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The Roundtable Live! August 8, 2019 at Planet Underground

The Roundtable Live! August 8 at Planet Underground features an active job site on our campus with underground utility excavations. Top utility contractors, locators and supporting product developers will be on site to answer questions and give live demonstrations on safe practices for utility installation.

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Episode 14: Assume the Position

In Episode 14: Assume the Position (latest edit), we cover The Roundtable event at Planet Underground, an annual damage prevention networking and industry debate forum, and how topics discussed here are becoming a vehicle for industry action.

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Episode 13: Locating – Trust But Verify

Discover locators on the job who are passionate about the work they do to keep their crews and communities safe while undertaking the important work of locating and verifying the position of underground utilities. Locators are tasked with discovering problems, BEFORE they become much bigger problems during excavation. “Trust in good locator training programs, but verify with strong audit programs.”

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Episode 12: 17 Common Sense Heroes

“The US damage prevention system depends on 100% of the people doing the right thing 100% of the time, all the time, through the duration of every single project. Think about that.” Planet Underground President, Mike Parilac, narrates the story of those individuals and companies doing damage prevention right – safely, the first time, and every time. These are the “common sense heroes” for underground utility excavation. How they conduct their work is instructional for everyone in the underground utility world.

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Episode 11: Sun Prairie Strong, History Gone

NEW -The #SunPrairieStrong motto unites residents recovering from the shock of an underground gas line explosion that destroyed part of historic downtown Sun Prairie WI this July. The human costs of these very preventable underground utility strike accidents can be extremely high. What choices come next when it comes to preventing the next Sun Prairie?

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Episode 10: The Race to 5G

Busy Streets, pedestrians everywhere, crowded right of ways, abandoned utilities, and endless fiber installs with little room underground to spare. This is most likely how any excavator digging in Chicago would describe the Race to 5G in 2018, and with this work, its most important to properly DESIGN an EXECUTE efficiently. Watch the process it takes from engineering to construction, to install small cell node panels on light poles so that people can have 5G internet connection.

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Episode 9: Candid Cameras

An often overlooked, but critical part of damage prevention is cross bore mitigation. We’ll take you on a journey with the crews of Pipe View America and Blood Hound Underground, honest and unscripted, as they dive into the critically important work behind sewer line inspections.

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Episode 8: State of the Union

Planet Underground TV’s Episode 8: State of the Union features a select group of interviews and table discussions from The Roundtable at Planet Underground, Manteno IL December 2017.
Over 100 individuals from nearly 60 companies representing every segment of utility construction attended this one of a kind industry event.

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Episode 7: The American Locator

Planet Underground TV’s Episode 7 features three veteran locators working in St. Paul, MN. Xcel Energy’s Frank Mariano is one of only several hundred utility-employed locators in the U.S. that are assigned to protect buried infrastructure in urban cores. Jon Moulton and Joshua Richard of Q3 Contracting team up to demonstrate the return on investment that professional locators give utility contractors as they work in older, crowded and challenging below ground environments.

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Locators train at the Planet Underground Rountable Live Event

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February 21, 2019

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