Flagpole installation inAlbuquerque, NM

Flagpoles in Albuquerque

The only big city in the state: federal and laboratory money on the east side, a downtown and university core in the middle, and commercial frontage running for miles out across the mesa. We cover Albuquerque and the Bernalillo County area, including Old Town, downtown and Civic Plaza, Nob Hill, the University of New Mexico campus, Uptown, the Sunport and Kirtland Air Force Base, the Northeast Heights, the Sandia foothills and Mesa del Sol.

Wind here. Albuquerque sits in a high-desert, dry and sun-hard area, which works out to roughly 105 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. 105 mph is a gentle figure and it is not what makes an Albuquerque job. Three other things do. The city runs its own building department, and a city can hold you to criteria above the map, so we work to the number the plan reviewer works to and settle that before the quote goes out. Old Town sits under a historic protection overlay, which means height, placement and finish there are agreed before anything is ordered rather than after. Then the sun: at around 5,000 ft and up, a mill finish chalks and a flag fades far faster than the same pair would at sea level, which is why anodized comes up early in the conversation here. Work on Kirtland Air Force Base, or on the laboratory campuses inside its fence, is federal ground and the submittal is a heavier piece of paperwork than a city permit.

Most of the people who call us from Albuquerque are defence and laboratory contractors, hospitals and medical offices, public and charter school campuses, hotels, car dealerships, churches and municipal buildings.