CEDARBRAE CABLE REPLACEMENT
PROJECT SNAPSHOT
Project Name | Cedarbrae Cable Replacement
Owner | ENMAX
Client’s Name | ENMAX
Location | Calgary, AB
Date / Project Timeline / Delivery | June 15, 2022 - July 22, 2022
Market Sector | Utilities
BACKGROUND (PRE-PROJECT COMMENCEMENT)
Iconic was requested to excavate a stretch of the existing ENMAX cable/URD trench in the Cedarbrae neighborhood in Calgary. Existing power cables were to be salvaged/abandoned and replaced with new cables in duct and shadow ducts for future use.
ACTION (ICONIC’S SCOPE & DELIVERY)
Civil
- Cut & repair asphalt roads, concrete curbs and sidewalk on road crossings.
- Overdig/Hydrovac approx. 2,842m and install new ducts along existing URD alignment.
- Verify structural integrity of existing ducts. Field crew to determine if ducts are to be maintained, abandoned, or salvaged depending on accessibility and/or ease of removal.
- Install standard bollards & covers.
- Replace mini box pads.
- Install new pullboxes.
Underground
- Disconnect load break elbows for old direct buried 8kV #1-1C AL & #1-1C CU cables from existing transformers.
- Salvage/Abandon direct buried 8kV #1-1C AL & #1-1C CU cables.
- Install new 8kV #1-1C AL cables in duct.
- Terminate new #1-1C AL cables complete with new elbows and fault indicators.
- Replace transformers.
Overhead
- Direct Replace existing 40FT, Class 3 pole (STR#3) with a standard 45FT, Class 3 complete with framing.
- Install new #1-3C AL primary lateral on STR#3. Re-attach existing neutral.
RESULT / SOLUTION
- Scope was completed without incident, to client specifications.