Experience

BJY’s experience and reputation for responsive and professional workmanship, judgment, and integrity are foremost in the Building Safety Industry. Our staff members who would serve the client have worked on a broad range of projects in Washington, California, Arizona, Oregon, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Utah, Nebraska and New York. Their experience includes all types of power plants, substations, gas and transmission lines.

In California, BJY’s qualifications are approved by the California Energy Commission’s Engineering Division (CEC). BJY has been so approved to provide chief building official (CBO), plan review, inspection, and fire protection plan review and inspection, in addition to other engineering services for the many new power plants, transmission lines, substations, switchyards and high pressure gas piping systems presently under construction and to be constructed.

Recent Power Projects
Hanford Energy Park, Hanford, California.

• Hanford Energy Park, 95 mW, Hanford, California – CBO, Plan Review and Inspection services. This project also includes the linears of 3.7 miles of 16-inch high-pressure gas line and 1.7 miles of overhead transmission lines.

• Morro Bay Power Plant, 1200 mW, Morro Bay, California – Support Engineering and Board of Appeals Creation. The modernization project is located at the existing 1200 mW Morro Bay Power Plant site owned and operated by Duke Energy, and will replace the old plant.

• La Paloma Cogeneration Project, 1100 mW, Kern County, California – Inspection and Engineering services for 14 miles of transmission lines, the substation and switching station. The combined cycle power block consists of four combustion turbine generators, four heat recovery steam generators and exhaust stacks, and two to four steam turbines.

• Power Partners Cogeneration Plant, 845 mW, Gila Bend, Arizona – BJY provided A/E Plan Review, Building Safety Evaluation and Construction Inspection. The project consists of three "new technology" Combustion Gas Turbines, GE Frame 7(FA) or equivalent, which will generate 170 mW each. The 500 kV transmission line will utilize existing transmission routes and utility corridors through the entire route. The facility construction will include the new Watermelon 500-kV switchyard in eastern Gila Bend, built in conjunction with SRP and APS.

• Panda Gila River Power Project, 2300 mW, Gila Bend, Arizona – A/E Plan Review, Building Safety Evaluation and Construction Inspection.

• GWF / Henrietta Peaker Project, 91 mW, Kings County, California – CBO, Plan Review and Inspection services. This project is to the south of and contiguous with Pacific Gas and Electric 777Company's Henrietta Substation, in unincorporated Kings County, California. It includes the power plant, an onsite 70 kV switchyard, and approximately 550 feet of new 70 kV transmission line.

• GWF /Tracy Peaker Project, 169 mW, San Joaquin County, California – CBO, Plan Review and Inspection services. The project consists of the power plant, an onsite 230 kV switchyard, natural gas supply interconnection, five-mile 230 kV electric transmission line, 1,470-foot water supply pipeline, and improvements to an existing dirt access road approximately one mile in length.