Building your own shelter by Jeremy Anthony Kinsey a bella mia company Remote Equipment Structures

Background Jeremy Kinsey or“Jer” 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

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

Planning Stages Determine the size of your shelter Determine the type of materials necessary Electric, HVAC, Heat and other utilities Telco Demarc Equipment placement

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?

Materials Concrete Block or Wood Frame? Drywall, or Abatibi? Wiring, power panel, conduit, lighting? The roof? Flat, shingled, what?

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.

Equipment Placement What’s 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!

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.

Site Planning Determine and stake shelter location Stake out utilities Create drawings of the building placement Create drawings of your shelter CALL DIGGERS HOTLINE

Stake out your foundation Accurately stake and level plumb lines for your concrete contractor

Locate your Utilities Find your Telco and Power Demarcs

Site Plan Drawings

Building Drawings

Diggers Hotline It’s FREE, its FAST and it’s the LAW

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

Bella Mia Properties, LLC Proposed Outdoor Equipment Shelter April 1, 2003 Plan Commission Packet

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)

Packet Letter April 4, 2003 Whoever Plan Commission 123 Planning Way Whoever, WI Attn: 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# The property is currently owned by Jane Doe. The Doe’s 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 Joe’s 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 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.

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 Bob’s 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 or via to Respectfully, Jeremy Kinsey VP Network Operations Bella Mia, Inc. mia.net

Site Information Property Owner: Jane Doe 123 Two Way Whoever, WI (123) Site Leasee: Jon Doe Bob’s Tower Service 123 One Way Whoever, Wi ( Colocation Site Leasee: Bella Mia, Inc. 401 Host Drive Lake Geneva, WI (262) Site Address: 100 ElmStreet Property Tax Key # : Site Zoning - M2 Adjacent property Zoning - M2 & A1 Conditional Use permit for tower granted Setbacks: N/A Leased parcel over 80' from required setbacks, no strebacks required within leased parcel.

Getting your Materials Based on your plans develop a material list Off to Home Depot! Clean out your garage Get your tools ready!

Material List 12 6’ 2X4’s 2 Packs Shingles Roofing Nails, 16 Penny Nails, Siding Nails 36 8’ 2X4’s 7 4X8 Cedar Backed Sheathing 4 4X8 Plywood Sheathing 1 33” Steal Door 1 Roll Roof Felt 12 Truss Brackets

Material List Cont. 18 1X4 Rough Cut Cedar 2” and 1 1/4” Wood Screws Door Hardware and Locks 8 4X8 Sheets Abitibi 2 88SqFt bags R13 Insulation 1 16’ Weather Treated 1X6 Pine 12 1X3 Rough Cut Cedar 10 Cans Liquid Nail Adhesive Caulk Outdoor light fixture

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

Preparing the Trench

Ditchwitching the Trench

Finished Trench

Laying Conduit

Wiring Electrical

Conduit Terminated

Foundation

Get Materials

Framing Walls

Roof

Shingles

Completed Roof

Completed Shelter

Interior

Telco Entry Way

100 AMP Power Panel

UPS System

Transmission Cable Entry

Main HVAC

Secondary HVAC

AC Drainage

HVAC Venting

Grounding

Radio Placement

Rack Mounted Equipment

Dialup POP

IR Controls for AC

Secure Entrance

Environmental Probe

Lighting, Smoke Detector

Bat Phone

Auto Power Outlets

Work Area

Storage Area

Motion Detection Exterior Lighting

Exterior Service Outlet

View Outside Compound

Completed Shelter

From Cabinets to Building

Costs Building Materials: $ AC Units: $ Electrical, Trenching and Material: $ Concrete Pad: $ Legal Fees: $ Misc, Finishing, Paint, Equipment Racks, etc. $ Total: $

Advantages Keeps equipment out of the elements Keeps staff out of the elements Near endless expansion room Colo Space Asset by Jeremy Anthony Kinsey a bella mia company

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