The Group's drivers
The need to:
- protect the health and safety of everyone working on or near underground assets;
- protect the helth and safety of members of the public living and working adjacent to works on underground assets;
- ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of works on underground assets, to minimise associated direct, damage and societal costs;
- support the successful delivery of relevant Traffic Management Act and other appropriate legislative targets, and
- positively influence public opinion of everyone involved in the provision and maintenance of underground assets.
Aims of the Group
- To act as an independent point of focus and single voice for everyone involved with underground assets.
- To deliver agreed data definitions, data standards, protocols and processes, and a timetable for their implementation, leading to the most effective and efficient means of recording, storing, sharing and displaying information on underground assets, and appropriate associated above ground assets.
- To ensure that everything is in place to enable the successful delivery of the NUAG Vision.
- To inform and represent the wider stakeholder community.
NUAG's desired outcomes
The achievement of NUAG's Aims will contribute to the delivery of:
- reduced congestion;
- reduced direct, third party damage and societal costs;
- reduced airborne and noise pollution;
- more sustainable construction;
- reduced information management costs;
- improved relations with regulators;
- more economic maintenance;
- public confidence in a more effective street works process;
- improved health and safety;
- improved image of organisations, and
- proven methods and technologies to exploit in home and overseas markets
to all stakeholders, including utilities, highways organisations, the UK Government, the environment and society in general.
Objectives
- To ensure effective management processes are in place to deliver NUAG's Aims.
- To set up and manage appropriate and necessary working groups as and when required.
- To liaise effectively with all stakeholders, including appropriate Government departments, utility, highways and contractor groups, and other representative bodies to ensure that NUAG's Terms of Reference and Strategy reflect current needs.
- To develop and promote processes and standards for capturing, recording, storing and sharing buried asset information that reflect stakeholder requirements.
- To define the technological capability needed to deliver the NUAG Vision, based on the processes and standards described in (4).
- To ensure sustainable delivery of the NUAG Vision.
- To engage effectively, and influence appropriately, all stakeholders, including appropriate Government departments, utility, highways and contractor groups, and other representative bodies.
