TowerXchange: Where does ASE Structure Design fit in the tower industry?
Umesh M Pujara, Managing Director, ASE Structure Design Pvt. Ltd.:
ASE Structure Design has over ten years experience in telecom infrastructure design, having completed drawings for more than 15,000 sites.
ASE is an Indo-Belgian joint venture between Pujara Group, Arch & Teco Group and Intrabel BVBA, with more than 50 skilled Civil and Mechanical CAD Engineers in the team.
While mobile network operators and towercos seldom have a direct relationship with companies providing structural design drawings, companies such as ASE provide an invaluable service to architects and tower construction subcontractors.
ASE has considerable experience of creating drawings for Multi Operator Pylons, and of designs to upgrade single tenant towers to have capacity for multiple tenants. ASE has experience in a wide variety of sites.
ASE also has experience of designs for 3G and LTE technology upgrades, as well as fibre rollout, MEP drawings and GIS for fibre and underground copper cables.
TowerXchange: What specific services does ASE provide to the tower industry?
Umesh M Pujara, Managing Director, ASE Structure Design Pvt. Ltd.:
Preliminary design which describes the proposed tower structure with antennas and cabinets
Building permit document
Radiation hazard document
Detailed design documents - detailed construction and fabrication drawings given to contractors for construction
‘As built’ drawings - these drawings are prepared with redlines given by the clients after completion of the tower site
The above design documents are either prepared from scratch or with given inputs either old or latest.
TowerXchange: What are the key international standards for telecom tower design and what are the critical health and safety considerations when designing a tower?
Umesh M Pujara, Managing Director, ASE Structure Design Pvt. Ltd.:
There are various International Standards for telecom tower design such as ASCE, BS, Eurocode & ETSI, ASTM & TIA/EIA. We use standards as per client’s specifications.
For Health and Safety; radiation, thermal effect, access protection and earthing are also taken care of as per the client’s specification.
TowerXchange: What can you tell us about the turnaround time and cost of the drawings typically required by the tower industry?
Umesh M Pujara, Managing Director, ASE Structure Design Pvt. Ltd.:
The turnaround time and cost of the drawings differ project to project based on the complexity. In general, turnaround time varies from one working day for a preliminary design to five working days for a complex detailed design. Being in India our clients in other parts of the globe get back their files overnight.
