Flagpole installation inProvo, UT

Flagpoles in Provo

A university town that grew a software and office economy around itself, with the valley's main hospital and a low-rise downtown in the middle of it. We cover Provo and the Utah County area, including the Brigham Young University campus, Center Street and University Avenue downtown, the Provo City Center Temple, Utah Valley Hospital, East Bay, the Riverwoods and the mouth of Provo Canyon at the north-east edge of town.

Wind here. Provo sits in an inland valley, canyon-exposed area, which works out to roughly 115 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. Provo also sizes to about 115 mph, and one figure cannot hold a city with a mountain on one side and open water on the other. Provo Canyon opens onto the north-east edge of town and pushes a wind down onto the bench streets, while the west of the city runs out to the Utah Lake shore with nothing upwind of it at all, which we treat as open exposure. The frost line is 30 inches, the ground snow load is taken off the state study for the address, and the Wasatch fault runs along the mountain front through here, so campus and hospital footings carry seismic detailing that the same pole would not need in flat country. On university ground an internal halyard with a locking access door is worth specifying at the start rather than adding later.

Most of the people who call us from Provo are university and school buildings, hospital and clinic campuses, downtown offices and retail frontage, meetinghouses, city facilities and HOA communities.