Construction Site Utility Locate Coordination Agent
Coordinates utility locate requests before construction site excavation, tracking response deadlines from utility companies to prevent costly line strikes.
Before any excavation on a construction site, crews must submit utility locate requests to multiple gas, electric, water, and telecom providers and wait for each to mark or clear the work area, but manually tracking submission dates, response deadlines, and mark expiration windows across several utility companies is error-prone and often causes either costly digging delays or dangerous premature excavation
A missed or expired locate can result in a utility strike that halts the site, endangers crews, and triggers regulatory fines
This agent submits and tracks locate requests across all utility providers serving a site, monitors each company's legally required response window, and confirms all clearances are current and valid before authorizing excavation to proceed
The agent generates utility locate requests through the applicable one-call or 811 notification system for each planned excavation area, capturing the work location, dig date, and scope. It tracks each utility provider's response against the jurisdiction's legally mandated locate response window, monitoring for received, no-conflict, or unresponsive statuses. As the planned excavation date approaches, the agent verifies all required utilities have responded and that mark validity windows haven't expired, and it flags any unresolved or expiring locates to the site superintendent before authorizing the dig to proceed.
Locate Request Submission
- Submit locate requests via the 811 or one-call system per site
- Define excavation area boundaries and planned dig date
- Identify all utility providers with facilities in the area
Response Monitoring
- Track each utility's response against the mandated response window
- Log received clearances, marked conflicts, or no-response status
- Send follow-up requests for non-responsive utilities
Mark Validity Verification
- Monitor mark expiration windows per jurisdictional rules
- Verify all marks remain valid through the planned excavation date
- Flag re-locate requirements if the dig date shifts
Excavation Authorization
- Confirm all required utilities have cleared or marked the site
- Issue excavation authorization to the site superintendent
- Escalate unresolved conflicts before digging begins