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Welcome to Unearth's knowledge center. We cover the latest news and developments within critical infrastructure industries.

Top 8 Risks to Critical Infrastructure in 2021

Because the energy sector is rapidly transforming, risk management is key. To become the utility of tomorrow, explore top risks facing the sector today.

How Extreme Weather Threatens Utility Storm Response

Severe tropical storms pose a serious threat to the grid and a utility’s storm response. With lives at risk, it's urgent utilities streamline field operations.

Why Wildfires Are an Existential Threat to Utilities

While a utility doesn't cause a hurricane or deep freeze, they do spark fires, including some of the most devastating on record. To mitigate this unique threat, utilities must innovate in six key areas.

NERC, FERC, and the Uncertain Future of Utility Regulation

With distributed energy resources, a new administration, and recent extreme weather events - urgent questions about regulation's role in energy are beginning to surface.

5 Ways to Prevent Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure

Cybersecurity breaches in critical infrastructure networks are increasing. With better understanding of new cybersecurity threats and prompt action - critical infrastructure providers can own the solution.

How to Attract and Retain the Next Generation Utilities Workforce

With nearly half the utility industry's workforce reaching retirement age this decade, providers must learn how to attract and retain the millennial workforce.

3 Important Utility Compliance Trends (Updated 2021)

With Biden's new infrastructure plan and high demand for alternative energy - 2021 will be a watershed year for utility regulation and compliance.

The Complete Guide to Attending a Virtual Event

Virtual events are part of the new normal. While the in-person experience is impossible to fully replicate, there are plenty of ways to enhance your virtual experience.

Streamline Vegetation Management by Digitizing Your Field Teams

With utilities seeking solutions that will maximize the budget, we are exploring digital tools that can increase efficiency for vegetation management operations.

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Everything You Need to Know About Project Management Deliverables

It feels great to complete a project after weeks or months of hard work. When you deliver the final project/product to your client, that is a deliverable.

Enhancing Utility Operations with Project Management Tools

From connecting data sources to improving risk management - project management tools and techniques can be used across a wide range of utility scenarios.

11 Free (and Awesome) Project Management Softwares in 2021

Not everyone has the budget for paid software subscriptions. Luckily, there are plenty of free project management software options available.

Making Maps 101: Elements, Layout, and Design

Making maps doesn't need to be hard. Explore map making basics, including common map elements, map layout best practices, and an intro to map design.

6 Critical Project Management Skills (And How to Learn Them)

Project management skills are valuable for any career. This guide covers six critical project management skills, plus how you can start learning them today.

Understanding the 4 Core Project Management Methodologies

In project management, the methodology defines not just what you do, but how you do it.

Options for Learning GIS: Degree, Certification, or Online

You want to learn GIS, but don't know where to start. We cover the best ways to learn GIS - with links to GIS tutorials, GIS online courses, and guidance on GIS certification.

How to Optimize Telecom Network Operations with GIS

Telecommunications providers can use GIS to enhance network planning, streamline deployment, and maintain network infrastructure more efficiently.

Utilizing GIS to Streamline Urban Planning

Learn how GIS is used in urban planning - from resource inventory, to creating land-use maps, to analyzing environmental data.

The Long Road to Modern Cartography

Explore modern cartography tools and common applications for cartography in every day life. Plus, a brief history of cartography and it's evolution through the ages.

3 Ways Cloud GIS Simplifies Construction Project Management

Real-time updates, streamlined daily workflows, and all project data in one place. Learn more about the benefits of a using cloud GIS in construction project management.

7 Cool Creative Maps That Anyone Can Make

Travel planning, zombie escape routes, and the surface of Mars... These are just a few of the unique, interesting maps you can make with GIS tools.

GIS for Utilities: Increase Efficiency of Inspections and Maintenance

Explore how utilities can use GIS mapping software to manage utility assets and organize inspection data - optimizing field operations from start to finish.

GIS for Oil & Gas: Optimizing Operations Across Every Sector

From well planning, to pipeline mapping, to refinery management - GIS has many applications across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.

8 Amazing Free GIS Software Options

Reviewing the best free GIS mapping and analysis tools available today. Make GIS maps, visualize data, and conduct geospatial analysis - all for free.

6 Online Map Makers That Will Simplify Your Life

Make maps at home (and even on your phone) with a simple online map maker. Upload data and share maps - no download, installation, or advanced degree required.

History of Maps: From Ancient Maps to GIS

From cave wall paintings, to the first ever world map, to modern GIS technology - the evolution of maps is a long and winding road.

What is Google Earth?

Google Earth is probably the best known GIS software. Learn about the product's tumultuous history, current versions, and the best available alternatives - now that Google Earth Pro is no longer supported.

Drones in Construction: 5 Steps to Get Started

We’ve got five simple steps to getting started with construction drones. You’ll scale drones to your needs, find where they offer the most value to your company, and avoid splurging on unnecessary costs.

Construction Productivity: Using Technology to Address the Industry's Largest Problem

The construction industry works hard. But, for all the labor that goes into building the modern world, the industry's output over time continues to decline.

Improving Communications, From Field-to-Office and Office-to-Field

A guide to construction's digital communication future: streamlined data and collaboration on one platform.

Constructing Success with Rivals: Project Manager vs. Superintendent

A good Project Manager/Superintendent relationship underlies every successful build. Unfortunately, the two often butt heads, hindering construction progress.

Why is Precision Essential for Construction Drawings?

Discover the importance of precision in construction drawings, and how inaccuracy can lead to costly mistakes.

Shattering the Concrete Ceiling: Gender Diversity in Construction

Unearth's guide to gender diversity in the construction industry. Find women in construction statistics, as well as practical tips on how to get started in construction as a woman.

The 2021 Drone Buying Guide

Whether you are buying your first drone, or looking to grow your current fleet, we outline 5 steps to purchasing a drone, and then provide you with our top 5 drone recommendations for the construction industry.

Software for the Future of Construction

Our guide to the future of construction software. Find out how construction maps will create digital twins of construction sites, ultimately leading to fully automated construction.

How Will Prefabricated Construction & 3D Printing Build Construction's Future?

Prefabricated construction and 3D printing are poised to reshape the industry's physical landscape. We interview the VP of Tech at blokable to get insider insight into the two burgeoning technologies.

UAV Mapping Basics - Why Precision Matters in Drone Surveys

Drone surveying has exploded in popularity over the last few years, but many people still don't understand the importance of precision. We'll explain why you need precision for reliable data and how you can easily get it without buying expensive hardware.

Why is Cloud Computing Critical in the Construction Industry?

Use this guide to get your construction firm in the cloud. If you’re already there, we'll help you figure out if you’re getting the most out of it.

IoT in Construction, The Big Picture

Our guide to four areas of innovation in construction IoT, leading IoT companies, and the future of connected jobsites.

The Top 8 Construction Software Solutions

The construction software market is jam-packed with options. How do you choose the best point solutions for your needs?

What Happens When Tech Enters Construction?

In another post looking at construction’s image problem, we explore why construction is ripe for disruption and what it will look like.

Creating a Mobile Strategy for Construction

A guide to understanding construction's current communication standards, assessing how to leverage technology for success, and avoiding communication failures.

How Technology Is Rebuilding Communication in Construction

A guide to understanding construction's current communication standards, assessing how to leverage technology for success, and avoiding communication failures.

How to Rebuild Construction's Image

A practical, grassroots guide to rebuilding construction's image. See how your firm can shift public perception by attracting youth and boosting productivity.

Construction’s Image Crisis: Why and How the Industry Needs to Attract Youth

There’s agreement that construction’s biggest issue is productivity, yet one topic remains unaddressed: Why does construction have this problem to begin with?

Why Construction Needs Collaboration

A guide to construction's collaboration problem: the nature of collaboration, why it’s essential to success, and what the industry can do to embrace it.

5 Steps to Streamline Communication in Construction

Do you want your builds done under budget and ahead of schedule? It won’t happen without consistently getting one thing right: communication.

Construction Career Guide -- Specialties, Salaries, and Prospects (Updated 2021)

Use this guide to understand the different construction specialties, their salaries, and their employment prospects.

5 Steps to Getting a Construction Job

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction is creating jobs at an average of 20,000 per month in 2017, an increase of 7,000 per month over last year. With so many lucrative positions available, even for those with little experience, now is a fantastic time to think about entering the field.

Construction Project Management 101

Learn the basics of construction project management. This four part guide covers software, project phases, and the vital role of the construction project manager.

Our Favorite GIS Data Collection Tools in 2021

GIS data collection requires the right hardware. This guide covers GPS units, digitizers, mobile devices, and other useful GIS tools.

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Top 8 Risks to Critical Infrastructure in 2021

How Extreme Weather Threatens Utility Storm Response

Why Wildfires Are an Existential Threat to Utilities

NERC, FERC, and the Uncertain Future of Utility Regulation

5 Ways to Prevent Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure

How to Attract and Retain the Next Generation Utilities Workforce

3 Important Utility Compliance Trends (Updated 2021)

The Complete Guide to Attending a Virtual Event

Streamline Vegetation Management by Digitizing Your Field Teams

5 Ways to Prevent Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure

Everything You Need to Know About Project Management Deliverables

Enhancing Utility Operations with Project Management Tools

11 Free (and Awesome) Project Management Softwares in 2021

Making Maps 101: Elements, Layout, and Design

6 Critical Project Management Skills (And How to Learn Them)

Understanding the 4 Core Project Management Methodologies

Options for Learning GIS: Degree, Certification, or Online

How to Optimize Telecom Network Operations with GIS

Utilizing GIS to Streamline Urban Planning

The Long Road to Modern Cartography

3 Ways Cloud GIS Simplifies Construction Project Management

7 Cool Creative Maps That Anyone Can Make

GIS for Utilities: Increase Efficiency of Inspections and Maintenance

GIS for Oil & Gas: Optimizing Operations Across Every Sector

8 Amazing Free GIS Software Options

6 Online Map Makers That Will Simplify Your Life

History of Maps: From Ancient Maps to GIS

What is Google Earth?

Drones in Construction: 5 Steps to Get Started

Construction Productivity: Using Technology to Address the Industry's Largest Problem

Improving Communications, From Field-to-Office and Office-to-Field

Constructing Success with Rivals: Project Manager vs. Superintendent

Why is Precision Essential for Construction Drawings?

Shattering the Concrete Ceiling: Gender Diversity in Construction

The 2021 Drone Buying Guide

Software for the Future of Construction

How Will Prefabricated Construction & 3D Printing Build Construction's Future?

UAV Mapping Basics - Why Precision Matters in Drone Surveys

Why is Cloud Computing Critical in the Construction Industry?

IoT in Construction, The Big Picture

The Top 8 Construction Software Solutions

What Happens When Tech Enters Construction?

Creating a Mobile Strategy for Construction

How Technology Is Rebuilding Communication in Construction

How to Rebuild Construction's Image

Construction’s Image Crisis: Why and How the Industry Needs to Attract Youth

Why Construction Needs Collaboration

5 Steps to Streamline Communication in Construction

Construction Career Guide -- Specialties, Salaries, and Prospects (Updated 2021)

5 Steps to Getting a Construction Job

Construction Project Management 101

Our Favorite GIS Data Collection Tools in 2021

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