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We offer a full range of support services to identify, evaluate, select, and implement renewable energy projects. Whether you’re a developer, owner, investor, or contractor, we’ll work as an extension of your organization, providing the specific services you need. From feasibility to wind and solar resource assessments to site selection to construction management, and everything in between, we can help you reach your project objectives.

For Motor Operated Valves (MOV), Air Operated Valves (AOV), Solenoid Operated Valves (SOV), and Check Valves, we can provide the following engineering and maintenance related support services:

• Engineering studies, application reviews, and assessments to support power operated valve modifications
• Formal calculations in accordance with industry and regulatory guidance, station procedures, and QA requirements
• Review of vendor submittals, including drawings, calculations, valve/actuator data sheets, etc.
• Vendor functional testing review and acceptance support
• Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) support
• Vendor functional and post modification testing and acceptance
• Diagnostic test trace interpretation and onsite technical field support
• Training support

LCM/EoL planning optimizes the operating life of components and systems and plans for refurbishment/replacement. Sargent & Lundy has the broad expertise to support the development and implementation of LCM/EoL plans at nuclear and fossil power plants.

Our staff is experienced in support of modification implementation, startup testing, outage support, maintenance engineering, component assessments, maintenance rule programs, and valve technical services on either a managed task or staff augmentation basis. We deploy staff onsite as part of your team on short- and long-term assignments.

We also perform plant program assessments to identify strengths and weaknesses in the plant programs that directly affect plant availability and costs. We assess the diverse aspects of the plant programs, encompassing people, work processes, technologies, and management.

Staff experienced in ASME and other industry codes are available to manage periodic in-service inspection and testing of systems, components, and structures. We can develop 10-year ISI and IST program updates, acceptance criteria, and implementation procedures, and help you integrate program results into an overall maintenance strategy.

We can help assess your needs for automating your processes and link them with the appropriate CMMS tools in a cost-effective, functional work management system.

Frequent equipment failures may be the result of deficiencies in maintenance, equipment selection, operating conditions, or abnormal events. Using our pool of company specialists and a systematic approach, we determine fundamental causes of events and recommend cost-effective solutions.

We provide an optimized spare parts inventory control program to reduce inventory costs and improve the availability of critical spares to meet the goals and needs of your plant. Inventory optimization for appropriate stocking levels, spares location, and ordering lead times can reduce costs and improve plant availability.

Our reputation for project management, quality engineering, and construction management and commissioning expertise make Sargent & Lundy uniquely qualified to provide the full range of EPCM services or to serve as the partner-of-choice on EPC teams. We successfully team with industry recognized construction firms to fully engineer, specify, and procure all material and equipment, construct, and commission transmission lines and substations in compliance with the owner’s specifications, budgets, and schedules.

We consistently place a high priority on the constructability of our engineering deliverables. An integral part of quality management system is the analysis and quantification of client and contractor comments and as-built revisions to our drawings and other deliverables. This information is monitored so that we continually improve the process to minimize field issues or construction delays. While this benefits all types of projects, it is particularly important when we are responsible for the full range of EPCM services or are partnered with a construction company in an EPC effort and our mutual success depends on close collaboration between design and installation.

As a leading engineering firm in the power industry, Sargent & Lundy has built a reputation for quality, client satisfaction, and the capability to tackle large, challenging projects. These attributes apply not only to in-house projects, but also when we serve as owner’s engineer to our clients. We have developed and implemented project management skills and tools to successfully projects with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars involving multiple subcontractors, consultants, material suppliers, and contractors. Representing the project Owner, Sargent & Lundy provides the full range of services to coordinate, document, schedule and control, contract, and commission all types of transmission system projects.

Our in-depth knowledge allows us to collaborate with the Owner to identify, quantify, assign responsibility, and manage risks that are inherent in every large project. Moving forward, this risk management plan is incorporated into the budget and schedule controls, as well as the overall project management program. Depending on the plan developed with the Owner, we perform or manage conceptual studies, permitting, and preliminary engineering. We then identify bidders, develop bid packages, conduct bidding, evaluate bids, and support contract execution. Contractor deliverables are reviewed, quality assurance surveillance is performed, construction is managed, and commissioning is planned and coordinated by the Sargent & Lundy team to meet the Owner’s requirements.