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Making excavation safer

Features, Gas, Technology Operations / aaliyah.murphy

It has been widely estimated that more than four million excavations take place across Great Britain each year. In 2017, only 2.25 million of these involved a thorough search for pipes and cables before the work commenced. This means that 44 per cent did so without detailed examination for existing underground assets. This puts the critical utility infrastructure at constant risk of being accidentally damaged.

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Gas and electricity infrastructure well protected, report finds

The report entitled ‘Digging up Britain 2019′, shows that there were 2,585,862 searches made through LSBUD’s online portal last year – a 14% increase on the previous year. As a result, almost a quarter of a million more potential asset strikes to the UK’s energy infrastructure were averted.