Joint Trench Design NEW!

Milani & Associates provides complete Joint Trench Design and Consulting services to assist developers in the complex and often confusing utility engineering process, taking the project from application submittal through design and into construction. With projects becoming increasingly dense and time sensitive, developers need a team of experts that can take the bureaucratic PG&E process and turn it into a positive activity that will develop a successful project.

The Joint Trench Design team at Milani & Associates takes the lead in coordinating the “dry” utilities with all other aspects of the project. With the current trend towards denser projects, a higher degree of coordination with the utility companies and “team” members becomes increasingly important and should begin early in the design process. Coordination is a key component to making any project successful.

As part of a “full service” engineering company, the Joint Trench team at Milani & Associates takes a unique approach to the design and layout of Joint Trench facilities applying a higher degree of accuracy in keeping with traditional engineering practices. This approach prevents untimely and often costly issues during the design process and in the field.

As an alternative to PG&E providing the gas and electric engineering, the Joint Trench Design team at Milani & Associates specializes in “Applicant Design” providing “in-house” gas and electric engineering. Since 1996, developers have had the option of utilizing a Joint Trench firm such as Milani & Associates to provide gas and electric engineering (“Applicant Design”), giving developers the ability to save time in the engineering process and to work closely with designers in the placement of utility equipment, in areas such as entry features, intersections, etc., avoiding unnecessary conflicts.

The joint trench team at Milani & Associates takes pride in providing a quality service that will achieve the goals of our clients.

Milani & Associates complete Joint Trench services include:

• Feasibility studies
• Application for service process
• Preliminary planning and consulting
• Preliminary investigation and design (Intent & Form ‘A’)
• Composite design and Form ‘B’ trench reimbursements
• Coordination with utility companies (Gas, Electric, Telephone and CATV)
• Coordination with “Team” members and City/County staff
• Bid documents and material summaries
• PG&E Gas & Electric “Applicant Design” (Rule 15/16 & 20B & C) *
• Rule 20A facility undergrounding districts **
• Street Lighting designs
• PG&E contract review & analysis
• Pre-Construction meeting
• Value engineering

*Rule 20B and C projects can be “applicant design” if they are associated with a new business project.