Practice Specifics
Geosyntec helps clients achieve this goal. With our strengths in environmental and geotechnical services, Geosyntec can help site and permit high-voltage lines over and under tough terrains, improve environmental performance of your in-house operations, help optimize your system expansion, and support retirement and reuse of assets, creating a better environment in a safer world.
DEVELOP ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES
Design and Construct
High-voltage transmission lines and substations often traverse sensitive lands and varied geologies. Our practitioners can help minimize the impacts to local habitats during route selection, right-of-way acquisition, and development.
- Due diligence and environmental site assessments
- Hydrologic and geotechnical investigations
- Foundation engineering
- FERC* permitting (stormwater construction, endangered and threatened species, rights of way, wetlands, and environmental compliance)
- NEPA* studies
Retire and Reuse
Once a site has completed its service life, we can help return it to the portfolio for future uses.
- Environmental liability valuations
- Investigation and remediation
- Brownfield redevelopment
- Decontamination, demolition, and decommissioning
Operate and Maintain
We understand the environmental needs of supporting fleet-maintenance facilities, equipment depots, and substations, particularly pertaining to use of petroleum and dielectric fluids and materials used for upkeep, such as herbicides. We can help create and implement best-management practices that reduce costs and improve environmental stewardship and safety, in addition to addressing legacy contamination issues.
We support operation and maintenance in the following ways:
- Compliance, training, and auditing
- Environmental management systems
- Pollution prevention
- Environmental investigation and remediation
Evaluate and Expand
Geosyntec helps clients protect their facilities from natural events, such as extreme weather, hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires. We also support them as they transition to lower-carbon and renewable-energy generation.
Clients choose Geosyntec to help develop electric transmission lines because our team of consultants offer deep understandings of environmental regulations and long-standing relationships with regulators that can accelerate the permitting process. At the same time, clients can access our team of leading geologists, hydrologists, ecologists, and geotechnical engineers to develop multidisciplinary solutions to the most complex problems that electrical transmission clients face.
