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Infrastructure Services
The Infrastructure Services division manages all aspects of a facility deployment. This division ensures that every aspect of the project is considered and that a fully integrated solution is delivered in the most timely and cost-efficient manner.

For Telecommunication companies, we integrate network plans into the real estate deployment plan, incorporating all the necessary activities including site selection, design, construction and roll-out.

For Enterprise users, we fully evaluate facilities, develop upgrade criteria and budgets, explore all internal or outsource solutions, and ultimately create the most competitive environment for their mission critical infrastructure.

Our Infrastructure Services include:


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Colocation

After developing numerous colocation sites, TRES has the expertise to assist you with all your colocation needs. Having performed many comprehensive studies of the Northwest market, we offer invaluable insight on pricing, availability, infrastructure, and connectivity.

We can help you answer these critical questions:

  • Does my existing facility meet mission critical status?
  • What is the cost to upgrade my existing facility?
  • What various “outsource” services are available?
  • Is it better to outsource or upgrade?

We can help you take into account these critical considerations:

  • Cost of real estate
  • Overall cost of facility
  • Critical services available
  • Financial viability of operator
  • Cost of bandwidth

Our Project Management team will evaluate your existing data center and provide a build-versus-outsource analysis. Upon completion of our due diligence, we will bring together all the potential service providers to legitimately compete for your business. So, instead of wasting your own considerable time and resources researching, investigating and organizing, turn to us to cost-effectively handle your colocation project.

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Bandwidth

As voice and data technologies converge, businesses are often overwhelmed with bandwidth solution alternatives. From DSL to wavelength; from fast Ethernet to gigabit speeds; from voice and data to streaming video; from copper and fiber to wireless, bandwidth choices have greater implications than ever.

TRES understands these implications and can assist you in choosing the solutions that empower your datacommunications and telecommunications infrastructure. We provide a reliable, cost-effective alternative to the often confusing procurement process. Because we back no single vendor or product, we can help you quickly sift through prospective service providers and their often confusing service pitches. With TRES you simply complete our comprehensive "specifications requirements process", and let us do the rest.

Our qualified staff is personally involved in every RFP and Sales Order, helping you make decisions that support findings from our:

  • Comprehensive needs analysis
  • Contract negotiation process
  • Objective review of all options
  • Current billing analysis

With TRES as your agent, prospective providers are reviewed in an orderly and objective manner. Our disciplined and informed strategy allows you to make the most informed purchasing decisions in the shortest amount of time.

Unlike biased telecommunications sales companies urging you to purchase their favored solution, TRES acts as your objective representative. Our long-term approach assists prior to, during and after the sales process. We provide annual audits, quarterly reviews, and intensive customer support long after the sale.

Make TRES your first call when evaluating your corporate bandwidth and telecommunications infrastructure. We will help you research all your connectivity options and recommend the solutions that are right for you now, and for the future of your business.


Site Selection

Of all the services TRES provides, none is more critical than assisting our clients in selecting and locating to a new site. Whether it’s the relocation of a present site, or the expansion into a new market, TRES is uniquely equipped to assist you in specifying, evaluating and locating your business.

Our Infrastructure Services team provides you with only the most qualified site options, geared to your company’s specific needs and preferences. With our nationwide presence, we offer you the resources you need to narrow your search to the most promising options without wasting your internal resources.

Our Site Selection process provides facilities that best meet the requirements for successful integration into your business plan including:

  • Power Capacity
  • Environmental Hazards and Zoning
  • Incoming Service Restrictions
  • Fiber and Medium Distribution Policies
  • Mechanical Capacity
  • Structural Capacity
  • Natural Disasters

Regardless of where you wish to move or what mission critical technologies you require, TRES is your single source solution.


Project Management

Our Project Management teams deliver thoughtfully engineered and constructed facilities that operate at the greatest cost efficiencies. From concept to completion, your project is our first priority. Our Project Managers work closely with you to define the scope, budget and timing of your project. Once in the system, we manage each project to deliver it on time and on budget, creating rigorous reporting and administrative procedures to ensure that the team is meeting its commitments.

Our Project Managers are mandated to perform “early evaluations” to address all critical issues up front, and to manage the right plan for the size and scope of your project:

  • Schedule Management
  • Cost Control
  • Contract Management
  • Lien Compliance

TRES is one of the leaders in the design and provisioning of Carrier Hotels and technical facilities across the United States and Canada. Our experience in representing telecommunications and Enterprise companies in real estate is now enhanced by the formation of TRES Design Build Services. This team has designed and constructed millions of feet of Carrier Hotels, data centers, call centers, colocation facilities and other telecommunications facilities. Our experience in every aspect of these technical facilities will considerably reduce the time for evaluation and deployment of your plan.

As developers working with major contractors and design firms, we have the experience and knowledge to select the very best in the industry. The TRES Design Build Services team now includes Carter & Burgess and Turner eTechnologies Group, a Market Segment Group of Turner Construction specializing in mission critical facilities:


Design and Engineering

  Carter & Burgess Qualifications (PDF)

Carter & Burgess ("C&B") has provided architectural, mechanical and project management services to the telecommunication and Enterprise markets since 1939. With 33 offices and a staff of 2,700, the C&B team ensures the highest quality control on any project throughout the country. C&B has assisted numerous telecommunications, data center and other technical facilities, ranging in size from 5,000 to 140,000 square feet. They are intimately familiar with the timely design and engineering of mission critical infrastructure including commercial AC power, large emergency systems, and significant cooling facilities.

Our C&B partners are market-specific experts, focusing on a variety of industries. They provide a number of services to several vertical communications market sectors including wireless, broadcast facilities, data center and colocation facilities, network and IP facilities, outside plant facilities, and other mission critical applications.

C&B ensures our clients of a seasoned, disciplined approach to the definition, planning and execution of communications and mission critical projects.

Key service offerings include:

  • Facility Evaluation and Design
  • Program Management
  • Construction Management
  • RF Engineering, Fixed Network Engineering
  • Site Acquisition, Site Design, and Site Development



Construction Services

  Turner eTechnologies Group Qualifications (PDF)

TRES Design Build Services has turned to Turner eTechnologies Group ("Turner") to ensure the timely and cost-efficient delivery of our clients’ physical plants. Turner combines the accessibility and support of a local firm, with a national presence of over 4,000 employees and $6 billion in annual construction.

Turner’s specialized “eTechnologies Group” concentrates on our mission critical construction needs. The “eTechnologies Group” works in a consultative, client-oriented role, ensuring the creation and implementation of bid documents to maximize each dollar spent; managing the process through budgeting, value engineering, bidding, shop drawing review, and on-going construction administration activities.

Services include:

  • Technology and ME Master Planning
  • Options and Alternates Development
  • Peer Review / Owner’s Representative
  • Budget Development
  • Scheduling
  • Value Engineering

The TRES Design Build Services team also makes sure our clients understand and are in control of all design, engineering and construction costs. Throughout this process, we communicate our findings to you, control the design appropriately, and focus on your approved budget.

Our integrated approach ensures the early inclusion of the Carter & Burgess design and Turner construction team. Their critical input on all pertinent items helps monitor the budget, and raises issues if inconsistencies are identified. They advise on trade-offs, and assist the overall team in defining your precise objectives. In the end, this translates into construction documents that control your budget, and an overall plan that ensures your project starts on time, and is completed as planned.


Network Design and Implementation

The Network Design and Implementation team supports the planning, design and implementation of our clients’ networks. This work can be part of a full-service program, or a stand-alone service. By designing and integrating a broad range of network design solutions, we ensure more creative proposals, and improved cost efficiencies. Our team supports two customer types: service providers and large enterprises.

Service Provider Design Support

  • Services analysis and forecast creation for bandwidth, space and power requirements
  • Evaluation of network architecture alternatives to select the right solution based on technical and economic analysis, and on potentially converging, multiple voice, data, and video networks
  • Team leadership and close coordination with stakeholder groups
  • Vendor selection recommendations for equipment and leased solutions
  • Network Implementation and Project Management (link to Infrastructure Services/Project Management)


Enterprise Focused Services

  • Current network report card for vulnerabilities and potential cost savings
  • Analysis of enterprise-specific growth trends and new applications
  • Alternative analysis and recommendations focused on cost reduction and efficient support of enterprise goals
  • Team leadership and close coordination with stakeholder groups
  • Implementation of recommendations including vendor selection for equipment and leased solutions
  • Ongoing support


Our technology expertise includes:

  • Optical networks - DWDM and SONET based networks
  • Voice networks - Traditional circuit switched Class 4/5 switching, PBX, and call center platforms as well as softswitch technology
  • Data networks - IP/MPLS, switched Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay
  • Wireless Technologies - Mobile and fixed radio solutions
  • Emerging technologies research


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