By Kassi Zaba, Public Awareness Coordinator
Large Project tickets are for areas larger than 60,000 square meters in urban areas, or larger than 800,000 square meters in rural areas. They are designed for pre-planned jobs which continue over a significant area and length of time. The large scope of these projects typically requires a planning meeting between excavators and affected facility owners in the area before locates are requested. These planning meetings allow the excavator and locator an opportunity to understand the complexity of the site and the project timeline, and plan a schedule that accommodates both parties.
Although Large Project tickets can be beneficial, allowing excavators the ease of submitting only one ticket for vast expanses, Large Project tickets can pose challenges to facility owners and locators, which can compromise damage prevention and safety practices:
To maintain the integrity of the damage prevention process and to ensure the safety of all involved parties, facility owners may reject Large Project tickets and ask that they be broken down into smaller work areas over multiple tickets.
Best practices for submitting tickets over a large work area:
Tickets submitted using the Continue Ticket function are automatically linked by the software through information in the "Remarks" field. This allows facility owners and locators to identify multiple tickets as part of one large job.
Large Project tickets are a helpful tool when planning a considerable job, and the complexities of locating Large Project tickets can often be managed by pre-planning work areas and locate timelines. If you are planning a large excavation project, reach out to the facility owners in your work area and arrange a pre-project meeting. Don’t know who to contact? Our support team is more than happy to help you.