Our Company

What We Build

Strilla Communications Company builds and maintains outside plant networks in Florida. Horizontal directional drilling is our lead service, and the rest of the work is built around it. That includes conduit systems, handhole and vault placement, aerial placement, fiber installation, and the records that prove what went in the ground.

We take work as a prime outside plant contractor. We also work as a specialty subcontractor under general contractors and turnkey broadband builders. A scope can be a single road crossing under a county right of way. It can also be a full backbone and distribution package with aerial and underground segments in the same footprint.

Scope boundaries are stated in writing before work starts. That includes who is responsible for permits, materials, traffic control, and restoration. Confusion over those four items is the most common source of dispute on outside plant projects. So we settle them at the proposal stage rather than in a change order.

• Directional drilling and horizontal directional drilling, including road, driveway, and utility crossings
• Conduit installation, HDPE placement, multi duct runs, and tracer wire
• Handhole and vault placement, plus grading and restoration around structures
• Aerial cable construction, strand and lash, overlash, and make-ready support
• Fiber splicing, fusion splicing, fiber blowing, fiber pulling, and termination
• System maintenance, locate and repair, and emergency service restoration

What Is an Outside Plant Contractor?

An outside plant contractor builds the part of a network that lives outdoors. That means the conduit, cable, poles, strand, handholes, vaults, and splice closures between a hub and the buildings it serves. Inside wiring and equipment rooms are a different trade.

The work happens almost entirely in public right of way and utility easements. That puts it under permits from counties and cities, and from the Florida Department of Transportation on state roads. It also falls under Florida's underground damage prevention law, Chapter 556 of the Florida Statutes. That law requires a Sunshine 811 locate request before any digging or boring.

So the core skills go beyond running equipment. They include reading a design against real field conditions and working around buried utilities marked in the APWA color code. They also include meeting pole attachment rules on aerial routes and keeping records an engineer can use later. A general contractor may manage the whole program, but a specialist usually self performs these scopes.

Where We Work

Volusia County is our primary service area and the base for our equipment and crews. New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, Port Orange, Daytona Beach, DeLand, Deltona, and the surrounding unincorporated county are inside our normal daily reach.

Central Florida is our secondary area, covering Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, and Polk counties. Beyond that, we mobilize statewide for projects that justify travel and staging. We are also extending coverage toward North Carolina as regional work develops.

Our office is at 2174 Jungle Rd, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168. You can reach us at (386) 396-2033 or hello@strillacommunications.com.

Who We Work For

Most of our work comes from people who are accountable for a network schedule rather than a single task. That shapes how we report, how we escalate, and what we hand over at the end.

We are used to working inside someone else's construction program. We match their submittal formats, their inspection cycles, and their production tracking.

• ISP project managers and network construction managers
• General contractors and turnkey broadband builders
• Municipalities, county public works, and city engineering departments
• Broadband expansion teams and OSP engineers
• Construction coordinators managing multiple subcontractors on one route

How We Are Set Up

We own our drilling and aerial equipment and we employ the crews who run it. That is a deliberate structure, not a convenience. When the equipment and the operator both belong to the company, the schedule commitment we give you is one we actually control.

The same crews are trained across aerial and underground scopes. That is unusual on smaller routes and useful on nearly all of them. A utility conflict might force a route to change from underground to aerial. That change does not require a second contractor, a second mobilization, or a second permit conversation.

Supervision travels with the crew. A foreman on site owns the daily plan, the safety briefing, and the field records. That keeps decisions close to the conditions that drive them. It also keeps your point of contact reporting facts rather than estimates.

How a Project Runs

Every job follows the same five steps, whether it is one bore or a multi mile route. The steps are simple on purpose, because a repeatable sequence is what makes production predictable.

• Locate and Plan: confirm design intent, call in locates, verify marks in the field, walk the route, and identify conflicts before equipment moves
• Mobilize: stage equipment, materials, traffic control, and permits so the crew starts producing on day one
• Execute: drill, place, splice, or lash to the approved plan, with tracking of depth, alignment, and daily production
• Document: capture as-built information, photos, and daily reports as the work happens rather than reconstructing it later
• Closeout: deliver the record package, complete restoration, and walk the site with the owner or inspector

What Should You Send Us to Start a Bid?

Send the design or a route map, the counties and cities involved, and the schedule you are working against. Those three items let us tell you quickly whether the scope fits our equipment and our calendar. Most bid requests receive a response within one business day.

A complete bid package also states who holds the permits, who supplies materials, who provides traffic control, and what restoration standard applies. If any of those are still open, say so. We would rather price an open item honestly than guess and correct it later in a change order.

• Design drawings, route map, or a marked up aerial image of the corridor
• Footage by method, such as bored, aerial, and placed in existing conduit
• Permit responsibility and any permits already issued
• Material responsibility, including conduit, cable, closures, and structures
• Required closeout format, such as your GIS template or as-built standard
• Target start date, milestones, and any blackout periods

Licensing, Insurance, and Compliance

We carry insurance suited to outside plant construction. Certificates of insurance are issued on request. Additional insured or waiver requirements in your contract are confirmed in writing for each project. We do not publish carrier names or coverage limits on a public page. Those belong on a current certificate, not in marketing copy.

License, registration, and prequalification details are provided in prequalification packages on request. Ask for the current documentation package and we will send it directly. That way, what you file is current on the day you receive it.

Work is performed to Florida underground damage prevention requirements. These include Sunshine 811 notification, positive locate verification, and hand exposure of utilities where conditions call for it.