Alaska’s Source Group engineering team provides the support required for preliminary planning, designing, permitting through to as-built documentation as well as project management for our customer’s projects.
Our in-house, multidisciplinary capability combined with decades of experience provides an efficient process for customers who place a premium on accuracy and productivity. 
By partnering engineering with our construction and splicing resources, we have the capabilities to offer a true turn-key fiber optic, copper, and coax cabling solution.
Engineering support services allows a client to realize a greater ROI on building network facilities.
Alaska’s Source Group provides the following support services:
Feasibility Study
- Alaska’s Source Group provides a feasibility study to support a business case. The study is based upon field observations, record research and years of experience. This study will give a proposal cost for the project based on our knowledge and experience. The study is based on the client’s scope of work or requirements.
- Alaska’s Source Group will design the route in the most economical fashion while keeping to industry standards and the customer’s needs both immediate and future.
Design
Alaska’s Source Group is a leader in the design and implementation of fiber networks for various telecommunication companies, public utilities, governmental entities and private entities.
We offer the following:
- Fiber optic, copper, and coax communications network,transmission, and system designs
- Outside plant (OSP) design (via GPS with sub ½ meter accuracy)
- aerial
- underground
- plant condition reports, and corrective solutions
- inside plant (ISP) design.
- infrastructure design
- global positioning system (GPS)
- records maintenance
- Right-of-Way (ROW) survey, and staking; permitting and licensing information
We can provide ongoing documentation to monitor progress, compliance with design criteria, current as-built records, evaluate progress, quality assurance and compliance with contractual standards/specifications.
We respond to job and design modifications.
Proposals, and Development
Alaska’s Source Group engineers assemble proposals for the design, construction, operation and/or maintenance of a network. We can provide the specifications ensuring that best value solutions are developed to address design, construction, acceptance, testing and maintenance standards. 
Permit/Application Management
After customer approves the design, the Alaska’s Source Group team will submit, monitor and manage all necessary permits and applications with various utilities and entities.
- State, County, and Municipality
- Army Corp of Engineers
- Private Landowners
Project Management
Alaska’s Source Group provides skilled engineers with experience in the management of engineering and construction projects from modest to multi-million dollar endeavors.
An Alaska’s Source Group Project Manager can:
- Review preliminary drawings for engineering and construct-ability
- Handle negotiations and coordination
- Develop and review work plans, schedules, contract changes, manpower allocations and all project deliverance’s
- Work to develop quality assurance standards and procedures for the project and institute corrective action and follow-up
- Work with the client for the approval of any labor, materials or subcontracted charges to the project
- Ensure timely completion of all aspects of the project
Computer Aided Design
- Alaska’s Source Group uses industry standard
platforms such as Auto-CAD and/or Micro-station
- Our GPS capability allows for precise design and location information to be developed and recorded, insuring exact data to result
- Building on our expertise in utility engineering Alaska’s Source Group has expanded our services to include Digital Mapping
- As-Builts (including longitudinal and latitudinal signatures for future facility identification)
All of which utilize the latest in technologies available to our engineers, project managers, inspectors, auto-cad, and drafters.