Survey Monumentation Special Provision

This Special Provision is recommended by the Ontario Good Roads Association to be added to every construction contract in Ontario:

January 16, 2012 ~ To be added shortly to Ontario Good Roads Association URL

SURVEY MONUMENT PROTECTION RECOMMENDED SPECIAL PROVISION (SP)

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SPECIAL PROVISION (SP)
THE PROTECTION OF SURVEY MONUMENTATION IN ALL CONTRACTS TO BE LET
Clause to be included in each contract:

"Before any site construction and/or movement of soil or rock by any natural person or entity near a highway as defined under Section 26 of the Municipal Act, a pre-construction inventory of all the cadastral survey monumentation, any site control survey monumentation, and all control survey monumentation of record in the Ministry of Natural Resource's digital data base COSINE, must be made by a licensed Ontario Land Surveyor to such a point that a post construction inventory of all the said monumentation can be made.”

The essential components of survey monument protection refers to survey monuments as defined by ONTARIO REGULATION 525/91 under the Surveyors Act and site control survey monumentation and control survey monumentation of record in the Ministry of Natural Resource's digital data base COSINE.
The protection protocol refers to the:
• Review of the work site to determine which survey monuments are in place and which survey monuments will or may be lost due to planned new construction work;
• Agreement between a Licensed Professional Surveyor (OLS), the organization holding the title fee of the highway or control thereof and the Contractor regarding cost to evaluate and reset survey monuments

Survey Monuments under protection are broken down in three categories during Pre and Post Construction Inventory and Restitution of lost monuments:

A) Survey monuments required for the project and not in place at first review ~ cost to be borne by the government organization or utility installing physical plant

B) Survey monuments that are required at end of project’s completion and may or will inevitably be destroyed by construction ~ cost to be borne by the government organization or utility installing physical plant

C) Survey monuments that can be protected from work and are identified by OLS during pre- construction inventory and are moved from original inventoried position ~ cost to be borne by contractor

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The full SP is to be uploaded to the OGRA URL http://www.ogra.org/home.asp soon.

One could hope it goes viral for all construction Worldwide !

Cheers,

Derek