Welcome

The North American Wood Pole Council is an independent council representing the producers and suppliers of wood poles and crossarms in North America. A primary focus of the council is to support and sustain the use of the products and to provide information to the designers, specifiers and users of the products. The intent of this website is to provide the interested party with a window of access to a wide array of pertinent information from a variety of sources. While the council seeks to provide the most current and accurate information in posting materials or providing links, no warranty as to the accuracy of the information is intended or implied. The user is urged to review the Disclaimer and is cautioned to make his or her own independent evaluation of the information. If inaccuracies are noted, users are urged to contact the Council as well as the source of the specific documents with their views.

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**** Webinars Our next webinar is being held on Thursday May 30, 2013 from 2:30 to 4:00 pm EST. The topic this time is Pole Top Assemblies: Pole top assemblies are used to support conductors on wooden poles. This webinar will discuss the different types of assemblies (tangent, angle, and deadend) along with the framing options. Each component of the assemblies will be discussed in terms of its strength and proper application based on the conductor size. The focus will be on wooden crossarms with discussions on fiberglass arms. Calculations will be shown for maximum line angles within load limits of the pin and insulators. Strength of dead crossarms will include methods for selection of crossarms based on conductor tension. For more information and details on the Webinar topic, please refer to the following links. (Please feel free to share the links too.) NAWPC Pole Top Assemblies Webinar     Webinar Details: Pole Top Assemblies 5-30-13

Additional webinars coming up in June and July: NAWPC Understanding NESC Grounding Requirements Webinar     Webinar Details: NESC Grounding 6-27-13 NAWPC Safety and Overload Factors Webinar     Webinar Details: Safety and Overload Factors 7-25-13     Our E-Newsletters are now available via our Archive link Click here to go to our E-Newsletters

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Seminar

FREE Design SEMINAR!!!

The North American Wood Pole Council is sponsoring a Wood Pole Structure Design Seminar in Denver, Colorado on September 24 – 26, 2013. The three day seminar is FREE to the electric utility and cooperative employees. This class is limited to the first 40 registrants. The instructor is Richard Lovelace with Hi-Line Engineering. Students completing the seminar will earn 18 Professional Development Hours. Please click here to access the informational flyer and registration form.   

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News Items

One of the necessary requirements for a quick storm response is having the poles and cross arms available when restoration crews are ready for them. Click on the link to read how the wood pole and cross arm manufacturers responded to Hurricane Sandy’s destruction: Wood Pole Industry Response to Hurricane Sandy.

"Protecting Wood Utility Poles From Wildfire": Vice President -Products, Osmose Utilities Services Inc. - Utility Products Magazine, March 2013.

Conclusions and Summary Report on an Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Utility Poles -
Prepared by: AquAeTer, Inc. (3/12/12)

HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICY BILLS SKYROCKET - USA Today (December 2011)

End-of-Life Management of Preserved Wood-The Case For Reuse For Energy: AquAeter - Chris Bolin and Stephen Smith, November 2010

• Summary Report
• Full Report

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