Dean Parker
Sessions in which Dean Parker attends
Tuesday 16 May, 2023
Geoff Zeiss was an instrumental influencer for the Minnesota Utility Mapping Project (MN UMP). The goals of the MN UMP are to 1.) increase the accuracy of underground utility maps, 2.) provide for a method of viewing this data in relation to a "One-call" excavation area, and 3.)reduce underground utility damages. This viewed utility mapping data is supplemental to the "One-call" process. Founded in 2020, the Minnesota Underground Mapping Project completed the Phase 1 prototype for viewing ...
Every year the vast majority of seemingly routine street excavations occurring around the world are adversely impacted by lack of usable information about buried utility infrastructure. Large-scale construction projects are frequently stalled, incurring delay claims and change orders that significantly increase costs, because the locations of utility installations were never properly recorded or depicted. Bid costs may be increased by a minimum of 10-30% for cont...
CUIR is a portal solution that will allow the owners of buried infrastructure to exchange information with firms requesting the nature and location of buried assets bounded within the area outlined in a One Call ticket. Unlike a central database, the CUIR process does not provide anyone access to the owners database, but rather allows the owner to receive the request and push the data to the requestor thus preventing any external party access to their database.This process will also...
