Common trenching help you save

Traditionally, with respect to the line burial of the energy and communication cabling, the public utilities and municipalities build their own individual underground infrastructures which consist of, aside from their separate trenches, hand holes for power connections, pedestals for telephone as well as for Cable TV, and a separate infrastructure for street lighting.

The common trenching concept utilizing an MCM Base minimizes costs by means of integration of the infrastructures as well as the connecting devices for energy and telecommunications. The public lighting system then becomes an additional benefit as a result of the integration of these services.

Therefore, the required civil work is reduced to a strict minimum since only one trench is required behind the sidewalk. This trench would include all of the required services directly into the MCM Base, which would be located in the center of the trench. Each lamp post can be connected directly in the MCM cabinet below, thereby eliminating the need for the installation of a separate street lighting network and thus realizing savings for the municipalities in the range of 40% on the lighting system (optional).

Service calls on the networks are also facilitated by the direct access at all times to the connections from the sidewalk. The MCM cabinet is always accessible on 360 degrees and its ergonomics is ideal. This makes for additional savings on the service calls.

The common trenching approach utilizing the MCM Base concept will provide savings of 30% or more on the overall construction process. For a more detailed review on costing on a actual project, please refer to the enclosed PDF document in the Cost Analysis section.