Experienced Power Delivery Teams
Demand for electricity is high, and the impact on the nation's power delivery infrastructure is dramatic.
Burns & McDonnell is a partner with the depth and experience to successfully deliver the industry's most challenging and complex projects.
From conception to completion ... and every step in between. We deliver results.
T&D Projects Focused on Client Needs
Our talented transmission and distribution engineers design and build quality projects that focus on the client's design criteria, philosophies and standards. Our goal for the past 100 years and our vision for the next 100 are one and the same: satisfied clients.
Burns & McDonnell was the first A/E firm in the United States to successfully complete a $1 billion-scale transmission program (click here to read more about the Middletown-Norwalk project). Burns & McDonnell has the experience to design and build transmission and distribution projects both large and small.
Innovative program management starts with our exclusive program management tool, OneTouchPM®, that enhances your cost savings and enables our team to make better decisions and improve coordination on the job site through a portable, 3D dashboard that integrates real-time design and construction data. Click here to watch a video about how OneTouchPM® works.
- Executive Summary
- Overhead Transmission
- Underground Transmission
- Substations
- Civil/Structural
- Design-Build/EPC
- Program Management
- Distribution
- Industrial
- Electrical System Studies
- SCADA
- Telecommunications
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Spotlight

Game Changers 2.0 is under way, with online discussions about big ideas
Take a look at the technologies, strategies and big ideas that are reshaping the world of power delivery through our 11-part webinar series created in partnership with GE and Transmission & Distribution World magazine.

Southern California Edison is building 500-kV transmission infrastructure for the future
The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project is meeting challenging environmental requirements that may be a glimpse of things to come.
NERC FAC ALERTS
Deadlines for NERC facility rating compliance are approaching. Are you ready? Check out the solutions Burns & McDonnell can provide for you.
New Project Announcement
AltaLink awarded Burns & McDonnell a five-year contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction for high-voltage transmission and substation projects throughout Alberta, Canada.
T&D MEGATRENDS
Investment in the electric transmission and distribution industry is booming. This boom is supported by four fundamental issues, starting with the need to maintain system reliability. What else is driving growth?
AWC Webinar (Archived)
Paul McCoy of the the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) Project discusses this sub-sea HVDC backbone transmission system extending from northern New Jersey to southern Virginia. He's joined by Rick Bush, T&D World editorial director, and Mike Beehler, vice president of Burns & McDonnell, for a this free webinar.





