Every year, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) provides funding opportunities to states and stakeholders to improve and protect pipeline safety. One way […]
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An Embarrassment of Riches Unspent While Costs Soar
If there is one thing the latest Common Ground Alliance (CGA) Technology Report makes clear, it is that the damage prevention ecosystem has an embarrassment […]
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Think Tank Releases New Report on The Consensus Technologies Needed For Improving Excavation Damage Prevention
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 CONTACT: Andrew Jefferis, ajefferis@aii.org Washington, D.C, July 27, 2022 — The Alliance for Innovation and [...]
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FEATURE: Making a Homeowner Locate Request
I have studied damage prevention for several years. From reading reports and best practice guides to ride alongs with locators and even calling in an [...]
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It’s Time for Nationwide Adoption of Electronic White-Lining
Looking ahead to the year 2030, we hope to see technology integrated into virtually every activity we do. For damage prevention, this is not merely […]
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Safer Digging Part 5: Investigating A Damage
Up to this point, we have explored a range of benefits that accrue from the use of technology in the damage prevention process. Not only […]
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Safer Digging Part 4: Saving Time Saving Money
There is a clear connection between effective damage prevention and cost saving – when you avoid a damage, you avoid all of the direct and […]
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Safer Digging Part 3: Keep it in Park
This blog series is laser-focused on innovative technology that can improve the damage prevention process. While this particular series only discusses one technology – Electronic […]
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Safer Digging Part 2: Click Don’t Call
In March, Aii ran its original damage prevention campaign Modern Roots March to help raise America’s infrastructure IQ about the critical roots of modern life below […]
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Safer Digging Part 1: Before the Shovel
The first step for safer digging happens long before the shovel hits the ground. Damage prevention relies on communication and collaboration between parties through One-Call […]
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A $90 Billion Problem with Obvious Solutions
Every year, nearly $100 billion are lost in the U.S. economy due to excavation damage and the inefficiencies in the system designed to prevent them. […]
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Building New Infrastructure, Damaging the Old
Constructing new infrastructure, buildings, or even planting trees all require breaking ground. These excavation projects use shovels, augers, jackhammers, backhoes, and other excavation equipment to […]
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