Fort Meade Gas and Electric Utility Distribution System Design

Fort Meade Gas and Electric Utility Distribution System Design

The U.S. Army base at Fort George G. Meade is home to approximately 300 government buildings, including barracks, training facilities, educational facilities, detentions facilities, hospitals, and other structures that support a wide range of services vital to 95 partner federal organizations. None of this is possible if its utility infrastructure is not reliable, safe, and efficient. Under contract with BGE, Century designed a complete electric and gas utility distribution system for the non-residential portion of the base that accomplishes all of these goals.

Maintaining What Matters

Significant challenges included locating existing utilities, working in close proximity to historic structures and legacy trees, and maintaining vehicle and pedestrian traffic on a busy military base. The design effort considered future base expansion and current and future communication systems to prevent construction or operation interference.

A Backbone for Success

Century designed the electric system backbone to meet the reliability, maintainability, and security requirements of an advanced military installation. The backbone incorporates advanced design features including diverse and redundant points of supply, system reconfiguration capability, and distribution automation. Design tasks included subsurface engineering to identify underground obstructions and design of a duct and manhole system to BGE specifications.

Successful Distribution Systems

New gas and electric systems were installed in a joint trench to minimize the amount of disruption during construction. The new electric distribution system provides high levels of individual building reliability while protecting the backbone from faults on the distribution system, with primary cable, switchgear, and transformers designed to BGE specifications. The gas distribution system meets Federal Department of Transportation pipeline standards and was designed to meet existing loads and planned development.

Project Facts
Owner

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)

Location

Fort Meade, MD


“The cooperation of your design team in working closely with me on the details of this sometimes complex and interesting project has been critical to our success."

Robert E. Nine

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company

Project Facts
Owner

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)

Location

Fort Meade, MD

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