We talk with John Robinson, co-author of Britain’s PAS128, about the challenges of adapting technologies to the local environment in different parts of the world —whether that’s struggling to adapt radar to Bahrain where islands are man-made, battling with the ‘spaghetti’ underground infrastructure and Victorian-era pipework of Britain, or having to sink pipes a lot deeper to prevent freezing in Canada.  We also talk about a terrifying near-miss of a fuel line at Heathrow some years back, and lessons learnt. Looking to the future, we chat about the progress that’s been made in British survey and utility standards and what Australia might need to do to improve its utility investigations.

http://www.mappingtheunderworld.ac.uk/

Assessing the Underworld case study

National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

NUAR available to users in first UK locations - Geospatial Commission (blog.gov.uk)

PAS 128:2022 Underground utility detection | BSI (bsigroup.com)

PAS 256:2017 - Buried assets. Capturing, recording, maintaining and sharing of location information and data. Code of practice (bsigroup.com)

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