Transmission Engineering
Electric utilities are upgrading the grid to create a more intelligent and eco-friendly future. Partnering with a transmission engineering services company with the capabilities, scale and skills needed to design, manage and complete the work will power your business forward.
Actalent supports the work needed in order for utilities to support the electrification of everything.
Our transmission engineering team provides innovative, world-class engineering, design and electric utility support services.
Who We Are
- Professional Engineers – Electrical, Structural and Civil
- PMI PMP Certified Project Managers
Problems We've Solved in Transmission Engineering
We develop transmission engineering solutions that allow for the safe, reliable distribution and delivery of power:
- New and rebuilt lines and substations ranging from 69 kV to 765 kV
- Substation and protection and control designs and electrical studies that address challenges such as changing equipment and integrating old and new equipment
- Managing critical, multi-year infrastructure projects and programs
- Land services involving title research, easement acquisition, non-environmental permitting and public outreach
- System planning and modeling services to help decide and identify where future facilities should be built
- GIS solutions involving mapping, data governance, programming and application development
Recognized as one of the top 100 U.S. design engineering firms
Our Expertise
- Engineering and design of new and upgraded facilities — wood/ concrete/steel poles and lattice towers
- Development of technical specifications for materials and construction labor procurement
- Feasibility studies - conductor evaluation and structural analysis
- Development of weather and load criteria based on customer location and standards
- PLS CADD - structure modeling, analysis and design
- Structure and foundation load development and design drawings
- Transmission line corridor and route studies and selection
- Structural load drawing development
- Hardware analysis
- Access road layout
- Cost estimates
- Lighting/grounding analysis
- Fiber OPGW design for new and retrofit structures
- Permitting exhibits
- Material management/construction support
- 3D and 2D substation engineering and design
- Scoping and estimating
- Engineering studies including Ground Grids, Lighting and Lightning
- Bill of materials and equipment ordering
- Material management/construction support<
- Engineering standards development
- Control house design
- Site grading design
- Foundation and structural analysis and design
- Structural steel design
- AC and DC sizing calculations
- Development of technical specifications for materials and construction labor procurement
- Commission engineering
- Relay schematics, wiring diagrams and panel diagrams
- One-line and three-line diagrams
- SCADA upgrades and new installation design
- Communications-aided protection schemes and equipment
- Automated metering and intelligent electronic devices integration
- Relay settings
- Coordination studies
- Interconnection studies
- Project life cycle development and management
- Scoping, estimating, planning and scheduling of capital projects
- Budget and cost management
- Coordination and management of various stakeholders, vendors and sub-vendors from concept to commission
- Portfolio and resource management
- Outage planning
- Electric utilities capital projects and programs
- Title research/property owner research
- Right-of-entry coordination and negotiation
- Easement negotiations, aquisition and recordings
- Construction outreach
- Non-environmental permitting
- Market land price analysis
- Contact and access coordination
- Community outreach
- Routing/siting support
- Post-construction damage settlement
- Land management system project setup and maintenance
- Digitization and production mapping (native records)
- Cartographic and mapping services
- Field data collection and field verification
- Spatial analytics
- Infrastructure asset management systems
- Application development
- Database automation
- Targeted asset replacement project management
- Substation spare equipment program management
- Transmission line spare structure program management
- Retired/abandoned facilities project management
- Transmission asset naming
- Transmission line loading studies
- Transmission grid modeling
- Generation and IPP Interconnection Studies
- Transmission grid contingency analysis
- Transmission load flow studies
Industries We Support with Transmission Engineering Solutions
Utilities &
Construction
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Delivery Centers
Our engineering centers support the important work of utility companies across North America.
Engineering Industry Standards
We utilize industry standards to complete projects that include, but are not limited to:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE/ASCE 7)
- International CADD
- National Electric Code (NEC)
- National Electric Safety Code (NESC)
- National Electric Reliability Council (NERC)
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