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Beyond Blueprints: Making Telecom Structures Comprehensible Through Visualisations

Modern telecom structures, like cell towers and antennas, are incredibly complex. They are not just steel and concrete, they are dynamic systems built to handle strong winds and house sophisticated equipment. Understanding their detailed designs, predicting how they will behave, and managing them over time is a huge challenge. Visualisation software aims to simplify these

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Supporting the Solar Shift, One Roof at a Time

As solar energy continues to gain traction, more rooftops are being transformed into mini power stations. But beneath every successful solar installation lies a crucial step that often goes unnoticed: structural calculations. Before a single panel is mounted, it’s essential to understand how the added loads, both dead and live loads will interact with the

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Strengthening existing telecommunication lattice towers using fibre reinforced polymers (FRP)

The increasing sizes of telecommunication antennas mean increasing load demands on existing towers. In many cases strengthening of existing towers is unavoidable. The common strengthening method of introducing additional members has some significant disadvantages such as weight and the windage area increase. An alternative strengthening method being investigated is the strengthening of tower legs or

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The Impact of Telecom Tower Deflection on Signal Quality

In our modern communication, where our interconnected world relies on seamless signal transmission, telecom towers are the unsung heroes of our digital age, enabling the flow of data that keeps us connected. At the heart of this reliability lies the structural integrity of telecom towers, which bear the weight of antennas and facilitate the transmission

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Streamlining Telecom Structure Surveys with Lidar Technology

In the realm of telecom infrastructure development, precision and efficiency are paramount. Traditional methods of surveying telecom structures have undergone a revolutionary transformation with the advent of Lidar technology. Lidar, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, utilises laser beams to measure distances and create detailed 3D models of objects and environments. While previously used

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Impact of Feeder Arrangement

Feeder cables can FAIL a lattice tower, through exceeding the structural utilisation capacity, if not arranged thoughtfully. Carefully planned feeder arrangement in a simple system can reduce the utilisation of the lattice tower legs by 15% and reduce the tower brace utilisation by nearly 40%! Without adequate forethought, a telecommunication system with 16 feeder cables

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Detailed Structural Design and Analysis of Lattice (GDC)

Great to see one of our detailed engineering design schemes successfully fabricated, delivered to site, and ready to be installed. We are finding that an increasing number of towers (lattice and monopoles), standard or bespoke are being sanctioned to meet growing demand from telecommunications and meteorological service. These towers require expert structural engineering to ensure

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