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118km of URD Replacement in 46 Areas
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Urban Residential Distribution in collaboration with the construction of SaskTel’s Infinet fiber network was at the program peak in 2020-21. It was the second largest Distribution Asset Management & Planning program at $18.3M. The scope was to design and install…
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N. Battleford 20km of URD Replacement
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Lead the design for the replacement of 20 km of Urban Residential Distribution (URD) at a cost of $2.97 million. Drilling (boring) once, under one contract to install SaskTel’s fiber network and replace SaskPower’s URD was the flagship Crown collaboration.…
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130km Fiber Optic Ploughing and Splicing – Wolverine to Bankend
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SaskPower started installing fiber optics ~20 years before this project, prioritizing connecting as many switching stations as possible. In an effort to maintain secure, 99.99% reliable networks, we were now adding geographic redundancy.
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Fiber Optic Relocation for Highway Twinning
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Ministry of Highways was twinning the highway from Saskatoon to Clavet, necessitating the relocation of a SaskPower fiber optic cable. To minimize disruption, the repair was planned for the weekend, with two splicing crews working simultaneously.
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Sub-Arctic Terrestrial Fiber Optics Solution for Canadian Shield
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Projects in the Sub-Arctic Canadian Shield, accessible only by airplane and barge, are always challenging—especially when you can’t plough fiber into solid rock, and aging overhead structures can’t support it either. SaskPower implemented an innovative solution by laying fiber with…
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130km Fiber Optic Install – Critical Path to Golden Lake Success
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Phase 1 of Golden Lake Substation was being constructed on an aggressive schedule, and TeleControl was positioned to materialize a massive opportunity to put the project ahead of schedule! If we could plough 130km of fiber optics, and make changes…
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100km Fiber Optic Preventative Maintenance – Pilot Project
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For the first time since the TeleControl team at SaskPower began installing fiber optics, I initiated a preventative maintenance project to inspect and repair one of our fiber lines, which was approximately 20 years old.
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190km Fiber Optic Install – North Battleford to Meadow Lake
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In a collaboration between SaskTel and SaskPower, plans were laid to install approximately 190 km of fiber optic cable from North Battleford to Meadow Lake
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Aberdeen & Martensville Station Fiber Optic Connection
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As part of the Saskatoon Area Reinforcement (SAR) project, two new transmission stations—Aberdeen and Martensville—required connections to the existing fiber optic network. In total, approximately 40 km of new fiber optic cable was installed. As a member of the SaskPower…
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Fiber Optic Emergency Break Repair
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A fiber optic cable carrying critical traffic was accidentally ripped when an excavator failed to call for locates. A temporary repair was completed to restore traffic until a permanent repair could be organized. To minimize the disruption the repair was…
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