Dial Before you Dig: Protect Underground Assets with the Efficient Services of PelicanCorp

Damage to underground assets is a costly, potentially life threatening and an all to common occurrence. It doesn’t matter if you are doing the heavy work such as a directional bore or just landscaping your backyard, a call to ‘Dial Before You Dig’ (DBYD) can keep you safe and protect the valuable asset.

PelicanCorp provides DBYD services. Their raison d'être is to reduce the public cost and inconvenience caused by damage to underground assets.  Such services are primarily for contractors but do extend, in some situations, to individual businesses.

Contractors that have to start digging holes for a project may be responsible for ‘accidental asset damage‘. That is, they may unknowingly break a pipe, or destroy a fundamental cable. PelicanCorp, with its technology that utilises open standards for data integration and system level integration, is able to locate all these ‘potential and unsecured assets’ and subsequently inform the contractors where they shouldn't be digging.

PelicanCorp’s solutions have put them on the global stage, mainly due to the rapid response time that these solutions give contractors. This global presence extends throughout the United States, United Kingdom, as well as the rest of Europe and Australia. Globally, PelicanCorp offers two distinct kinds of services to contracting companies.

The first is a combination of DBYD and ‘Automated Plan Response’. The latter is a range of utility focused solutions that focus on giving contractors the information about their current dig site as quickly as possible. Such solutions increase asset protection and can reduce the costs of network damage.

In addition to providing contractors with dig-site information, PelicanCorp also offers ‘Cloud Asset Protection’. This service is an extension from the company’s DBYD services and provides further asset protection. However, where DBYD services are for contractors, Cloud Asset Protection is for businesses who own the underground assets. Essentially, the service is a fully outsourced Before You Dig service. That is, it is giving full control to the PelicanCorp team in managing a business’s underground assets.

With Cloud Asset Protection, businesses give PelicanCorp control of the assets and remove the tedious job of deciding how to deal with a contractor’s enquiry.

Another service offered by PelicanCorp, and perhaps its most ground-breaking, are its Council and Utility Works Coordination solution called WorksRegister. WorksRegister is an online service for asset owners and businesses charged with maintaining shared assets. Councils and utilities using WorksRegister are able to collaborate on up coming projects where work is required in the same location, reducing waste by avoiding duplication of excavation works.

All these services have one thing in common: speed. As a Sydney Water Corporation representative quipped, “The present turnaround time from time of receipt… to job closure is averaging 1-2 minutes.” Not only does this speed and efficiency ‘reduce the public cost and inconvenience caused by damage to underground assets’, as an associate of PelicanCorp poignantly explained, but it also allows contracting companies to be more efficient. For example, an Energex representative decreed, after implementing the software solutions of PelicanCorp, “[Using PelicanCorp solutions] has allowed Energex to not only reduce the number of staff required to process requests, but has also allows us to consistently meet the requirements of having a response within two business days.”

One of the biggest upsides with the services offered by PelicanCorp is that its efficiency, and subsequent ability to increase other companies’ efficiency, can only improve. By either taking control of a businesses underground assets, and thus giving them more time to work on more productive ventures, or by giving contractors complete access to a work-site infrastructure, PelicanCorp creates a network of information that is fluid and efficient. And in an epoch where asset protection is becoming more and more important, such efficiency is an invaluable asset.

More Information : www.pelicancorp.com

Source: WhaTech