Dive summary:

• In a bid to further its goal of keeping excavators and other equipment from ever being introduced to underground utilities, the Common Ground Alliance is unveiling a new, Web-accessible database it calls VAULT to make damage-prevention techniques as widely available as possible.
• The group comprises utility owners and a range of construction interests, all of whom have an interest in not cutting cables or rupturing pipes in the process of building new structures.
• VAULT lists prevention technologies that have been invented, cross-references them with potential trouble situations, discussions equipment capabilities and lists contact information  for the technology vendors.

From the article:

Damage prevention technologies are searchable by technology category, CGA Best Practice, related root causes and/or stakeholder group.  ...