What Have We Started?!

This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of Civil Engineering Surveyor, the Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. Reproduced with kind permission.

The geospatial future of buried services.

The subject of where our buried services exist is likely to cause a strong response when brought up in conversation. CES has reported on a number of occasions the Geospatial Engineering Board's (GEB) work over the last three years on developing a coordinated approach to the recording of the geospatial data of buried services...

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Coordinated utility services: pipedreams or a geospatial future?

This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of Geomatics World. Reproduced with kind permission.

Geomatics World editor Stephen Booth reports.

One of my tasks as a site quantity surveyor working on high pressure gas pipeline construction in the 1960s was to record as-laid information about the main. We measured depth of cover over the pipe, changes of direction in degrees (based on the records of the bending machine operator!), the position of land drains and other services, and took occasional offsets to field boundaries. It wasn’t serious coordinated data and looking back with the comfort of hindsight it was surely inadequate for a high pressure gas main, but it did provide the client with some record of what his contractor had built. How much better are we today..?

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What Lies Beneath

Reproduced with kind permission of Surveyor. www.surveyormagazine.com

As the buried services working group reports on proposals for a common information framework, Suzanne Cumberbatch finds out what this means for councils.

Confusion reigns supreme over what underground services lie where and who exactly owns what. But this could all be about to change. As the maze beneath our pavements continues to expand, a consortium of industry experts has been exploring how a common information framework could at last unravel what really lies beneath our feet...

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Use of a common framework for positional referencing of buried assets

This report marks the end of the Buried Services Working Group of the Geospatial Engineering Board. Formulated through meetings of industry and academia, the Working Group was designed with the sole objective of producing a report examining the current status of buried services and the efforts that can be taken towards formulating a common framework.

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