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Is there a regulatory requirements (or other governing bodies) in Canada or US that state that the company must keep all the hard revisions of engineering drawings?

what is the requirements if the company lost or damaged (unreadable) some of the revisions?

Hi Jeffrey.  Not sure if anyone answered your question.  There certainly are requirements for retaining engineering drawings.  may i ask? what industry you work in? what are the drawings of? by revisions are you referring to renovations/construction?

Hi Nina,

I am on in Oil and Gas Industry and operating both in Canada and the USA. I am mainly looking for Canada. I am referring to construction drawings.

Hi Jeffrey, 

For Canada, the Professional Practice Guidelines for each province will provide guidance on how long to retain drawings (APEGA in Alberta and EGBC in BC are the two I'm familiar with). There are also requirements for the party responsible for executing the Project (Engineer of Record) to retain historical records in the event there is litigation. From an Operations perspective, there are requirements to retain the stamped IFC and latest As-Built drawings (drawing type specific). For Alberta and BC, the respective Oil and Gas regulatory bodies provide these guidelines.

Hope that helps and sorry for the extremely delayed response.