National Underground Asset Register minimum information specification proposed

The consultation reveals a further key development: while those using NUAR to ensure safe excavations will use the platform for free, asset owners uploading their data to NUAR will ultimately have to pay fees to cover the operational costs of the platform. The consultation document states: “Once NUAR is fully operational, undertakers will be able to share their data for the purposes of safe digging through the NUAR service, rather than having to respond to each data request individually.  As this will lead to efficiency benefits for undertakers and will maintain long-standing industry practice of data being free at the point of use, the running costs of NUAR will be shared across the undertakers.”