5.27.2012

The Story of Telecommunication Towers

By Kapil Ochani


Telecommunication towers have helped pace up the process of development. It is interesting to know how these towers are set up.

Telecommunication towers have flipped the way things are seen and perceived in today's world. They have spurted up the developmental process with their usage in the fields of mobile, internet, radio and television to broadcast signals for navigation and keep the process of communication on a roll. Some of the most common types of telecommunication towers may include flood light towers, power transmission towers, TV towers and the MWs. While some of the towers are meant for ground installations, others are more suitable to be mounted atop of buildings.

Some other types of telecommunication towers may include the towers meant for roof top mountings or RFT, Triangular Towers, towers meant for ground base application or GBT, Square towers, Angular Towers and Tubular Towers. These tower manufacturing companies go deep into details to know everything that the customers expect the towers to be like and then according to the given directions make tailor made towers keeping the specific requirements in mind. Some of the details that the manufacturing companies ask for include the height of the tower, the space available, the Antenna loading, wind speed application, twist and the sway required as well as information about some other facilities.

Before the companies get down to design the telecommunication towers to suit the need of the clients, there are also several other investigation conducted. Out of these investigations, one of the most prominent is that of the soil investigation which is conducted at the site so as to check the type of soil. This is very important because soil investigation decides the type of tower design. The foundation design of the telecommunication tower is based on the type of soil available at the site. The foundation is any tower is extremely important for its up keep. Some of the things that can be easily known just by assessing the soil include the tower of the height that the soil can allow, the water table, condition of soil and the desired characteristics which can be expected soil to pave way for a strong and a safe foundation of tower. This also requires drilling of the soil to ascertain the samples. These samples are then assessed in the laboratories for the final result which results in the soil report.

Once the details of soil are clear, the engineers sit down and design the foundation of the tower. This design is then sent for the approval by the concerned authorities.

Only after the design is passed, the companies start constructing the towers. An ideal concrete mixture is formed to build the telecommunication tower. These towers form the basis of the communication process that takes place within the nation and even across borders.




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