News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: November 17, 2009
State Electrical and Mott McDonald form EPC Partnership
State Electric Corp., an electrical construction company based in Woburn and Mott MacDonald (formerly Careba Mott MacDonald) of Westwood have joined in an Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) partnership to serve the utility/power generation market, including substation construction and power plant upgrades.
State Electric is highly experienced in the electrical construction of high voltage power projects throughout New England. The firm has recently completed construction of National Grid Wakefield Junction Station 88 in Wakefield and is underway with an EPC project for National Grid Station 275 in Amesbury. Among recent utility power projects completed by the contractor are Brayton Point Power Plant in Somerset, Mystic Station, Unit 8 in Everett, Interstate Fore River Station in Weymouth, and Vernon HydroPower Plant in Vernon, VT. State Electric is a member of the National Electrical Contractors Association and a signatory contractor of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
Mott MacDonald, headquartered in England, has extensive experience in the engineering and design of major power generation projects worldwide. Within the EPC partnership, State Electric and Mott McDonald will provide turnkey installations for projects within the utility/power generation markets. EPC services provided by the partnership will include compehensive design, permitting, procurement, civil engineering, electrical construction, testing, and commissioning.
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