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Accueil > Damages prevention > Guides and Tools

Guide and tools


Many resources are available to help you during the preparation and execution of your excavation work.

 


Best practices and regulation

  • Guide to best practices
  • Régie du Bâtiment du Québec (french only)
  • CNESST (french only)

Planning and conception

  • Standard CAN/CSA-Z247-15
  • Standard S250-11 – Mapping of underground infrastructures
  • Writer’s guide

Creation and follow-up of a request

  • Create a permanent account
  • How to make a locate request
  • How to make a locate request follow up
  • Correction and update
  • How to request a revalidation or a remarking
  • Locate request transfer
  • UUN

Localisation of the infrastructures

  •  Locate report reading tool
  • Colour code
  • Info-Excavation’s localisation  guide (french only)

Damages prevention

  • Guidelines for Excavation Work Done Near Our Underground Infrastructures
  • Soft excavating methods
  • Clear blocked sewer
  • Working near pipelines
  • Excavation Checklist

Need help?

If you have questions regarding our services or any other aspect of Info-Excavation, please consult our help section to get all your questions answered.

Consult our help section


Urgent Requests

If your excavation work represents an unnecessary risk to the public’s safety, creates a potentially dangerous situation or causes disruption of essential services, then making an urgent request is mandatory.

Emergency location request


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