Field Engineering & Permit Drafting
Our Southeastern engineering team delivers high-precision OSP and permitting solutions engineered to scale with your network deployment.
Broadband & Telecom Field Engineering
TESINC provides high-fidelity aerial and underground field engineering for FTTH, GPON, and HFC deployments. Our teams utilize GPS-synced tools to capture construction-ready data in Katapult Pro, KMZ, or custom GIS formats, ensuring accuracy from the first walkout. From OSP verification to Make Ready surveys, we deliver the precision required for large-scale Southeastern builds.
Core Capabilities:
OSP Walkout & Verification: Validating existing infrastructure to prevent routing errors.
Strand & Trench Mapping: High-precision routing for aerial and underground deployments.
Pole Sticking & Make Ready: Comprehensive height-of-attachment and safety-space data collection.
MDU & As-Built Surveys: Final-build documentation.
Permit Drafting & Jurisdictional Coordination
We bridge the gap between engineering and construction with permit-ready documentation designed to pass jurisdictional review on the first try. Specializing in NCDOT, SCDOT, GDOT, and FDOT standards, our CAD team utilizes AutoCAD and MicroStation to produce fully compliant submittals. Our robust QC process identifies rejection points early, ensuring seamless Right-of-Way (ROW) and encroachment approvals across the Southeast.
Permit Specializations:
DOT Encroachments: Plan and profile drafting tailored to specific state DOT templates.
Municipal ROW: Navigating city and county requirements for urban deployments.
Railroad & Bridge: Specialized coordination for high-complexity crossings.
Private Easements: Coordination for private property and utility-owned infrastructure.
Specialist Capabilities
Two more service lines sit alongside the work above, and both have their own page.
Make Ready Engineering & Pole Loading Analysis
Aerial routes need pole work before they need construction crews. We survey every pole in the path, run structural loading analysis to NESC, identify the corrective work each structure needs, and assemble the attachment package the pole owner will accept — then coordinate across the investor-owned utility, the electric cooperative, the municipal system and the incumbent telephone company that a single mile can cross.
Make ready engineering and pole loading analysis →
HFC & High Split Upgrade Engineering
Most engineering firms market fiber. We work coax plant fluently, and on upgrade programs documentation quality is what decides the schedule. We map and verify HFC plant, document what has to change to support a mid split or high split, and support node split and DAA migrations with field data that matches the plant in the ground.
HFC and high split upgrade engineering →
Where We Work
We are based in Commerce, Georgia and work across the southeastern United States. Every state runs its own permitting process, its own portal and its own review queue — these pages cover what a build actually has to clear in each one.
- Georgia — GDOT permitting and fiber walkout
- Alabama — ALDOT permitting and fiber walkout
- North Carolina — NCDOT encroachment and fiber walkout
- South Carolina — SCDOT encroachment and fiber walkout
- Florida — FDOT One-Stop Permitting and fiber walkout
How We Engage
Deliverables come back in the formats your team already works in — Katapult Pro, KMZ, custom GIS, AutoCAD and MicroStation — so our output drops into your workflow instead of creating a second one.
As the bench on a grant-funded program. BEAD, RDOF, E-ACAM and state broadband awards come with construction windows that do not move. We carry field engineering and permit drafting for a defined footprint so the prime can hold its schedule, and we can add crews as a program expands rather than becoming the constraint on it.
As overflow capacity for another engineering firm. If your bench is full, we can take a segment of the work to your standards and your formats. Consistent documentation across crews is the whole point — a long route should read like one dataset, not like the work of nine different teams.
As the field engineering arm of an upgrade program. For operators and the primes running their HFC upgrades, we handle the mapping, verification and documentation that determine whether construction hits its dates.
Tell us the route, the plant miles or the footprint, and we will scope it.
Reference: DOT utility permit requirements across Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama and Florida — the system, the form and the filing trap in each state, plus the FCC pole attachment and make-ready timelines that run alongside them.
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