Digging up Britain: Safe digging industry drives 3.9m searches

The UK’s safe digging industry recorded 3.9 million underground asset searches in 2024. Of these, more than 421,000 were highways related, with contractors and highways workers checking for pipes and cables every 17 seconds during the average working day, according to Digging up Britain 2025. Launched today, the annual report from LSBUD, which analyses the digging activity […]

Highways projects fell 12% in 2020

There was a 12% in the amount of digging work taking place on the UK’s highways last year, according to the Digging up Britain 2021 report. The study by LSBUD, which provides a free to use online search facility for underground pipes and cables, reveals that there were 369,138 searches through its portal relating to […]