Design and engineering

We are a leading provider of engineering design, procurement, construction and maintenance of distribution and sub-transmission stations for power utilities and private customer installations.

We consistently deliver high quality, innovative engineering solutions for new, novel and complex projects and have a reputation of being industry leaders with a proven track record of high voltage system design for cost effective, timely and especially high quality deliverables.  We have successfully demonstrated our ability to adapt to differing standards and lead the market place in innovative design solutions.

Our design and engineering capabilities are vast and include:

Transmission/distribution line

  • Distribution line design
  • Distribution line drafting
  • Distribution line works methods
  • Transmission line works methods
  • Transmission line engineering design
  • Transmission line consulting engineering
  • Transmission and distribution line auditing

Substations

  • Structural switchyard design
  • Structural switchyard drafting
  • Civil design
  • Civil drafting
  • Earthworks design
  • Earthworks drafting
  • Substation auditing

Secondary systems

  • Secondary general design
  • Secondary general drafting
  • SCADA support design and drafting
  • Protection engineering support design
  • Protection engineering support drafting
  • Earth grid design
  • Thermal and Electrical soil resistivity testing
  • Cable rating design
  • Research and development
  • Substation Auditing
  • Substation System Analysis

Protection engineering

  • Secondary protection engineering design support
  • SCADA protection engineering design support
  • Protection engineering design – settings, fault studies, calculations
  • Protection engineering pre-commissioning – relay testing
  • Commissioning support – on site
  • TRSD design and support
  • Transmission/distribution/generation protection system auditing
  • Protection system scoping
  • System Analysis – load flows and fault studies
  • Research and development

Telecommunications engineering

  • Point to point and point to multipoint radio systems
  • Multiplexer networks
  • Power line carrier
  • Digital and analogue protection signalling schemes
  • Mobile radio systems
  • Ethernet networks
  • Customised Interface Systems
  • Telephony networks

SCADA

  • Harris and Foxboro RTU design and documentation
  • Harris and Foxboro RTU configuration
  • Serial interface with substation IEDs using various protocols including; 
    • DNP 3.0
    • Modbus
    • WISP
    • Courier
    • IEC60870-5-103
  • Power metering circuits
  • Indication and alarm circuits
  • Human Machine Interface (HMI) configuration