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Joint Use Asset Management

Joint use asset management involves tracking and coordinating work for field infrastructure assets shared by multiple stakeholders, such as electric utilities, telecommunications, CATV, and broadband providers, along with engineering and construction firms. The term most commonly refers to utility poles, but also includes underground conduits, ROW, streetlights, towers, and other facilities used to deliver services that are shared by multiple entities.

What Is Joint Use Asset Management?

Joint use asset management brings clarity, control, and transparency to the complex world of shared utility infrastructure. Effective management begins with maintaining an accurate asset inventory, such as utility poles, conduits, towers, and all associated attachments — including telecom, cable, and broadband equipment — along with ownership, condition, age, and structural capacity data.

Joint use asset management includes every step of attachment activity, including attachment permitting applications, make-ready work, engineering review, scheduling, and field inspections, ensuring each request moves efficiently through the appropriate workflow.

Compliance and safety are central, with oversight required for NESC compliance, clearance requirements, pole loading, structural integrity, and regulatory timelines. Teams must also manage financial and legal responsibilities, including contractual agreements, rental fees, cost-sharing, and dispute resolution.

Finally, joint use involves coordinating construction and maintenance so that all attachers can move equipment, share asset data, and approve work when assets are repaired, replaced, or removed.

FAQ

Effective joint use asset management helps organizations streamline and centralize complex shared infrastructure work. With joint use technology like Alden ONE, teams can maintain accurate asset inventories, manage their relationships for shared assets and activities, and meet safety and regulatory compliance requirements.

Centralized joint use asset management in Alden ONE helps teams avoid noncompliance by unifying safety, legal, and financial requirements in one system. The platform tracks contractual obligations, clearance rules, regulatory timelines, and documentation so organizations can consistently meet standards and reduce compliance risks.

Yes. Effective joint use asset management enables utilities, communications providers, and broadband companies to collaborate more easily with their engineering and construction partners by sharing data and coordinating work within a centralized system like Alden ONE.

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