Aerial & underground construction
Outside plant is where fiber projects gain or lose their schedule. Placement, strand, conduit and vault work done properly makes everything downstream — splicing, testing, acceptance — straightforward.
Capability
From the pole line to the vault
We place cable on poles and in the ground, and we handle the hardware that keeps it there. Where a scope needs a licensed subtrade — boring rigs, major restoration, traffic control beyond our own — we say so at quote stage and coordinate it openly rather than burying it.
Aerial
- Strand placement and tensioning
- Lashing of fiber and coax to existing or new strand
- Pole line hardware — anchors, guys, down-guys, bolts
- Overlash onto existing plant
- Aerial closures, snowshoes and slack storage
- Make-ready support and pole attachment coordination
Underground
- Conduit placement, innerduct and micro-duct
- Cable pulling and blowing with tension monitoring
- Vaults, handholes and pedestals — setting and rework
- Directional boring support and receiving pits
- Trenching and restoration for short runs
- Locates — PA One Call placed before excavation, every time
The parts people forget to price
Slack storage. Bend radius at every transition. Whether the vault actually has room for the closure you specified. Restoration to the satisfaction of the municipality rather than the satisfaction of the crew. These are what turn a clean footage number into a change order, so we raise them at the walk rather than at the invoice.
In the field
Underground work nobody sees until it fails
A vault or handhole gets opened once a year, if that — until something goes wrong. Slack stored properly, closures labelled, bend radius respected: it costs nothing extra to do it right the first time, and a great deal to fix it later.
In the field
What this work looks like
Frequently asked questions
Do you handle permits and make-ready?
We confirm and coordinate them. Requirements differ sharply between Philadelphia, the surrounding PA counties and the NJ, DE and MD municipalities, and pole attachments involve the pole owner on their own timeline. We will tell you honestly what is in our control and what is not.
Can you do directional boring?
We support bores — receiving pits, duct, pulling and splicing — and coordinate licensed boring subcontractors where the scope needs a rig. We do not claim capability we do not self-perform; you will always know who is doing what.
How is aerial work priced?
Usually per foot for lashing and placement, with pole hardware and closures itemised separately. Make-ready is almost always a separate line, because its cost and timing sit with the pole owner rather than with us.
Do you work in live traffic?
Yes, with an appropriate traffic control plan. Where the right-of-way requires certified flagging or lane closures beyond our own capability, that is quoted as a separate line rather than absorbed and skimped on.
Send us the scope. We will send back a number.
Drawings, a footage count or a rough description — whatever you have. We will tell you what we can self-perform, what it costs and when we can mobilise.