X-ray specs

Structural Survey

ISSN: 0263-080X

Article publication date: 1 October 2002

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(2002), "X-ray specs", Structural Survey, Vol. 20 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss.2002.11020dab.005

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited


X-ray specs

X-ray specs

Keywords: Surveying underground services

The future is here! Yorkshire Water has announced that its scientists have developed the first prototype of video goggles that allow the wearer to see pipes and deep mains underground. The water company has worked with the Ordnance Survey and Nottingham University to develop the goggles which use GPS. Whatever happened to the exclusion clause "we have not been able to inspect covered, unexposed or inaccessible parts"!

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