Understanding our clients delivery expectations, design standards and safety rules is our priority.

Zinfra’s multi-discipline design team provides a single interface for complicated and technically challenging brownfield and greenfield High Voltage substation and transmission line projects.

Zinfra and its design partners have specialist capability in the following:

  • Safety in Design, Safety Management and Construction Risk Assessments

  • In-house concept design preparation including general arrangements, elevations, equipment schedules, project staging diagrams, etc

  • Evaluation of existing design packages to propose logical optimisations to client

  • Civil / Structural design including earthworks, drainage, roads, foundations, bunds, structures, fencing and buildings

  • Primary electrical design services including load flow and fault studies, earthing, insulation coordination, electromagnetic interference, lightning protection, switchyard lighting, layouts, elevations, bill of materials and cable schedules

  • Overhead power line design up to 500kV using PLS-CADD

  • Power system load flow calculations, fault level calculations and determination of protection settings. Configuration files for traditional protection schemes, combined protection and control schemes and IEC61850 station bus

  • Secondary electrical design including schematics, panel layouts, terminations, material lists, cable schedules for all types of protection and control schemes

  • Substation Automation and Control design and configuration for SCADA, HMI, PLC, RTU, IED devices across various protocol

  • Telecommunication systems and backbone communications infrastructure design including Microwave radio, SDH, PDH, Pilot, Fibre and legacy systems

  • Substation auxiliary systems including DC and AC power supply systems, yard lighting systems and the protection and control cabling requirements