Our firm employs professional engineering (P.E.) and project management staff who offer several years’ progressively successful experience developing communication tower sites, designing telecommunications infrastructure such as fiber optic networks and related points of presence (POPs), and updating dispatch centers and prime sites, all up to demanding public safety-grade standards. Each professional in this practice area has been verified to practice telecommunication infrastructure engineering according to all applicable FCC, EIA/TIA and OSHA standards, and supplier (e.g. Motorola “R56”, M/A-Com, etc.) guidelines. Many of our staff members have helped our clients prepare documents for, and have provided testimony to, local zoning boards to acquire construction and FAA (i.e. tower height & marking) permits.

our firm has made a significant investment over the years in purchase of, and extensive training of our staff in, a variety of telecommunication facility system computer aided-engineering (CAE) tools. Today, these state-of the-art tools allow our staff to rapidly complete site selection, planning, zoning assistance, electric power and HVAC load budgeting, grounding and lightning protection measures, and EMC/EMI design, and overall construction engineering of “greenfield”, “brownfield”, and legacy radio sites. These GIS-based tools are invaluable in determining intermodulation and interference from adjacent channel and co-channel sources, FAA and FCC licensing matters, and power and HVAC demand. Our firm also maintains a nationwide, cost-competitive, network of fully-certificated structural and geotechnical engineering partner firms to assist our engineering staff prepare with site design and permitting.

Our firm has a strong history developing telecommunication sites, prime sites, and control centers across the USA in the most challenging locations – from urban sites such as at the George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, to the most remote, austere locations in places such as New Mexico’s desert, Vermont’s forests, and the Nevada’s Rocky Mountains:

• RF/Microwave tower superstructures – supports land-mobile radio and microwave antennae and transmission lines/waveguide. Includes lightning protection, ice shielding, climbing apparatus, and marking (painting or lighting) according to FAA regulations and local ordinances.
  • Three/Four-leg lattice
  • Monopole
  • Guy-wire supported
  • Parapet/rooftop-mounted
  • Caisson/monolithic foundation
  
  
  
• Electronics Shelters – Self-contained, environmentally controlled, concrete or composite buildings containing sensitive radio and interconnect (microwave, fiber, etc.) electronics, HVAC equipment, and back-up power measure(s).
  
  
• RF Coverage Expansion – Passive and active antenna systems to extend radio coverage into buildings, tunnels, and other hard-to-reach structures. Power Systems primary (utility) electrical power supplanted by site-appropriate backup power generation:
  • Diesel, propane, or CNG generator sets
  • Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) battery plants
  • Renewable power systems such as solar panels, wind turbines, and fuel cells.
  
  
  
• Siting – appropriate selection of tower sites based on the most favorable combination of cost, coverage and backhaul interconnect design requirements, FAA and FCC licensing, geotechnical suitability (e.g. soil bearing, resistivity) , accessibility (for construction and maintenance), and zoning requirements. Research and negotiate shared-use partnerships with third-party tenant on new or existing sites to reduce the number of individual towers dotting the horizon. Perimeter protection and monitoring (fencing, access control, IR and sonic detection, system and intrusion alarms, CCTV, etc.)