Project Manager
Email Aaron
P: 816-823-6226
F: 816-822-3027
Project Manager
Email Robert
P: 816-823-7102
F: 816-822-3027
Bringing Wind to Your Power Portfolio
Wind power is complex. It requires careful evaluation of numerous factors, including a site's wind resource, permitting requirements, financing structure, balance-of-plant design, and more. The Burns & McDonnell renewable energy staff solves these challenges every day. From siting to startup, our multi-disciplined team does it all.
Experience with Wind & Power
We know wind and how to make it work for you. Burns & McDonnell has more than 110 years of experience designing and building the infrastructure that powers your home and business. During this time, Burns & McDonnell has provided world-class engineering and consulting services on more than 20 gigawatts of renewable wind capacity.
Integrated Approach to Wind Farm Projects
The more than 4,300 engineers, architects, construction and environmental professionals at Burns & McDonnell combine their specialized skills and knowledge to site, plan, design, permit, construct and manage your wind farm. Each Burns & McDonnell employee-owner strives to make your wind project a success. We work together to integrate every phase of the work, so you achieve the best possible result.
- Wind farm siting studies
- Economic and financial analyses
- Wind resource and energy assessments
- Wind farm design and layout
- Turbine selection support
- Commercial reviews
- Grid interconnection
- Noise and visual studies
- Environmental studies and permitting
- Community relations and public involvement
- Site acquisition support
- Transmission interconnection support and studies
- Visual inspection of plant and equipment
- Evaluation of historical and projected performance
- Review of supporting linear facilities
- Review of key contracts and agreements
- Review of commercial history of installed equipment
- Review of technical specifications and equipment suitability
- Engineer's reports for financing
- Owner's engineer, design-build and engineer-procure-construct (EPC)
- Access road design
- Electrical foundation design
- Turbine foundation design
- Transmission line routing and design
- Collection system layout and design
- Substation design
- Construction management
- Startup and operations assistance
- SCADA systems
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Burns & McDonnell possesses a full suite of wind analysis tools and has completed all levels of wind resource assessments for our clients. This contour map is the result of wind flow modeling performed to predict average wind speeds throughout a wind farm for optimizing a turbine array.
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Burns & McDonnell supported the development and design of Phase 1 of the 1,250-MW Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project in southeast Washington state.
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Burns & McDonnell's exclusive OneTouchPM™ tool integrates key project management data with CAD and GIS design information. This tool is ideal for projects that share information across multiple organizations and locations. It is also flexible enough to support a project's community relations endeavors, projecting key project data on a three-dimensional virtual model.
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Burns & McDonnell performed an independent technology review of the Siemens SWT-3.0-101, a direct-drive wind turbine generator from Siemens that utilizes a permanent magnet generator. The study was performed on behalf of a confidential client for consideration at two proposed wind farms and ultimately led to the successful utilization of the new technology by the client.
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Burns & McDonnell has completed all levels of detailed design for wind energy facilities. This image reflects a power collection system design that included more than 15 individual circuits covering nearly 60,000 acres.
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Burns & McDonnell performed a due diligence evaluation of the Flat Ridge II Wind Farm, a nominal 419-MW wind energy facility spread across 66,000 acres in south-central Kansas.
