Transmission
Meeting modern energy demands. Ensuring grid stability.
Transmission Capabilities
Transmission system reliability is essential for meeting modern energy demands and ensuring grid stability. Aging infrastructure presents challenges such as system modernization, renewable energy integration and addressing evolving power demands. Kiewit’s proven expertise in delivering reliable and efficient transmission system upgrades ensures consistent energy delivery through modern technology.
Our transmission experts have successfully completed overhead projects ranging from 69kV to 500kV and underground projects from 69kV to 400kV, providing turnkey EPC solutions since 1997.
Community Relations
Strong community relations are crucial for securing right-of-way, access and easements in transmission projects. Early and consistent engagement fosters trust and cooperation, helping prevent schedule delays, cost overruns and legal issues. Kiewit’s experience in community outreach supports smoother project execution while minimizing disruptions to residents and clients.
Flexible Execution
We understand our clients’ needs are unique and can vary by project. Kiewit’s flexible execution and expertise across diverse contract models enable us to tailor services to each project’s specific requirements and risk profile, driving successful outcomes. With the services of our engineering, procurement and construction teams, we adapt to align with client objectives, whether for an individual project or an entire portfolio.
Self-Perform Capabilities
Self-performing construction provides greater control over quality, schedule and costs, ensuring more reliable and efficient project delivery. By self-performing major work scopes, including all foundation types, Kiewit enhances project coordination and execution. This approach enables quicker responses to on-site challenges and reduces dependency on subcontractors, driving smoother project outcomes.
Engineering & Design Services
- Feasibility studies
- Siting and routing
- Permitting
- LiDAR
- Detailed design
- Constructability reviews
- Outage planning, sequencing and switch plan development
- Stormwater pollution prevention (SWPPP)
- GIS mapping
- Tower modification assessment
- Reconductoring
- PLS-CADD modeling
Construction Services
- Overhead and underground transmission lines
- Material management and laydown
- Surveying
- ROW clearing and access
- Foundations (drilled piers, helical piers, micropiles, etc.)
- Tower erection, replacement and modification (wood, steel monopole, lattice and BOLD)
- Hardware/apparatus installation and replacement
- Conductor, OPGW and static wire stringing, replacement and splicing (traditional and helicopter)
- Underbuild and secondary attachments
- Line relocations
Underground and Submarine Transmission
Underground and submarine transmission projects present unique challenges and demands because of permitting complexity, unknown underground utilities and a variety of environmental factors. Kiewit’s industry experts understand the importance of managing these factors early, through value engineering, cost assessment, schedule reviews and exploring methods to minimize environmental impact.
Achieving Early In-Service with Creative Planning
In support of rebuilding aging infrastructure, American Electric Power (AEP) contracted a Kiewit subsidiary for the engineering, procurement and construction of its Munday-Throckmorton-Albany 69kV Line Rebuild. The project included rebuilding 67 miles of 69kV transmission to 138kV standards and replacing wood structures with steel monopoles. The project team rebuilt six miles of distribution underbuild and upgraded four brownfield stations and expanded one brownfield station. Through a creative value engineering effort, including ramping up resources and coordinating with AEP to minimize community impacts, the team completed the project a full year ahead of schedule and supported AEP’s goal of recognizing its capital investment sooner than planned.
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