Projects

Key Service Offerings

Overhead Transmission and Distribution Utility Design

We can provide full design engineering services for overhead transmission and distribution projects including the activities listed below:

• Field verification of existing plant and surrounding conditions
• Design of overhead distribution systems ranging from 2.4kV to 44kV
• Design of overhead transmission systems ranging from 69kV to 230kV
  
• New services, line expansions, upgrades and voltage conversions
• Employ utility engineering standards for all pole framing and attachments
• Creation of new engineered standards, or one-off installation standards
• Include installation and analysis of 3rd party attachments
• Streetlighting attachment and photometric analysis (PMA)

Underground Transmission and Distribution Utility Design
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• Field verification of existing plant and surrounding conditions
• Design of underground distribution systems ranging from 2.4kV to 44kV
• Design of underground transmission systems ranging from 69kV to 230kV
• New services, feeder expansions, upgrades and voltage conversions
• Employ utility engineering standards for all underground installation
• Creation of new engineered standards, or one-off installation standards

Non-standard Overhead and Underground Transmission and Distribution Design

• Design of privately owned electrical transmission and distribution systems to electrical safety authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) and CSA standards
• Provide full engineering including installation details and detailed bill of materials
• Provide all required documentation to Electrical Safety Authority (ESA), or other electrical safety authority having jurisdiction (AHJ)

Customer Electrical Servicing

• Incoming overhead and underground services from utility
• Primary and secondary voltage services
• Customer or utility owned transformer, switchgear and metering

Detailed Overhead Line Modelling

• PLS-CADD is the most advanced industry standard software for overhead line modelling and is our preferred software for analysis
• Detailed analysis of structure and component usage under multiple weather conditions
• Detailed analysis of all line clearances and tensions under multiple weather conditions
• Wood, Concrete, Steel and Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) structures
• Long-Span crossings over highways, rivers and environmental features and Grade 1 construction

Detailed Underground Trench Design

• CYMCAP is the most advanced industry standard software for underground cable modelling and is our preferred software for analysis
• Detailed analysis of the mutual heating effects of all buried circuits and surrounding earth
• Analysis and specification of bedding and backfill material requirements
• Provide optimal cable trench design considering the method of trenching and equipment used

Renewable Energy Design

• Conceptual, preliminary (permitting) and detailed design
• Equipment selection and evaluation
• Utility-Scale ground-mount Solar PV array and collector design
• Utility-Scale Wind collector system design
• Overhead and underground tap and export lines to PCC

Drafting Services

• Drafting services in AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil3D and Bentley MicroStation.

Project Management, Field Services, Construction Support

For all of our services indicated above we will provide full project management, any field support and construction support throughout the full project lifecycle.

Other Services Not Listed Above​

While our key offerings above are outlining our core business offering, our team has a very broad range of engineering consulting experience and would be happy to discuss any other opportunity to see if we can be of service.