Lawrence North and David Lowe formed the Company in 1982 as
Advance Concrete performing mainly concrete work.
The Company changed its name to Lowe-North Construction
in 1984 during an expansion to specialize in the complete
spectrum of telecommunication work.
Lowe-North Construction incorporated in 1987.
Lowe-North Construction, Inc. has extensive experience in site
construction and tower erection.
Our specialized background includes installation of
telecommunication, broadcasting, radar facilities and
associated work.
Lowe-North’s own forces perform the majority of the work
required for a turnkey project in order to maintain a high
quality of work.
This work includes, but is not limited to:
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Earth work and road construction
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Grounding systems
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Concrete foundations
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Tower erection
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Pre-cast shelter placement
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Construction of equipment
buildings
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Radio equipment cabinet
placement, internal wiring, cabling
& upgrade kit installation
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AC/DC electrical & telco installation
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Site assessment & tower mapping
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Tower reinforcement
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Monopole tower access port
installation
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Antenna installation
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Coaxial cable connection
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Wave guide installations
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Sweep testing
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Radome construction & installation
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Fence construction
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Structural steel platform manufacturing & custom fabrication
work for telecommunication & broadcast sites
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Broadcasting equipment cabinet placement, internal power,
telco & alarm wiring
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Microwave Installation
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The Company has crews specializing in mobile communication
equipment installations.
Lowe-North completed swapping out Lucent brand
equipment on over 350 Sprint sites in the LA market.
Other previous work includes additional large programs
of performing site and concrete pad improvements.
Nortel and Motorola equipment installations,
replacements and/or upgrades, structural steel platform
expansion and improvement work and electrical and telco
retrofit work.
Lowe-North is actively involved in site and/or tower
construction activities throughout the United States for
various telecommunication companies.
The list of companies Lowe-North has worked with or is
currently working includes, but is not limited to Alamosa,
AT&T/Bechtel, Black & Veatch, Cingular, Cricket
Communications, Crown Castle, Mactec Engineering, Nextel
Communications, Powertel/Pacific 17, SBA Communications,
Spectrasite, Lucent Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile and U.S.
Cellular.
In 2005, Lowe-North began installing broadcasting sites
nationwide for Overland Contracting (an affiliate of Black &
Veatch Corporation).
Lowe-North continued to build these sites in subsequent
phases of the same program and has built 60 sites to date.
The site consist of both tenant finish and new pre-cast
shelter sites.
The work includes installing concrete, electrical, fence,
ice-bridge, ice shields, GPS antennas, KU satellite dishes,
tenant finish work and Rohde & Schwartz broadcasting
equipment. The
site locations range from downtown skyscraper rooftop sites to
remote and sometimes difficult to access mountaintop sites.
In addition, Lowe-North has an ongoing contract with the U.S.
Government for construction of the NEXRAD Doppler weather
radar forecasting system.
To date, the Company has constructed more than 90
NEXRAD sites and erected over 165 NEXRAD towers across United
States and internationally.
Lowe-North also completed a follow-up program with
Powerware for additional NEXRAD site upgrade construction and
setting TPMS buildings.
The Company continues to build new NEXRAD and
commercial weather radar sites and towers whenever and
wherever the U.S. Government, television stations or radio
stations have a need.
Call Lowe-North today at (913) 686-3080 for additional
information and to find out how Lowe-North can help your
Company meet your telecommunication or radar site and tower
construction needs.
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