About Distribution Power Design
DPD provide survey, design and consultancy services for all aspects of power line and road lighting design.
The philosophy at DPD
DPD provide client focused, high quality services in the area of electrical reticulation design. To maintain this high quality of service and client satisfaction, every member of the DPD team works to ensure their projects are completed to the highest standard of technical excellence, in the shortest possible timeframe, and offers the most logical and cost effective solutions.
We also realise the importance of all team members, as valuable assets and integral to the success of the business. As a result DPD offers flexible working options to all team members, some of whom work from home, while others come in before or after regular business hours, and all of whom feel valued and respected, allowing us to retain our highly skilled team and operate a more effective business.
The background and direction of DPD
When we first established DPD in September 1998, the team consisted of just a few design and CAD drafting members. Since then the DPD team has grown to almost 20 strong, but perhaps the biggest achievement in this is that we have developed and maintained a strong reputation for high quality work and a rapid turnaround time.
Through our growth we have also remained solely South Australian owned and operated, even as our design and consulting skills are utilised interstate. As our team grows, so too will the range and scope of services we are able to offer. Our street and road lighting design department is continually growing and we have begun to build up our team of in house surveyors, ensuring our overhead power line design and land division projects capabilities meet with demand.
With major infrastructure upgrades planned in South Australia for the coming years, we will also continue to utilise our skills and experience in the power utilities areas of electrical design and distribution systems.
Services Overview
- Overhead/underground design of distribution & transmission power lines.
- Underground residential/industrial distribution (URD).
- Survey for centreline profiling, terrain mapping, pole spotting, set out and GIS pickup.
- New power line route selection.
- PLEC projects and the undergrounding of existing overhead power lines.
- Urban renewal projects.
- Street lighting projects from individual situations to completely redesigning suburbs.
- Pathway, car park and sporting ground lighting projects.
- Large customer ‘spot load’ connection projects.
- AS3000 cable & conduit specifications and switchboard layouts.
- High voltage supply design and documentation.
- Rural power line extensions, both overhead and underground.
- Distribution & sub-transmission line upgrades in the CBD, metropolitan and rural areas across South Australia.
- Project management, contract administration & contract supervision.
- Utilities management consultancy.
- Preparation of tender documentation and evaluation of contractors.
- Sourcing, training and co-ordinating linesmen for helicopter based aerial and ground patrols of power lines for the pre fire danger season.
- Asset condition inspections.
- Provides linesmen for helicopter based HV Insulator Washing operations on Distribution & Transmission power lines
