In our four-part educational series, we have explored three important issues that manhole and handhole owners are currently facing: trespass, damage, and violations. All three can work against each other, creating inaccessible vaults and...
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In our four-part educational series, we have explored three important issues that manhole and handhole owners are currently facing: trespass, damage, and violations. All three can work against each other, creating inaccessible vaults and...
Topics: Conduit Inventory & Inspection
In this four-part series, we are uncovering manhole and handhole conditions. In our experience, asset owners are often surprised at the amount of damage, trespass, and violations found in underground spaces without regular inventories. The first...
Topics: Conduit Inventory & Inspection
Successful joint use management of underground infrastructure begins with knowing which assets are in underground spaces and tracing actions to each one.
Topics: Conduit Inventory & Inspection
Successful business decisions for asset owners and occupants of underground infrastructure begins with knowing which assets are underground and tracking activities of each.
Topics: Conduit Inventory & Inspection
Our first article, “Getting Ahead in 2018: Pole Inspections (Part 1 of 3)” looked at the proactive strengths of resolutions to start and maintain regular pole audits. Our second post, “Getting Ahead in 2018: Inspections (Part 2 of 3),”...
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection, Conduit Inventory & Inspection
In this post, we suggest ways to get ahead in 2018 by reviewing vital tools for strengthening joint use operations and management. The first article in this series, “Getting Ahead in 2018: Pole Inspections (Part 1 of 3)” discusses utility pole...
Topics: Conduit Inventory & Inspection
Utility poles are visible, tangible assets—40 feet of hard to forget wood towering above ground. Exposed and often installed in remote areas, it is easy to imagine bootleg attachers finding their way onto them, and creating potential violations...
Topics: Telecommunications Asset Management, Conduit Inventory & Inspection
They may not be as visible as the typical utility pole, but underground vaults are a vital—and often overlooked—link in the utility service chain.
We may walk over them every day, but it does not pay to neglect them. For example, two major cities...
Topics: Telecommunications Asset Management, Conduit Inventory & Inspection
A sniper opened fire on a California substation on a dark night in April of 2013, however, the story began sometime earlier in an underground vault, where telephone lines were cut hours before the substation was fired upon. While grid security in...
Topics: Telecommunications Asset Management, Joint Use Asset Management, Conduit Inventory & Inspection
Whether you're managing utility poles, underground utilities, or both, you need to keep careful track of your assets, but how do you track data effectively on that much inventory? It's not like a warehouse, wherein you check inventory once a...
Topics: Conduit Inventory & Inspection