As the B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) organisation has grown the project process has evolved and grown with it. We now have a strong team made up of B4RN staff and B4RN contractors. These contractors have been specifically selected for their expert knowledge and equipment essential to our work in challenging project locations.
If you think you can help build and deliver the B4RN broadband network for local communities then click on the button below or email contractors@b4rn.org.uk for an application pack or for more information.
Contractor Category Types Utilised by B4RN
This type of Contractor installs core, spur and local service ducting, including services to property boundary at the required depth, ducting under hedges, walls and streams using specialist equipment and using Vibrating Mole plough equipment.
1.1 – Street works accreditation
1.2 – Vibrating Mole Plough works
1.3 – Groundworks
1.4 – Trenching works
1.5 – Impact Mole works
This type of Contractor installs spur and local service ducting, including services to property boundary at the required depth, ducting under hedges, walls and streams using specialist equipment such as diggers and trenching equipment.
2.1 – Groundworks
2.2 – Trenching works
2.3 – Mole Plough (non-vibrating)
2.4 – Impact Mole works
This type of Contractor digs across from the curtilage to the property at the required depth, installs surface-mounted property ducting and house kits. (This Contractor can also be utilised for specific contracted works by B4RN.)
3.1 – Garden trenching and duct installation
3.2 – Groundworks
3.3 – Duct and House kit fitting (FWO and CCE) to property
3.4 – Working at height – duct fitting on property
Contractors must keep to our contractor Code of Conduct. B4RN is committed to working safely. Find out more in our Policy Statement and our Annual Objectives.