Pacific Palisades · Malibu · Altadena
34.0459° N · 118.5262° W
Decision Construction clears the path between a rebuild plan and an energized, financeable, buildable property — coordinating LADWP, SCE, SoCalGas, and telecom so Southern California's fire recovery actually moves forward.
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01 — The Problem
Rebuilding after a disaster is not just a construction problem. It is a coordination problem. A homeowner can have an architect, a contractor, insurance proceeds, and a full plan set — and still be unable to build.
Most stakeholders focus on the vertical building. We focus on the invisible critical path beneath it.
Ready to rebuild — stalled on unresolved service routing, meter locations, transformer capacity, abandonments, and undergrounding decisions.
Crews ready to mobilize — but LADWP, SCE, SoCalGas, telecom, plan check, right-of-way, and trenching logistics are not aligned.
Wants to fund the loan — but lacks confidence in true timeline, utility risk, and whether the parcel can be energized on schedule.
Sees opportunity in fire-impacted lots — but cannot underwrite the hidden infrastructure costs that determine site viability.
Wants underground utilities — but can't organize dozens of homeowners, easements, and SCE coordination across a multi-year process.
This is where the rebuild breaks down — and where we begin.
02 — Core Services
From a single homeowner's meter spot to institutional parcel data — every service compounds the same advantage: we are embedded inside the daily flow of the rebuild.
Feasibility review, temporary power, permanent routing, meter spotting, abandonments, agency submittals, and final energization — a dedicated technical advocate from plan to power.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE →Turnkey SCE and LADWP design management — vault, pad, and pull-box siting, meter alignment, joint trench, Rule 20 support, and portfolio dashboards across active sites.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE →Block captain support: homeowner education, easement tracking, pole and meter mapping, digital sign-offs, and agency coordination — technical planning and social alignment together.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE →We see which parcels are moving, which are stalled, which agencies bottleneck, which lenders are active, and which lots are financeable — translated into strategic intelligence for capital and community stakeholders.
Hyper-granular infrastructure insight mapped to parcels, street segments, and utility corridors — delivered into Autodesk, ESRI, custom ERPs, REST APIs, and GraphQL workflows.
03 — Who We Serve
You do not need to become a utility expert to rebuild your home.
We manage agency coordination, dry utility planning, and the energization pathway so your rebuild does not get trapped in bureaucracy.
Request a parcel review →You build the house. We clear the utility path.
LADWP, SCE, SoCalGas, telecom, meter spots, design reviews, and energization — managed so your team protects schedule and margin.
Audit your portfolio →A rebuild loan is only as strong as its true path to completion.
Parcel-level utility readiness and rebuild intelligence for better underwriting, structuring, and earlier identification of troubled rebuilds.
See the intelligence layer →Undergrounding cannot run on spreadsheets and group texts.
Your block gets the technical roadmap, homeowner tracking, agency coordination, and dashboard needed to move together.
Organize your block →04 — Coverage
Los Angeles County · Est. 2025 fires recovery
LADWP territory
High-value, hillside, agency-intensive. Power restoration, undergrounding decisions, slope and trenching feasibility, driveway geometry — where we handle roughly half the utility consulting for parcels under construction rebuild.
SCE territory · coastal
Coastal constraints, permitting complexity, lender scrutiny, and parcel-specific infrastructure limitations — rebuild urgency meeting some of the most demanding site conditions in the county.
SCE territory · undergrounding
A neighborhood-scale utility transformation moment — SCE plans ~63 circuit miles of undergrounding in damaged areas, and we lead the first active neighborhood-level project with SCE and homeowners.
05 — The Intelligence Layer
Every engagement produces structured knowledge: agency timelines, utility requirements, routing constraints, neighborhood patterns, rebuild friction. Over time, that work becomes proprietary market intelligence.
Parcel-level readiness scoring, utility delay risk, CapEx forecasting, and rebuild dashboards — for private banks, construction lenders, investors, insurers, NGOs, and civic organizations.
Request an intelligence briefing06 — Field Work
A homeowner ready to rebuild faced open questions on permanent power, gas status, meter placement, and underground routing. We reviewed the parcel, coordinated LADWP and providers, and aligned the GC's schedule with agency milestones.
→ Fewer surprises, tighter budget assumptions, a known path to power.
A builder with multiple rebuild parcels faced different service conditions and critical-path risks on each. We centralized the utility workflow, tracked every parcel, coordinated meter spots, and surfaced stalled agency actions early.
→ PMs stopped chasing utilities; homes stopped sitting finished but dark.
Homeowners wanted underground utilities but had no process. We organized the neighborhood, documented parcel-level conditions, tracked sign-offs, and coordinated the technical steps with SCE — the first active project of its kind.
→ Structured undergrounding, moving together instead of stalling apart.
A private bank needed to see utility-related rebuild risk across client collateral. We provided parcel-level readiness, rebuild status, bottleneck analysis, and market intelligence beyond what any appraisal shows.
→ Better underwriting, earlier identification of troubled rebuilds.
07 — The Ask
We are seeking strategic conversations with partners who can help scale this field position into a rebuild intelligence platform — while continuing to solve urgent utility problems for homeowners, builders, and neighborhoods.
08 — Contact
We respond with a grounded read: what your utility path looks like, where the risk is, and what has to happen next.
Walk through our short project review — who you are, where the property is, and what's blocking you. We come back with what your utility path actually looks like, where the risk sits, and what has to happen next.
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A single home, a builder's portfolio, or a whole street deciding to underground — the same embedded field position, applied where you stand.
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The Problem
The owner has one schedule. The GC has another. Utility companies have separate requirements, the designer is waiting on comments, the civil engineer is managing conflicts, the subcontractor is waiting for direction — and telecom is missing from the conversation until it's late. By the time issues appear in the field, they are expensive to fix.
The Solution
Instead of scattered emails, spreadsheets, PDFs, and disconnected meetings, every owner, builder, utility, designer, agency, and field crew works from one live project environment — one shared source of truth for every task, document, milestone, approval, conflict, and field update.
12 modules · every stakeholder · one source of truth
Inside the platform
A live view of where the entire utility process stands — trench phase, provider status, pending applications, open comments, permits, overdue tasks, and energization readiness in one glance.
Every stakeholder gets access based on their role — owners see progress and risk, GCs see schedule impacts, utilities see submittals, engineers see conflicts, subs see scope and dates, agencies see permits. Aligned, without forcing everyone into the same workflow.
A visual coordination map of routes, corridors, alignments, vaults, meters, easements, and constraints — so the team sees utility conflicts early, instead of discovering them during excavation.
A responsibility matrix for every provider — applications, design packages, fees, contacts, review timelines, inspections, and release requirements. No more confusion about who owns each step before the trench can move.
Joint trench work depends on sequencing. The platform breaks the process into clear milestones — from research and applications through pull wire, meter set, and energization — with an owner, due date, status, and priority for every task.
Applications, plans, trench details, easements, permits, comments, photos, and as-builts — organized by category and version. Nobody works off an outdated plan, because the latest approved file is unmistakable.
Route conflicts, separation violations, grading clashes, meter and vault placement issues, permit delays, field obstructions — each one assigned to the responsible party and tracked until it's resolved, not until it's forgotten.
Utility milestones connect to the main construction schedule — so the team sees exactly how a utility delay ripples into grading, paving, inspections, occupancy, and energization. Utility work becomes part of the sequence, not an afterthought.
Crews update the platform from the trench — daily progress, photos, utility markings, installed conduit, material deliveries, conflicts, and punch items. A real-time connection between the office, the design team, the providers, and the field.
The platform does the follow-up: overdue tasks, new comments, design revisions, permit updates, inspections, schedule changes, and approval deadlines trigger the right people automatically — no more chasing by email.
Decision-grade summaries for owners, developers, lenders, and leadership — overall status, open risks, schedule impacts, budget exposure, and the decisions needed — without requiring anyone to manage technical utility detail.
Inspection sign-offs, as-builts, approvals, meter release, punch completion, provider confirmations — organized so the project never reaches the finish line only to discover something is missing.
Benefits
Visibility, accountability, and schedule control — what's complete, what's delayed, what decisions are needed.
A utility sequence aligned with the construction schedule — trench, inspections, paving, and site access coordinated.
Organized submittals, current documents, and one coordination point — less confusion, less repeated follow-up.
Conflicts identified earlier, revisions managed efficiently, comments connected to the latest plans.
Clear scope, current plans, real dates, and live field updates — less rework, less downtime.
Organized permit documentation, coordinated inspections, and clearer communication in the right-of-way.
Better visibility into infrastructure risk, schedule exposure, and utility readiness — before issues become costly delays.
Why this matters
Joint trench coordination is not just a technical process — it is project risk management. Decision Construction prevents those delays by managing the utility process early, actively, and transparently.
The Government Challenge
When hundreds or thousands of properties rebuild at once, every agency needs the same answer to the same question: where does each rebuild stand, what is blocking progress, and what public infrastructure work is required next? Fragmented records make that answer impossible — until issues surface as complaints, missed inspections, and stalled corridors.
The Platform · Rebuild Intelligence Hub
A secure, map-based coordination and reporting platform — configurable for city agencies, county departments, utility providers, council offices, and approved external stakeholders.
Which department is involved, what action is required, who owns the next step, what's missing, and what deadline applies — cross-department dependencies made visible instead of buried in isolated records.
Resident-friendly dashboards: progress by neighborhood, permits issued, upcoming street work, meeting dates — transparent for the public, while sensitive internal notes remain private.
Consulting Support
Our consultants organize the field reality behind the permit data — so the dashboard reflects the street, not last month's spreadsheet.
Value by Stakeholder
The Challenge
Your teams execute heavy civil, trenching, roadway, and infrastructure work. But on multi-block programs you also inherit residents, businesses, agencies, utilities, traffic requirements, and political visibility. Even the best civil team loses momentum when that coordination breaks down — and those losses hit production, sequencing, manpower, and claims exposure directly.
What We Manage
Resident & business notifications, door-to-door and multilingual outreach, block captains, driveway/parking/trash coordination, hotline, complaint intake & resolution.
Sign-offs, parcel access, block-by-block clearance, traffic control readiness, staging areas, work windows, and agency restrictions — one answer: is this block ready?
Provider schedules, power transitions, gas, telecom, joint trench sequencing, wet/dry conflicts, cut-over windows, and inspection milestones — no utility stand-downs.
Transportation, public works, engineering bureaus, council offices, funding programs — the communication trail organized, approvals tracked, issues escalated early.
Notices delivered, residents contacted, ROW resolved, utility steps completed, photos and proof — an audit-ready record, not a scattered email trail.
The Platform · Decision Infrastructure Hub
A live command center for every block, parcel, stakeholder, utility, agency, field issue, and clearance milestone — answering the questions that must be answered before crews mobilize.
Cleared parcels, pending notifications, access issues, ROW limits, staging, utility corridors, field issues, and photo locations — community logistics as a visual management system.
Type, delivery date, method, proof photo, response, and clearance per parcel — with a hard block gate: crews don't mobilize until required outreach is verifiably complete.
Production, sequencing, manpower, and subcontractor plans all assume the block is ready.
Idle crews, re-sequencing, standby costs, claims, change orders, and owner pressure — all from coordination that should have happened weeks earlier.
Notices, contacts, resolutions, photos, approvals — documentation that defends your schedule and your decisions.
The Prime Contractor Benefit
The Challenge
Each parcel has different utility conditions, agencies, service requirements, meter locations, trench routes, easements, and approval timelines. Most builders are forced to track it all through email chains, spreadsheets, plan sets, and phone calls — and the risk multiplies with every active site.
The Solution
Which parcels are ready? Which are stuck? Which utilities are blocking construction? Which sites are ready for trenching, inspection, meter set, or energization? The platform answers the questions builders ask every day.
Consulting
Existing & required conditions per parcel — electric, gas, telecom, water, sewer, storm, meters, laterals, easements — before they become construction problems.
Electric, gas, telecom, fiber, undergrounding, service upgrades, meter locations, transformers, conduit routing, pull boxes, and vaults.
Water, sewer, storm drain, fire service, laterals, main connections, capacity issues, and coordination with civil design and municipal agencies.
Routes, separation, provider participation, sequencing, field readiness, inspections, and closeout. See the full Joint Trench platform →
One coordination point for utility companies, municipalities, public works, building departments, engineers, designers, and subs.
Utility tasks tied to grading, foundation, paving, inspections, occupancy, meter release, and energization milestones.
When conflicts surface, we convene the right stakeholders, document the issue, track the decision, and push resolution forward.
Inspections, sign-offs, as-builts, meter releases, approvals, and energization — no last-minute utility surprises at completion.
The Platform
Electric, gas, telecom, water, sewer, storm — with service points, required upgrades, permit status, provider contacts, open risks, and the next required action. Wet and dry, one record.
The platform ranks parcels by urgency, schedule impact, and blocking issues — ready for action, waiting on providers, blocked by design or permits, or approaching milestones that put occupancy and turnover at risk.
Manageable. You absorb it, resequence, and move on.
Staffing, subcontractor sequencing, revenue timing, lender reporting, and delivery all slip together.
Requirements identified early, responsibility assigned, approvals tracked, conflicts resolved before field work — on every lot.
The Builder Benefit
One partner for wet and dry utility coordination, one platform for every parcel — so your PMs build instead of chasing utilities.
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The Institutional Challenge
A lender funds before construction readiness is proven. An insurer settles while field conditions are still moving. A nonprofit directs support without knowing which households are truly stuck. Rebuild information lives scattered across agencies, builders, permit portals, utility companies, spreadsheets, and field notes — and that creates blind spots.
The Rebuild Intelligence Hub
A secure, map-based command center that brings parcel data, utility readiness, agency milestones, builder activity, documents, field updates, and risk indicators into one shared environment — a single source of truth from damage to occupancy.
Platform Capabilities
Portfolio assets, financed and insured properties, utility constraints, right-of-way impacts, and completed rebuilds — layered over the parcel fabric. Institutions see not just their own assets, but the recovery environment around them.
Utility, permit, infrastructure, schedule, access, funding, builder capacity, community impact, occupancy, and documentation risk — scored per parcel and rolled up per portfolio, so risk teams see which assets need attention and which are moving normally.
Loan draws, insurance claims, and grant releases tracked against verified milestones — site verification, utility readiness, construction, inspection, occupancy. Funds move when the parcel is actually ready, and holds surface before they become losses.
Consulting Behind the Software
Data is only useful when someone knows what it means on the ground. Our consultants verify conditions in the field, coordinate utilities and agencies, and turn platform signals into recommended actions.
Value by Institution
Construction readiness, draw risk, collateral recovery, and occupancy timing.
Rebuild progress, field conditions, documentation, and recovery timelines.
Campus-adjacent rebuilds, housing recovery, access, and utility disruption.
Access routes, utility resilience, workforce housing, community recovery.
Which households are stalled — and where support has the greatest impact.
Readiness, infrastructure risk, and contractor performance across properties.
Measurable rebuild progress for every recovery dollar deployed.
Investment coordination, infrastructure sequencing, recovery reporting.
The CRE Challenge
A broker knows demand, but not utility readiness. A lender knows exposure, but not infrastructure constraints. An investor sees the acquisition, but not the service-restoration risk beneath it. And a tenant may be ready to sign while occupancy still depends on power, water, sewer, telecom, access, and inspections.
The CRE Rebuild Intelligence Hub
Property data, utility readiness, agency milestones, documents, field observations, and schedule blockers — consolidated per asset and rolled up per portfolio, so leadership sees recovery the way they see rent rolls.
Platform Capabilities
Base-building utilities, life-safety, fire access, telecom, sidewalk restoration, final utility release, certificate of occupancy — tracked as one reopening path, with the date risk quantified for owners, tenants, and brokers.
Service constraints, required upgrades, entitlement barriers, access issues, corridor recovery trends, and coordination complexity — quantified before acquisition, refinancing, or repositioning decisions are made. The distressed price is only a deal if the utility path is in the basis.
Consulting Behind the Software
Our consultants walk the sites, coordinate the utilities and agencies, verify conditions, and turn platform signals into decisions your asset team can execute.
Value by Stakeholder
What's blocking each asset — and the steps to construction, reopening, or redevelopment.
Portfolio-wide infrastructure exposure, readiness, and recovery sequencing.
Better diligence before buying, refinancing, or repositioning in affected markets.
Grounded intelligence for listings, tenant conversations, and market recovery analysis.
Collateral recovery, construction readiness, draw risk, and occupancy timing.
Documentation and field visibility into rebuild progress and infrastructure barriers.
Access, utility service, tenant communication, and site readiness in one view.
Reliable reopening timelines, utility restoration, and occupancy readiness.
The Government Challenge
A single parcel can involve building permits, planning review, street excavation, traffic control, water, sewer, storm drain, electric, gas, telecom, fire access, inspections, right-of-way approvals, funding compliance, and community communication. Across thousands of parcels, that complexity multiplies — while each department sees only its own slice.
The Government Rebuild Intelligence Hub
Parcel data, permit status, utility readiness, right-of-way impacts, outreach records, agency action items, and executive reporting — connected in one secure, map-based environment, by parcel, block, corridor, district, and agency.
Platform Capabilities
Every parcel carries a coordination matrix: responsible agency, required action, due date, status, and escalation level — across building & safety, public works, utilities, fire, transportation, and elected offices. Idle items auto-escalate on an SLA clock.
The same intelligence that runs internal coordination powers a resident-friendly public dashboard — permits, construction progress, upcoming street work, and community meetings — while sensitive internal detail stays private. Fewer calls to elected offices, fewer surprises on the street.
Consulting Behind the Software
Our team works alongside agency staff — mapping processes, coordinating utilities and builders, collecting field data, and configuring dashboards — so the platform reflects how your departments actually operate.
Value by Stakeholder
Parcel-level visibility into progress, utility readiness, inspections, and unresolved actions.
A coordinated view across unincorporated areas, county roads, fire, planning, and recovery ops.
Trenching, street cuts, sewer, storm drain, lighting, traffic, and restoration in one view.
Situational awareness for recovery operations, sequencing, and executive reporting.
Clear answers for constituents, neighborhood updates, and escalation tracking.
An organized way to coordinate with agencies, builders, contractors, and public works.
Clearer communication, fewer surprises, and a more organized rebuild process.
Audit-ready records of what happened, when, who was responsible, and what was resolved.
The Community Leadership Challenge
Is my block ready? Why is my neighbor's permit faster? When does trenching start? Who owns the sidewalk? Without a shared system, leaders answer from public dashboards, email chains, meeting notes, and social media posts — and confusion becomes mistrust.
The Community Rebuild Intelligence Hub
Not a technical console — a community recovery command center. Parcel status, utility readiness, street impacts, resident concerns, and outreach records, organized so leaders can communicate clearly, advocate effectively, and help residents move forward.
Platform Capabilities
Access issues, noise, outages, senior needs, business interruptions — every concern captured with an owner, a status, and a resolution record. Residents see follow-through; leaders see patterns.
One click builds the packet: neighborhood progress, upcoming utility work, what's been escalated on residents' behalf, and the questions still needing agency answers — resident-friendly, multi-lingual, and grounded in the same data agencies see.
Consulting Behind the Software
Our team gathers and interprets the rebuild information, coordinates with utilities and agencies, verifies conditions in the field, and prepares what you need to stand in front of your neighbors with confidence.
Value by Stakeholder
Rebuild progress, infrastructure issues, and agency action items — clearly understood.
One shared recovery picture across organizations and neighborhoods.
Block-level visibility into construction, utilities, access, and shared concerns.
Simple tools for notices, resident needs, access issues, and upcoming work.
Street access, utility restoration, customer access, and reopening readiness.
Find the households, seniors, renters, and small businesses that need support.
Clearer communication, fewer surprises, and follow-through they can see.
Organized community feedback and documented, credible escalations.
