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Site Surveys & Build Planning

Know the site before you build it

Most project overruns are decided before anyone breaks ground, in the gap between what the drawings say and what the building is. We run the RF site survey, the pathway and power checks and the robotics readiness walk, model what you are planning against what we find, and hand you a report a contractor can build from.

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Example survey

What an RF and wireless site survey turns up

Switch between the plan as drawn and the site as measured, then turn on each survey layer to see the kinds of findings it produces.

Example site

Darker areas have stronger signal. Hatched areas are gaps.

What the survey found

  • A seventh racking row, a mezzanine and a cold room, none of them on the drawings.

RF coverage

  • Strong coverage in the open floor and offices.
  • A dead zone behind the new mezzanine, where the drawings show open floor.
  • Weak coverage inside the cold room, which is not on the drawings at all.

Illustrative example. Every survey is scoped to the site and what you plan to build.

What goes wrong without one

Three failures that all start the same way

Each of these is a decision made on information nobody verified. They surface late, when the options are expensive and the schedule has no room.

  • The estimate becomes the budget

    Priced from drawings

    Work gets priced from as-built drawings that stopped matching the building years ago. The gap surfaces as change orders once crews are already on site and the schedule has no slack left.

    With Trilogy NextGen

    We price from measurements taken in the building. Anything we cannot verify is listed as an open risk, with what it would take to close it, so the price you approve shows its unknowns.

  • Coverage gaps found at commissioning

    Discovered at handover

    Dead zones turn up after radios are mounted, cable is pulled, and the installation crew has demobilized. Fixing them means bringing everyone back to a site that has resumed production.

    With Trilogy NextGen

    Coverage is measured and modeled before the design is fixed, and measured again after commissioning. Gaps are found while they are still cheap to fix.

  • A phasing plan the plant cannot honor

    Assumed windows

    Sequencing built on assumed shutdown windows collapses the first time operations needs the line back. The build then proceeds in whatever order it can, which is rarely the efficient one.

    With Trilogy NextGen

    We confirm the windows with the people who own them before the sequence is written, and build the plan around the constraints that will not move.

What we survey

Survey types

Each survey uses different instruments and standards, so they are scoped and quoted separately. Most projects need several.

What are you planning?

Pick a project type to see which surveys it usually needs.

  • Multi-phase and brownfield sequencing

    Most industrial work happens in a building that cannot stop. We survey what has to keep running, where crews can and cannot go, and which shutdown windows are real, then sequence the build around them.

  • RF baseline and interference

    Before anything is designed, we measure what is already in the air: noise floor, spectrum occupancy, and the existing systems you will be sharing a site with. Finding interference now avoids a redesign later.

  • Cellular and carrier coverage

    How far carrier signal reaches inside the building, measured floor by floor, and where it dies. The input to any decision about in-building systems or whether you need your own network.

  • Private 5G and LTE

    Coverage modeled against your real materials and racking, plus the spectrum route available at that location. We also identify the registration the band requires, including where the rules call for a certified installer to file with the spectrum coordinator.

  • Emergency and public safety communications

    In-building coverage for responder radio, mass notification reach, and the comms your own emergency procedures assume. Codes here are set by the authority having jurisdiction and are re-tested on a cycle, so we survey against the standard your AHJ has adopted and tell you where you stand.

  • Fiber, pathway, and power

    Conduit routes and how much capacity is left in them, riser and pathway constraints, closet and MDF locations, available electrical capacity, and what has to be upgraded before anything gets mounted.

  • Robotics and AMR readiness

    Floor flatness and transitions, aisle and turning clearances, dock and door geometry, charging locations, and the handover zones between coverage cells where a moving machine is most likely to drop its link.

  • Safety and hazard classification

    Classified areas, confined spaces, hot work restrictions, lockout and tagout boundaries, and access routes. This determines what equipment is permitted where, and it changes the cost and the schedule.

  • Post-deployment validation

    After commissioning we walk the site again and measure the delivered system against the design, so acceptance is based on measured results.

What you get

The survey report

The report is written so whoever does the work can build from it, including a contractor who is not us. Pick a section to see what it contains.

Site survey reportSample

Coverage maps

Measured coverage at the frequencies that matter for the system being planned, floor by floor.

How it works

From drawings to a buildable plan

  1. 1

    Scope and desk study

    We start with your drawings, as-builts, and prior survey work, and with the list of what has to keep running. This decides what we need to measure on site and what we already know.

  2. 2

    On-site measurement

    Our team takes RF measurements, verifies pathway and power, checks structure and mounting, and photographs each location.

  3. 3

    Analysis and modeling

    We turn the measurements into coverage models, a phasing plan, a bill of materials and a risk register.

  4. 4

    Report and handoff

    You get a report a contractor can build from, and we walk you through it. If we also do the build, the report becomes our scope.

Where it leads

The survey is the front end of the rest of the stack

A survey is useful on its own, and you are welcome to take the report elsewhere. It is most useful when it feeds a deployment, because then the measurements and the build are the same team's responsibility.

  • Private cellular networks

    The RF baseline and coverage model are the inputs to a private LTE or 5G design. Surveying first is what makes radio count and spectrum route a calculation instead of a guess.

    Private cellular networks

  • Robotics and automation

    Floor, clearance, dock geometry and handover findings decide whether a fleet can run the routes you want, and what has to change first.

    Robotics and automation

  • Business-critical communications

    Responder coverage and in-building radio findings set the scope for push-to-talk, dispatch and notification systems that have to work everywhere on site.

    Business-critical communications

Build your plan

Not sure which survey the project needs?

Pick your industry and what is slowing you down. The fit finder shows which surveys usually come first and what they feed into.

Build your plan

Tell us what you are planning to build

Send us the site, the footprint, and what has to keep running while work happens. We will tell you which surveys the project needs and what it takes to do them.

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