
Why Become an LSBUD Member?
With more than 150 Members already registered on LSBUD, our collaborative approach enables safe digging for all.
SECURING YOUR ASSETS
- Greater understanding of who is working near your network
- Control and live visibility of who can access your asset records
- Bespoke escalation and authorisation processes to suit your requirements
- More enquiries = More awareness of your assets = Less risk of asset strikes
IMPROVING SERVICE FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS
- Making it quicker and easier for your customers to get your information
- Reducing unplanned interruptions and customer lost minutes
- Bespoke systems to ensure full security and control
- Full audit trail allowing you to discover who is digging where and when
COST SAVING ACROSS YOUR BUSINESS
- Improved service resilience and reduced repairs and downtime
- Fewer administrative resources needed to respond to enquiries
- Continual software development
- Working with your internal teams to improve efficiencies
SAFE DIGGING FOR ALL
- Reducing the risk to workers
- Shortening lead times leading to improved productivity
- Allowing faster roll out of major programmes
- Showing the industry that you are pro-actively encouraging safe digging practices through collaboration
LSBUD’s service protects over 1.9 million km of national infrastructure by responding to more than 3.9 million third party User enquiries each year. With over 60%, and rising, of the UK’s utility infrastructure protected by LSBUD, it is firmly established as the nation’s safe digging service.

LSBUD is designed to be used by anyone that needs to know where utility assets are to work safely.
Works can be of any scale from a highway scheme to simply replacing a garden fence.
With 290,000 registered Users, and 4,000 more signing up every month, there is no other solution that can provide the same level of reach as LSBUD.
LSBUD Membership Options
1. Standard Membership
Receive notification PDFs with details of enquiries made in the vicinity of your network, ensuring that your assets are checked against over 3.9 million searches per annum. Your teams are then able to respond with asset plans and safe digging information accordingly.
2. Hosted Plan Response
A fully managed LSBUD solution that creates automated asset record responses on your behalf, fully configurable to your business requirements, allowing industry leading response times, full audit trails and with authorisation and payment handling facility.
MEMBERS’ ASSETS
The combined asset network currently totals over 1,900,000 kms of assets including:
- Gas transmission and distribution networks
- Electricity transmission and distribution networks
- Water and sewerage networks
- High pressure hydrocarbon pipelines
- Fibre optic cable networks
- District heating networks

GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

WATER & SEWERAGE NETWORKS

ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

FIBRE OPTIC CABLE NETWORK

HIGH PRESSURE HYDROCARBON PIPELINES
