- Commonwealth Associates, Inc.
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Commonwealth Associates, Inc. is an engineering design firm headquartered in Jackson, Michigan.
Commonwealth Associates is one of the premier design firms in the United States. The company provides engineering, construction, environmental, and consulting services, for power delivery design. The company also offers land services for utilities, local public agencies, airports, and various departments of transportation. In addition to their service offerings, Commonwealth offers TRANSMISSION 2000(R),[1] a proprietary, interactive software product designed to improve the analysis and planning of electric utility transmission systems and Transmission Access Information Library, a compact library of all available regional power flow models of the continental US transmission system.
In 1992, Commonwealth opened a regional office in the state of Washington to serve the northwestern United States. Since then, the company has expanded into the south with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Roanoke, Virginia, and expanded their midwestern presence with offices in both Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. Commonwealth is 100 percent employee-owned and managed.[2]Commonwealth Associates is ranked among the 2011 Top 40 Design Firms by EC&M Magazine[3] and among the 2011 Top 500 Design Firms by ENR.com.[4]
The company slogan is Connect with Confidence.
Contents
Practice Areas
- Owner's Engineering
- Transmission & Distribution
- Substation
- Electrical Systems
- Land Acquisition
- Environmental
- GIS Mapping
- Construction Services
- Data Resources
- TRANSMISSION 2000(R) Software
TRANSMISSION 2000(R)
TRANSMISSION 2000(R) is Commonwealth's proprietary, highly interactive software designed to improve the analysis and planning of electric utility transmission systems. It is developed on and for Microsoft Windows. Commonwealth provides consulting services, studies, customized computer programming, and on- and off-site training for program use.
Modules include:
- Power Flow (PFLOW)
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- Cascade Analysis (CA)
- Constrained Economic Dispatch (CED)
- Contingency Processor (CP)
- Power Flow Reduction and Data Conversion (PFR)
- Transmission Mapping for Network Analysis(C)
- Transmission Access Information Library(C) (TAIL)
- Power Network Data Manager (PNDM)
- One-Line Diagram (OL)
- Transient Stability (TS)
- Short Circuit (SC)
- Short Circuit Reduction (SCR)
- PowerPlotTM
- Protection Analysis (PA)
- Training
History
Commonwealth was established in 1988, following the closing of another engineering firm's Jackson, Michigan office. The founders had worked closely together on domestic and foreign electric transmission and distribution projects for many years out of the Jackson office. Rather than leave Jackson, Commonwealth's founders left the company and took action to incorporate under the name already recognized in the electric power industry.
Leadership
2001–present: Dennis F. DeCosta, P.E., president
1988-2001: Lester J. Walcott, P.E., presidentReferences
External links
Categories:- Engineering companies of the United States
- Companies based in Jackson, Michigan
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