Jul 25, 2017
BKI Announces 2017-2018 Engineering Scholarship Winner!
Mary Wiedrich BKI’s First Engineering Scholarship Winner In March, BKI announced it would award one $1,500 academic scholarship to an engineering student currently enrolled at an Oregon ...
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Apr 02, 2019
Maximizing the Use of Modern Protective Relaying
By Guy Colpron, P.E., Director of Design The introduction of microprocessor-based protective relaying in the 1990s has changed the power industry. Electrical networks are now more secure ...
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Jul 09, 2019
Changes in IEEE 1584 Standard Provides More Accurate Results in Determining Incident Energy in an Arc Flash Event
By Guy Colpron, P.E., Director of Design The 2018 revised IEEE 1584 standard has introduced a new, empirically derived, arc flash model to calculate the incident energy ...
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Oct 01, 2019
Overhead in OH Distribution Design
Jim Guess, P.E. Drone LiDAR for Distribution Design: Thanks to the continued advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, our industry is seeing more and more applications ...
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Dec 02, 2019
Wildfire Mitigation Dominates Discussions
By Scott M. Lindsay Wildfires are dominating discussions among our partner utilities these days. For all the reasons you already know, wildfire preparedness and mitigation has become ...
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May 20, 2020
New Seismic Design Standard for Substations
By Scott Howard, PE, Principal of Waypoint Engineering and Peter Grushevskiy, EIT, Civil Engineering, Environmental & Planning Specialist at BKI Reliable and Resilient Systems are a Must ...
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Oct 28, 2022
Seismic Resiliency Consideration for Utilities
Seismic Resiliency Consideration for Utilities By Scott Howard, P.E., Waypoint Seismic and BKI Engineering Services Natural Disasters Drive Reliability and Resilience Efforts for Utilities With the rise ...
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Jul 22, 2024
Vantage Point Solutions Acquires BKI Engineering
BKI, as well as subsidiary Utility Resource Collaborative, are now part of Vantage Point Solutions, a premier engineering and consulting firm serving the broadband and energy industries. ...
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