Utility Coordination

4Sight has learned to anticipate and handle utility coordination concerns for our clients.  4Sight specialists recognise that these utility challenges have jeopardised project execution and the active utility network.  The Industrial, Commercial, Institutional (ICI) Sector and local residents are at risk of losing crucial utility services.  4Sight personnel have successfully navigated projects through the utility coordination process to mitigate these utility relocation threats.  4Sight’s UC Team has extensive experience in utility coordination on big, complex, multi-billion-dollar Canadian projects.  The 4Sight UC Team has also developed various utility coordination manuals at the national, provincial, and local levels.

The 4Sight UC Team has decades of experience and the hands-on experience and expertise to confidently handle all aspects of UC by developing a custom UC programme with associated processes, solving utility coordination challenges, and mitigating utility risks associated with project delays.  We have quite literally wrote the manual on Utility Coordination practices in Canada!

The 4Sight UC Team has decades of experience and the hands-on experience and expertise to confidently handle all aspects of UC by developing a custom UC programme with associated processes, solving utility coordination challenges, and mitigating utility risks associated with project delays.  We have quite literally wrote the manual on Utility Coordination practices in Canada!

PROJECT LEVEL UTILITY COORDINATION SERVICES

Utility Design Phase

Utility ENGINEERING Services

• Prepare and update the Composite Utility Plans that show utility and project information;
• Prepare profiles and cross sections at existing and proposed key locations;
• Identify all potential known utility conflicts associated with the project;
• Identify opportunities to reduce the scope of utility impacts through project design modifications;
• Review Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) Data to determine suitability for the project and recommend additional investigations to aid in utility conflict identification;
• Create and update the Utility Conflict Matrix that captures all potential known utility conflicts;
• Prepare the Utility Conflict Resolution Strategy Analysis (Relocation, Protection, Design Alteration, No Relocation);
• Create and update the Utility Relocation Matrix to track each utility conflict that requires a relocation;
• Prepare the Relocation and Protection Designs via consultation with the various utility companies and their consultants;
• Review the Proposed Utility Relocation and Third-Party Utility Designs to confirm conformance with the Project Design and applicable standards.

 Utility COORDINATION MANAGEMENT Services

• Review and implement existing UC Manual for clients;
• Schedule, chair and minute project related UC meetings;
• Develop, update and track the Utility Coordination Schedule in consultation with the project owner and impacted utility companies plus track all required permits;
• Prepare, update and maintain the Utility Construction Coordination/Work Plans that outline the relocation sequence for the project;
• Liaise with the project and utility design team to ensure key design information is shared;
• Review the estimates by utility companies and make recommendations for Purchase Order issuance.

PROGRAM LEVEL UTILITY COORDINATION SERVICES

Utility Construction Phase

Utility ENGINEERING Services

• Prepare the Utility Construction Layout;
• Provide the field documentation on utility installations for utility “As-Built” Drawings;
• Review the Utility Company “As-Built” Drawings;
• Conduct field inspections on utility relocations.

Utility COORDINATION MANAGEMENT Services

• Schedule, chair and minute the Utility Pre-Construction and Construction Progress Meetings;
• Track and update the Utility Coordination Schedule – Construction Phase;
• Track and update the Utility Construction Coordination Plan;
• Develop and lead the Utility Field Conflict Resolution Process;
• Review the Utility Invoices for accuracy and compliance to cost-sharing agreements;
• Lead the resolution of invoicing disputes;
• Make recommendations for utility invoice payments.