Start with the applicant or planner where no engineer is named yet. A named ground engineer tells you who already holds the work.
When it is worth a call
A footing inspection ordered before the pour has different timing to an investigation during design. More than 640 applications we hold carry a council condition ordering geotechnical work.
What to look for
Mine subsidence and landslip flags. Ground reports and footing inspections ordered. The engineer already named, or nobody yet.
A more useful opening question
“Has the ground-risk condition on this job been assigned to an engineer yet?”