SDSIC Sponsors - Mesa Associates, Inc.

We want to recognize the sponsors who played a crucial role in the success of the SDSIC spring event – we truly couldn’t have done it without their support! Please take this opportunity to learn more about each sponsor and their capabilities within the substation design industry.

Evening Sponsors

POWER Engineers

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Mesa Associates, Inc.

Empowering Substation Design with Efficiency and Intelligence

At Mesa, our design automation team works with dedicated substation engineering and design specialists to provide customers with innovative design solutions. We utilize specialized tools and software to provide automated physical design for substations. Our team offers design optimization which reduces modeling time, improves drawing accuracy, and enhances overall productivity.

Our Expertise:

Subject Matter Experts – Industry-recognized subject matter experts for P4A and P4I
Intelligent Physical Design – Deliver attribute-driven intelligent 3D models and drawings for physical substation design
Custom Model Configuration – Create tailored configurations for utility and power delivery customers
Library Development – Development of custom libraries for ease of use by dedicated design personnel
Standards & Workflow Upgrade – Recreate existing 2D standards and workflows to incorporate all aspects of automated 3D design
Automated Design Checking – Create automated design checks to meet customer-specific requirements
Drawing Configuration – Transition to intelligent 2D drawings while utilizing enhanced model functionality

Comprehensive Training:

We offer extensive training for engineering and design specialists to ease the transition from basic 2D to intelligent 3D design workflows, such as:

General Software Operation – Installation, setup, and user orientation
Intelligent 3D Model Assembly – Automated feature placement with containment and conductivity
Automated Design Checking – Grounding verification, phase clearance, and lightning protection
Automated Drawing Creation – View creation, enhanced callout placement
BOM – Automated BOM creation for export to existing ERP systems

Comprehensive Design Outputs:

We partner with engineering and design teams to ensure all aspects are efficient and compliant with customer standards. Together we produce a full range of models and drawings, including:

Fully Developed 3D Models
Foundation Plans
Equipment Plans, Elevations, and Details
Above and Below Grade Grounding Plans
Conduit Plans

Why Choose Us?

Industry-Specific Knowledge – We understand the complexities of substation design.
Custom Solutions – From automated workflows to custom configuration development, we tailor solutions to fit your needs.
Efficiency-Driven Approach – Reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and ensuring compliance with customer standards.

By leveraging our expertise, your engineering team can transform its physical design workflow into a highly efficient and streamlined process. Our team specializes in enhancing productivity, optimizing designs, and achieving greater accuracy in substation design projects.

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Platinum Sponsors

3B Protection

On behalf of the entire team at 3B Protection, thank you for taking the time to stop by our booth at the SDS Industry Consortium. We truly appreciated the opportunity to meet you and hear your insights during such an informative and focused event and having the opportunity to share our mission of protecting what matters most.

Our conversations underscored how critical it is to protect substations with purpose-built solutions that go beyond checking boxes. At 3B Protection, we specialize in delivering blast, ballistic, and forced-entry resistant systems that are tested to real-world threat scenarios and designed to safeguard the grid—not just meet minimum standards.

If you’re exploring ways to strengthen physical security at your substations, we’d welcome the chance to reconnect. We also offer customized Lunch & Learn sessions (in-person or virtual) to dive deeper into threat-based design strategies and how our wall systems can integrate into your physical security program.

Feel free to reach out to schedule a session or start a conversation:

Thank you again for engaging with us—we look forward to staying connected and supporting your mission to protect critical infrastructure.

Eplan

Eplan thanks the SDSIC community for another impactful and energizing event in Chattanooga. As a Platinum Sponsor, we were honored to contribute to the technical dialogue that makes SDSIC such a valuable platform for innovation and collaboration in substation design. Our team appreciated the opportunity to engage with engineers, drafters, and utility professionals to explore how object-oriented, data-driven design processes can streamline substation projects, improve consistency across disciplines, and reduce manual rework.

At Eplan, we’re passionate about enabling engineering teams to build smarter workflows through standardization, automation, and better design-data integration. We look forward to continuing the conversation with any attendees interested in sharing experiences, best practices, or technical challenges around substation design. Please reach out to Adrian Melendez to start a discussion at [email protected] so that we can keep pushing innovative design processes forward!

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Quanta

Quanta Services would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the SDSIC leadership team, committee volunteers, conference attendees, and this year’s host, Mesa Associates, for organizing yet another outstanding event. The open collaboration and knowledge-sharing fostered within the SDSIC community are truly invaluable, and we are proud to support this effort.

Our engineers and designers thrive in this dynamic environment, where innovative discussions help shape the future of technology utilization in our industry. We are confident that our customers and the critical infrastructure projects we build will continue to benefit from the insights and connections made through this community.

We hope all attendees are just as energized as we are about driving industry progress and innovation. Thank you for being part of this journey—we look forward to continued collaboration.

SBS

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Gold Sponsors

primtech North America

We at primtech North America and our participating international colleagues were proud to sponsor the 2025 SDSIC Conference. Supporting innovation and fostering collaboration in the SDSIC community is extremely valuable to our clients and the industry. The conference brought together bright minds, cutting-edge technologies, , excellent presentations, and a spirit of curiosity that is truly unique. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to connect with industry leaders, showcase our primtech intelligent 3D substation design and digital twin solutions, and engage with longstanding members as well as emerging industry talent. We’re grateful to the organizers for putting together such a well-executed event and look forward to being part of future SDSIC activities.

To learn more about how your organization can benefit from primtech solution, visit www.primtechnoa.com. You can also contact us at 844-BIM-PNOA (844-246-7662) or [email protected].

Hagerman & Company

Hagerman & Company is grateful to be a part of the SDSIC community. With over 40 years of experience providing design and document management tools to our customers in the utilities industry, we are always eager to meet with everyone in the consortium in person each year and learn more about the unique challenges you face within this industry which we might be able to help solve. This year, our theme is helping you become a “Premiere Documented Utility”. This is a facility where all necessary documentation is readily accessible and up-to-date, ensuring that every department – from engineering and operations to maintenance and purchasing – can perform their functions safely and efficiently. In such a facility, outdated or unapproved document versions are a thing of the past, and all documents are stored in a secure, centralized repository.

We have a questionnaire available that will help you determine what improvements your organization can make toward becoming a premier documented facility. Please reach out to Andrew Hagerman if you’d like to review this or if he can address specific questions you may have.

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IMAGINiT

The IMAGINiT Utilities team had some very productive discussions with attendees at the SDSIC conference along with presenting five breakout sessions focused on real-world utility solutions—from data management and construction workflows to toolkit configuration and shared customer success stories.

Our team is here to build on the momentum from SDSIC to support your substation design, modernization, and implementation goals.

What We Bring to the Table

Autodesk + SBS integration expertise
Leverage our expertise in data management, reality capture, and simulation solutions to improve accuracy, accessibility, and compliance in your utility operation
Utility-focused implementation and training to equip your teams with the skills needed for modern utility challenges
Support across substation disciplines (civil, structural, electrical, and beyond)
Deep experience bridging IT and engineering

Explore Our Utility Solutions

Let’s explore identify opportunities for innovation and efficiency in your utility operations. Button: Book a Follow-Up Conversation

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Sargent & Lundy

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AFL

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Silver Sponsor

Bentley

Bentley Systems would like to extend our thanks to the SDSIC volunteers and Mesa Associates, Inc., for their efforts to promote industry knowledge and best practices for Electric Substation Design.

It has been an exciting month since the SDSIC and we are dedicated to advancing the industry with our support on the IEEE PES Substation Subcommittee, speaking at Illuminate Sydney, and representing the industry at the AI & Energy Summit in D.C. We are most excited to see our users sharing remarkable achievements at the Year in Infrastructure 2025 in Amsterdam, and encourage your team to tune in and participate!

To learn more about our presentations from this year’s SDSIC, you can reach out to our team here:

The Journey from CAD to Digital Twin
Slavica Bozic, Product Management Director
Sag & Tension Calculations for Substation Cables
Tim Cashman, Senior Director, Power Line Systems
Substation Lightning Protection Systems & Shielding Evaluation Methods
Dave Lewis, Solution Manager, Electric Utilities

See you next year in Denver!

Elevator Sponsors

Black & Veatch

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SBS

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Bronze Sponsor

Burns & McDonnell

Burns & McDonnell is proud to have supported the SDSIC 2025 Spring Event in Chattanooga and contribute to the shared mission of advancing technical excellence across our industry. Our engineers, construction professionals, architects, planners, technologists and scientists do more than plan, design and construct. With a mission unchanged since 1898 — make our clients successful — our team partners with you on the toughest challenges, constantly working to make the world an amazing place. Each professional brings an ownership mentality to projects at our 100% employee-owned firm, which has safety performance among the top 5% of AEC firms. As dedicated owners, we work through challenges until they’re resolved, meeting or exceeding our clients’ goals. We apply this commitment to our communities, too. We live and work in the same cities you call home, so we share a passion to keep them strong and healthy. From fundraising events and community cleanups to educational outreach and mentorship — especially when it comes to sharing our passion for STEM — our professionals work to make our communities thrive.

We’re always eager to connect with fellow SDSIC members. If you’d like to continue the conversation or learn more about how we support system protection and design initiatives, please reach out to Michael Bussinger, Design Technology Assistant Department Manager, at [email protected] or 816-800-9799.