Who's watching your build?

You've decided how the coverage in your building gets funded and built. Now someone has to make sure the RFP surfaces what vendors won't volunteer, the contract holds final payment to a real acceptance test, and the as-built drawings actually match what's in the walls. On most wireless projects, no one owns that job — the general contractor manages the integrator's schedule, not your coverage requirements.

This is NHN's second white paper: a phase-by-phase playbook for the owner's-representative role on a DAS, ERRCS, or Private 5G project — from the first requirement to the annual retest.

What’s inside

• One project lifecycle, Phase 0 through Phase 6, with DAS, ERRCS and Private 5G shown as variations inside each phase — not three playbooks stapled together

• A weighted, vendor-neutral RFP scoring approach borrowed from mainstream construction procurement

• The single most expensive ERRCS sequencing mistake: finalizing the RF design before the AHJ has approved it

• Why Private 5G changes who controls the project’s schedule risk

• What to physically witness during commissioning — and what a rushed acceptance test misses that shows up three to six months later

• A practitioner’s field number: how often as-built conditions actually match the original design, and the two questions that matter more than that number does

Borrowed discipline, not invented discipline

The owner’s-representative role has existed in mainstream construction for decades — the Construction Management Association of America and the American Institute of Architects both have standard models for it. It’s never been applied specifically to wireless infrastructure. This paper is what that discipline looks like once it is.

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