Full Service Design.
Delivered Remotely.
Pathworks turns hand sketches, marked-up maps and rough spreadsheets into professional, standards-compliant engineering deliverables across FTTx & Telecom and Energy & Renewables.
Four disciplines. One remote team, working like an extension of yours.
FTTx & Telecom Networks
High-Level and Low-Level Design, outside- and inside-plant drafting, splicing and BOM/BOQ documentation, and construction support for GPON, XGS-PON and point-to-point networks.
Electrical
Single-line and three-line diagrams, panel schedules, load and short-circuit calculations, substation and switchgear drafting, and compliance documentation.
Civil & Structural
Site plans, grading and drainage, structural detailing, earthwork calculations, and construction drawing packages for civil and structural teams.
Energy & Renewables
Solar PV site layouts, PVsyst yield simulations, single-line diagrams, BESS layouts, and grid-connection and permitting documentation.
Built for firms that need confidentiality and scale
Full service engineering design. Delivered remotely.
- 01
Start with a bounded request
Send what you have — sketches, GIS/CAD files, pole data, spreadsheets. A named engineer reviews it and confirms a scoping timetable.
- 02
Agree scope, standards & criteria
Work begins once a written SOW sets deliverables, assumptions, standards and who owns each engineering decision.
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Produce with visible controls
Assumptions, RFIs and progress are logged as they happen, not buried inside the drawing set.
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Independent QA & handoff
A second reviewer checks the package against the SOW before a revision-tracked transmittal ships.
Work with us the way that fits your pipeline.
Per-Project
Fixed scope, fixed price, per task or drawing package. Quoted within 12 hours of your request: ideal for a single design, a permit package, or clearing a specific backlog item.
Retainer
Reserved monthly capacity (hours or deliverable volume) with priority turnaround. Built for teams with an ongoing design and drafting pipeline.
Both paths end in a scoped quotation prepared by our team. Pricing is confirmed during scoping, not published up front.
Greenfield FTTH design for 500 homes, full OSP package from plat to BOM
Built to standard US ILEC/CLEC practice: a two-stage 1:4/1:8 split localizes fault response to a single FDT instead of the whole feeder, construction runs underground-first to meet HOA aesthetic requirements, and 20–30% spare fiber is held at every tier so the network can absorb infill lots without a re-trench. The design closes with 7.4 dB of optical margin against the 28 dB GPON Class B+ budget, enough headroom for a future 1:64 upgrade at a subset of FDTs.
- Input received
- The subdivision plat with lot layout and home count (~4 homes/acre), the target GPON architecture, and local joint-trench and AHJ burial requirements.
- Delivered
- A complete outside-plant design: two-stage centralized/distributed GPON topology (FDH/FDT), civil route and handhole plan, fiber count and splice architecture by tier, a cumulative optical link budget, and a procurement-ready bill of materials.
- Timeline
- Scoped in 2 hours, delivered in 2 business days.
144F feeder cable, gel-filled loose tube, 3.6 km run
1:4 splitter: first-stage split, feeds 4 distribution legs
1:8 splitter per FDT: 16 FDTs across the subdivision
1 fiber per home, 500 homes passed, 1:32 effective split
Time zones aren’t a workaround here. They’re the advantage.
9:00 PM
Your evening: you hand off
9:00 AM
Nairobi morning: we pick up
Overnight turnaround, not overnight delay
Hand off work at the end of your day and find progress waiting when you log back in. Our distributed team spans multiple time zones by design.
One accountable partner, not a patchwork of freelancers
A single delivery team, internally managed and quality-checked, stands behind every deliverable, not a marketplace of disconnected contractors.
Built for global clients from day one
Currencies, units and communication norms anticipate an international client base as standard practice, not an afterthought.
Trusted with the details that matter most.
“We sent a photo of a whiteboard sketch on a Friday afternoon. By Monday morning we had a scoped quote and a clear delivery date. That turnaround is the whole reason we keep coming back.”
“Our own drafting team was buried in a tender. Pathworks took the overflow electrical packages and handed back drawings we could submit for permit with no rework.”
“The time-zone gap stopped being a problem and started being an advantage. We hand off at the end of our day and there's progress waiting when we log back in.”
Field-tested notes on design, drafting and delivery.
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Have a sketch? That’s enough to start.
Send us anything you have. We’ll reply with a scope and quote within 12 hours.