--- title: Rural Survey and Design description: Designs for more than 230,000 premises under the National Broadband Plan. image: https://entegro.com/hubfs/CS_NBI_hero.webp --- [Skip to main content](https://entegro.com/projects/survey-and-design#main) [![Entegro](https://entegro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/stoicaXentegro/images/entegro-logo.png?width=59&height=64&name=entegro-logo.png)](https://entegro.com?hsLang=en) - [Telecoms](https://entegro.com/telecoms?hsLang=en) - [Energy & Power](https://entegro.com/energy-and-power?hsLang=en) - [Case Studies](https://entegro.com/projects?hsLang=en) - About ![](https://entegro.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/stoicaXentegro/images/nav-chevron.svg) - [About Entegro](https://entegro.com/about-entegro?hsLang=en) - [People and culture](https://entegro.com/people-and-culture?hsLang=en) - [Careers](https://careers.entegro.ie/) - [Insights](https://entegro.com/insights?hsLang=en) - [Get in touch](https://entegro.com/contact-us?hsLang=en) [Get in touch](https://entegro.com/contact-us?hsLang=en) Case study # Rural Survey and Design Designs for more than 230,000 premises under the National Broadband Plan. --- - National Broadband Ireland (NBI) - Fibre broadband network - Ireland - Survey and design - ArcGIS, PostGIS, Power B ![Field engineer in a hard hat and hi-vis vest surveying a telegraph pole beside an NBI and Entegro van in rural Ireland](https://entegro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CS_NBI_hero.webp?width=1374&height=461&name=CS_NBI_hero.webp) 230K+ Reduction in operating cost 2.2M+ Survey data points captured 2020 Partner since The challenge ## A fibre network within reach of every home. The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is bringing fibre broadband infrastructure to 566,000+ premises where commercial operators indicated they had no plans to invest. The majority of these are rural, and National Broadband Ireland (NBI) is delivering the network. Entegro has been one of its main survey and design partners since 2020. Rural routes bring constraints that urban builds rarely do. The rollout area stretches across 96% of Ireland's land mass, including 107 islands, with fibre on 1.5 million poles, many of them new, and 15,000km of duct that often needs clearing. Across 227 deployment areas, every route is surveyed and designed the same way. ![Two Entegro engineers on ladders installing a fibre broadband cable along the front of a house](https://entegro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CS_NBI_challenge.webp?width=1082&height=1623&name=CS_NBI_challenge.webp) ## Our approach Entegro surveys proposed routes in the field, designs the fibre network that NBI's build partners construct, and supports the build through to as-built. 01 ### Survey Every route and pole in the field. ![](https://entegro.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/stoicaXentegro/images/approach-arrow-right.svg) 02 ### Survey standard Survey data is validated as it is captured. ![](https://entegro.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/stoicaXentegro/images/approach-arrow-right.svg) 03 ### Design The network for each premise. ![](https://entegro.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/stoicaXentegro/images/approach-arrow-right.svg) 04 ### Data at scale To keep the field apps fast at national scale, each map holds only what surveyors need. ![](https://entegro.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/stoicaXentegro/images/approach-arrow-right.svg) 05 ### Build support Each request for information (RFI) from a build partner is tracked individually through to resolution, and final as-builts are exported for import into NBI's GE Smallworld system. The outcome ## From field survey to as-built, across rural Ireland. Since 2020, Entegro has completed designs for more than 230,000 premises and captured more than 2.2 million survey data points for the National Broadband Plan. Automated field checks, GIS systems connected to NBI's own and quality control at every stage mean those designs reach build partners ready to construct, with every change tracked through to as-built, supporting NBI in keeping the rollout on schedule and on budget. > “One survey standard, every team, every premises. Entegro made consistency at national scale look simple and gave us data we can trust from the field to the final design.” National Broadband Ireland (NBI) ## About NBI National Broadband Ireland is delivering the National Broadband Plan (NBP), the Government's programme to bring fibre to rural and underserved premises across Ireland. Entegro is one of its main survey and design partners. ![NBI Logo](https://entegro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/nbi-contained.webp?width=1082&height=1623&name=nbi-contained.webp) ## Related work ![Sretaw – Landfill Solar Farm](https://entegro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CS_Sretaw-Landfill_hero.webp?width=1368&name=CS_Sretaw-Landfill_hero.webp) Power 6.45 MWp solar farm ### Turning a capped landfill into a 6.45 MWp solar farm [View case study](https://entegro.com/projects/landfill-to-solar-farm?hsLang=en) ![Colleague pointing at a network route map on a computer screen](https://entegro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/supplied%20wind%20imagery%20(4).webp?width=1392&height=520&name=supplied%20wind%20imagery%20(4).webp) Start a conversation ## Planning a rural fibre rollout? Talk to our team about what we can do for you. 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