Tagged: Telecommunications
Geotechnical Engineering in the 21st Century
September 26, 2017
Do you have the latest smart phone? Have you checked out the new crowd-sourcing app or trending Twitter hashtag? Change is fast-paced these days. Contrast that for a moment with geotechnical engineering. For more than …
Read MoreWe have an App for that: Bringing Efficiency to Process
September 24, 2017
Saving time and money on your next environmental site assessment just got a little easier. Terracon’s new Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) Field App allows assessors to be more efficient while conducting the site reconnaissance and …
Read MoreUsing Collaboration and Communication to Reduce Geotechnical Project Risk
August 25, 2017
One of today’s buzzwords is “Risk.” We all have experience with the prime example of risk and risk mitigation: insurance. Simply stated, insurance mitigates financial risk by paying some money to make sure that we …
Read MoreOlathe
August 20, 2017
Olathe, Kan. is home to our national headquarters. From this office, our talented professionals provide a wide-variety of services including environmental, facilities, geotechnical, and materials consulting engineering services and support. Our employee-owners support clients and …
Read MoreStructural Steel and Welding Inspection – A Critical Service for Building Construction
August 20, 2017
Structural steel and welding inspection is a critical service for building construction. Poor welding or misalignment of steel components can adversely affect the structural performance or safety of a building. This is important for all …
Read MoreThe Age of the Drone: How Unmanned Aircraft Systems Expand Building Investigation Boundaries
July 21, 2017
When a window is too high to reach, a building is difficult to access by scaffolding, or a facility is too large to survey—call in the drones! The introduction of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), …
Read MoreCell Tower Welding Inspection Requires Expertise
June 19, 2017
It’s not every day you get to climb a cell tower, and if you are afraid of heights this is not the job for you! Terracon was recently retained by Wirenet Company to perform a …
Read MoreWhen it Comes to Geotechnical Exploration: Know Before You Explore
April 13, 2016
Terracon is applying big data concepts using our vast amount of historical and publicly available data regarding the subsurface to add an important first step in our geotechnical site characterization for project sites. We are …
Read MoreSecuring the Facility: Historic Data Center Roof Reconfiguration
July 29, 2015
When you’re responsible for housing the data center operations for the Southeast’s largest concentration of telecommunications companies, the words “leaky roof” are likely to cause you more than just a little anxiety. So when a …
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