Transmission Design

Booth & Associates, Inc. has been providing transmission line design services to the electric utility industry for more than forty years. Hundreds of miles of lines, ranging in voltages from 34.5 kV to 230 kV, have been designed utilizing steel, concrete and wood structures with many requiring engineered, unguyed self-supporting structures with foundations.

Booth & Associates, Inc. has a long history of successfully completed transmission projects. Our involvement starts with the preliminary planning, routing and construction cost estimates and continues through the right-of-way acquisition, design, procurement of materials and labor, construction management and ultimately the energization and closeout of the project.

• Design / Build Capability
• Transmission Line Design
• Transmission / Distribution Planning Studies
• Routing and Feasibility Studies
• Highway Relocation Projects
• PLS-CADD Design Software
• Foundation Design
• Labor and Material Contract Preparation and Administration
• Full-time Surveying Staff
• Electronic Total Station Surveys
• Right-of-Way Appraisal and Acquisition
• Construction Staking
• Construction Management

Our designs utilize the latest in surveying technology and design software to provide a fully integrated system - from gathering field terrain data and incorporating it into the line design software, to producing final design calculations and drawings. Booth & Associates, Inc. uses many in-house written programs along with various surveying and line design software packages, including ALCOA Sag10, PLS-CADD and AutoCAD, depending on the best application for the individual project.