TY - GEN
T1 - Third-Party Damages to Underground Utilities
T2 - Construction Research Congress 2024, CRC 2024
AU - Al-Bayati, Ahmed Jalil
AU - Panzer, Louis
AU - Eiris, Ricardo
AU - Tafazzoli, Mohammadsoroush
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© CRC 2024. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Third-party damages to the subsurface infrastructure are a persistent issue that negatively impacts the integrity of the underground infrastructure and its vital services. Hundreds of thousands of third-party damages occur every year in the United States. These damages are more likely to reoccur when ignoring the value of learning from them. Therefore, this study investigates 16,937 damage reports that occurred in North Carolina in 2020 and were reported to North Carolina 811. The findings suggest that undesirable excavator practices contribute the most to third-party damages, followed by locator practices, general industry practices, and utility owner practices. In addition, the finding shows that most of the reported causes represent the direct causes of damages, not the root causes. Identifying the root causes is critical for a sustainable approach to significantly reducing damages to underground utilities. Overall, this study identifies the current direct causes of damages and weaknesses that hinder the industry from acquiring the needed knowledge to prevent damages to subsurface utilities.
AB - Third-party damages to the subsurface infrastructure are a persistent issue that negatively impacts the integrity of the underground infrastructure and its vital services. Hundreds of thousands of third-party damages occur every year in the United States. These damages are more likely to reoccur when ignoring the value of learning from them. Therefore, this study investigates 16,937 damage reports that occurred in North Carolina in 2020 and were reported to North Carolina 811. The findings suggest that undesirable excavator practices contribute the most to third-party damages, followed by locator practices, general industry practices, and utility owner practices. In addition, the finding shows that most of the reported causes represent the direct causes of damages, not the root causes. Identifying the root causes is critical for a sustainable approach to significantly reducing damages to underground utilities. Overall, this study identifies the current direct causes of damages and weaknesses that hinder the industry from acquiring the needed knowledge to prevent damages to subsurface utilities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85188713026&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784485279.071
DO - 10.1061/9780784485279.071
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85188713026
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2024, CRC 2024
SP - 712
EP - 719
BT - Sustainability, Resilience, Infrastructure Systems, and Materials Design in Construction
A2 - Shane, Jennifer S.
A2 - Madson, Katherine M.
A2 - Mo, Yunjeong
A2 - Poleacovschi, Cristina
A2 - Sturgill, Roy E.
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 20 March 2024 through 23 March 2024
ER -