Utility Conflict Analysis in Vancouver, BC

At 30–60% design — early enough that realignment is a drafting exercise, late enough that alignments are real. Conflicts found at 90% become change orders; conflicts found during construction become claims. The analysis costs the same at every stage; only the savings change.

Each conflict numbered and located, the utilities involved, vertical and horizontal clearances, severity class, recommended resolution, and the quality level of the underlying utility data — so the engineer knows which conflicts are certain and which warrant QL-A verification first.

Yes — the matrix typically flags a handful of make-or-break crossings for QL-A daylighting. Partnered hydrovac crews expose them, we survey them, and the design proceeds on measured elevations.

Both. Engineers bring us in as the SUE/conflict sub-consultant; owners and developers engage us directly when servicing costs threaten pro formas. Either way the deliverable plugs straight into the civil design workflow.

Only partially. BC 1 Call marks registered public utilities up to your property line — free, and you should always use it. Everything inside the line is private and unmarked: irrigation, gas runs to outbuildings, landscape lighting, old septic, abandoned services. Vancouver's stock — pre-1965 oil-tank-era homes on the west side, post-tensioned towers downtown, and some of BC's oldest buried services in Strathcona and Mount Pleasant. — is exactly where those private surprises accumulate. Private locating closes that gap before you dig.

Vancouver sits on glacial till uplands with deltaic sands toward False Creek and Fraser flats. Till and sand image well — 400 MHz reaches 2–3 m across most of the city; signal shortens in fill zones around False Creek and the port lands. Where local conditions limit one technology, the survey leans on the others — EM tracing, sonde work, and acoustic methods — so the locate objective is met regardless of soil.

Vancouver is inside our standing Metro Vancouver coverage — typical scheduling is 24–72 hours, with same-day service often possible during business hours (Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm Pacific). Pricing follows our province-wide structure with no regional premium; the free phone consult produces a firm number in about five minutes: 604-239-9934.