Church Steeple Cell Site Design
Pittsburgh, PA

All cell sites have their own challenges. However one recent SSC design completed for a church site in Pittsburgh, PA encountered three major design obstacles: an underground equipment vault, a steeple replacement, and a new roughed-in bathroom.

Due to space limitations inside the church and for aesthetic reasons outside the church, an underground vault was designed to conceal the equipment. A cast-in-place concrete vault 12' wide x 24' long x 10' tall was designed to be completely buried 2' below grade immediately adjacent to the church with access through a new outside stairwell. 

The existing 35' church steeple was located above the roof of the main entry vestibule. This steeple was replaced with a new 35' fiberglass steeple and three cluster-mounted panel antennas were concealed inside.

The church was also able to benefit from the project by having a new wheelchair accessible bathroom roughed-in adjacent to the main entry vestibule. The bathroom extension off the vestibule was designed to be located directly over part of the underground vault. This worked out well from a site design perspective to allow the coaxial cables to be routed from the vault, up through a false wall cavity in the bathroom, in through the attic space above the vestibule and up into the new fiberglass steeple.