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Steve Murphy

Sr Utility Coordinator
Ontario Public Works Association

Sessions in which Steve Murphy attends

Tuesday 22 March, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 30 minutes

The 2012 DT-DICT (Building without destroying) reform in France aims to prevent damage to utility networks. This legislation places heavy constraints on stakeholders because it requires them to georeference all networks in the vicinity of construction work with centimetric accuracy by 2032, everywhere in the country. Patrice Lemire, CEO ...

1:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT | 30 minutes

As the world continues to grow and urbanize, new urban infrastructure is being constructed at an unprecedented rate while old world infrastructure is being replaced and upgraded.  This has lead to a greater demand for accurate and current utility locating and mapping. This demand is further exacerbated by the fact that infrastructure construction costs continue to rise and the slightest delay or extra cost associated with insufficient utility locating has an...

4:00 PM EDT - 4:45 PM EDT | 45 minutes

Abstract:The total cost of underground infrastructure damage in Canada during excavation work is estimated to be over $1 billion dollars annually. The primary cause of these damage incidents is the lack of reliable information on the location and other information about buried utilities and other infrastructure. The Canadian Underground Infrastructure Register project is intended to improve the current damage prevention process by providing access to reliable data t...

Wednesday 23 March, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT | 30 minutes

NYU and GISMO's Unification for Underground Resilience Measures (UNUM) is a multi-faceted research initiative aiming to improve our understanding of the city's underground infrastructure assets from the community level through city government and private asset holders. The many activities within the scope of this project include: community collaboration on developing a digital twin of their neighborhood, use of open data to develop an integrated application ...