Join us virtually 11/11 from 12-1pm to learn from Philip J. Meis, M.S., PE, PGP, at Utility Mapping Services (UMS) about Technologies, Practices, and ASCE Standards to Modernize Utility Infrastructure Management! This webinar will provide 1.0 PDH and the Microsoft Teams link will be sent out to registrants the day before the event.
There will be two areas of focus:
3D Utility Investigations and Advanced Geophysical Sweeps - instruments, physics, data management, cost savings, and value to project. This topic is especially relevant for engineers and PMs with congested project corridors. Discussion will include some of the latest geophysical methods (e.g., multi-channel GPR and Time Domain Electromagnetics) for detecting and depicting known and unknown (often abandoned) infrastructure, as well as for gathering data for environmental, geotechnical, and cultural analyses.
ASCE Standards
Existing utility investigations per ASCE 38 – Standard Guideline for Investigating and Documenting Existing Utility Infrastructure, and
3D digital as-installed data collection per the new ASCE 75 Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data)
Professionally acquired and synthesized utility data enables creation of spatially and geometrically accurate modeling of utility infrastructure with standardized attributes. To fully leverage standardized utility infrastructure data on projects, a new sub-discipline of civil engineering is emerging entitled “Utility Engineering” (UE) for which ASCE’s Civil Engineering Certification committee is currently developing a certification for a “Project Utility Engineer”. UE focuses on sophisticated conflict detection and project designs which, among other benefits, includes: 1) expedited construction, 2) reduced risk, and 3) lower contractor fees.
Additionally, the discussion includes a brief introduction to federated data sharing using a new schema developed for the ASCE 75 standard, and the rollout of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey National Spatial Reference System. These advents are critical toward uniform digital as-built data collection and sharing.