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Consulting
Services
- Wireless microwave networks
- High-speed signal
propagation
- Path calculations and link
evaluations
- Lightning protection and
tower grounding
- Site evaluations and
acquisitions
- Fall-arrest and accident
investigations
- Public consultations
pertaining to tower site development
A
few of our most recent consulting
contracts
- Investigation of a newly
designed wireless microwave network, built and
designed by others, that failed to link all 17
sites together. This wireless network operated
in the licensed 18 GHZ spectrum and included 13
newly erected communication towers built for
that purpose. The re-designed network by
Alpha-Beta included 2 additional towers to
ensured reliable signal propagation of 50 - 100
Mbps between a total of 19 sites.
- Design of a large wireless
high-speed microwave network in Ontario linking
municipalities together with a continues data
throughput of 100 Mbps; This Point-to-Point
system required co-location on 2 existing
communication towers and the construction of 5
new towers,
- As consultants to
NOTRA,
we developed the standard for grounding
communication sites and towers for the Canadian
Coast Guard. This document titled Canadian
Coast Guard MCTS Communication Tower and Site
Lightning Protection and Grounding
Standards addressed soil resistivity
measurements, perimeter grounding of towers and
buildings, antenna and cable grounding,
grounding inside communication buildings or
rooms and other related issues.
- Also as consultants to
NOTRA,
we wrote the overall technical specifications
and guidelines for the procurement of new
communication towers for the Canadian Coast
Guard, liaised with the various regions and
discussed site-specific considerations with
regional engineers and managers. We submitted
our completed report in early 2008, titled
Canadian Coast Guard Marine Communications
and Traffic Services Technical Statement of
Requirements for Communication
Towers.
- Also as consultants to
NOTRA,
we were asked to submit a report detailing a
refurbishing program for the maintenance, repair
and replacement of existing communication towers
of the Canadian Coast Guard. This life-cycle
plan assumed an average useful life span of
between 25-40 years for communication towers,
depending on type, region, construction and
other variables. It included environmental
consideration, access to remote locations, costs
and the impact new,
technical innovations might have. The
Canadian Coast Guard Marine Communications
and Traffic Services Tower Assets Life Cycle
Refurbishment report we compiled was to
be used as a general standard for managing the
tower infrastructures within the Canadian Coast
Guard.
- Also as consultants to
NOTRA,
we developed the Canadian Coast Guard Fall
Protection Program. We used their
existing documentation, researched, amended and
enhanced it and added sections to address new
safety requirements as mandated by the latest
statutes, acts, regulations and standards. We
included extensive sections on safety
requirements when working on ships as it
pertains to the work aloft. This included
working on masts, stacks, elevated platforms, on
ladders, superstructures, gangways, etc. and
detailed the applicable sections of the Canada
Labour Code, Part II, the Canada Shipping Act,
Marine Occupational Health & Safety, the
Loss Control Program, Fleet Safety and Security
Manual and others. In order to write a GAP
Analysis that identified where the ship's safety
standards are today versus where they should be,
we visited ships belonging to the Canadian Coast
Guard in St. Johns, Newfoundland and in
Victoria, British Columbia. We also amended the
fall protection program for land-based
installations, working at heights on the Coast
Guard's communication towers and elevated
structures. This included CSA equipment
standards, safe tower climbing procedures, tower
rescue scenarios, the need for proper safety
equipment inspections and storage, as well as
the general theory governing Fall prevention,
Fall protection and Fall arrest.