HV Power System Upgrade for MOD Defence Training Estate (DIO) – Kirkcudbright Training Centre

HV Power System Upgrade for MOD Defence Training Estate – C&P Engineering Services has been awarded the high voltage electrical design and build contract by Landmarc Support Services for the replacement of the HV power system at Kirkcudbright Training Centre at Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Landmarc works in partnership with DIO (Defence Infrastructure Organisation) to manage the national Defence training estate.

MOD High Voltage System Upgrade – Project Scope:

The MOD high voltage system upgrade project will include designing and constructing a new private HV system, the excavation and installation of 20km of cable across watercourses, roads, forests and agricultural terrain. It will also include the removal of an existing overhead 11kV HV system, retrofitting with new HV electrical plant and installing 10 off 11kV package substations across a site that spans over 4,700 acres (1,900 hectares) of farmland. (more…)