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At North River Disaster Site, North American Provides Crucial Communications

New York City, Aug. 1, 2011 – As the only company trusted enough to provide immediate radio communications to the North River Waste Treatment Plant emergency site, North American provided necessary communications coverage within 24 hours of initial inspection. Covering the massive steel and concrete facility with an improvised distributed antenna system (DAS), The North American Group was able to incorporate the remnants of the plants previous, but damaged, outdated and unmapped while providing new equipment as needed.

The new DAS system installed by The North American Group will is advanced enough to be part of a continual upgrade process, despite its emergency origins, where the Department of Environmental Protection updates the communications capabilities of all the city’s waste treatment plants.

North American’s engineers and technicians worked tirelessly throughout the day and in partnership with Piercom Solutions LLC and Motorola Solutions, Inc to provide the communications required to stop the ecological disaster.

As one of the largest two-way radio facility in New York City, North American was able to call upon its existing inventory of radio equipment and coaxial cable to quickly provide and install all required components.

The North River DEP facility, site encompasses 28 acres of land and houses floor space several times that size. Challenges faced on this site, include but are not limited to the hostile environment, inaccessible floors due to “dirty water,” and a floor plan dominated by large open areas encased in reinforced concrete walls several feet thick.

HOUSTON — The Durst Organization, one of New York's oldest and largest real estate companies, recently announced the installation of a new state-of-the-art first responder communication system at their flagship building located at 4 Times Square, home to Conde Nast Publications.

The new responder system centers around Tait's P25 TB9100 base station/repeaters, which are specifically tailored to work with the demands of the high-tech system, and will become part of standard operating procedure at all Durst buildings in Manhattan by this summer. Durst, along with support from FDNY, felt the need to address the issue of inadequate radio coverage in their high-rise buildings after radios without repeaters failed in the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11.