Webinar | Protecting Vital Infrastructure During the Construction Boom

Date: 4 September 2025

Overview:
A housing and construction boom could be on the horizon, with planning reforms accelerating new builds. But history shows that rapid growth places enormous pressure on hidden infrastructure—water, sewage, gas, electricity, and telecommunications. If unmanaged, this risk can lead to costly interruptions and derail sustainability goals.

This webinar explores how GIS and geospatial technology can help you safeguard buried assets, reduce risk, and keep vital services running—even as the demand for new housing surges.

What You’ll Learn:

• The scale of the challenge: How planning reform impacts existing buried infrastructure
• Practical ways GIS can reduce risk and support decision-making
• How to ensure data integrity across the construction and asset lifecycle

Who Should Watch:
Utilities, planners, surveyors, infrastructure managers, and decision-makers, facing the pressures of rapid growth and sustainability targets.

Speaker:
Mike Darracott, Managing Director, MGISS
With over 25 years in utilities, infrastructure, and spatial data, Mike founded MGISS in 2014 to help industries leverage geospatial insight to tackle sustainability and resilience challenges.

About

With over 26 years in marketing, and almost 20 years within the surveying, mapping and constructions sectors, Sarah is no stranger to the industry. Originally trained as a graphic designer, she has a passion for marketing, web, graphics and data.