Other news around the world of Hatch Acres

 

 

Welcoming Bob Mady
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Mady as Director Business Development, Oil & Gas in our Calgary office. He brings more than 25 years of Canadian and international experience in marketing and sales, engineering, procurement, and construction management on large energy-related capital infrastructure projects. Bob’s focus will be to strengthen relationships with existing clients and support Hatch Energy's overall strategic growth plan. He is a dynamic manager and a strategic team leader with a record of success in analyzing energy and power generation opportunities. He will make a strong contribution to our own business and that of our clients.

HydroVision 2006: Solutions. Performance. New Opportunities.
 Staff from Hatch Acres and Synexus Global will present papers and moderate panels at this year’s conference from July 31 to August 4 in Portland, Oregon. You can also visit us at Booth #326 in the exhibition hall. To register for this conference, visit www.hcipub.com/hydrovision/index.asp

Transmission and distribution in Maine and New York
The T&D group recently won a significant amount of power system study and station upgrade work for Central Maine Power. This work includes three area reliability assessments using the GE Positive Sequence Load Flow program which is preferred by the client. Work is already under way on a separate project to update CMP’s relay protection at a 345-kV/115-kV substation. We are also providing design services for the Kimball Road substation expansion in Harrison, including an extension of the existing 115-kV station bus, a new 34-kV bus and outgoing circuits, and re-assignment of 115-kV bays for the incoming lines. 

Having similar success in New York, we are presently working on 42 substations for New York State Electricity and Gas. Work will bring the older stations up to modern standards and increase their capabilities. This involves ‘brown field’ work in live, fully operational substations, which is a core capability of our T&D group. The projects will be divided into two groups: relay and telecom-related; and transformer, circuit breaker and insulator replacement.

New awards from CEBC and CEM
Hatch Acres received an Award of Excellence in the "Resource, Energy & Industrial Engineering" category from the Consulting Engineers of British Columbia for the Colwood Refuelling Facility Upgrade. CFB Esquimalt in Colwood, BC is home to Canada’s Maritime Forces Pacific fleet, whose operational requirements demand reliable and continuously available refuelling services. As Prime Consultant, Hatch Acres was responsible for design management, concept development and detailed engineering, environmental reviews, geotechnical investigations, inspection and commissioning support, and associated services.

Meanwhile, Acres Manitoba and its project partners received an Award of Merit in the Infrastructure category from Consulting Engineers of Manitoba for the Project Definition and Environmental Assessment phase of the most recent Red River Floodway expansion. Acres Manitoba has been involved with the floodway since designing the original Seine River inverted siphon and inlet/outlet works in the early 1960s. The partnership of KGS-Acres-UMA was the Lead Consultant in the preliminary engineering and environmental assessment – fast-tracking work with 11 firms and more than 100,000 engineering hours.
 

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