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Streamline Your Construction Project with Utili-Tay Site Services As a builder or property developer, you understand the importance of timely and efficient utility connections for your projects. Utili-Tay Site Services offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to simplify the process and ensure your construction project stays on track. From single to multiple plots, our nationwide utility services cover all aspects of gas, electricity, and water infrastructure, including meter installation, new connections, relocations, upgrades, diversions, and disconnections. Our team of experts will guide you through every step, ensuring compliance and minimizing disruptions. Key Benefits: Single Point of Contact: No more chasing multiple parties for updates; our dedicated team will keep you informed throughout the process. Temporary Power Supplies: We can provide temporary power solutions to keep your site running smoothly while permanent connections are being made. Expertise and Flexibility: Our experience and knowledge of industry regulations ensure that your project is completed efficiently and within budget. End-to-End Solutions: We handle all aspects of utility infrastructure, from design to delivery, to ensure seamless integration with your project timeline. Get in Touch For more information on how Utili-Tay Site Services can support your construction project, please email me your contact details and I will be in touch shortly john.gilfillan@utili-tay.com or call 01382 938738 Craig ElderBeverley DobsonMark K.Paul WalkerMichelle De AlmeidaPaul LaurieSkye Mackie

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HISTORY OF SUBSURFACE UTILITY ENGINEERING Post-66 – CCC: Making the Effort Works Magazine articles, research reports, and videotapes have been an important part of the History of Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE). Previous LinkedIn posts have highlighted (a) the Purdue Study (Post 58, “Cost Savings on Highway Projects Utilizing Subsurface Utility Engineering”); (b) ASCE 38-02 (Post 59, “Standard Guideline for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data”); and (c) “Avoiding Utility Relocations” (Post 65). This post highlights an important video entitled “CCC-Making the Effort Works.” Utilities are a leading cause of costly delays during construction of highway projects. Early and frequent coordination, cooperation, and communication (CCC) between state transportation department (DOT) and utilities' personnel typically results in faster and more efficient utility relocation. "CCC: Making the Effort Works!" was made possible early in 2000 by FHWA’s Jim Sorenson and funded by his Office of Asset Management. The video shows how greater CCC between utilities and transportation agencies can save time and money on highway projects and received the prestigious Crystal PACE public relations award from a national organization. A Michigan firm, LTS Productions, was hired to prepare the script, videotape the content, and edit this 19-minute video, which is still available on You Tube. FHWA’s Office of Infrastructure (my office following a massive FHWA reorganization) was actively involved in the script, information collection, and review activities). More than 1,000 DVDs of the were distributed by FHWA to state and local transportation agencies, utility firms, and other stakeholders nationwide. This video was based on research and recommendations contained in AASHTO’s “Guidelines and Best Practices” and was aimed to teach transportation agencies and utility companies how to avoid construction delays and reduce or eliminate unnecessary project costs by working in partnership. It features extemporaneous comments from DOT utility, design, and construction engineers at state and district levels; engineers and coordinators from local, state, and regional utility companies; representatives of FHWA and private engineering firms. Speakers share successful strategies and innovative practices for reducing utility-related delays. The video also shows how good CCC between highway agency pre-construction staff and utility company engineers with planning, budgeting, and utility relocation responsibility for a project can better understand competing needs, recognize the actions to avoid construction delays, and be motivated to work in partnership. I hope you will watch this video. It is 22 years old but is still applicable to SUE and other utility-related activities. Just Google “CCC: Making the Effort Works" or go to YouTube and search for “CCC: Making the Effort Works.”

Hochtief CEO on de-risking projects and plans for new construction university German #infrastructure #construction giant HOCHTIEF didn’t sign any new lump sum contracts in 2023 as it continues to de-risk its #projects. That’s according to Juan Santamaria Cases, CEO of the company, which counts US-based contractors Turner Construction and Flatiron and Australia’s Cimic Group among its subsidiaries. The news came as Hochtief unveiled its financial results for 2023 last week, posting a 10% increase in sales to €27.8 billion for the year and a 27% surge in new orders off the back of high-tech infrastructure projects like #datacentres and #energy transition projects. The company also claimed that 85% of its order book is now made up of “lower-risk” contracts. Asked by Construction Briefing how he defines “lower risk” and how Hochtief has managed to persuade clients to adopt contract models that push less risk onto the contractor, Santamaría said that high risk projects meant any contracts where Hochtief commits to doing the design and build for a lump sum. “In 2023, we haven’t won any such projects. Even if we have incorporated some design and builds into our backlog, we’re not taking an inflation risk that could be beyond our control. There could be some of that type of contract that we’re finishing right now but as we complete them, they will disappear from our backlog,” he said. Hochtief has instead gone after lower-risk models such as alliance-style deals where the contractor works on the design with the client, agrees a target price but shares the risk with the client on over-runs, with a capped exposure to that risk. The company also favours construction management deals, working with the client on the design, agreeing a price for the project, and then moving forward to managing the project for a fee but without taking the risk for the construction itself. Asked by Construction Briefing how Hochtief has succeeded on persuading clients to agree on adopting a different attitude to the risk profile of contracts, Santamaría said that two things have changed in the market: First of all, clients have realised following the 2008 financial crisis that it is not in their best interest to see contractors take too much of the risk burden because if they collapse underneath it, it ultimately means more cost to the client. And secondly, the increasingly complex nature of high-tech infrastructure projects of the type Hochtief is pursuing require a more collaborative approach in any case.

Enabling construction crews to capture high accuracy GPS data (without the need for a third-party service) is one of the building blocks of a successful digital as-built process. We pride ourselves on the simplicity of our mobile application. The ability to automatically connect to external devices like a GPS receiver without a separate UN and PW is one example of how we optimize the user interface for construction crews.

During the execution phase of a large infrastructure project for a utility in California, VPI Charge was given new as-built data requirements - GPS accuracy within 2-inches for all underground electric lines. Construction contractors would typically hire a third-party survey company to perform this work, but VPI Charge wanted to explore other options. Zack Chancellor, Senior Project Manager at VPI Charge, knew that other companies were using Locusview to enable their construction crews to capture high accuracy GPS data without the need for a third-party surveyor, so he reached out to see what we could do. We worked with Zack and his team to quickly configure a digital as-builting solution in a matter of days to meet the project schedule. Construction crews only needed four hours of training before they were collecting high accuracy GPS data. Field users reported “the hardware and software were user-friendly and easy to get acquainted with.” The project lasted about six months spanning 23 work orders. The average GPS accuracy was 1.7-inches for over three miles of installed electric cable. “One of the biggest benefits we realized was that we no longer had to coordinate with outside survey crews or deal with the delays caused by conflicting schedules.” This resulted in a time savings of about 20% in project management for closeouts and reduced time in the field. Once the project was complete, VPI Charge estimated a 50% reduction in GPS data collection costs compared to hiring a third-party survey company.

#SubsurfaceUtilityEngineering HISTORY OF SUBSURFACE UTILITY ENGINEERING Post-63 – History of SUE in Canada (Part 4) LAWRENCE ARCAND’S HISTORY OF SUE IN CANADA (PART 4 OF 5) The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) formed a committee to draft a new standard that was published in 2011 and became CSA S250 – Mapping of Underground Utility Infrastructure. A large committee of experts from all over the country worked for approximately five years to publish the document. The group was led by Mark Braiter (CSA) and Laverne Hanley (Union Gas). The document, although more focused on the creation of new utility records/as-builts, referenced the ASCE 38-02 standard as a best practice for the collection and depiction of existing subsurface utility data. A summary of ASCE 38-02 and a description of SUE was laid out in the appendix of the document. Originally Utility Coordination (UC) was considered under the SUE umbrella, until the concept of Utility Engineering was pushed by the American Society of Civil Engineering’s Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI). The first formal UC project using SUE data to create composite utility drawings was Phase II of the 407 Express Toll Route in the Durham Region of Ontario. Lawrence Arcand worked with Mark Cavanaugh to perform the Utility Coordination efforts for the preliminary design phase of the project. The resulting information was utilized for advanced utility relocations and the Public-Private Partnership (P3) Request for Proposals procurement document. Some highlights of this project included the relocations of multiple oil/gas transmission pipelines and Hydro One electrical transmission towers. The initial phase of the highway opened the day after Father’s Day in 2016. Also, in 2016 the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) published "Guideline for the Coordination of Utility Relocations.” The guideline was developed through the collaboration of the TAC’s Public Utilities Management Subcommittee (see picture), which had representation from consultants, government agencies and utilities from across the country. A taskforce of the committee, led by Steve Murphy of the York Region, drafted the document using volunteer hours. The guideline included the use of SUE principals as part of its best practices. A subsequent “Guideline for the Coordination of Utility Relocations on P3 Projects” was published in 2022 and highlighted the importance of SUE in the overall Utility Risk Management on large infrastructure projects. In 2018 the Alberta Ministry of Transportation underwent an exercise to re-write their Utilities Manual based on the best practices outlined in the TAC Guideline. Ed Plant, Steve Murphy, and Lawrence Arcand worked closely together with the Alberta Transportation to hone the new manual and present it to all stakeholders.   (Lawrence Arcand’s History of SUE in Canada will be continued next week)

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