Competitive Advantages
Keys to Success Tools
Community Involvement Expertise
HR Green has helped gather and understand community feedback for more than 110 years. Our Community Involvement process is established to leverage your existing programs, but augmented by our own expertise in matters of broadband.
Our toolset includes geospatially-sensitive tooling so you can understand neighborhood by neighborhood where issues exist. This enables more targeted and effective solutions.
Map showing reported broadband speeds and underserved areas identified by state broadband office for Clinton County, IA.
Grant Development and Grant Writing
State and federal Broadband Grant programs will drive more than $65 billion of funding in the next decade. HR Green's professional staff are experts who can help to develop grant materials and write effective grant applications that deliver much needed funding for your broadband projects.
- Deep understanding of federal/state grant programs
- Experienced grant professionals
- Relationships with state broadband offices throughout our footprint
Infrastructure Act* Creates ~$65B in Broadband Funding
A Proven Approach to Broadband Improvements
HR Green leverages a program management approach that looks not just at the technical or financial components of broadband feasibility. Instead, our team’s philosophy focuses on a comprehensive, program management construct in which you are provided a holistic approach to the distinct phases of broadband development below.
Our approach provides deliverables at each step of the journey, keeping you deeply engaged in the process and ensuring the right outcomes for your community.
VISION
- Community outreach
- Local market assessment
- Public sector analysis
- Smart infrastructure
- Establish vision
PLAN
- Conceptual design
- Financial analysis
- Leverage funding
- Facilitate strategy
- Engage with partners
DESIGN
- High level design
- Field verification
- Low level design
BUILD
- Construction management
- Inspection services
Powerful Modeling Tools Maximize Flexibility
Communities often take a winding journey to arrive at final decisions about the form of their broadband solutions. Our in-house GIS tools allow us to respond in near-real-time to changing political and policy decisions during that journey. Because design tools are integrated into financial models, we can move rapidly as your own project evolves.
Importantly, our CapEx projections are not based on sampled or projected "generic" costs but based on ground-truthed, home by home network high-level design data.
- Dynamic design tools
- Real-time capabilities
- Designs based on full market connectivity - no sampling or projecting
- Ground-truthed CapEx projections
Metro High Level Design of muncipal broadband network proposed in Fort Dodge, IA. Designs like this are closely tied to financial feasibility models.
Robust Financial Modeling
Creating accurate financial models is crucial ot understanding the feasibility of your project. Our models are designed to create bondable financial crucial to understanding projections, with full P&L, Cash Flow, and Long Term feasibility analysis.
- Real-time capabilities
- Ground up, real data
- Not hypothetical unit costs - House by house, street by street design and costing
A financial model for a proposed municipal broadband project showing long-term cash flow and feasibility. HR Green's models align with the needs of municipal bonding agents in the financial market.
Grant Planning Tools
HR Green leverages state of the art grant planning tools to help your community identify and prioritize available federal and state broadband funding sources.
These tools are designed to help you:
- Quickly identify served and unserved locations in your community.
- Develop high-level estimates of available funding to help you understand potential capital offsets.
- Identify various funding mechanisms.
Grantinator – Geographical Analysis
Map and analysis reflecting a proposed Fiber-to-the-Home project, including expansion build opportunities. HR Green's model allows for robust modeling to determine levels of grant support available in state and federal funding.
