Substation Expansion Survey

Client: Electrical Utility Company

Location: Bourbonnais, Illinois

Year Completed: 2014

Services Provided: Laser scan of entire substation area for new design.  Topography/boundary survey of site.  As-builts of new equipment and drainage.

Description/Highlights: Falk PLI used 3D laser scanning to generate custom reports for ComEd including: 3D pointcloud for Autocad analysis, 2D drawings of areas surveyed, and detailed tables itemizing structures. This information is used by the engineers in the office for component replacement and documentation for an emergency outage. As a result of this work, laser scanning is becoming a key methodology for future substation upgrade projects to avoid the scheduling of outages for the sole purpose of collecting data.