The Case for Canadian Underground Infrastructure Register

CUIR is a portal solution that will allow the owners of buried infrastructure to exchange information with firms requesting the nature and location of buried assets bounded within the area outlined in a One Call ticket. Unlike a central database, the CUIR process does not provide anyone access to the owners database, but rather allows the owner to receive the request and push the data to the requestor thus preventing any external party access to their database.

This process will also allow the owners to receive a field verification of their current records in the form of data collected in the field that will allow them to verify and/or update the accuracy of those records. The provision of this data will add tremendous value to utility owners with assets in and around the project site when this information is made available by the Subsurface Utility Engineering and Subsurface Utility Mapping (SUE and SUM) firms and by Locate Service Providers performing excavation ticket locates.  

The CUIR Team is comprised of over 80 individuals working at building a homogenized North American solution that will take the One Call Damage Prevention process to the next level.