by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Civil/Structural, Substation Design
SCOPE Re-route of 2 overhead 138kV transmission lines and 7 overhead 69kV transmission lines through the multi-phase construction of the new 138kV substation. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The construction of the overall substation was carried out in 20 smaller phases through...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Foundations, Transmission Design
SCOPE The scope of the project was to assess the damaged foundation shaft and stub from the available information and propose a repair scheme for the 230kV double circuit lattice tower with taking limited outages. PROJECT DESCRIPTION ASEC analyzed the existing damage...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Foundations, Transmission Design
SCOPE ASEC’s client is rebuilding their existing 138kV transmission line and requested ASEC to analyze the existing substation dead-end structure to determine the maximum allowable pull-off tension capacity. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Structure was modeled in PLS TOWER....
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Foundations, Transmission Design
SCOPE ASEC identified visual cracking and damaged rebar at the surface of an existing 230kV tower foundation. The development of a repair methodology for the use of a Fiber Wrap was employed to keep the existing tower and foundation in service. PrOject description...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Lattice Towers, Transmission Design
SCOPE ASEC has been contracted to design two new river crossing towers (600’ in height) and two new anchor deadend towers. ASEC will additionally perform sensitivity analysis by modeling the adjacent spans in PLS-CADD and designing the appropriate location for the...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Lattice Towers, Transmission Design
SCOPE Our client’s project was a 330-mile transmission line which included fourteen (14) lattice river crossing structures. ASEC’s scope included design of the tower family and providing owner’s engineering support for the development of the loading criteria for...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Lattice Towers, Transmission Design
SCOPE ASEC provided consulting engineering services as owner’s engineer for nearly two years throughout the duration of a 220kV double circuit tower family development through testing. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Additional services provided included detailed design on tower...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Civil/Structural, Substation Design
SCOPE ASEC performed structural analysis checks for the loading and use of all substation steel for a 34.5kV to 138kV substation located in the State of Illinois. As the registered Structural Engineer (SE) on the project ASEC finalized the drawings and calculations...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Owners Engineer, Program Management
SCOPE At the completion of construction for each project, ASEC performs as- built engineering analysis on the structures and lines design has been performed on. Additional LiDAR survey data is received and ASEC compares the proposed design to the final constructed...
by Landon Schulze | Sep 20, 2022 | Civil/Structural, Transmission Design
SCOPE A new substation was added to provide better protection schemes to include protective relays and a breaker addition. This resulted in the existing line needing to deadend and cut-in into the new substation. OPGW was spliced at multiple locations for the...