Utility Coordination - subsurface to switchgear.
Specialized dry-utility, joint-trench, and subsurface coordination across electric, gas, water, telecom, and stormwater networks.
Where most schedules quietly fail.
Utility conflicts are the most common cause of permit-stage delay, and the most expensive to discover late, because every affected party carries its own backlog, its own outage windows, and its own permitting clock. We resolve them upstream: dry-utility design review, joint-trench planning, and direct coordination with every IOU and municipal utility on the corridor. The work happens during design, not in the trench, so your construction schedule inherits a clean composite plan and a confirmed energization date instead of a queue of surprises.
One coordinator, every utility on the corridor.
Coordinator
- Electric
- Gas
- Water
- Telecom
- Stormwater
What we do
End-to-end utility coordination for infrastructure and development programs, from greenfield corridors to mid-design rescues on stalled projects.
Dry utility design review
Plan-set review against utility company standards before submittal, fewer redlines, faster approval. We catch the clearance, depth, and joint-occupancy issues that drive a second review cycle, and we package each utility's submittal in the format their reviewer expects.
Joint-trench coordination
Master schedules across electric, gas, telecom, and CATV providers with single-point ownership. We sequence trenching, conduit installation, and proof-of-grade so each utility crew arrives to a ready trench instead of waiting on the one before it.
Subsurface utility engineering (SUE)
Coordination with Quality Level A-D investigations and mark-out validation. We scope the SUE package, route findings into design, and reconcile field marks against record drawings before the contractor mobilizes.
Wet utility permitting
Water, sewer, and stormwater permitting with municipal utility districts and public works. Capacity letters, fixture-unit calculations, and connection-fee negotiations are managed inside the same coordinated workstream.
Outage & energization scheduling
Pre-planned coordination with affected ratepayers, hospitals, and critical infrastructure. We hold the calendar, draft the customer notifications, and stay on the line during cut-over so your contractor doesn't lose a day waiting on a switching order.
Utility relocation & franchise management
Relocation agreements, franchise filings, and reimbursement tracking handled end-to-end, including the cost-recovery paperwork most teams discover six months too late.
How coordination runs
Four phases that turn utility risk into a managed dependency, every step instrumented inside PermitPilot so your team and ours work from the same record.
- 01Phase 01
Discovery
Affected utilities identified, contact matrix built, and existing-condition records pulled. We submit one-call tickets, request as-builts from each owner, and produce a single composite that turns scattered records into a shared baseline.
- 02Phase 02
Design coordination
Plan reviews, conflict resolution, and joint-trench composite drawings produced. Each utility's redlines are reconciled against the others, and we run a pre-submittal review with the owners most likely to object so the formal package lands clean.
- 03Phase 03
Permit & schedule
Permits secured, master schedule built with utility crews, outage windows reserved. We negotiate the sequencing meeting, lock in service-order dates, and publish a corridor calendar the GC, the owners, and the agency can all build against.
- 04Phase 04
Construction support
On-call coordinator through energization, with PermitPilot logging every utility interaction. RFIs, field changes, and outage confirmations are tracked to closure, and the close-out package includes a complete record of every utility approval for as-builts.
What lands in your hands.
Every engagement produces the same artifacts, versioned in PermitPilot, shared with your team, and carried forward into construction.
- D/01
Utility Contact Matrix
Named contacts, escalation paths, and ticket numbers for every affected utility on the corridor.
- D/02
Composite Conflict Drawing
Single overlay reconciling each utility's records, marked with resolved and pending subsurface conflicts.
- D/03
Corridor Master Schedule
Locked sequencing, service-order dates, and outage windows the GC, owners, and agency can build against.
- D/04
Close-Out Approval Package
Complete record of every utility approval, RFI, and field change, ready to fold into project as-builts.
Permit Delay Cost Calculator
See what your current permit cycle is costing, in carry, in slipped revenue, in weeks you could recover. Benchmark is 70-day top-quartile review time.
Estimates are directional. Actual savings depend on jurisdiction mix, project type, and program maturity.
- No, we coordinate with every IOU and municipal utility in our active service areas, plus the franchise telecom and CATV providers that show up on most joint-trench programs.
- Tell us your corridor and we'll confirm relationships, escalation contacts, and any open issues we're already tracking in that territory.
Resolve your utility risk early.
Send us your corridor, plan set, or stalled program. A senior coordinator will review the package, map the affected utilities, and respond within one business day with a scoped engagement plan, before the next conflict shows up in the trench.
Scope an Engagement