As we step into 2024, we’re once again met with fresh challenges and opportunities in damage prevention. The past year’s experiences have illuminated the path toward greater safety, innovation, and collaborative progress within the industry. Building upon the foundations laid and acknowledging the evolving nature of damage prevention, it’s time to chart a course for 2024 – a year dedicated …
Here are some of the biggest stories which impacted the industry from the last year… JANUARY Mark Brennan shared his decision to exit the utility locating industry after two decades of service. Working in a large city in upstate New York, he specialized in locating various utilities, including water, sewer, drainage, and electrical lines. In his insightful account, Mark highlighted …
Merry Christmas! Here’s the top 10 stories from the last week in the world of damage prevention! Bob Basques Sharing 811 Utility Data 📺 Palm Beach dissolves Underground Utilities Task Force after eight years 🔗 Lower than usual tickets this winter? 🔗 Reveal launches new Underdots data-as-a-service product 🔗 Locator Gear Guide for Christmas 🔗 Detective work in Damage Prevention …
This week we’re haring a video from our friends at Screening Eagle.”Before any digging or drilling takes place, detecting and mapping buried utilities like pipes and cables is crucial. See how the team at Site Vision Surveys inspects the subsurface to detect underground utilities and visualizes them in 3D – in real-time using the GS8000 subsurface mapping system with an …
I was speaking to the owner of a small locate firm recently and he told me that he almost exclusively hires former police detectives. Hopefully I’m not unveiling his big secret to the world but he seemed pretty enthusiastic about how detail and goal oriented they could be. In the world of damage prevention and utility locating, the unexpected connection …
Christmas is nearly upon us, and in the spirit of giving, I’ve curated a comprehensive list of the most cherished and effective equipment and apparel beloved by locators in their day-to-day work. This list is the result of talking to people in the industry who test their apparel everyday in the field. FOOTWEAR Irish Setter boasts an extensive collection of robust, …
We’ve reached our 75th Issue of Utility Alert – thanks for following and subscribing! Here’s the latest news in the damage prevention and utility industries: Why accurate detection data matters underground 🔗 Safe Digging Guidelines 📺 CGA Telecom White Paper Review 🔗 Rebranding Damage Prevention 🔗 Hexagon’s industry trends for surveying in 2024 🔗 The town that exploded 📺 ESA …
Who’s read the new Common Ground Alliance Telecom White Paper?Here’s a quick 4 point rundown from my perspective:1. The paper highlights a prevailing perception within the telecom sector that damages to buried infrastructure are deemed inevitable and consequently accepted as part of the business model. This acceptance seems rooted in the industry’s focus on recovering repair costs rather than proactively …
This is a little bit of an unusual one for us. The video revolves around a small town in Kansas with a big problem. “An entire town was terrified when the ground began exploding all around them. No one knew when or where the next explosion would occur.”Underground utilities can bring lots of problems if they’re not mapped and monitored …
The video below by Jason Camissa on Tesla’s Cybertruck sparked a wave of imaginative possibilities for me. Elon Musk’s pursuit of a futuristic design, prompted by his son’s question, “why doesn’t the future look like the future?” – led to groundbreaking innovations like the stainless steel exoskeleton and cutting-edge technologies such as the 48-volt system and steer-by-wire technology. But rather …