RodRadar a developer Live Dig Radar® (LDR) technology which enables automatic real-time, on-site alerts for the prevention of damage to underground utilities.
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Great day in Phoenix with NUCA of Arizona (AZUCA)!
Last week, our team joined the AZUCA Trench Safety & Damage Prevention event as a sponsor. 150 excavation and utility professionals from around 30 companies came out to talk about keeping crews and buried infrastructure safe.
One question came up more than once: does this replace 811? It doesn’t.
Calling 811 is always step one. The LDR adds a layer of real-time awareness at the bucket, for the moments when marks are off, records are outdated, or a line was never on the map.
Thank you to AZUCA & NUCA for a well-run event, Achen Gardner & Hunter Contracting for their site prep and backfill, @empirecat for the equipment, and to everyone who stopped by our booth.
And of course to our own Jupiter Bahena and Adrian Sanchez for running the demo all day.
Fixing the pipe is ~6% of what a utility strike costs. Friday in Hollywood, FL, an excavator hit an 18" gas main by the Turnpike. Highway shut for hours, homes evacuated. Great reporting by @CBSMiami's @BriBuckleyTV .
That's the other 94%: $83.2B a year.
@CGAConnect counts the full cost at $83.2B a year. Direct repairs are 5.9%. The rest is closed roads, evacuations, lost business, emergency response and injuries. It comes back to us as premiums, delays, fines and higher utility rates.
Yet we judge prevention against the repair invoice and fund almost nothing for the moment the bucket enters the ground. What changes if we measured it against $83.2B?
#ZeroStrikes is possible with RODRADAR Live Dig Radar®.
Utah’s most expensive turnover isn’t on an NBA court. It’s underground, and it costs $93.1M a year. That’s nearly the original $93M price tag of the Delta Center, home of the Utah Jazz and Utah Mammoth. utahbusiness.com/press-relea…
During Network Plus rollout of RodRadar’s 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐠 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐫® with MACHINETECH, we grabbed James, one of their working crews’ operator, for a few sec to hear what he thinks of the LDR utility strike avoidance system.
No script. His own words. We just added the captions.
27.6% of utility strikes happen after the crew called 811. Calling 811 before you dig is an important step in preventing utility damage, but it was never designed to eliminate strikes on its own.
That's the gap Live Dig Radar® was built to close.
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Over 7K flights were affected due to 1 underground utility strike.
The primary FAA circuit was already down then a construction crew cut the backup and 5 airports ground stops.
Only Live Dig Radar provides live visibility while digging & prevent strikes. shorturl.at/B1blb
This year, we're keeping our wishes simple:
No strikes, No downtime, Everyone home safe.
Shana Tova from all of us at RodRadar.
Summer is peak season for construction & the hottest.
The combination raises the stakes on every jobsite. Stay hydrated. Take the breaks you need.
And when time to break ground, don't dig blind use LDR to scan the ground in real-time.
Stay cool & Safe. Stay ahead of what's below.
You did everything right: called before you dig, pulled the records, marked the surface. Then the excavator hits something that was never supposed to be there.
Undocumented utilities aren't a records gap missed, they are a problem that was never recorded. l1nq.com/vr0jhst
Network Plus Launches Nationwide Rollout of RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar® to Tackle UK’s £2.4B Utility Strike Problem. The first to deploy our 30cm (12") LDR system, to pioneer a new #zerostriks standard for excavation safety. l1nq.com/4o9721j
