Planet Underground TV: Episode 4

Planet Underground presents its latest TV episode, bringing you proactive companies, crews and technologies focused on cost-saving and life-saving damage prevention strategies and solutions.

In Episode 4 we look at onsite critical infrastructure challenges - repairs, HDD, and vacuum excavation - with Electric Conduit Construction near Chicago's O'Hare airport

We listen to professionals from SeeScan and their work on developing the next generation of EM locators - focusing on real-time capture of underground utility data with instant access and recording to the cloud and creating maps for future work.

Our TV crew goes onsite with INTREN looking into construction and revitalization in the historic Fulton Market neighborhood of Chicago.

And get an inside look into excerpts from the 2017 Planet Underground annual Roundtable event - soon to be released on DVD - featuring part of the final panel discussion with professionals from SeeScan, HBK Engineering, Gas Technology Institute, North Shore Gas and XL Catlin.

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I worked for a gas utility in Massachusetts for 2 decades. In the late 80s i was on a street crew. During the summer months backhoes were usually overhauled and we had 3 crews and 3 backhoes. If your backhoe was out of service we would go out in the heat and with a shovel and digging bar. Get on site jack hammer then dig by hand until another crew could send there hoe to us. Usually that was just to get spoil. I loved it

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I'll be honest in the 80s we weren't always doing the correct thing with tracing wire. When i became district inspector i relized how dum that was. That was the markout job