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BC COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE - MISSION STATEMENT:

“The BC Common Ground Alliance is a non-profit organization established to lead development of consistent practices and coordination of activities to ensure the highest possible standards of public safety, worker safety and damage prevention in connection with underground infrastructure.”

The BC Common Ground Alliance is a unique consensus-driven organization with a direct conduit to regulatory innovation.  It is open to any individual or organization with an interest in safety and underground infrastructure.  The BC Common Ground Alliance considers that all involved with underground infrastructure or disturbance are responsible and accountable for the safety of their own procedures.  It acknowledges, however, that it is in everyone’s best interest to work together to develop safe and consistent practices.

The BC Common Ground Alliance works to offer practical tools and to foster an environment in which anyone resident or doing business in British Columbia is aware of and compliant with best practices in regard to underground infrastructure or disturbance in order to ensure the safest possible environment for the citizens and workers of the province.

What’s happening now?

Current Stakeholders:

  • 1 One Call Locators Canada Canada Ltd
  • Alliance Pipeline
  • Badger Daylighting
  • BC Construction Association
  • BC Hydro
  • BC Landscape & Nursery Association
  • BC Oil & Gas Commission
  • BC One Call
  • BC Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Association
  • BC Safety Authority
  • Bell Canada
  • Canadian Utility Construction Corp
  • Central Hydro-Vac Ltd.
  • City of Burnaby
  • City of Kelowna
  • City of Nanaimo
  • City of Vancouver
  • CMH Underground Utilities Ltd.
  • Construction Safety Network
  • Corporation of Delta
  • District of Chetwynd
  • EECOL Electric
  • FortisBC
  • Independent Contractors & Business Association of  BC
  • Keiberg Inc.
  • Kinder Morgan Canada
  • National Energy Board
  • Northern BC Construction Association
  • Pacific Northern Gas
  • ProMark Utility Locators
  • Radiodetection Canada
  • Red-Alta Utility Location Ltd
  • Shaw Communications
  • Southern Interior Construction Association
  • Spectra Energy
  • Tecvalco
  • TelDig
  • TELUS
  • Terasen Gas
  • TransCanada
  • Vancouver Island Construction Association
  • Vancouver Regional Construction Association
  • Western Utilities Locating Services
  • WorkSafe BC

Supporting Organizations:

  • Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of BC
  • Government of BC
  • National Energy Board
  • Union of BC Municipalities

What is BC Common Ground Alliance doing?

BC Common Ground Alliance is coordinating working groups to develop a clear statement of British Columbia Best Practices in the following areas:

  • One Call
  • Planning and Design
  • Infrastructure Identification/Location and Marking
  • Excavation
  • Mapping
  • Compliance
  • Public and Worker Education
  • Reporting and Evaluation.

How is BC Common Ground Alliance funded?

Financial support for the BC Common Ground Alliance comes from two sources:  sponsorship and membership.

What should you do?  Get involved now!

For more information:

Contact our Executive Director, Scott Henley at:
250-738-0580
Scott@commongroundbc.ca

 

 
BC Common Ground Alliance Gold Sponsors
Work Safe BC
Safety Authority BC Terasen Gas
   
BC Hydro
BC Common Ground Alliance Bronze Sponsors
BCCA    Duke Energy
BC 1 Call   bell
Trans Canada   Alliance Pipeline
VRCA
One Call Locators    CUC
One Call Locators