Owners Engineer from Preliminary Designs, Technical Specification Preparations, Design Package Reviews and Bid Evaluations to General Construction Support and Inspections.
- Project Scoping
- Site Work, Grading, Drainage, and Access Roads
- Foundation and Structural Design
- Physical/Electrical Design
- Equipment Specifications
- Grounding Design
- Lightning Protection
- Illumination Design
- Electrical Studies
- Arc Flash Mitigation
- Protection and Controls
- Relay Settings
- SCADA
- Automation Systems
- Testing and Commissioning
- 3D Design
RCM has designed hundreds of substations and switchyards worldwide for electric utilities, independent power producers, and industrial installations from 2.3 kV to 765 kV. Our experience includes open-air and gas-insulated stations, both greenfield sites and upgrades, and expansions of existing substations.
RCM’s comprehensive services range from conceptual designs, cost estimates, and siting studies to physical design, grading and drainage design, protection and control engineering, foundation design, and preparation of complete specifications for material, equipment, and construction.
The extensive experience is applied to develop creative solutions for challenging projects, including innovative physical arrangements to accommodate space constraints and irregular site boundaries, enclosed substation designs compatible with urban environments, grading and drainage designs to comply with storm-water runoff and retention regulations, and integrating new control and protection systems into existing substations.
RCM develops complete design packages for protection of transmission lines, distribution lines, transformers, generators, motors, capacitors, shunt reactors, series reactors, and buses for all switchyard configurations and all voltage levels – from 4.16 KV through 765 KV. Full design for Protection and Control for Substation Upgrades, EPC, and Brown Field Projects include:
- Schematic Diagrams
- General Arrangements (GA) for each panel
- Wiring Diagrams
- Interface with cable schedules and termination sheets
- Interlocks, Synch schemes, Local/Remote operations
- Protection Setting calculations
- Relay Parameterization
- Control System logic programming
- RTU
- HMI Programming
- Interface with SCADA
RCM has the experience required to develop world class design packages that include one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, control/elementary drawings, wiring drawings, panel layouts, and cable lists supported by calculations for battery sizing, control circuit voltage drop, CT capability, cable pulling, panel seismic loading and so much more. RCM has worked with protective relays supplied by all protective relay manufacturers. We develop new schemes, implement designs using your standards, upgrade your standard drawings to accommodate new technology and work seamlessly with your staff to exceed expectations.
