Utility detection and mapping, setting the standards for the future - by Graham Mills, Technics Group

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Utility Detection & Mapping
Setting the Standards for the Future
Presented by Graham Mills
Chairman of Technics Group
President of The Survey Association

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Presentation Overview
 Underground Environment
 Why do we need to map utilities?
 Who needs Utility Surveys and who uses them?
 Utility Survey industry background
 Utility Detection Methods
 Output Mapping & Models
 The Essential Guide to Utility Surveys
 New Initiatives
 PAS and The Essential Guide to Utility Surveys
 Conclusion

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Underground Environment

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Why Do We Need to Map Utilities?

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Who Needs Utility Surveys and Who
Uses the Mapping?

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Utility Survey Industry Background
• 15 years ago there were 6 companies - now over 100
• More equipment manufacturers
• Many topo companies expanded into utilities
• No standards for survey
• Clients not knowing how to procure a survey
• GPR being a black art
• Unable to check quality without digging unlike visual
checks of topo or building survey
• anyone can push a GPR around and say they can’t find
anything

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Utility Detection Methods & Survey
Issues

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Output Mapping and Models

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The Essential Guide
to Utility Surveys

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New Initiatives
 Utility Mapping Association
 PAS 128

16. Who is behind UMA and what does it do?

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PAS 128
 PAS = Publicly Available Specification
 An agreed way of doing something
 Driven by the needs of the client organisations
 Sponsored fast-track standard to BSI guidelines
 Produced by key stakeholders
 Endorsed by BSI
 Has the functionality of a British Standard
 Reviewed after 2 years
 Can be taken forward to formal British, European
or International Standard
What is a PAS?

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How will it improve Utility Mapping?
 The current situation
 How PAS 128 will help address the issues:
Utility Survey practitioners have to comply
They must assess and categorise the results
Consistency across surveys should improve
Limitations should be documented

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What PAS 128 Will Provide
 Clear definition for utility detection, location and
verification
 Allow comparative tenders to be obtained
 Recognises that further survey or intrusive verification
may be needed to improve the quality of the results
 A basis on which survey practitioners can be accredited
 Support training and assessing operator competency

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PAS and The Essential Guide to Utility
Surveys

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Conclusions
 Tendering based on PAS will:
 Provide fair competition
 Easier bid evaluation
 Overall benefits:
 Provide consistent service
 Reduce construction costs
 Improve risk management
 Improve safety
 Raise standards

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Conclusions
 What the Clients can do:
 Clients need to back PAS 128
 Contribute to the review process
 Specify PAS 128 in future tenders
 Together clients and utility survey practitioners
can promote best practice

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Thank you