Our 3 Phase Process
We assist clients in a variety of ways – sometimes with an entire projects and others with a single part of it. Here’s what each step of a typical process looks like and how our team can help.
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Project feasibility – We help you develop a thorough understanding of the project, identify any potential roadblocks and raise the overall level of project awareness.
• Review competitive environment and evaluate opportunities for growth.
• Explore the availability of competent construction services and identify required resources.
• Evaluate construction methods (like aerial, underground or microtrenching) and their merits for your particular project.
• Establish pole ownership and determine the ability to attach.
• Research right-of-way requirements.Financial consultation – Our team can help you identify funding and assist with necessary financial applications.
• Facilitate funding conversations.
• Assess estimated project cost and funding needs.
• Identify advantages of grants versus loans.
• Assist throughout the grant and loan application process, including state, NTIA, USDA through RUS and other programs.
PHASE ONE
Project Evaluation and Discovery
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High level design - Create a working outline of your fiber network
• Assess rights-of-way and easements for usability.
• Leverage imagery, property records and street-level data to outline and size the main routes and identify hub locations.
• Generate initial bill of materials specifications and field collection maps.Field collection – Establish a design’s feasibility, which is crucial when it comes time to evaluate ground truth.
• Assess and compare the virtual design to the ground truth requirements like roads, rocks, trees and water.
• Execute field collection and staking.
• Conduct Pole Loading Analysis.Low level design – Incorporate necessary revisions from field collection. Least-cost routing ensures the most affordable path is taken during construction.
• Verify the design follows the path of least cost and provides a high level of serviceability while supporting growth and expansion.
• Expand the design to include connectivity from the premises to the headend.
• Secure permitting and pole attachment.
PHASE TWO
Design
PHASE THREE
Quality Project Management
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Contracts
Our team helps interface with distributors and manufacturers to develop contracts throughout the build process.
• Create a bill of materials and assist with orders.
• Develop contracts and assist in contract negotiation.
• Manage bidding process and assist with contractor selection.Supervising and inspection
Ensure the build stays true to the design.
• Inspect work completed during construction and update construction maps.
• Ensure documentation complies with all state and federal funding requirements.
• Complete redlines to ensure the final path is accurately reflected in plant records and contractor units placed (CUP sheets) to account for material usage.
• Review and substantiate invoices incurred during the construction process.Plant record management
Maintain outside plant records throughout the life of your network as it expands and changes.
• Track your build and maintenance progress with web-based plant records.
• Provide plant and network management software.
• Generate field-ready map books.
• Troubleshoot plant and network.