Statement of Need: Underground Utility Location Techniques

 

Status:

Completed  

Contract Number:

59081

Time Period:

Jan 1999 - Sep 1999

Principal Investigator :

Ray Sterling

 

Sponsored by:
  • Federal Laboratories Consortium

 

The TTC was assisting in a joint project with the Federal Laboratory Consortium 's State and Local Governments Committee and the Technology Transfer Information Center of the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 

Objective:
  • to identify technology requirements, i.e. technologies needed for underground utility locating
  • to identify extent of the problem including safety, environmental, and economic factors related to the industry and its employees, and to communities and citizens
  • to describe equipment and/or methods that currently are used to locate underground utilities and explain why the equipment and/or methods need to be improved or replaced
  • to identify technology constraints and specifications and give a thorough description of the industry's requirements for new technology.  

 

Reports:

Statement of Need for Utility Locating Technologies (Sep 1999)

 

Summary of Responses to a Statement of Need (Feb 2000)

Conference:

FLC Underground Utilities Conference - Phase 2, Arlington, VA, Dec 7-8, 2000

 

 

Links to Other Information

European Utility Locating Research Collaboration (GIGA)