RES AMERICAS INC.
11101 W. 120th Ave Suite 400
Broomfield, CO 80021
USA
Austin office:
RES Americas
9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Suite 390
Austin, TX 78759
USA
Portland Office:
RES Americas Developments Inc.
700 SW Taylor Street
Suite 210
Portland OR 97205
USA
Minneapolis Office:
RES Americas
12 South 6th Street
Suite 930
Minneapolis, MN 55402
USA
Canada Office:
RES Canada Inc.
1124 rue Marie-Anne Est, Suite 23
Montréal
Quebéc H2J 2B7
Canada
Construction
RES Americas has a proven, experienced and successful construction business with attractive economics and approximately 20% market share in the U.S. in 2007, based on data compiled by AWEA.
RES has the expertise and resources necessary to control and manage key aspects of wind project construction. The engineering, costing, project management, safety and environmental management, procurement and subcontracting processes are all performed in-house, with vendors and subcontractors handling the turbine and tower manufacturing, geotechnical investigations, equipment and materials supply, and site preparation (roads, foundations, cabling, erection, substation and overhead line installation services).
Wind project construction
Wind project construction typically consists of two major component activities:
- Substation, transmission interconnection and collection system
- Equipment, erection, electrical and civil.
The construction of wind projects is a heavy construction process with highly modular components. This initially involves site investigation, preparation of project design and layout, ordering of turbines, main transformers, and other equipment with long-lead times. Project construction commences with the access roads and turbine pads, and continues with the preparation and pouring of turbine foundations, construction of a control/maintenance building, trenching/cabling for the collection system, construction of a substation, erection of towers and turbines (delivered to site by the turbine vendor), installation of turbine transformers, electrical connection of the turbines to the utility grid through the collection system and substation. Construction culminates with the commissioning of individual turbines and thereafter, the project as a whole. RES Americas’ approach to constructing a successful project is designed to work together to produce a project that is constructed as safely as possible and to the highest quality, while being completed on time with the maximum realization of profit margin.
