HISTORY OF SUBSURFACE UTILITY ENGINEERING

Post-83 – SUE for Municipalities

Subsurface Utility Engineering for Municipalities is an ASCE publication that all SUE practitioners should have and read.

 Jim Anspach has provided some interesting background information in this document that pertains to ASCE 38-22 (Standard Guideline for Investigating and Documenting Existing Utilities) but is not contained in that document. Also included only in this document, as shown in the subtitle, are Prequalification Criteria and a Scope of Work Guide.

 For those of you that like history, it may interest you to know that this is actually the third edition of the document.  The first edition was a manual written by Jim Thorne (co-author of the Highway/Utility Guide) in 1997 for the American Public Works Association (APWA). In about 2005, Al Field who was Chair of the APWA’s prestigious UPROW Committee (Utilities and Public Right-of-Way) asked Jim Anspach and Paul Scott to update Jim Thorne’s manual, which they did and it was distributed widely to APWA members. Again, in about 2015, Al asked Jim and Paul to update it again. They did, and it was subsequently published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and is available from ASCE today.

 I hope you have a copy of Subsurface Utility Engineering for Municipalities. It’s full of lots of good information about SUE.

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SUE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
SEPTEMBER 17-19, 2024.

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