POST 81 – MOVING ON
I hope you enjoyed last week’s LinkedIn Post featuring Sandy Wilson. She and others like her have contributed significantly to the growth of SUE.
As many of you know, managing a SUE office has many responsibilities, including (a) identifying and introducing SUE to potential users, (b) meeting with existing clients to assure they are getting what they think they are getting, (c) managing, hiring, and training staff, (d) assuring the SUE work is being done in accordance with ASCE 38-22, and (e) much, much more. I believe we would all agree, a job well done enhances the SUE profession, and vice versa. Overall, looking at the astronomical growth of SUE around the world, there must be a lot of very good work going on.
Pausing for a few minutes to think about the history of Subsurface Utility Engineering, I feel like the major effort in the later part of the 20th Century involved introducing SUE to potential users. Moving into the 21st Century, the focus seems to have moved toward establishing standards, testing new equipment (see T2 early MCGPR picture), performing research, and introducing SUE to other potential clients, not only in the United States, but also in other countries.
Continuing with this thinking, the history of SUE will continue for the remainder of the year and maybe beyond by looking at some of the following:
SUE Research —
> University of Toronto SUE Study
> Penn State’s Subsurface Utility Engineering Manual
> TRB’s SHRP2Program
> UK’s Mapping the Underworld
> TRB’s SHRP2
SUE in Other Countries —
> UK,
> Australia,
> China,
> France
(We have already looked at SUE activities in Canada and Ecuador)
New Equipment –
> Multi-Channel Ground Penetrating Radar (MCGPR)
> Other New Equipment
New Organizations –
> Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute (UESI)
> SUE Association
Videos –
> FHWA’s CCC, Making the Effort Works,
> FAA’s Subsurface Utility Engineering Information Management for Airports
Documents –
> APWA SUE Handbook
> ASCE’s SUE, Engineering for Municipalities
> Others
Conferences –
> TRB
> NHUC
> AASHTO CRUO
> UESI Pipeline
> SUE Association
> Others
Standards –
> ASCE 38-22, Standard Guideline for Investigating and Documenting Existing Utilities
> ASCE 75-22, Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data
Pioneer Profiles – To Be Determined
WHAT HAVE I MISSED? PLEASE LET ME KNOW!