Reducing Damage to Underground Utility Infrastructure During Excavation A recent white paper unveils the danger and the financial cost of hitting underground infrastructure during excavations. The paper, prepared by Geoff Zeiss and [...]
Technology is evolving rapidly especially in the area of IoT and asset management. In this report by McKinsey & Company, highlights the value of new technology in reducing costs and prioritizing labor. [...]
Every facility owner, operator, manager, and insurer understands that a constant challenge is to balance the risk of future breakdowns and potential calamity with the associated cost of minimizing that risk. Find [...]
Re-insurance broker Aon has entered into a strategic alliance with UVARATM (formerly BetterGIS), an end-to-end asset mapping and management solution, to help architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries across the globe better manage risks. [...]
April 10, 2019 DURHAM, N.C. -- A gas explosion killed 1 person and injured 17 others, including a Durham firefighter, in downtown Durham on Wednesday. Durham Mayor Steve Schewel pointed out [...]
“Project Closeout.” “Building Turnover.” “Transition.” “Contractor Hand-off.” Original article published by Construction Executive No matter what it’s called, moving out of the construction phase into facility operations is one [...]
What’s the best way to budget, design and operate utility and facility infrastructure? Or to avoid unnecessary construction delays and expensive overruns? Or retain precious institutional memory before [...]
Is now the time for utility locators to integrate Geographic Information System (GIS) into their best practices? With the price of GIS falling significantly and ease-of-use improving dramatically, there’s a [...]
According to an official with CenterPoint Energy, a construction crew was working when they hit a natural gas line around 9:30 a.m near Kilgore College. Several buildings on the east side of [...]
A construction crew struck a gas line causing a leak on the American University campus Wednesday morning. There were no reports of injuries. The leak led to building evacuations and road closures [...]
Texas A&M University has discovered a sewage leak on campus that apparently began in 2017, university officials announced Wednesday. A sanitary sewer line from Whitely Hall had been improperly connected to a [...]
WASHINGTON — Classes at the Germantown campus of Montgomery College will resume at 5 p.m. after a large gas leak prompted several buildings and hundreds of students to be evacuated Monday morning. [...]
A Forney hospital was evacuated Tuesday after a gas leak in the surrounding area. Two patients and staff at Baylor Scott & White Emergency Center were cleared from the building on U.S. Highway 80 [...]
A massive natural gas explosion killed a firefighter and leveled portions of a city block in a southern Wisconsin community, including a bar the firefighter owned, authorities said Wednesday. The blast [...]
An Indiana utility company fined $900,000 for keeping inaccurate utility maps of its underground natural gas lines. The Northwest Indiana Times reports that the state utility commission issued notices to Northern Indiana [...]
At UndergroundGIS, our mission is to change the "out of sight, out of mind" philosophy that property owners and facility managers often adhere to when it comes to their utility infrastructure. One [...]
The Fire Marshal says a contractor sawed through a gas line causing the home explosion in Waxahachie last week on Arabian Road. After the line was cut, natural gas flowed into a sewer [...]
Cape Cod Community College closed Friday afternoon after a water pump on the West Barnstable campus failed. The campus is currently without water. The Hyannis Center is still open, according to a [...]
As many as 400 cars were flooded early Thursday after a main break sent water gushing into the parking garage of a residential building at East 57th Street and Second Avenue in [...]
Deep inside a 70-year-old water-treatment plant, drinking water for Iowa’s capital city is cleansed of harmful nitrates that come from the state’s famously rich farmland. Without Des Moines Water Works, the central Iowa [...]
