Filed under perspective.
Ready to build is used to describe everything from a signed option on a forest to a fully consented pad with poured substation foundations. The phrase has no agreed definition, which makes it useful to sellers and dangerous to buyers.
We apply six tests: registered title with access rights, an executed grid agreement naming capacity and date, granted consents past their appeal window, every environmental consent the project triggers in force, ground investigated and graded to tolerance, and two physically diverse fiber entries under signed agreements. A site passes all six or it is not ready.
The value of the definition is in what it costs to fail one. An unresolved appeal is nine to eighteen months. An undiverse fiber route can be a new trench and a new wayleave negotiation. Ground conditions discovered after mobilization are the most expensive of all, because the program is already running.
