ASSE AND TIA Announce Effort to Raise Awareness Around Important New Communication Tower Standards

Arlington, Va. (September 15, 2016) -The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are launching a joint effort to raise awareness of new standards that are important for all workers and companies that install, alter or maintain communication towers. The new American National Standard Institute (ANSI) approved standard, ANSI/TIA-322, Loading…
New TIA Standard Will Improve Communications in Tower Planning and Construction

Arlington, VA (August 25, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high tech communications networks, will release a new standard to facilitate improved communication between engineers and contractors when planning and assessing tower construction. The new American National Standard Institute (ANSI) approved standard – ANSI/TIA-322, Loading…
TIA Communications Tower Standard Celebrates 60 Years

TIA is proud to celebrate the 60th anniversary of providing guidance in the structural design and fabrication of communications towers with our engineering standard ANSI/TIA-222, Structural Steel Standards for Steel Antenna Towers and Supporting Structures.
TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and Antennas and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures

Stakeholders Invited to Contact TIA Regarding Participation. Arlington VA. (December 11, 2020) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-14 Engineering Committee on Structural Standards for Communications and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures has issued a call for interest for document ANSI/TIA-222-H-2 initially titled ” Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and Antennas and Small Wind…
TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Structural Standard For Antenna Supporting Structures, Antennas and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures- Addendum 1

Arlington, VA (June 5, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-14 engineering committee on structural standards for communication and small wind turbine support structures has issued a call for interest for document ANSI/TIA-222-H-1 titled Structural Standard For Antenna Supporting Structures, Antennas and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures- Addendum 1. This will update the amplification…
TIA Seeks Participation in TR-14 Drones Task Group

Arlington, VA (September 4, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-14 Engineering Committee on Structural Standards for Communication and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures seeks participation in its Drones Ad Hoc Group as the group begins efforts to build an industry-specific knowledgebase around the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology. Unmanned aircraft systems…
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TR-14 Fall 2020 Virtual Committee Meeting Highlights

TIA’s TR-14 Engineering Committee for Structural Standards for Communication and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures held their first Virtual Committee Meeting for 2020 on September 23, 2020 and eleven Ad Hoc Task Group meetings the previous week. TR-14 Chair, Bryan Lanier (American Tower Corp.) opened the meeting and gave a brief overview of the agenda…
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TR-14 Structural Standards for Communication and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures

Engineering Committee TR-14 is responsible for the ANSI/TIA-222 Standard, “Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures, Antennas and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures” and the ANSI/TIA-322 Standard, “Loading, Analysis and Design Criteria Related to the Installation, Alteration and Maintenance of Communication Structures.”

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World Standards Day 2020

Every year on October 14, members of the IEC, ISO, ITU and other standards organizations celebrate global standards as a way of honoring and paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of over 20,000 contributors worldwide from various industries, government and academia who come together to develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as consensus-based…