Public comment on this standard is open till Nov 6, 2010 at https://review.csa.ca/opr/opr_list.asp
Slides provide an overview of the work completed to date
CSA s250 Mapping of Underground Utility Infrastructure
1. CSA S250 Standard
MAPPING OF UNDERGROUND UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Bob Gaspirc, OLS, CLS,
Chair, CSA S250 Technical Committee
OPWA IT Symposium October 28, 2010
2. Critical Infrastructure Dependencies
There is a need to share information
Production, Cooling, Emissions Reduction
Water for
Power for
Compressors,
Storage,
Control
Systems
Fuel for
Generators
Power for Pump
and Lift Stations,
Control Systems
Power for
Switches
Water for
Cooling,
Emissions
Reduction Heat
Power for Pumping
Stations, Storage,
Control Systems
Fuel for Generators,
Lubricants
SCADA,Communications
SCADA, Communications
SCADA,
Communications
SCADA,Communications
Fuels, Lubricants
Fuels, Lubricants
SCADA,
Communications
Water forCooling
Fuel Transport,
Shipping
Fuel
Transport,
Shipping
Shipping
Shipping
Power for
Signaling,
Switches
Fuel for Generators
WaterforProduction,
Cooling,Emissions
Reduction
Water
Transpor-
tationOil
Telecom
Natural
GasElectric
Power
3. Local Government Responsibilities
• Owner/user of the public roads under its
jurisdiction
• Public roads are held in trust for the long-
term benefit of the public, the taxpayers &
other users of the public roads
• Policies are needed that will withstand the
test of time, to administer the surface &
subsurface space
4. Space in the ROW is limited
What is in the ROW & where is it located?
5. Information exchange challenges
• Definitions, terms, features, symbology
• Cost management issues, business
disruptions to revenue stream, disruption to
other utilities, damage prevention,
coordination, circulation
• Reduced right of way size, congestion, no cut
moratoriums, advancements of trench
technology,
6. Question?
• How will you demonstrate that your records
are evidence that an event, activity, or task
occurred or did not occur?
7. Utility Records - Evidence of an event,
activity, task
• As-built drawings, plans, sketches
• Circulation drawings, mark ups
• Design drawing
• Permit drawings, sketches
• Approved design drawing used for purposes of
construction
• Field notes, locator notes, inspector notes,
• Digital representations of above
8. Key Goals –improve decision making
during utility life cycle
You must:
• Be ready to produce utility “record” as evidence that an
event, set of activities, or task occurred and was completed
• Have record containing relevant, factual, and timely data
• Be able to access and retrieve utility record
• Be able to share, manipulate, analyze, distribute data
• Make and act on decisions using reliable and
dependable utility map records
9. Good records - better decision making
CSA s250 provides:
Terminology –characteristics of a record
Authenticity – what it purports to be
Reliability – trusted as full and accurate
representation of the fact
Integrity – complete and unaltered
Usability – can be located, retrieved, presented,
and interpreted
Codification of best practises to qualify the
level of reliability of mapping records
information that is collected and used to depict
the location and attributes of utility infrastructure
Quality levels envisioned to be as per ASCE 38-
02, Standard Guideline for the Collection and
Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data
10. CSA s250 Mapping Standard also
• Provides a technically neutral language
• Creates a consistent and repeatable
approach to mapping and recording of facility
information
“as per CSA S250”
• Promotes communication among utility
infrastructure stakeholders and reduces
infrastructure life-cycle challenges
11. CSA s250 is Part of the decision
framework
Acts, regulations, by-laws, codes
Results of court actions/decisions,
other legal proceeding
Enables
Framework for collection, access
exchange, and distribution
Business policies, best
practice, procedures, and
operational requirements
STANDARDS
•ISO 15489 - records management
•CAN/CGSB-72.34, Electronic records as documentary evidence
•standards endorsed for the Canadian Geospatial Data
Infrastructure (CGDI) (DRM, metadata, web services etc)
•CSA s250 – Mapping of Underground Utility Infrastructure
Technology neutral language
Improves, enhances records
management during design,
construction, operation,
retirement phase of plant
12. “ … as per CSA s250 ”
Applying the standard to an organization’s business
will not eliminate the possibility of litigation, but it
will make the production of electronic records easier
and their acceptance in a legal proceeding more
certain.
CSA s250 is not intended to
replace, reduce, or eliminate
the “Call before you dig”
requirements for field
locates of buried utilities
13. 14
Background
RPWCO Task Force formed in June 2005 in
order to improve the efficiency and safety
of road and utility construction
standards are needed for:
• as-built records of buried utilities;
• electronic formats of as-built records; and
• planned construction activity in the road
allowance.
14. What was found
• No current mapping standard that addresses accuracy, process,
and identification of underground plant
• Historically, high variability in the reliability, consistency &
accuracy of mapping underground utilities
• The (Ontario and BC) Common Ground Alliance movement have
introduced Mapping “Best Practices” for Damage Prevention
• Recent technological advancements allows for:
Improved records capture (GPS, LIDAR, imagery)
Better records storage (GIS, CADD systems)
Enhanced access and sharing mechanisms
• Growing appetite to share utility mapping records
• Utility owners/operators already have internal standards
15. Build Up to Development of Standard
• 2005 to 2006 Q3 – ORCGA Mapping Best
Practices finalized and committee dissolved
• 2006 Q1 to Q3 – RPWCO gathered support to
develop a mapping standard
• 2006 Q3 – RPWCO approached CSA to conduct
a study on the viability of developing a new
mapping standard
• 2006 Q4 to 2007 Q2 – Feasibility Task Force
• 2007 Q2 – Call for participation nationwide to
become member of committee to develop new
CSA standard
• 2007 Q3 – New CSA S250 Technical Committee
established and kick off
16. Why a CSA based standard?
• Provides management
framework for
administering technical
committee
• Acts a facilitator; provides
neutral third party forum,
process, and structure for
developing a consensus
standard
• Part of the National Standards
System; accredited by the
Standards Council of Canada
17. 18
Chair
Associate
Members
CSA Project
Manager
Public
Review /
Enquiry
• User interest
•General interest
•Carriers
•Regulatory Authority
Voting
Members:
TC CSA s250
Mandate:
The Committee shall be responsible for developing and
maintaining standards related to mapping and recording of
existing in-service underground utility infrastructure and related
appurtenances below, at, or near grade and those that are
either abandoned or that are reserved for future use.
18. CSA s250 promotes the creation, use, and advancement of
mapping records, during utility life cycle
Coordination
Planning
Drawing Circulation
Construction
Cut Repair
CSA s250
Permit
Utility Stakeout
Design
Inventory
19. Committee Meetings to date
October 2007 (Toronto) - Kick-off and member training
session
December 2007 (Mississauga) – Lifecycle of plant
February 2008 (Mississauga) – Content development
April 2008 (Mississauga) – Content development
June 2008 (Vancouver) – Content development
September 2008 (Mississauga) – Rough outline review
November 2008 (Mississauga) – 1st
reading of draft
January 2009 (Calgary) – 2nd
reading of draft
2010 Teleconferences as required
20. Technical Subcommittee - Planning
Underlying principle
… plant shall be identified and
be locatable
Requirements: Acts, Regulations, by-laws,
guidelines, policies, MAA, MFA, Municipal Consent
Agreements, business purposes
Common Language needed to describe - what,
why, where, with who, for who
Utility coordination, co-build, co-locate, re-use,
• Circulation, mark up, and Permit drawings
21. Technical Subcommittee - Design
Graphical representations
Associated attributes
How features (attributes) of different utilities get
depicted on a map
Accuracy of feature will be a function of risk ex. gas
line versus a water main
“Colours” specified by American Public Works
Association are adopted
Plan, approved for construction
22. Technical Subcommittee - Construction
Plan, notes, sketches, markings needed to:
Locate, excavate, expose, install, repair,
replace, remove plant
Includes field notes, red-lines, change
notification, field measurements of
installation, as-builts, delivery of information
to owner, and testing and commissioning.
23. Technical Subcommittee
Operations & Maintenance
All activities needed to operate, locate,
monitor, control, inspect, repair and manage
utility infrastructure except for planning,
design and construction of new facilities.
Maintenance may be routine, preventive, or
reactive and may include repairs, rehabilitation
and replacement of existing utility
infrastructure.
24. Technical Subcommittee
Operations & Maintenance
Examples of discussion thus far:
Data gathering and grouping of activities
Routine
Public service
Construction
Developing & planning
Quality assurance needs
What are the mapping needs?
Developing a relationship model
25. • Improved reliability and accuracy in the
location of underground utility infrastructure
mapping records & supporting data
• Improved safety of company & contractor
employees and the general public by
decreasing utility hits/strikes
• Lower cost in the utility design life cycle by
sharing accurate & complete utility records in
a timely fashion amongst all users
(municipalities, carriers, contractors,
designers, consultants, locators…)
Expected Outcomes
26. What does it mean to me?
Once CSA S250 is published, stakeholders may:
Ignore it
Use standard to support their records management
frameworks
Voluntarily modify internal practices, processes, systems
to meet or exceed standard
formally mandate implementation of all or part of CSA
standard in regulatory/legislated framework
27. Public review till Nov 6, 2010
• https://review.csa.ca/opr/opr_list.asp
•Google CSA s250 public review
•Scroll down to S250
•Select it
•Read standard
•Provide comments by Nov 6, 2010
CSA “S250” – Mapping of underground utility
infrastructure – summer 2011
Road system reaching capacity The road system can't continue to accommodate car-dependent sprawl. Projections show that our arterial roads will be seriously congested, both in the regions and in Toronto.
Air pollution Increased traffic congestion will further pollute what is already the poorest air quality in Ontario and may limit the ability of the entire GTA region to attract people and businesses.
Ability to attract people and businesses The cost of installing and maintaining infrastructure and services at lower densities over a broader area will be in the billions of dollars, while in the City, parts of the existing infrastructure are under-utilized.
Cost of installing/ maintaining infrastructure and services
Lost farmland - 3,000 hectares per year Between 1976 and 1996, over 60,000 hectares of farmland was paved over, and we continue to lose over 3,000 hectares of farmland per year.
As you are aware, the City has a dual role to play on the TPUCC. It is both a user and owner of the public highways under its jurisdiction.
The common and statute law recognizes that public highways have special characteristics which distinguish them from private property.
Public highways are held in trust for the long-term benefit of the public, the taxpayers and other users of the public highway.
This trust necessitates that municipalities develop policies to administer the surface and subsurface space in the public highways that will withstand the test of time.
Accidental contact with underground utility lines can be dangerous and cost millions in repairs and delays. Time spent properly locating and mapping utilities before starting construction can significantly lower the risk
These key phrases are not defined by the law, but the Canada Evidence Act, as well as most provincial and territorial evidence acts, contains the following provision, encouraging the use of standards:
31.5 For the purpose of determining under any rule of law whether an electronic document is admissible, evidence may be presented in respect of any standard, procedure, usage or practice concerning the manner in which electronic documents are to be recorded or stored, having regard to the type of business, enterprise or endeavour that used, recorded or stored the electronic document and the nature and purpose of the electronic document..
The basic process by which a standard is developed is consistent among all standard development organizations, national and international. The following is a simplified breakdown of the process:
Identification of the need for new standard
Preliminary study and preparation of a draft outline
Establishment of a committee (pre-existing or new)
Committee meetings and consensus building on the draft
Vote on the draft standard
Publication of the standard
Standards help organizations ensure their products and services are consistent, compatible, effective, and safe. They also help the public understand these important safety requirements.
Most standards are voluntary - there are no laws requiring their application - but an increasingly competitive market place for goods and services means that more and more customers are demanding adherence to specific standards. Governments also make some standards mandatory by referencing them legislatively or through regulations.
Accuracy of mapping records
Accurate content, completeness, extent of coverage, completeness, and spatial accuracy
(Absolute & Relative) Accuracy levels being defined
Owners, operators and regulators nationwide want to better manage record the existence, identification, and depiction, and location of buried plant during the planning, design, construction and operation, retirement phases.
The development of a standard for mapping of underground utility infrastructure is a logical next step, building on best practices
Refer back to Common Ground Alliance in Ontario and BC
Infrastructure challenges:
Defintions, terms, symbology, features, have known meaning and can be applied to :Cost management issues, business disruptions to revenue stream, disruption to other utilities, damage prevention, , Time cost, coordination, reduced right of way size, congestion, no cut moratoriums, advancements of trench technology,
-By improving communication between infrastructure stakeholders there is a better opportunity to cooperate and collaborate rather than work in isolation – co-builds, joint trenching,
This standard can be applied to the policies, procedures, practices and documentation that organizations need to establish the integrity and authenticity of recorded information on field notes, plans, sketches, as-builts, GIS systems, or other data/information management systems
Its technology-neutral language allows organizations to apply the procedures to various types and combinations of Information Technology
“…as per CSA s250 statements - will assist them in demonstrating compliance with legal requirements, without dictating the types of technology required.
As a codification of best practices become more embedded into the evolution of this standard, organizations can and will be able to rely on this standard if they implement the appropriate procedures and follow them.
Applying the standard to an organization’s business will not eliminate the possibility of litigation, but it will make the production of electronic records easier and their acceptance in a legal proceeding more certain.
Started from a position of strength by building on best practices generally accepted by industry
Referred to existing documents
Common Ground Alliance: Mapping Best Practices
ASCE 38-02 SUE concepts
ISO 15489
Policy, practise, process, procedures from various stakeholders
Ensuring that requirements are realistic and can be practically achievable without significant demands/investments or changes to stakeholder group technology, practices or internal processes
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The standard applies to those who receive, create, capture, maintain, use, store or dispose of utility related mapping records.
Technical Committee established consisting of subject matter experts, that also represent regional and end user interests.
This standard applies to private and public sector activities of Persons irrespective of whether such activities are undertaken on a for-profit or not-for-profit basis
This standard is intended for use by those who want to improve the assurance that the records they hold are trustworthy, reliable and recognized as authentic.
Consensus Based Approach:
The Common Goal of building a composite utility mapping system for Toronto will benefit numerous activities affecting TPUCC members including:
-planning
-coordination
-Drawing circulation
- redlining
-design
-permit issuance
-utility stakeout
-construction and inspection
- cut repair and
-inventory management
To define the graphical representation of utility infrastructure and its associated attributes relevant to design.
The process of creating a detailed set of instructions defining an intended physical change (eg: plans, sketches, specifications);
making a decision of action based on information;
there will be a physical change to the state of a utility infrastructure, either through the change or addition to an infrastructure network.