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 measure the site, model what you are planning against what we find, and hand you a report a contractor can build from.
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. Where something cannot be verified, it is named as an open risk with what it would take to close it, so the number you approve is a number with its unknowns declared.
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 the fix is still a line on a drawing.
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
Nine scopes, depending on what you are about to build
These are different instruments, different standards and different readers, so they are quoted separately. Most projects need several, and a phased industrial build usually needs most of them.
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. Interference found now is a design decision. Found later it is a change order.
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
The survey most projects skip. After commissioning we walk the site again and measure the delivered result against the design, so acceptance is a measurement, not an assurance.
What you get
A report, not an opinion
The survey report is the product. It is written to be handed to whoever does the work, including a contractor who is not us.
- Measured coverage maps at the frequencies that matter to the system being planned
- Spectrum occupancy and interference findings, with the sources identified where we can locate them
- Pathway and conduit inventory, including capacity still available in each route
- Electrical capacity findings, panel and closet locations, and required upgrades
- Structural and mounting notes with a photographic log tied to locations
- A phasing plan mapped to confirmed shutdown windows
- Hazard classification and access constraints that govern how crews can work
- A bill of materials and an effort estimate built from what was measured
- Open risks, named individually, with what it would take to close each one
How it works
From drawings to a buildable plan
- 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
On-site measurement
Our team walks the site with instruments, not a clipboard. RF measurements, pathway and power verification, structural checks, and a photographic record tied to locations.
- 3
Analysis and modeling
Measurements become coverage models, a phasing sequence, a bill of materials, and a risk register. This is where the survey becomes a plan.
- 4
Report and handoff
You get a document a contractor can build from, and a walkthrough of it. If we are doing the build, it becomes our own scope, which is a useful discipline on the accuracy of the report.
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 networksRobotics 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 automationBusiness-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
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.