Webinar - The National Underground Assets Register (NUAR)

Date: Thursday 26 November 2020
This was an on-line event.
Topic: Slavery

APS Northern Region present Holger Kessler - Geoscience Technical Adviser, Geospatial Commission.

Did you know... that there are 1.5 million kilometres of underground services in the UK all working hard to keep our country supplied with water, gas and electricity.

With all these assets and different companies involved working beneath the ground is both complex and inefficient. The estimated economic cost of accidental strikes on underground pipes and cables is £1.2 billion a year. Workers who strike gas pipes and electric cables by mistake can also put themselves and others in danger of death or serious injury. These are just two of the reasons why the Geospatial Commission launched the National Underground Assets Register Pilots, to make it easier to find out what exactly is beneath the ground.

Join us for this webinar as Holger Kessler (Geoscience Technical Advisor for the Geospatial Commission) provides members and guests to an introduction and demonstration of the National Underground Assets Register (NUAR) project that was launched in 2019. A neutral platform that pulls together government and private data on the whereabouts of the UK’s cables, pipes, sewers and ducts building a shared, secure standardised digital map of assets under the ground.