Flagpole installation inSan Jose, CA

Flagpoles in San Jose

The working end of Silicon Valley: technology campuses, light industry, a state university and a downtown that is still filling in. We cover San Jose and the Santa Clara County area, including downtown and the SoFA district, San Jose State University, Santana Row and Valley Fair, North San Jose and the Golden Triangle, the Alameda, Japantown, Willow Glen, Almaden and the Mineta airport district.

Wind here. San Jose sits in a sheltered, low-wind suburban 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. San Jose has a height ceiling that has nothing to do with wind. Mineta airport sits immediately north of downtown, and the approach and airspace surfaces around it limit what may stand where, so a height downtown or in North San Jose is checked against those limits before a pole is ordered rather than after the concrete is in. The county airport land use commission has a say on the same ground. Away from the airport the digging is straightforward: deep valley alluvium, kind to an auger and good at holding a footing. School and community college plans go to the Division of the State Architect instead of the city, which is a longer road and worth starting early.

Most of the people who call us from San Jose are technology and light-industrial campuses, school and community college districts, city and county buildings, hotels, medical offices, places of worship and community associations.