are requesting accurate and reliable SUM
information in 2- and 3-Dimensional CADD for-
mats, it is even more important for all parties to
understand the SUM Standards of Care. As prac-
titioners in the SUM industry, it is our responsi-
bility to educate our clients and industry profes-
sionals regarding the adopted standards to ensure
our work incorporates the industry utility locating
Best Practices, utilizes the appropriate technology,
and delivers the subsurface utility information,
properly annotated, so all parties can make an in-
formed decision when reading and understanding
our deliverables. It is also critical for professionals
dedicated to the Utility Damage Prevention Indus-
try to understand how SUM data can be leveraged
to mitigate third party damages.
With our engineers worldwide requesting 3-Di-
mensional CADD deliverables for civil design
works and for Building Information Modelling
(BIM), the onus is on SUM practitioners to be more
precise in their work and to evolve their skills to
ensure that our project delivery formats accurately
and precisely communicate SUM Standard of Care
and the reliability of our utility data.
Michael A. Twohig is a Damage Prevention Expert at
Vac Group Pty. Ltd., Queensland, Australia. He can be
reached at mike.twohig@vacgroup.com.au.
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