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For utility companies, accurate data is essential to effective asset management. Power providers need up-to-date data to ensure their plant is free of violations, double poles, hazards, and trespass. Trusted methods have been used to collect data...
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection
In our 3-part blog series, we are inspecting common pole conditions that can be costly for asset owners, as well as attachers.
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection
In our 3-part blog series, we are investigating common pole conditions that interrupt service deployment and increase asset owners’ risk. In part 1, we looked at dangerous conditions on utility poles.
This article will look at the multitude of...
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection
In this 3-part blog series, we are addressing common pole conditions that halt service deployment and can be costly to asset owners. It is our experience that asset owners often do not know the current statue or condition of all assets in the field.
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection
Our first article, “Getting Ahead in 2018: Pole Inspections (Part 1 of 3)” looked at the proactive strengths of resolutions to start and maintain regular pole audits. Our second post, “Getting Ahead in 2018: Inspections (Part 2 of 3),” specifically...
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection, Conduit Inventory & Inspection
Over the next three articles, we will discuss the tools needed to strengthen joint use partnerships. We will focus on the ways that inspections and inventories, paired with a centralized asset management system, are critical to managing an...
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection
Industry professionals understand the risks line workers face all too well. However, many customers may be surprised to learn that installers and repairers are among the top ten most dangerous jobs in the country. This statistic includes fatal work...
Topics: Infrastructure Asset Management, Managed Services, Utility Pole Inspection
From first sight to final inspection a thorough utility pole inventory and inspection is a vital part of successful field asset management. But what actually happens during a utility pole inspection? Today we will discuss the first crucial step: ...
Topics: Regulatory, Utility Asset Management, Joint Use Asset Management, Utility Pole Inspection
Around and around it goes; the inventory audit cycle. Audits rely on you to start them as they do not happen by themselves. If you need a little motivation however, we can help, with five reasons to take control and take action with an inventory...
Topics: Regulatory, Utility Pole Inspection
Think for a moment about joint use contracts. These detail-filled documents are an important part of any utility pole owner’s everyday business, putting into writing the expectations and limitations of relationships with attaching companies. Whether...
Topics: Utility Pole Inspection
Utility poles: Out there in the wilderness and on roadsides they stand, stoically marching through small towns and big cities all over the U.S. They are invisible to most, unsightly to others, but typically out of mind. However, ignoring them can...