Joint Use Permit Administration: Ensuring Compliance and Safety
End-to-End Permitting Solutions for Utilities
Alpine simplifies joint use permitting for utilities managing thousands or even millions of poles—turning complex workflows into clear, compliant processes you can trust.
We serve as a trusted extension of your permitting operation, taking time-consuming requests off your hands so that you can focus on your core mission of delivering power to your customers. We offer a scalable, compliant, and easily audited workflow with full visibility for your attachers to manage their development timelines.
Simplify the Complex with a Single Workflow Partner
Say Goodbye to Permit Backlogs
With Alpine as your joint use permitting partner, your utility can handle high volumes of requests—without compromising compliance or accuracy. Whether you’re responding to a broadband expansion or managing ongoing third-party attachers, Alpine scales alongside your demand.
End-to-End Support—From Intake to Billing
Alpine eliminates the complexity multi-party permit processes—compliant, scalable permitting in one turnkey partner.
Intake and review
We scrutinize each application for completeness, establish communication channels, and verify early compliance with pole standards and codes.
Field work
We conduct on-site measurements and inspections to support accurate engineering review and ensure new attachment requests meet all utility and safety standards.
Permit Package Prep and Submission
The package is submitted complete with pole data sheets, field photos, engineering drawings, any utility-specific forms, compliance forms, and more.
Third-party Billing and Revenue Assurance
We keep the books balanced through attachment inventory matching, billing integration, and any necessary dispute resolution.
Wind Loading
We determine whether telecom or broadband cables will compromise pole stability, laterally, vertically, or horizontally.
Make-Ready Assessment
Expert make-ready design services, creating precise, compliant layouts for poles and attachments that prioritize safety, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Real-Time Tracking and Full Oversight with Permit Tracker
Alpine’s Permit Tracker portal gives you full transparency into every stage of the permit process. The Tracker gives you at a glance…
- live status tracking of any individual permit application
- the ability to control access to a permit’s status, enabling full transparency
- audit histories for a customer or pole.
The result: a more easily audited workflow than ever before.
NESC Compliance Isn’t Optional—It’s Built In
Joint-use poles with improperly installed attachments can be a danger to technicians and a financial and legal risk to your utility.
That’s why Alpine takes a compliance-first approach to every attachment.
We put each permit application through an internal review and structural analysis, while automated checks alert us to missing data or non-compliant requests. Everything is documented with thorough audit trails recording the safety steps we’ve taken to keep a permit compliant.
Additionally, post-construction, we conduct a field inspection to review every attachment made to ensure it is built according to permit and NESC guidelines. If not, we notify the relevant attacher and work with them to remedy violations to come into compliance.
Why Work with Alpine?
Serving some of America’s largest utilities and telecommunications companies for more than 40 years, Alpine has the experience, trust, and track record that competitors cannot match.
In that time, we’ve audited millions of poles, completed tens of thousands of attachment permits, and recovered millions of dollars in revenue for utility pole owners. We are currently the exclusive permit administrator for over 2 million poles throughout the country.
Our long-time customers know us as the smart, capable pole support professionals they trust to keep their power customers connected and their attachers compliant.
