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This two year, 56‐mile project from Newtown, PA to Newark, NJ crossed 14 bridges (including the Delaware, Raritan, Rahway, and Elizabeth Rivers), required review and permitting from 15 townships, 4 counties, and 2 states, crossed 14 railroads (including Conrail, NJ Transit, and Amtrak), and necessitated the review of 9 environmental and historic state agencies. The bulk of the permitting was completed within the first four months of the project. The final routing alignment utilized the NJ State Route 1 corridor to achieve its goal of linking the Washington D.C. backbone with the Connecticut backbone. MDG was responsible for project management and administration, utility data collection and verification, conceptual/preliminary/and final running line design, directional drill design, ROW permitting, environmental investigation and permitting, bridge attachment design and permitting, rail crossing design and permitting, and the development of construction and final bid documents.

As an Engineering / Design consultant to the VTA, Matrix has been contracted to design 27.4 miles of fiber optic plant from Hardwick to Irasburg. As part of the $33.4 million dollar grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program to construct the 773 mile Vermont Fiber Connect project, this “middle‐mile” fiber optic network will serve as “backhaul” for local wireless and broadband networks and bring gigabit fiber connectivity to over 340 community anchor institutions in the project area, encompassing seven of Vermont’s fourteen counties. Matrix is currently providing additional support services for the project including verification of pole line and underground routes, GIS data collection of pole stock and potential customer sites, preparation of make‐ready applications, make‐ready joint walk services, utility rideout with all pole attachees, verification of utility make‐ready estimates, material selection and budgeting, construction specifications for a draft RFQ, and optical fiber loss budget calculations.

Serving as an engineering consultant to New Jersey Transit, Matrix Design Group designed the hybrid (fiber optic and coaxial) cabling system for the $2.4M Interoperable Radio Communications System. The project encompassed the design and construction of approximately 2 miles of antenna cabling through the Newark, NJ subway tunnels as well as the design and management of the construction of six communications “nodes”. Matrix provided complete Auto‐Cad Engineering/design packages for the network, inclusive of conduit and cable running lines, design of electrical circuits, and post‐construction (as‐built) drawings. Material specifications (as part of the design) and documented test results of the system were also included in the project deliverable. Matrix provided construction project management services for the duration of the project Which included coordination of weekly project update meetings and scope change management. This project was the first of its kind in NJ.

In 2010, as a sub‐contractor to Millennium Communications Group, Matrix designed (4) fiber optic monitoring networks connecting over (225) 26kV transformer SCADA control panels throughout Metropolitan New Jersey in the cities of Newark, New Brunswick, Paterson and Trenton for Public Service Electric & Gas. The project encompassed the design and installation of approximately 108,000 LF of innerduct and fiber optic cable through PSEG’s Metro, Central and Southern Division manhole systems as part of a larger state funded multi‐million dollar “Smart Grid” project. Matrix provided Microstation design packages for the (4) networks, inclusive of conduit and cable running lines, manhole butterfly details and construction as‐built drawings. Splice details, splicing / testing plans, optical loss budget calculations, material specifications and documented test results of the networks were also included in the project deliverable. Matrix provided construction project management services for the duration of the project. All work was completed on time and within budget.


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