4M Analytics

UTILITIES DESERVE MORE FLATTERING DEPICTIONS

The best time to document ? Before it's buried.

The next best time? That's a bit more complicated.

Let's get the obvious out of the way:

The are unreliable, out-of-date, a mash-up of as-planned fictions and digitized distortions.

Now, One-Call is obviously essential before any around .

But the One-Call marks just don't come early enough, or in a precise, convenient, and digitally recorded format, to support utility conflict avoidance in the planning and design phases.

We need another option to show our utilities in the clearest, most reliable, most useful light.

Think of as helping our underground infrastructure put its best foot forward.

The service lines may be covered in dirt and asphalt, but we need to do them justice:

Mapping based on visual evidence and combined in a digital, accessible, and unified depiction.

Utility conflicts are great for lawyers (and not much else)

Unfortunately, the typical project delivery system encourages stakeholders to kick the can down the road in terms of utility coordination.

Sure, it’s convenient to lay all the blame on the contractor when they discover utility conflicts at the start of construction.

But does that actually save money if we look at the bigger picture?

A “cost-effective” design scheme often turns into the most expensive and longest overdue project.