Tower and Telecom Engineering Projects
Tower engineering and telecom work are among our most common project types. We take on what a new tower site needs to get built: the civil site and yard design, the land use application, and the structural design of the tower foundation and supports. We also work on existing sites where the tower has to be replaced while it stays in service.
That last part is often the hard one. At Otter Rock on the Oregon coast the old tower couldn’t be taken down, because its antennas couldn’t go off the air for the time a demolition and rebuild would take. A new 150-foot tower was built around the old one, we designed the foundation system for both, and the broadcasts were interrupted only briefly while the antennas moved across.
Our tower engineering projects include work for broadcasters, wireless carriers and federal agencies. Clients have included Silke Communications, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and American Tower.
For the services behind this work, see Tower & Telecom Engineering.
Featured tower and telecom projects
Dead Mountain Tower Site
Near Westfir: survey, site design, land use and Forest Service coordination for a new 100-foot tower beside an existing compound on Dead Mountain.
Marys Peak Replacement Tower
Corvallis: a new 100-foot self-supporting steel tower replacing a decaying wood antenna pole on Marys Peak, taken through public land use approval and permit submittal.
Otter Rock Tower Replacement
Otter Rock: foundations for a new 150-foot tower built around a working one, so the antennas stayed on the air during the changeover.
Lyons Tower Failure and Replacement
Lyons: after a guyed tower collapsed into its neighbor, JBE planned a safe controlled demolition and permitted a single new 200-foot self-supporting tower.
Bald Hill Tower Replacement
West Salem: a 200-foot guyed tower with rusted-through legs replaced by a new self-supporting tower on a mat foundation we designed and then certified.
More tower engineering and telecom projects
- Blanton Heights, near Eugene: an antenna mast for KRVM-FM and microwave antennas for the Lane County Sheriff’s Office
- Grizzly Mountain, Prineville: re-analysis of a self-supporting tower for Day Wireless Systems
- Bend: tower analysis for Oregon Public Broadcasting
- Medford: analysis of the KORJ tower
- Healy Heights, Portland: building permit review for Oregon Public Broadcasting