Substation landscapeing
Substation landscapeing
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Has anyone seen papers or books on substation landscapeing possibilities?
Is there anything new in this area of thinking that we can use to better sell a substation to a community?
Is there anything new in this area of thinking that we can use to better sell a substation to a community?






RE: Substation landscapeing
Slightly more seriously there have been some impressive underground transmission system substations built using GIS technology in recent years. I remember reading an article about a couple of them, might have been an ABB flyer or in the trade press. I'll have a look in the landfill site that I use as a desk (or is it vice-versa?
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RE: Substation landscapeing
We haven't tried GIS, or undergrounding of 230KV lines.
I was thinking more of trees, or fences, or store fronts, or something like that.
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If you have unlimited money just put the whole thing underground and put a park on top.
Lovely.
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Reminder: don't put the trees under the wires. 8<)
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Yes we tried a wall around a substation, but at $1.3M, we won't jump on that very fast.
We have tried berms, and we are intending on trying trees. But we have to also have a watering system to keep them alive.
We have discussed pad monunted substations for smaller subs, but the maintenance people don't like them.
RE: Substation landscapeing
RE: Substation landscapeing
I think if you are going with pastel stone, a nice mauve stain and a clear coat might be better! I once had a sub that I built screamed about by a lady in an editorial in the local newspaper. Just blew me away since I thought, as subs go, it was a pretty nice one! She obviously did not think so.
Alan
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It was either really ugly, an eyesore or really cool. (Art is in the eye of....)
The city is out for bids for artists to place art on a large blank wall on another substation. Some entries are propsoing slide shows projected on the wall. (Artists get more money than the engineers.)
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And I've been inside some OLD substations and they'd meet "museum" criteria, too.
old field guy
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It's near the base of the Space Needle. Last time I drove by it looked like a station expansion project removed or hid most of the "art".
I thought it was the Broad Street substation. The only picture I found was the 1951 concrete transformer untanking tower building tht is on the city's list of historic places.
htt
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Other than the architectural fence and a tower painted pink or beige, I don't see anything particularly "artsy". It even has the old style chocolate cap and pin bus insulators.