09/06/2026
🛠️ Today is National Damage Prevention Day and today's event hosted by LSBUD, couldn't be at a more fitting venue - St George’s Park, the home of England Football. ⚽
With the World Cup kicking off this week, it’s hard not to draw a parallel. While Colorado Springs isn’t hosting any matches, that’s where we were back in April at the Common Ground Alliance Conference, learning from global best practice and bringing those insights back to the UK.
Call it what you like… but in damage prevention terms, we’re doing our bit to bring it home.
The agenda for day itself reflects the scale and importance of the challenge:
· Exploring how we navigate the AI revolution and use technology to make digging safer
· Tackling the real-world risks of "pipelines under pressure" through legal and practical perspectives on build overs and protecting critical infrastructure
· Diving into the latest Digging Up Britain findings, understanding the trends behind asset strikes and where we go next
· And importantly, is it time to collaborate and explore further how we build the safe digging ecosystem?
Events like this matter because the risk is real, persistent, and preventable. Damage to underground assets remains one of the most significant threats to safety, service, and infrastructure resilience across the UK.
The opportunity in front of us is simple learn more, share more, and work better together.
Because whether it’s football or infrastructure… success doesn’t come down to individual moments. It comes from teams working together, consistently, and getting the basics right.
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Future Energy Networks (FEN) | Utility Strike Avoidance Group (USAG) | LSBUD - Linesearch BeforeUdig (Linesearch BeforeUdig) | IGEM - Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers - Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers | HAUC UK | UKOPA