Custom Solutions Powered by a Proven Approach

No matter the scope or scale of your infrastructure or utility project, every aspect from Concept to Construction is continually considered and leveraged as part of our comprehensive, proprietary RAMP™ methodology. Our innovative tools, expert team, and industry-leading processes ensure we build and maintain close working relationships between you and the people who are crucial to your project’s success. The result? Efficient resource management, streamlined project life cycles and seamlessly aligned stakeholders.

SERVICES

Consulting

Fiber Technology & Deployment Planning

Applying a precision mindset and 360 view of a project's lifecycle to ensure even the most complex Fiber To The Home projects are designed to build.

  • The Fiber To The Home industry moves fast. And the pace is only likely to increase as plans take shape for a massive expansion of broadband services as part of once in a generation infrastructure investment. 

    Talman has built a solid reputation as a trusted strategic partner for leading telecom organizations, helping them make smarter investment decisions and secure competitive advantage by leveraging our wealth of knowledge in both the design and construction of complex fiber infrastructure projects. 

    Talman integrates seamlessly with telecom organizations throughout large scale, complex projects. Our fiber planning best practices developed while bringing 5G to the Chicago market, including a multi-year project of unprecedented scale helping a leading infrastructure management company design and deploy 2.6M linear feet of fiber and more than 3,500 small cells in the city’s dense and complex business district.

    What makes Talman’s winning approach different is RAMP™, our proprietary planning methodology. We start with a deep understanding of your unique goals and challenges and how the success of every project fuels growth and satisfies stakeholders. We take a complete 360-degree view, stress testing your project against an exhaustive range of real-world pressure points key to your success. Our analysis continues throughout the project life cycle allowing you to navigate shifting conditions, anticipate future disruptions, and capture competitive advantages. 

    We take your pain points, solve them, and turn them into critical competitive advantages. Through targeted discovery, we understand your business strategies and are able to approach large-scale fiber projects with a precision mindset. You’ll stay informed with transparent reporting, and accurate, timely forecasts against KPIs uniquely designed to measure real success.

Infrastructure Planning

Providing a trusted and comprehensive assessment of how your infrastructure investments can provide maximum long-term value for all public and private stakeholders.

  • It might be the very thing that sets Talman’s approach apart from the rest—our dedication to stakeholder consensus building. Talman’s deep planning experience throughout the entire infrastructure project lifecycle helps leaders to bring all mission critical stakeholders to the table and to create the alignment needed ensure investments provide maximum long-term value.

    RAMP™, Talman’s proprietary planning methodology, powers every infrastructure planning engagement. This custom and comprehensive process ensures all resources, including people and data, are at hand to enable the informed decision making required to capitalize on the opportunities ahead.

    Shifting market conditions can challenge ongoing efforts to minimize risk and maximize outcomes across various stakeholders, constituents and construction partners. RAMP™’s continuous planning feature optimizes your plans, designs, and stakeholder communications at project-specific intervals to keep your work, relationships and projected ROI on track. 

    What does this all mean for you? You’ll have a trusted partner on your team who will do whatever it takes to help ensure your high-profile infrastructure projects are designed to build.

Utilities Planning

Harnessing the strength of our best practices in working with municipalities and utilities to develop practical and efficient solutions to achieve your business objectives.

  • Talman’s extensive experience in collaboratively working with municipalities and utilities to develop practical and efficient solutions to achieve our client’s business objectives has built an unmatched set of planning best practices. We know how to quickly earn the trust and confidence of municipalities and their utility agencies, from wireless to water to sewer to power to all utility service providers. And we’ll make these relationships work for you. 

    What makes this possible is our proprietary methodology we call RAMP™. It’s a modern approach built to meet modern engineering challenges. This customized, comprehensive, and continuous planning process ensures that our client partners truly “design to build.” 

    No matter our role, Talman takes a 360 view of the entire project lifecycle, uncovering opportunities and anticipating problems that often are missed. Our collaborative model uniquely connects all project stakeholders to shared goals, optimizing speed to market and return on investment. 

    We help you gain a competitive advantage through practical and efficient solutions that are always in line with your individual business objectives and continuously pressure tested to keep budgets and timelines on track.RAMP™, Talman’s proprietary planning methodology, powers every infrastructure planning engagement. This custom and comprehensive process ensures all resources, including people and data, are at hand to enable the informed decision making required to capitalize on the opportunities ahead.

    Shifting market conditions can challenge ongoing efforts to minimize risk and maximize outcomes across various stakeholders, constituents and construction partners. RAMP™’s continuous planning feature optimizes your plans, designs, and stakeholder communications at project-specific intervals to keep your work, relationships and projected ROI on track. 

    What does this all mean for you? You’ll have a trusted partner on your team who will do whatever it takes to help ensure your high-profile infrastructure projects are designed to build.

Project Management Oversight

Leveraging our proprietary continuous planning methodology to ensure projects of any scale are delivered on time and within budget.

  • Talman Consultants brings a value-driven approach to optimizing your investments and project timelines. We’ll propose changes that can help minimize costs while maximizing your project’s quality, safety, and performance throughout the full project life cycle. 

    Talman applies RAMP™, our proprietary planning methodology, to every project we manage. RAMP™ makes sure planning, from the start, is comprehensive and inclusive of all stakeholders by getting subject matter experts out their silos and connected to each other.

    Our modern planning process includes targeted discovery with all stakeholders. Combined with our deep best practices, we make sure you have the right data at the right time to make smarter decisions.

    With RAMP™, planning is no longer “one and done.” Project pressure points, including market conditions and stakeholder needs, shift quickly. We help you proactively recalibrate at strategic intervals throughout the project life cycle and not just in response to problems as they come up.

    Talman invests in the very best tools and talent in order to bring the best solutions to your projects. Our entrepreneurial teams possess a broad range of skills from solid communication to working within budgetary needs to maintaining deadlines. They’ll challenge the status quo and keep your project on schedule every step of the way and make sure all progress is aligned with the individual goals of your business. 

    Working within the utility and broader infrastructure marketplace demands complete organization and attention to detail. And Talman excels at it. We integrate well with larger project teams applying best practices, transparent reporting, and accurate, timely forecasts. Alternative design solutions, negotiated municipality fees, shared savings with utilities and more are all considered to help increase your project’s value while maintaining its integrity.

Engineering

Engineering & Design

Designing practical, cost-effective solutions that respond to the always-evolving rules and municipality processes.

  • At the core of our business, is an emphasis on utility engineering and design that meets your unique business objectives. The always-evolving rules and municipality processes require constant monitoring and oversight. 

    What makes Talman’s work different is our RAMP™ methodology that is applied to every design we produce. Our design process considers a comprehensive set of factors that we know will impact your project success. We leverage our industry best practices and data to anticipate problems ahead and develop contingencies for nimble field coordination.

    We have what it takes to not only keep up but stay one step ahead. Our expertise and experience let us quickly address issues as they arise. The result is a competitive advantage for you, with solutions that are practical, efficient and cost-effective.

Permit Acquisition

Ensuring total regulatory compliance while expediting submittals and approvals to secure permits with various City, County and Municipal entities.

  • No amount of consultation will get your project off the ground if you don’t have the proper permits. Talman will make sure you’re in total compliance, representing and assisting you in expediting the permit submittal and approval process to secure permits with various City, County and Municipal entities. 

    Our proven, accelerated approach was developed through our years of working with some of the largest and most complex entities including the Chicago Department of Transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation, CTA, Railroad, Chicago Department of Aviation, the FAA.

Traffic Control Protection Services

Leveraging industry Traffic Control best practices with custom designs that align your project goals with the myriad of federal, state, and local traffic regulations.

  • Our integrated approach to traffic strategy and design ensures projects are designed to build while complying with the complex system of standards and regulations impacting your success. Our traffic team is engaged during all project phases, from concept to construction, leveraging industry Traffic Control best practices on your behalf. 

    Your customized designs will be fully optimized and aligned with your business goals. And because we understand the intricacies and implications of the myriad of federal, state, and local traffic regulations and initiatives, you’ll spend less time in costly reviews and be able to proceed with confidence for design approval or during construction in the field.

Restoration Services

Analyzing schedules and work planned by others to develop an optimized restoration strategy centered on using your resources most efficiently.

  • The work to restore streets at the end of a project can have a significant impact on budgets and timelines. A smarter coordinated approach to managing this project phase can save you valuable resources at a critical time. 

    We leverage our RAMP™ methodology to analyze your project schedules and work planned by others to develop a customized restoration strategy centered on using your resources most efficiently while fully meeting your obligations.

Construction Oversight

Monitoring all on-site construction activities during the installation of your designs, from planning meetings with contractors to field change requests and sketches.

  • The role of the engineer isn’t complete once ground is broken. Talman knows this. That’s why we provide on-site construction observation services during the installation of your underground design. Whether it’s generating requests for information, a field change request or the development of sketches, we’ll be by your side during on-site and planning meetings with you and all construction partners.

    Our oversight continues throughout the project life cycle allowing you to navigate shifting conditions, anticipate future disruptions, and capture competitive advantages. You’ll stay informed with objective and reliable reporting and counsel to use in maintaining accurate forecasts against project KPIs.

A Proven Approach to Every Project

We apply RAMP™, our proprietary planning methodology to everything we do. Our comprehensive process is custom built for your specific business situation. Continuous planning helps us optimize your plan and designs at project-specific intervals to maximize return on your investment.

Let’s Talk

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Let’s explore how Talman’s proven approach and best practices can help you exceed your unique project objectives.