Turn-Key Historic Retrofit

Overview

A utility company needed a major infrastructure update for their substation. The project involved replacing lighting, wiring, and relay panels in a historic building on their premises. Retrofitting new infrastructure into a historic building with an existing older footprint presented several space restrictions that made this project challenging.

RPS team was able to:

• Upgrade the substation by retrofitting new equipment in the existing building.
• Custom build the panels, wiring, and other equipment per customer’s specifications.
• Execute concept, design, installation, and testing.

Challenge

The customer’s facility was a historic building with a complex, older layout, and restricted space. The building had to be retrofitted with new panels that met the load and power supply requirements. The panels also had to be compatible with existing hardware that was installed in the building.

Solution

The RPS team built custom relay panels to retrofit them in the historic building. After a detailed field assessment of the existing systems, a physical walk-down, and infrastructure review, modern relay panels were built. By simulating and validating the operation during the build and test phase, the RPS team minimized the interaction of the existing systems with the new retrofit system to accomplish a successful upgrade.

• Retrofit Package
• Engineering Design
• Relay Panels
• Project Management