Portland General Electric, PDX Metro OR
PCD’s team has been providing on-call survey services to Portland General Electric (PGE) since 2016.
- Our team responds to all land surveying team requests quickly and is called upon for projects with tight deadlines and complexities that require attention to detail.
- PCD’s team worked on PGE projects including:
- Faraday Dam
- Orient Substation
- Evergreen Substation
- Services provided include:
- Drone and aerial services for hydroelectric projects where topographic information obtained by conventional surveying techniques is impractical
- Production of high-resolution imagery for PGE’s engineering team, allowing them to view multiple angles of a project throughout the design process
- Preparing legal descriptions and exhibits for recording utility easements
- Performing field survey of site conditions including overhead and underground utilities, power poles and guy anchors for easements
- Establishing horizontal and vertical control for site construction and topographic surveys
- Integrating unmanned aerial vehicle data for monitoring, and boundary resolutions
- Conducting topographic, boundary and ALTA surveys for the design of Evergreen Substation in Hillsboro, Oregon
- Preparing and record Partition Plat for Orient Substation in Troutdale, Oregon
- Preparing as-built surveys for new utilities requiring easement updates, control setup for GPS calibrations and construction staking, aerial surveys for existing conditions and post construction verifications
- Conducting drone flights used for aerial imagery topographic data collection at Faraday Dam in Estacada, Oregon, for new powerhouse design and construction
- Integrating GPS, robotic total station, and unmanned aerial vehicle used for data collection of utilities and street improvements