Utility System Construction Sanford, Florida
A site is only as available as its weakest system.
And the weakest system is almost never the steel. It is the shelter HVAC that keeps the radios in their temperature range, or the generator that was last exercised eleven months ago. We work the structure, the shelter and the power as one scope, because that is how a site actually fails.
5301 Pen Ave, Suite 1001, Sanford, FL 32773 · Mon–Fri 7:00 AM–5:00 PM ET · 24+ states, Puerto Rico & the Caribbean
Plate 1 Marking and lighting, 300′ structure
- 1The obstruction beacon. Its lamps and its monitoring are an inspection item in their own right, and a lamp out is a reportable condition rather than a maintenance nuisance.
- 2The antenna mounts. Every appurtenance added here changes what the structure below it is carrying, which is why a modification starts with an analysis and not with steel.
- 3The legs. Reinforcement is designed by a structural engineer and installed member by member, each one photographed into the close-out package.
- 4The compound. Generator, transfer switch, fuel and shelter HVAC. Nothing above ground level matters if what is here has stopped working.
A worked illustration of a marking and lighting scheme rather than a drawing of a particular structure. What each level of work involves is set out in the five scopes.
A 1.0 Scopes of work
Five scopes, read by height
A tower job is described by where on the structure it happens, so this list is ordered the way the structure is: beacon at the top, compound at the bottom. Each scope ends in a document, which is the only thing about field work a website can actually show you.
300′ — obstruction lighting
The top of the structure and the top of this list. Lamps, photocell, monitoring and the alarm path that tells somebody a lamp has failed.
- AGL0–300′
Inspection & Maintenance
Scheduled structural and lighting inspection, guy tension and plumb, and the photo-documented report with a punch list that a site owner can act on.
- AGL60–300′
Antenna & Line Systems
Mount steel, antenna and line installation, hoisting, grounding and the sweep and PIM testing that proves the system before the crew leaves.
- AGL0–300′
Structural Modification
Leg, diagonal and foundation reinforcement carried out to a structural engineer's drawings, so a structure can carry a loading it was not built for.
- AGL0–300′
Tower Construction
New self-support, monopole and guyed structures, erected to an engineered rigging plan and handed over plumb, tensioned and documented.
- AGLGrade
Site Power & HVAC
Standby generators, automatic transfer switches, fuel systems and shelter HVAC — the systems at the base that decide whether the site stays on air.
A 2.0 One responsible party
Three trades, one site, one number to call
Most tower crews climb. Most mechanical contractors service the shelter. Very few do both, and almost nobody does both plus the generator.
The result is familiar to anyone who runs sites: an outage that takes three phone calls to diagnose because the structural crew says the steel is fine, the HVAC contractor says the unit is running, and the generator vendor says it started on test last month. Each of them is right about their own scope and nobody owns the site.
We are a full-service maintenance, repair and installation operation across telecommunications, HVAC and power generation. That sentence is the company's actual difference and it is worth more than any adjective on this page: when a site is down, one crew can look at the steel, the shelter and the power on the same visit, and one organisation is answerable for the result.
It also changes what a planned visit is worth. A crew already on site for a lighting inspection can exercise the generator, check the fuel, and pull the HVAC filters in the same mobilisation — and mobilisation, not labour, is the expensive part of a remote site.
The three systems
- The structure
- Steel, foundations, mounts, guys. Fails slowly and visibly, and is the one everybody inspects.
- The shelter HVAC
- Keeps radios inside their temperature range. Fails in July, at the worst possible moment, and takes the site with it.
- Standby power
- Generator, transfer switch, fuel. Fails silently, months before anyone finds out, and is discovered during the outage it was bought for.
A site stays up when all three are right. Buying them from three suppliers is how one of them ends up nobody's job.
A 3.0 Money
What it costs, published
Field work is bought by the crew day, so that is what is published. What moves the number is the crew's certification and size, the equipment it needs, and how far it travels — not the name of the task.
Two-man crew
C2$2,400–$3,200 / day
Two certified climbers with a truck, rigging and test gear. The standard unit for inspection, lighting work, minor line work and maintenance visits.
Structural and lighting inspection, plumb and tension, antenna swaps, sweep and PIM testing, generator and HVAC service visits.
Four-man crew
C4$4,100–$5,600 / day
Four climbers with a foreman, gin pole and full rigging. The unit for anything that lifts significant steel or works to an engineered rigging plan.
Structural modification, mount installation, heavy line work, erection, and any scope with a stamped rigging plan behind it.
Ground & power
GP$1,450–$2,300 / day
Compound work with no climb: generator service and commissioning, transfer switches, shelter HVAC, fuel systems, grounding and fencing.
Standby power, load-bank testing, HVAC replacement, grounding remediation, and everything at grade.
Rates are USD, exclude engineering, permitting, materials, crane and specialist equipment hire, travel outside the base market and any applicable tax, and are planning ranges for scoping a project rather than an offer or a quotation. Reviewed September 2026. Mobilisation, crane and specialist equipment hire, engineering and permitting are quoted separately, because folding them into a day rate is exactly how two bids stop being comparable. A figure for your site list comes from a written proposal against a defined scope of work. See the disclaimer.
The full rate page, with mobilisation, standby and unit rates
Send the site list
Telephone with the structures, what has to happen at each one, and when it has to be finished. We will tell you what crew it takes, how many days, what has to be engineered before anyone climbs, and what the close-out package will contain.
Atlantic Tower Services, Inc. · 5301 Pen Ave, Suite 1001, Sanford, FL 32773
A 4.0 Sequence
Seven stages, in the same order every time
The order is not a preference. Nothing is climbed before the analysis says the structure can take what is going on it, nothing is covered before it is photographed, and nothing is invoiced as complete before the close-out package is accepted. Three of these stages end at a point nobody works past.
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P1
Site list and scope
What structures, what has to happen at each, and the date it has to be finished by. Site data, previous reports and any existing analysis.
1–3 days -
P2Hold point
Structural analysis
Where loading changes, a structural engineer analyses the structure against the proposed configuration. Nobody climbs to add steel before this says what the steel is.
2–4 weeks -
P3Hold point
Proposal and award
Crew type and day count per site, mobilisation, equipment, and the deliverable named. Priced against a defined scope rather than an hourly guess.
3–5 days -
P4
Planning and rigging
Rigging plan, lift plan, site access, notifications, and the lighting notice where the obstruction lighting will be out of service.
1–2 weeks -
P5Hold point
Execution
The work, with a daily report and photographs taken as it goes rather than reconstructed afterwards. Weather thresholds stop the climb, not the schedule.
per scope -
P6
Test and verify
Sweep and PIM on line systems, plumb and tension on structures, load bank on generators, and a lighting function check before demobilisation.
same visit -
P7
Close-out
The package: photographs, test results, red-lines, punch list and sign-off, submitted in the format your QA process expects.
5–10 days
What happens at each stage, in detail · What is in the close-out package
A 5.0 Weather
Based in a hurricane state, which changes the work
Being in Florida is a material fact about this contractor rather than a line on a letterhead. Structures here are designed for wind speeds that most of the country never sees, and they spend every summer in salt air and afternoon lightning.
In practice that means three things. Structural loading gets reviewed rather than assumed, because a mount added in a mild climate is a different problem on a coast. Generators get exercised and load-banked rather than trusted, because the week they are needed is the week the grid is gone. And post-event assessment is a real scope of work with its own sequence, not an emergency improvisation.
It also means our crews stop for weather that crews elsewhere would work through. Lightning within range and wind above the threshold at height end the climb for the day. That costs a day. Not stopping costs considerably more.
After a named storm
- Ground-level assessment first: access, fencing, fuel, flooding, and whether the compound is safe to work in at all.
- Visual structural assessment from the ground before anybody climbs.
- Climb inspection where the ground assessment supports it, with photographs against each member.
- Power and HVAC restoration, which is usually what actually brings the site back.
- A written report per site, so an owner can prioritise a portfolio rather than react to whichever site called loudest.
The storm response page sets out the sequence, what we can and cannot promise about timing, and what to have ready before telephoning.
A 6.0 Standing behind it
Claims this page refuses to make
This site publishes no safety statistic, no EMR or incident rate, no licence number, no insurance limit, no certification registry number, no carrier or client name, no logo wall, no crew headcount, no count of sites completed and no years-in-business figure.
Not because they do not exist — a contractor working for carriers has all of them — but because a number on a marketing page is not evidence. Anyone can print a TRIR. What matters is the certificate of insurance naming your project, the current safety programme, and the references you can telephone, and all three of those are things we send on request rather than things we publish to an audience that cannot check them.
What is here instead is checkable: a legal name you can look up, an address in Sanford with a suite number, a telephone number answered during working hours, a published rate structure with a review date, a named document for every scope, and a stated set of conditions under which we stop work.
Ask and you will get the rest: certificates of insurance, the safety programme, climber certification records, references, and W-9 or vendor-registration paperwork. Telephone (407) 423-9071.
Everything in writing, before you ask
The documents most contractors bury in a footer are linked here on purpose.
All seven are also in the footer of every page on this site.