UNDERGROUND UTILITIES CAN NOW BE DETECTED MORE EASILY WITH NEW STANDARD

摘要

BSI, the business standards company, has collaborated with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) to develop PAS 128, Specification for underground utility detection, verification and location. As the demand on the nation's infrastructure continues to grow due to new developments, the need to replace and/ or maintain existing utilities increases. It is therefore essential that accurate information about where underground utilities are actually located is available. Historically, this has been hard to achieve as the detection, verification and location of utility assets have been subject to interpretation and inaccuracies. This has led to the safety of workers and the public being put at risk, unnecessary work that has often needed to be aborted, damage to third party assets and inefficient design solutions.