Infrastructure Asset Management: Why is Joint Use Important?

Infrastructure Asset Management: Why is Joint Use Important?
Utility poles and conduit vaults (the underground version of a wire-carrying 40-foot pole) are everywhere in our world—along highways, down neighborhood streets and under the surface of busy intersections. They carry power, communications and entertainment into our homes ...

Is it Time to Renegotiate Your Joint Use Contracts?

One of the keys to running a business well is having visible oversight—the high-level, future-focused information that ...

Your Attachment, My Liability: The Burden of the Utility Pole Owner

For pole owners, attachers are partners: entities that rely on mutual agreement to operate together in one space. However, ...

Bad Poles: Do You Own Them & What is Your Liability?

If the term "bad poles" sounds ominous, that is because it is—at least in terms of your organization’s appetite for risk. No ...

4 Crucial Ways to Gain Control Over Utility Pole Transfer Requests

Pole transfers are an unavoidable part of the joint use universe. This business-as-usual task requires resource allocation, ...