Flagpole installation inOakland, CA

Flagpoles in Oakland

A container port, a county seat and a downtown of offices and civic buildings, with hill neighbourhoods stacked behind them. We cover Oakland and the Alameda County area, including downtown and Frank Ogawa Plaza, Lake Merritt, Jack London Square and the estuary, Old Oakland and Uptown, the Port of Oakland, Laney College, Temescal, Rockridge and the hill neighbourhoods above Highway 13.

Wind here. Oakland sits in a bayfront, fault-crossed area, which works out to roughly 95 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. Oakland is two grounds inside one city. The flat land from Jack London Square out to the port and the airport is fill over young bay mud, soft and deep, so a footing there is drawn and reinforced rather than taken to a set depth. Up in the hills the ground is firm but the lots are steep. The Hayward fault runs between the two, along the base of those hills and the length of the city, which is why the anchorage detail carries an Oakland job and the shaft barely features in it. Salt comes off the estuary and the bay, so stainless fittings and an anodized shaft are worth the difference on anything west of Interstate 880.

Most of the people who call us from Oakland are city and county buildings, port and logistics operations, school and community college campuses, hospitals and medical offices, churches, downtown offices and estuary businesses.