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Utility Line Design was developed by two professional engineers having over
65-years experience in the design, operation and inspection of overhead and
underground distribution power lines.The website’s purpose is to provide a
centralized source for all levels of engineering personnel to access a wide
variety of useful engineering calculations to help meet National Electrical
Safety Code and local requirements.The content eliminates the need to search for
formulas in reference books and potential errors caused from mathematical
mistakes.Because the calculations are easy to access, utility employees can
perform complex calculations in a matter of seconds.With Utility Line Design’s
website, utility personnel will have access and learn to use interactive sag and
tension calculations, identify clearances based on high operating temperature,
maximum spans based on conductor separation, conductor blowout, transformer and
secondary sizing, fault current calculations, and minimum guy leads for deadend,
double-deadend, bisector and tap structures.
Utility Line Design offers an all-in-one interactive web-based line design tool
for electric distribution utilities.Line
designers can now perform complex engineering calculations to meet National
Electrical Safety Code and unique design requirements defined by the electric
utility.Our streamlined interactive
calculations will enable line designers to make professional design decisions
instead of rule of thumb and experience decisions.Our list of interactive calculations
eliminates the need to perform complex mathematical computations. Click the Calculation
List to review the current line design calculations. All calculations are based on utility
defined Standards and Design Criteria.
Utility Line Design also offers 15 Professional Development Hours of on-line
line design training. Participants can select between Light, Medium and Heavy
Loading Zones and will have 30-days to complete the 15-hour course. The course
includes examples of 50 problems ranging from conversions, transformer sizing,
secondary sizing, ground clearance, conductor clearance, pole strength,
surveying and guying. Each problem includes a narrative, step-by-step
mathematical procedure, solving the problem using Utility Line Design
interactive software, and performing several “what if” scenarios. Each
participant will work with pre-defined Standards and Design Criteria and will
have an opportunity to work with interactive sag and tension calculations.
Users will have unlimited access to all interactive line design calculations. In
addition, users will be able to save calculations by work order number for
future reference and line design documentation. Upgrades are free and will be
based on National Electrical Safety Code revisions and client feedback.
Contact us if you would like to schedule a free webinar demonstration.