Building your own shelter

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Building your own shelter
Remote Equipment Structures

• by Jeremy Anthony Kinsey

a bella mia company
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Background
Jeremy Kinsey orJer to his friends. CEO and
Co-Founder of Bella Mia, Inc. Been an ISP for 8
years In our 4th year as a WISP Part-15 WISP of
the Year WISPCON III Part-15 Member Regular
Speaker at WISPCON, WCA, etc. Located in South
East Wisconsin
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Overview

• Planning your equipment shelter
• Site Planning
• Planning Commission and Approval Process
• Materials Necessary
• Construction Process
• Costs

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Planning Stages

• Determine the size of your shelter

• Determine the type of materials necessary

• Electric, HVAC, Heat and other utilities

• Telco Demarc

• Equipment placement

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How Big Should It Be?

• What services and equipment will be placed in the
  shelter?

• Leave room for utilities - HVAC, Power, Telco,
  etc.

• Leave room for yourself!

• What does the site footprint look like?

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Materials

• Concrete Block or Wood Frame?

• Drywall, or Abatibi?

• Wiring, power panel, conduit, lighting?

• The roof? Flat, shingled, what?

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Utilities

• Small buildings with a lot of network equipment
  generates a lot of heat!

• HVAC

• Your equipment needs power

• Telco and Wireless Gear needs a way into the
  building.

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Equipment Placement

• Whats going in the shelter?

• Where are you going to put it?

• How are you going to install your gear?

• Again, OVERBUILD! You never know when you will
  need more room!

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Telco Demarcation Point

• Where is it if it is there?

• How are you going to get it to your shelter?

• Always OVERBUILD!

• If you run one wire, run two.

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Site Planning

• Determine and stake shelter location

• Stake out utilities

• Create drawings of the building placement

• Create drawings of your shelter

• CALL DIGGERS HOTLINE

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Stake out your foundation

• Accurately stake and level plumb lines for your
  concrete contractor

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Locate your Utilities

• Find your Telco and Power Demarcs

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Site Plan Drawings
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Site Plan Drawings
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Site Plan Drawings
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Building Drawings
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Building Drawings
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Diggers Hotline

• Its FREE, its FAST and its the LAW

www.diggershotline.com
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Plan Commission

• Fill out application

• Submit your drawings/plans

• Get on the agenda

• Show up before the meeting - Wear a Suit!

• Calmly and professionally make your case

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Bella Mia Properties, LLCProposed Outdoor
Equipment ShelterApril 1, 2003
Plan Commission Packet
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Packet Contents

• Site Plan Approval Application

• Letter of intent Plan Commission

• Attachment - Information not included on Site
  Plan Approval Application

• Compound Plan/Site Plan of Existing Tower

• Bella Mia Proposed Site Plan and Description

• Proposed Shelter Foundation

• Proposed Shelter Detail (2 Pages)

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Packet Letter
April 4, 2003 Whoever Plan Commission 123
Planning Way Whoever, WI. 53111 123-555-5555 At
tn Plan Commission Members, City Administrator,
and Building Inspector. Bella Mia, Inc. is a
Wisconsin based Corporation and Internet Service
Provider with offices in South East Wisconsin. We
are proposing a equipment shelter to be placed
within the tower structure and tower compound at
the 123 Easy Street tower location. Property Tax
Key 12-345-678-900. The property is currently
owned by Jane Doe. The Does lease space for
this site to Tower Dudes in Whoever, Wisconsin.
It is our intention to construct an outdoor
equipment shelter to house our network related
gear for our wireless and land line based
internet communications services on this site.
We currently have facilities located in outdoor
enclosures at this site. We further have gear
colocated at 123 Milky Lane (formerly Joes
Tavern) in downtown Whoever. It is our intention
to move our current equipment and POP (point of
presence) from the Milky Lane location to the
Easy Street location. This move has been
precipitated by the intent of the prospective
owners of the Milky Lane building to have us move
our facilities to make way for their
reconstruction of this site. Moving of land
based telecommunications is by no means an easy
process. Lead times are typically 30-45 days
(business days). The organization and planning
of both the telco, as well as our network
planners is crucial and delicate in nature. In
other words, timing is everything. I say this to
express that our need for these new facilities is
urgent and required quickly through no fault of
our own.
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Packet Letter Cont.
Briefly the structure we propose is a 8 X 6
outdoor equipment shelter approximately 8 tall.
The structure would be placed on top of a poured
floating concrete pad, and would be fully
insulated. Power and telco, either fiber or
copper would be derived from our existing
facilities currently at the tower site. There
would be no windows on this structure, one solid
metal door, and a climate controlled system, ie.,
A/C. The shelter will be wood frame in
construction with cedar siding and a shingled
roof both colored to match the existing
structures at the site. The shelter will be
placed inside the 190 tower structure and placed
parallel to the existing shelters at the site to
maintain the current aesthetics, and orderly
overall look of the site. The tower owner, Jon
Doe of Tower Dudes, Inc. has already visited the
site with a representative of Bella Mia and has
approved the current plans. We have further
contracted Bobs Wicked Construction to form our
foundation for our shelter. Both core samples of
the concrete as well as any soil testing
information, if necessary will be available upon
completion of the foundation. Finally Bella Mia
Properties, LLC will act as general contractor
for the construction of the Equipment Shelter
which will be prefabricated prior to shipment on
site. Construction of the shelter is expected to
take one day. Wiring of electrical and
telecommunications will proceed in conjunction
with the final phases of construction and will
take place on separate time tables. I submit for
you our completed application, site plans of the
current site as it is now, drawings of our
proposed shelter location, as well as the shelter
and concrete base details and drawings as
well. I appreciate your help and consideration
in this matter, as well as your patience and
understanding in the urgency with which our plans
are being submitted. If you have any questions
or comments, please contact our offices at
262-248-6769 or via email to jer_at_mia.net. Respect
fully, Jeremy Kinsey VP Network Operations
Bella Mia, Inc. mia.net
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Site Information
Property Owner Jane Doe 123 Two Way Whoever, WI.
53111 [phone] Site Leasee Jon Doe Bobs
Tower Service 123 One Way Whoever, Wi. 53111 (123
555-5555 Colocation Site Leasee Bella Mia,
Inc. 401 Host Drive Lake Geneva, WI. 53147 (262)
248-6759 Site Address 100 ElmStreet Property
Tax Key 12-234-456-789-001 Site Zoning -
M2 Adjacent property Zoning - M2 A1 Conditional
Use permit for tower granted 8-11-98 Setbacks
N/A Leased parcel over 80' from required
setbacks, no strebacks required within leased
parcel.
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Getting your Materials

• Based on your plans develop a material list

• Off to Home Depot!

• Clean out your garage

• Get your tools ready!

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Material List

• 36 8 2X4s

• 7 4X8 Cedar Backed Sheathing

• 4 4X8 Plywood Sheathing

• 12 6 2X4s

• 1 33 Steal Door

• 2 Packs Shingles

• 1 Roll Roof Felt

• Roofing Nails, 16 Penny Nails, Siding Nails

• 12 Truss Brackets

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Material List Cont.

• 8 4X8 Sheets Abitibi

• 2 88SqFt bags R13 Insulation

• 1 16 Weather Treated 1X6 Pine

• 18 1X4 Rough Cut Cedar

• 12 1X3 Rough Cut Cedar

• 2 and 1 1/4 Wood Screws

• 10 Cans Liquid Nail Adhesive Caulk

• Door Hardware and Locks

• Outdoor light fixture

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Construction

• Utilities - Trenching them in

• Pour the Foundation

• Pre fab your walls and roof trusses off-site

• Framing the walls and roof on-site

• Wiring utilities, installing lighting, HVAC

• Interior, walls, trim, etc.

• Equipment Installation

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Preparing the Trench
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Preparing the Trench
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Ditchwitching the Trench
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Ditchwitching the Trench
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Finished Trench
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Laying Conduit
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Laying Conduit
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Wiring Electrical
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Conduit Terminated
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Foundation
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Get Materials
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Framing Walls
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Framing Walls
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Roof
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Shingles
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Completed Roof
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Completed Shelter
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Interior
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Telco Entry Way
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100 AMP Power Panel
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UPS System
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Transmission Cable Entry
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Transmission Cable Entry
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Main HVAC
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Main HVAC
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Secondary HVAC
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AC Drainage
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HVAC Venting
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Grounding
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Radio Placement
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Rack Mounted Equipment
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Dialup POP
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IR Controls for AC
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Secure Entrance
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Environmental Probe
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Lighting, Smoke Detector
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Bat Phone
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Auto Power Outlets
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Work Area
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Storage Area
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Motion Detection Exterior Lighting
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Exterior Service Outlet
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View Outside Compound
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Completed Shelter
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From Cabinets to Building
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Costs

• Building Materials 883.88
• AC Units 650.00
• Electrical, Trenching and Material 1200.00
• Concrete Pad 600.00
• Legal Fees 250.00
• Misc, Finishing, Paint, Equipment Racks, etc.
  1000.00
• Total 4583.88

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Advantages

• Keeps equipment out of the elements
• Keeps staff out of the elements
• Near endless expansion room
• Colo Space
• Asset

a bella mia company
by Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
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Questions?
Presentation presented and created by Jeremy
Anthony Kinsey
Thank you for your attention! A PPT copy of the
presentation can also be found online
at http//wispconv.mia.net/ppt/buildingyourshelte
r.ppt You can contact me via email with further
questions at Jer_at_mia.net
a bella mia company