Condemned Pole Replacement Program - Aerial

Tangibl completed a design package for replacement of 900+ distribution wood poles. The poles had already been condemned as part of a routine pole inspection program at the client utility.

The poles were distributed throughout town and country areas in the utility’s service territory. They included all sizes and classes, from 34.5kV subtransmission with 12.47kV distribution underbuild, to service poles and guy stubs. Poles were located on public highway and private property.

The program provided our client the opportunity to complete a major part of their asset replacement program. Our work involved field visits with digital photography, creation of layout sketches, work orders and discrepancy sheets consistent with the utility’s design and construction standards. In addition to providing work order packages, we were charged with identifying conflicts with other utilities. The joint ownership agreement with the telecommunications utility was administered, with attention paid to “illegal” attachments to solely owned poles. The program was complicated by an almost random distribution of poles throughout the service territory, the need for manual processes to administer the joint ownership agreement, and the occasional recalcitrant property owner.

Drawing deliverables were provided both on paper and electronically in the client’s CAD format. Discrepancy reports addressing third-party attachments to solely owned poles or field data inconsistencies were prepared when required. On occasion, minor re-engineering of facilities on adjacent poles was performed (e.g., replacement of open-wire secondaries, pole-to-pole guys, etc.).