Business View Magazine - November 2016

Business View Magazine - November 2016 73 and condition. “None of the major carriers in the U.S. have employees to do the grunt work, so to speak,” Newsome says. “They have a couple of guys they call ‘cell techs’ and those guys just go out and determine whether or not they need to call in a team like us.” NAV Industrial has three different departments. “We have a construction department which basically em- braces tower construction, civil concrete road-making construction, and network infrastructure construc- tion,” Newsome explains. “We also have a mainte- nance department which we use to maintain the same areas that we do construction in after it’s been poured and put into operation. We also have a department that does third-party infrastructure testing for us and for other contractors that are similar to us.” The company’s tower services include inspection, sig- nal testing, pro-active troubleshooting, and tower, site, landscaping, and lighting maintenance. NAV Industrial also provides in-building cellular network services, be- cause there are many physical objects - such as gran- ite, marble, stone, concrete, metal roofs, steel beams, and even energy-efficient windows - that can interfere with the transmission of RF signals into a building. “We AT A GLANCE WHO: NAV Industrial WHAT: A provider of cellular services to wireless companies WHERE: Hardy, Virginia WEBSITE : www.navindustrial.com