SDG&E has been awarded the “Outstanding Engineering Project Award” for 2013 for the Sunrise Powerlink. The San Diego County Engineering Council presented the award to Mike Niggli and Patrick Lee during a ceremony at the University of San Diego during National Engineer Week.
“With such a monumental task ahead of us that encompassed both overhead and underground construction, a wide array of environmental regulations and habitat schedules to adhere to, we needed the best engineering minds to create a project schedule to get this job done, said SDG&E’s vice president of the Sunrise Powerlink, Patrick Lee. “This award is a testament to the imagination and dedication of our employees and contracted engineering partners to tackle such a challenging assignment.”
The Sunrise Powerlink, which was put into service last June, is one of the largest and most significant projects in SDG&E’s history. Construction included thousands of helicopter flights to ferry crews and material to the construction sites along the route. The total weight of the 438 transmission structures was 13,200 tons of steel. More than 1,135 miles of overhead high-voltage wire was used which if laid end to end would reach San Diego to San Antonio.
The San Diego engineering community recognizes that the Sunrise Powerlink is an exceptionally outstanding technical achievement and is the project of the year.
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