2025 Symposium 

2025 CCGA Damage Prevention Symposium
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Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel | November 4 -6, 2025

The Canadian Common Ground Alliance is excited to hold its 2025 Damage Prevention Symposium, in person, at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront, November 4th – 6th, 2025!

This event is a signature event for the CCGA attracting over 200+ damage prevention management professionals and decision makers from across Canada including stakeholder groups such as municipalities, excavator contractors, oil and gas, telecommunications, electrical transmission/distribution, water and sewer, telecom, emergency management, surveyors, regulators, trenchless industries, One Call Center members, utility locate service providers and administrators, engineers, insurance, risk management operations, and others who protect the underground infrastructure and impact damage prevention.

Join us for this dynamic and engaging event that is sure to provide practical, relevant information which will focus on damage prevention public awareness initiatives and expand stakeholder knowledge on efforts to protect essential infrastructure.

The format for the conference consists of 2 days of professional development, workshops, panel presentations, networking events, along with an exhibitor tradeshow. All symposium sessions and additional details on this website are in English only.

Call for Papers

The Canadian Common Ground Alliance is excited to announce our Call for Papers for the 2025 CCGA Damage Prevention Symposium. To be considered, please complete the submission process and be sure to include all pertinent details. Submissions will be open until Friday, April 25, 2025. Those that are accepted will be contacted by Friday, May 30, 2025, to confirm participation on the program.

We are requesting papers for the following topics but encourage papers on any topic relevant to damage prevention in your industry.

• Abroad
• Agriculture and digging
• Cases study
• Communications
• Excavation work methods
• Excavator's reality
• First Nations
• Legislation, Rules, Standards
• Locator resources
• Mapping
• Municipality's reality
• Planning, Engineer's reality
• Railroads
• Technology

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