The safest and most useful excavation content explains what must be known before equipment arrives: site conditions, buried services, project limits, access, end use, material handling and the condition the site must be left in.
Use this checklist
- Define the project limits and finished result.
- Identify underground and overhead constraints.
- Confirm what approvals, permits or locates apply.
- Plan access, trucking and material storage.
- Clarify backfill, compaction, grading and restoration.
- Put inclusions and exclusions in writing.