SOLUTIONS / CONSTRUCTION
Job Sites Where Shouting Is Not a Comms Plan
Cranes, concrete pours and tower cores kill speech and signal at the same time. Site radios must survive dust, drops and noise — and reach the tower top from the gate.
What Breaks Without Radios
90 dB of machinery buries untreated audio — speaker mics and heavy-duty headsets are not accessories, they are the radio.
Rebar and cores blank handhelds — a repeater per phase keeps the tower crew on the same channel as the batching plant.
Electrical, scaffolding and site office share one site — channel plans per crew stop cross-talk.
The Setup That Works
| Role | Radio / gear | Why it earns its slot |
|---|---|---|
| Crews & plant | DMR handhelds | Digital audio stays intelligible at the noise floor; dual-slot doubles channels without new licenses. |
| Tower & deep-fill coverage | Repeater & base | One per site phase; antennas above the rebar line. |
| Hands-busy work | Heavy-duty headsets | Hearing protection and comms in one unit for pours and demolition. |
| Fleet & supplier coordination | Mobile radios | Trucks and deliveries stay reachable gate-to-gate. |
Coverage & expansion: Repeater per phase; DMR channel plan per crew; mobiles tie the gate to the fleet. Every setup ships pre-programmed to your site plan — grow from one fleet to mixed fleets in the same RFQ.
Typical Deployment
A mid-size site typically runs: 30–60 DMR handhelds split by crew, 1 repeater per phase, headsets on pour teams, mobiles in loaders and water trucks. Channel plan printed and loaded before delivery.
From the gate to the tower top, one channel plan.
Setup reviewed by a spec engineer · Quotes within 12 business hours