Hydropower Generation
Our Full-Service Offerings
LaBella’s hydropower capabilities extend beyond the standard design support.Design Services
With LaBella’s breadth of specialized engineering services, you can be sure of your design team before you’re sure of your scope.
- Interconnection application
- Automation support
- Dam/Spillway rehabilitation and upgrades
- Intake and water conveyance structures
- Hydraulics and hydrology
- Gate design
- Environmental monitoring and permitting
- Electrical distribution/substations/transmission
- Facilities/Buildings engineering
- Civil/Structural
- Architectural
- Power/Lighting
- Mechanical, HVAC, plumbing and fire protection
- Plant control/instrumentation and monitoring
- Fall protection and safety engineering
Owner Support Services
Good consultants see things from your side of the table, and it’s a practice that LaBella has perfected. As technical project managers that can serve as Owner’s Representative and/or extension of your staff, we will drive projects so you don’t have to. All you have to do is steer.
- Project and Program Management
- Scope and solution development
- Procurement and bidding assistance
- Scheduling and cost analysis
- Facility operation and maintenance
- Owner’s Engineer
- Regulatory compliance and permitting
- Agency coordination (FERC, USACE, USFWS, NYSDEC, SHPO)
- Dam surveillance and monitoring/dam safety program
- Planning and public outreach
- Emergency action plans
- Licensing
- Safety inspections, assessments and improvements
- Security assessments and improvements
Investigative Services
LaBella offers a variety of investigative services to discover and document the unknown. Our deliverables offer balanced assessments backed by our deep regulatory expertise.
- Historical document review
- Dam inspections
- Condition assessments/inspections for water conveyance structures
- Feasibility studies
- Geotechnical investigations and studies
- Materials testing
- Environmental/RBM testing
- Wetland Delineation
- Endangered/Threatened species studies, habitat assessments and species survey
- Site/Topographic/Property boundary surveys, GIS, and 3D surface modeling
- Drone survey and visual inspection
Construction Support Services
- Construction Administration Services
- Construction Engineering
- Maintenance and traffic control design
- Erosion and sediment control
- Cofferdam design
- Shoring design
- Field construction management
- Environmental testing and oversight
- Commissioning and testing
- Construction vibration, noise and seismic monitoring
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