Planning/Design and Joint Meet Notifications
To assist excavators and facility locators in managing large or complex projects, JULIE offers the Planning/Design and Joint Meet notifications.
Planning/Design Stage Notification
Prior to beginning a large project, a planning/design notification may need to be submitted by the project designer/planner.
The Planning/Design Notification is beneficial for architects, engineers and others who are in the design or planning stage of a project and excavation is not intended in the near future.
When a planner or designer indicates they are in the planning or design stage of the project, the required information will be processed and they will be sent a list of affected member engineering contacts via fax or e-mail. It is then the responsibility of the individual making the request to contact each facility owner.
Member underground utility facility owners should respond to a valid planning/design notification within 10 working days upon notification by the designer in one of three ways:
- Provide drawings/prints of the location of the facility owner’s underground facilities at the proposed site.
- Show the location of the facility owner’s underground facilities on a drawing provided by the designer.
- Locate and mark the facility owner’s underground facilities at the proposed job site.
Designers should make reasonable efforts to prepare construction drawings which minimize interference with existing and proposed utility facilities in the construction area and follow the guidelines set forth in CI-ASCE 38-02 and depict on all appropriate documents the position and type of all known underground utility facilities obtained in the planning/design notification process and a valid planning/design notification request number. Some member underground utility facility owners may charge a fee for these services.
For information on the advantages of the Planning/Design notification request process, check out this short video featuring JULIE Damage Prevention Manager, David Van Wy and guest speaker, Daniel Rest of HBK Engineering.
Joint Meet Notification
A Joint Meet is a meeting to openly discuss a large or complicated project and to exchange information such as maps, plans or schedules*. It is not a locating session and shall be held at or near the dig site. JULIE shall not recognize a Joint Meet request as satisfactorily fulfilling the statutory requirements of the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act and shall require excavators that request a Joint Meet to additionally call or submit online, after the Joint Meet, a valid locate request/s in order to receive field locates.
*Large non-emergency projects may require multiple locating sessions to mark all affected facilities.
Required Information
To request a Joint Meet, the following information must be given to the call center agent or the request will be suspended:
- All counties, cities and/or townships where the work will be performed and
- Street names involved in the project OR the north, south, east and west boundaries of the project OR the section number(s) in which the work will be done.
A Joint Meet Request is valid for one city or township per county. Extensive projects may require multiple Joint Meet Requests.
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