FMEA Associate Member of the Month, October: GAI Consultants

FMEA’s Associate Member of the Month for October is GAI Consultants, Inc.

Transforming ideas into reality® since 1958, GAI Consultants is an engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm that provides customized solutions to the Power Delivery market. GAI’s teams have delivered their expertise to the electric utility industry for more than 30 years, completing thousands of projects designing overhead and underground transmission and distribution lines, substations, and protection & controls over many environments and around the globe.

Some of GAI’s Power Delivery services include:

• Underground line and manhole design (69kV to 345kV)
• Overhead line, re-conductor, pole, tower, and foundation design (34.5kV to 765kV)
• Overhead and underground distribution and manhole design (up to 34.5kV)
• Substation greenfield and brownfield design, siting, permitting, equipment layout, and civil design (up to 765kV)
• Substation equipment replacement, including but not limited to: power transformer, breakers, capacitor bank, protective relaying, instrument transformers, and switch replacement design
• P&C design
• Protective Relay Settings and Studies
• System Planning studies, Load Flow and Arc-Flash studies
• EPC scope of work development for transmission, distribution, and substation projects
• Highway and stream crossing permitting
• Topographic and property surveying
• Construction monitoring, administration, and cost estimating
• Subsurface investigations and stabilization
• Siting, licensing, and public outreach
• Environmental studies and permitting
• Cultural resources
• Endangered species surveys

GAI Consultants has been an active partner and supporter of the Florida public power community since June 2016, and is a consistent, prominent supporter of FMEA's signature events, including the upcoming FMEA Energy Connections Conference & Trade Show. For additional information on GAI Consultants, contact Vice President, Power Delivery Engineering Business Development Director Stephen Anthony at s.anthony@gaiconsultants.com.