More than 3 million miles of electrical cables, and 180 million miles of telephone and cable TV lines are strung overhead across the country. But cost benefits accruing from reducing day-to-day maintenance and operating costs, improving reliability, enhancing public safety and improving aesthetics and property values, are leading more and more utilities and municipalities to the realization that converting overhead distribution lines to underground is the best way to provide high-quality service to their customers. Public policies are being developed which consider some form of cost-sharing for undergrounding, as governmental agencies learn more about the benefits which accrue to themselves and to utilities, developers, homeowners, businesses, communities and other rate payers, as a result of undergrounding. This presentation will address the evolving technology and reliability being seen in HDD, materials such as cable and physically locating underground utilities, and the future impact on the entire underground construction industry.
Tuesday January 19, 2010 9:00am - 9:25am EST
Room 15
