COC for Overhead Transmission Projects

Project Overview

Riggs Distler is the Contractor of Choice for all installation, maintenance, and repair work performed on our client’s electrical transmission system, a major East Coast power provider. Whether we’re upgrading equipment or repairing tower structures, our work improves reliability, sustains wind and weather damage, and delivers increased power to residents and businesses throughout the region.

Challenges Overcome

Work under this contract covers the entirety of the client’s multi-state transmission system, and task orders can include a wide range of work over a wide range of terrain. One of our main concerns at project outset is accessibility. Work sites are often in remote areas, and our teams regularly contend with wetlands, lakes and rivers, highways and major roadways, mountains, and adverse weather conditions to get the job done. Working hand-in-hand with our Environmental Matting Division, our management and crews carefully stabilize work areas and build access roads necessary so that our teams can perform the work safely and return to the site for future maintenance projects.

Compliance and permitting is also a regular concern. Riggs Distler’s plans carefully to avoid impacts to the local environment before getting into the field, taking measures to safeguard areas of concern such as endangered species habitat and archaeological sites. Compliance and permitting across multiple states can be complicated, but we work with the client to plan our execution tactics and work schedules to avoid certain areas, mitigate potential impacts, and avoid protected species migration and mating seasons.

Our work can also include specialty services, such as “bare hand” energized line work or dealing with cellular equipment mounted on transmission towers or poles. While other companies are unable to provide these services, Riggs Distler’s can perform all work in-house, giving clients a one-stop, turnkey solution to all of their electrical transmission needs.