Engineering

When you come to us with a vision, we can draft that vision into an actionable plan because of our in house engineering department. We established our engineering department so we could avoid the inefficiency of involving a subcontractor in the planning process when possible. Though we often work with outside engineering firms at the request of our clients, we pride ourselves on being a turnkey contractor capable of taking our customers’ vision from concept to completion, and that simply is not possible without an engineering department. Every job that requires an engineer’s input, which is almost every job we do, moves significantly faster because we use our own engineers.

Capabilities

Engineering

  • Technical support resource for internal operations
  • Three Professional Engineers on staff

Electrical Engineering

  • Electrical Substation design and distribution systems
    • Grounding Systems
    • Relay Protection and Control
      • New Installation
      • Retrofit
      • Panel Design
    • Coordination Studies
    • Physical equipment and layout
    • Drawing Packages
      • One Line
      • Three Line
      • Schematics
      • Wiring Diagrams
    • Equipment specification and review
    • SCADA and Automation
  • Transmission and Distribution Power Line
    • Plan profile
    • Sag tension calculations
    • Structure specification and design
    • Site staking and layout
      • Trimble GPS
      • Total Station Experience
  • Industrial Electrical Design
    • One Line diagrams
    • Coordination Studies
    • Arc Hazard Energy analysis
    • Equipment specification and review
    • Physical equipment and layout
  • Root Cause Analysis

Civil Engineering

  • Foundation design
  • GPS and Robotic layouts
  • Site staking and layout

Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Projects (EPC)

  • Project Design
  • Project Management
  • Material Procurement
  • Construction Coordination

Division Contact: Zach Martin, PE

Zach Martin
(270) 836-7443

Zach has been with Groves for 8 years and is the Technical Services Director over Testing and Engineering Services. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Western Kentucky University. When he’s not at work he is working on remodeling his house and fixing up old trucks. His favorite part of the job is how there is room to grow and plenty of opportunity within the company.

Contact Zach for support with Technical Services.


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