一对新报告显示,美国811系统的承包商越来越沮丧。

11月17日,基础设施保护联盟发布了一项名为新利18备用“811 Emergency”,该组织声称已经确定了每年610亿美元的浪费和超额费用,该小组认为造成安全危害。新利18备用官网登录

同一天,美国相关的总承包商发布调查结果showing that the majority of the respondents reported problems in the 811 process, such as slow response times and a lack of accurate utility locating from utility owners and operators.

AGC首席执行官斯蒂芬·桑德尔(Stephen Sandherr)在一份声明中说:“建筑公司正在尽其所能避免撞击公用事业线,但目前的811系统似乎存在严重缺陷。”“修复811系统将在保护建筑船员和这些公用事业线附近的社区的安全方面大有帮助。”

联盟研究不涉及AGC,但确实新利18备用包括美国管道承包商协会,分销承包商协会,国家公用事业承包商协会和电力与通信承包商协会。

It identified costs caused by poor instructions given to utility line locators, locator marks being destroyed by construction and requiring re-installation, contractor wait time when location efforts extend beyond the legal notice period and locators being sent out for construction projects that don’t end up taking place.

The Federal Communications Commission in 2005 designated 811 as the national number for contractors to call before excavating, but each state has its own 811 regulations, governance and call centers.

Six states and Washington, D.C., were responsible for a combined $13 billion in waste because of 811 policies that “lack teeth,” the report contends. In some cases, it said, the policies don’t require mandatory reporting of damage to utility lines.

同时,AGC的520名受访者中有73%说811过程中存在弱点。最常见的缺点是准确的定位,公用事业所有者或操作员的响应时间以及等待时间以清除请求。

超过一半的AGC调查受访者还说,在“定位”请求后,未标记或错位的公用事业线导致线罢工或接近失误。大约三分之二的人说,他们因未造成的损害而收到了设施所有者的索赔或发票。

桑德赫尔说:“在帮助承包商避免撞上地下线时,公用事业公司很少有人对自己的作用负责。”

AGC调查的98%的受访者表示,在本地811中心董事会上拥有更多承包商代表将有助于解决该系统;91%的人表示,应要求所有公用事业公司参加811流程。

基础设施保护联盟还建议所有资产所有者和运营商都必须参加811系统,包括市政当局和交通部门。

该联盟的报告提出了13项建议,旨在改善811系统。该报告估计,这些建议将在三到五年内消除400亿美元的废物和损失。

这些建议还包括使用第三方执法委员会进行损害裁决,识别和跟踪指标以改善预防损失,改善发掘现场描述准确性,通过要求预先标记任何建议的拟议进行挖掘,以改善造成的损害,从而在缺乏损害的领域中增加强制性损害报告要求具有GPS坐标和航空图像等选项的区域,并需要到2030年所有资产所有者采用GIS系统。

Tim Wagner, president of the Power & Communication Contractors Association, said in a statement that the 811 system is “imminently fixable.”

瓦格纳补充说:“我们可以通过法律,法规和过程更改的结合来大大改善系统,以改善公共安全和浪费,这反映了表现最好的国家已经在做什么。”

该报告还建议要求负责811系统监督的国家实体对811教育运动背后的集团的损害数据提交损害数据,以便其年度Damage Information Reporting Tool(DIRT) report.

CGA都不参与任何一份报告。

The alliance's members do include AGC, but also such organizations as the American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, major oil and gas companies, Verizon and the U.S. Dept. of Transportation.

CGA首席执行官兼总裁莎拉·马格鲁德·莱尔(Sarah Magruder Lyle)说,目前,有些州(但不是全部)提交信息。她补充说,更多的数据将受益于预防损害的过程。

Magruder Lyle says the reports show there are systemic challenges affecting efficiency and effectiveness in utility-line damage prevention.

CGA定期为参与地下公用事业线和发掘的不同利益相关者发布最佳实践指南。她说,进行广泛的更改将需要超越挖掘机和定位者,还可以参与运营商,呼叫中心,监管机构和立法者。

"We have to look at the system in total," she says. "We can't just look at one part of the process and expect to have a significant change, because they're all intertwined."