• Engineering, Project Management, Testing, Commissioning, and Maintenance

• Power, Control and Lighting

• Industrial, Utility, Infrastructure, Commercial, and Institutional

Utility Experience

Magna IV Engineering has been working with electrical utilities in Western Canada since 1982 and during this time has worked with the nine major utility companies in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In addition to these utilities, Magna has worked with more than 15 IPP's and municipal owned utility organizations. This work has amounted to more than 750 projects completed to date.

• Construction support
• Contract management
• Contractor management
• Design of 144 to 500kV transmission lines
• Distribution design (single phase, three phase, rural lines, urban lines, underground, overhead, ACSR, AAC, XLPE, EPDM, 8kV, 15kV, 25kV, line terminations, reclosers, fuses, transformers, switches, voltage regulators, line capacitors, surge arrestors, insulators, cross arms, wooden structures, steel structures, survey data, soil conditions, grounding analysis, sag calculations, wind & ice loading calculations, ampacity and voltage drop & rise calculations, line loss calculations, short circuit and coordination studies)
• Document control
• Electrical and civil drafting in traditional and 3D. IFQ, IFR, IFC packages and record drawings, turnover documentation and O&M manuals
• Electrical testing and commissioning of all electrical, protection and control components
• Equipment and construction specifications
• Generation or IPP grid interconnects, utility negotiating, preliminary and detailed engineering
• GIS or AM/FM mapping and asset management software
• Highway and street lighting, lighting calculations, structure design, fixture selection
• Interacting with local regulatory agencies
• Metering design (check, revenue, and remote)
• Procurement and expediting
• Project management
• Project scoping, budgeting and scheduling
• Project tracking software
• Protective relaying (distance, differential, overcurrent, over/under voltage, over/under frequency)
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control (design and construction)
• Remote access to customer’s data base and document control systems.
• Right of way, roadway, railway, telephone, and powerline clearances
• Specialized software: MicroStation, AutoCAD, PLS Cadd, ETAP, SKM Power Tools, SES, FE Analysis
• Substation design (circuit breakers, transformers, switches, reactors, current transformers, magnetic and capacitive voltage transformers, surge arrestors, support structures, steel foundations, concrete foundations, protection and control buildings)
• Substation SCADA
• Work packages