This episode features a great discussion with Steve Rienks, leading civil engineer and project manager for transportation, highway and railway projects in the American Midwest. We chat about the dangers of poor mapping and misclassifications, the progress towards better US standards, as well as some of the challenges caused by the elements in America, like preparing for freezing pipes or Californian wildfires. We also talk about the challenges that Australian Utilities Professionals face in comparison to their US counterparts when it comes to the power of the authorities (Steve doesn’t understand how we can get anything done!), and the future of 3D modelling to change the industry.

Would be UESI: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12151449/
ASCE: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/143956/
CGA: https://www.linkedin.com/company/common-ground-alliance/
JULIE: https://www.linkedin.com/company/julie-inc/
IRTBA: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3147472/
811 Utility: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/81059/
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In this episode, we’re joined by Peta Cox, who has been an absolute powerhouse in encouraging kids to get into STEM and careers in surveying. We talk about some of the amazing places you can go as a surveyor, like paddling up the Murrumbidgee River on a paddleboard with a sonar strapped to a milk crate and a stick, and how a career in surveying will give you that slightly different perspective on the world. We get to the serious stuff too, like the shortage of surveyors and what we need to build the profession for the future.

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Waves of Wellness “Ducktober” mental health fundraiser.
Every year Peta raises money for charity.
https://ducktober2023.raisely.com/peta-cox

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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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