Why You Should Use A NBN Trained Designer For Your New Development

At Comm Design I always remind my clients that we need to start planning the communication application as early as possible. After you accept my quote and pay the deposit I will look after all these items before moving onto the next stages of draughting the designs

This is known as early planning and will include things like:

• Eligibility tests
• DA requirements
• Developer site designs and
• Talks with local councils

With small developments ( subdividing one lot into two) NBN recommends that we should be doing this at least 3 months in advance and all other larger developments we need to allow a minimum of six months.

This gives NBN/ Telstra time to arrange their service connections.

Work with an nbn™ trained New Developments supplier

NBN provides training for all designers of their network and whilst it’s not compulsory ( at the time of writing this) there are some major benefits when you use a NBN Trained Supplier.

If you go to the NBN website you will see that they always encourage you to use trained NBN designers.

Trained NBN suppliers are more often than not industry professionals with many years experience. So you know that you are getting a quality service.

The bottom line is that NBN and Telstra put all the responsibility on the developer to make sure the infrastructure on your site meets the standards as so the work of an industry expert is a must!

An NBN trained New Developments supplier can help:

• Fast track the certification process
• Avoid any additional fees from inspections or redesigns

Getting your works underway sooner rather than later is critical because other contractors will need the designs to work with.

Level 1 ASP’s(link to ASP explanation) generally install the pit and pipes in the same shared trench and so they need the designs to be able to arrange the installation.

This design will also be used to work out how much it is going to cost. The land owners or developers will always be making decisions based on costs.

What Will A NBN Designer Do

Using the information they have gathered in the “early stages” the will decided what construction type you need:

Lead-in Conduits (LIC), which refer to:
Conduits connected to the nbn™ access network directly from the front boundary of the property. Typically used in developments with 1 to 8 premises facing an existing road where there are no private roads in the development.

Some examples are:

• Single storey house,
• duplexes,
• subdivided homes.

Pit and pipe, which refer to:
Conduits installed underground into shared local network pits. Typically used in developments with:

Multiple premises and New roads built as part of the development
Some examples are:

• Super lots,
• Townhouses,
• retirement villages,
• schools, and hospitals.