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Osmose University

Leveraging 80 years of structural expertise to educate the next generation of utility and telecom personnel.

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Each year, Osmose offers three non-commercial seminars designed to educate utility personnel – one for wood, one for steel, and one for joint use. These seminars are offered at no charge to Osmose customers, but seating is limited. We encourage customers to register quickly as these seminars do reach capacity well in advance.

Joint Use Seminar

Join fellow utility professionals for two days of instruction to learn about  pole loading, FCC updates, one-touch make ready, and best practices for joint use.

Who Should Attend?

(Attendance is limited to electric utility asset owners)

  • Joint Use Managers
  • Program Managers
  • Engineering Managers

Topic Areas Include:

  • Recent Updates to FCC Governing Attachments and What it Means for Pole Owners
  • Best Practices for Managing and Updating Joint Use License Agreements
  • Identifying and Cost-Effectively Correcting Past Issues
  • Establish an Accurate Attachment Baseline to Support Billing, Permitting, and Future Audits
  • Benefits of Leveraging Attachment Audits to Support Additional Initiatives
  • Maximizing Cost-Recovery
  • Funding, Challenges, Reducing Impact, and Benefits of Rural Broadband
  • Impacts of 5G/Small Cell Attachment Requests
  • Fiber and Wireless Make-Ready Design Considerations
  • Optimizing Post-Construction
  • Understanding and Implementing Pole Loading Analysis to Manage Risk
  • Technologies, Visualization, and Process Improvements to Support Increases in Permitting Activity
  • Field Technology Demonstrations

 Peachtree City, Georgia - October 7 - 9, 2024

Cost: This joint use seminar is complimentary and includes dinner reception, off-site social event and dinner, breakfast, lunch, and transportation from the host hotel to the Osmose campus.

Complete the form below to register!

Do you want to repeat a seminar? If you would like to re-attend a seminar, please understand the content from year-to-year is similar and ideal for first-time attendees. Any returning attendees will be initially put on a waitlist so we can accommodate any first-time attendees. To be added to the waitlist, email Shalunda Hugley-Brown at shugleybrown@osmose.com.