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You get the make ready estimate back and the number doesn't make sense. A dozen pole replacements on a 200-pole project. Rearrangement costs from three existing attachers. Engineering fees on top of engineering fees. The total is enough to blow up your budget, reroute the project, or kill it entirely. Make ready is one of the most consequential steps in pole attachment work, and it's also one of the most misunderstood. For broadband deployers racing against BEAD milestones, O

January is fast approaching, which means that the release of Katapult Pro Version 3.0 is right around the corner! This new code has been...

This blog post is a piece of Katapult history, but it's not the most up-to-date reference on our software and services. Katapult Pro is...

One of our highest priorities at Katapult is to have a thriving culture full of healthy people, which means we are always looking to find...

This blog post is a piece of Katapult history, but it's not the most up-to-date projection of our company goals and trajectory. For more information about local services, check out our Engineering Services page. Katapult Pro is a software solution that addresses the major challenges of the distribution industry to help engineering teams focus on bringing reliable utilities to people across the country. 1) Put Culture First. One of the most important factors in your organi

Nearly two years ago, we reviewed pole loading platforms O-Calc Pro, SPIDAcalc, and PoleForeman based on their performance, controls,...

Pole loading analysis is a beautiful thing. With all the ongoing small cell projects for 5G wireless, fiber networks powering gigabit...

For my last article, I got a chance to learn a bit more about LiDAR and how our team collected time-of-flight data in the early 2000s....

A vendor just pitched you a LiDAR solution. The demo was impressive—aerial footage, dense point clouds, millions of data points captured per second. The technology clearly works. The question isn't whether LiDAR is powerful. It obviously is. The question is whether it's the right tool for your specific project, your budget, and the deliverables your clients actually need. We've been asking that question since the early 2000s. Katapult Engineering purchased a Riegl terrestrial

This week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Zach Carlson, one of our newest project managers at Katapult Engineering. We took some...