Black & Veatch keeps Asia all powered up

In 1967, Black & Veatch was awarded a contract with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) for a 60-megawatt generating unit, representing one of the company’s first power projects in the Asia region.

More than 40 years later, Black & Veatch continues to deliver essential power, transmission and water infrastructure across the region. Since its initial projects, the company has expanded its presence in the region to include office locations in China, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia.

Today, Black & Veatch has a global workforce of 9,600 in more than 100 offices. Black & Veatch’s globally integrated and multi-disciplined workforce provides clients with the right technical expertise to meet their objectives, regardless of the project’s location. This also provides Black & Veatch professionals the opportunity to participate on multi-national teams for projects that are both close to home and on different continents. In the power generation industry, Black & Veatch provides engineering, technology, consulting and construction solutions that span the lifecycle of projects. The company provides clients with expertise across all power generation fuel-types and technology, including fossil, renewable and nuclear fuels. Black & Veatch’s services encompass planning, design, procurement, construction, startup, optimization and maintenance.

Coal-fueled generation

Clients are working to meet increasing electric demand in the growing economies across Asia. Having access to baseload power generation results in fuel cost stability, reliability and predictability in available electric energy supplies. Modern coal units have many benefits: availability, improved technology and efficiency and improved environmental performance. Clients continue to turn to Black & Veatch for their sub and supercritical coal-fueled power generation needs.

Black & Veatch’s worldwide experience includes more than 120 coal-fueled units, totaling over 55,000 megawatts (MW) of electric generation. The company is currently involved in multiple coal projects in the United States, South Africa, Indonesia and China.

Black & Veatch offers oversight, development support and complete project execution capabilities, encompassing all aspects of coal-fueled power generation projects, including pulverized coal (subcritical and supercritical), fluidized bed and integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technologies. Clients benefit from Black & Veatch’s strong construction alliances and OEM relationships, design quality and plant availability, and worldwide execution capabilities on complex coal projects. In addition, Black & Veatch delivers complete environmental project solutions. Black & Veatch’s experience and technical expertise provides clients with an unbiased evaluation of environmental control technologies in order to minimize capital and life-cycle costs, and optimize the integration with existing plant systems.

Combustion Turbine

Black & Veatch has long been a global leader in the design, construction, start-up and optimized operation of combustion turbine-based power generation plants. The company has been involved in more than 300 combustion turbine projects, totaling more than 91,000 MW in electric generation, worldwide. This includes simple cycle, combined cycle, combined cycle conversion, cogeneration and repowering projects for utilities and power producers, as well as industrial power applications.

Black & Veatch fully utilizes its integrated global workforce to deliver world-class combustion turbine projects for its clients. In 2007, the Shidongkou Power Station near Shanghai, China, was awarded the "Best Asian Gas Power Plant" by Asian Power magazine. The project team included professionals from Black & Veatch’s Beijing, Bangkok and Kansas City, Missouri, office locations.

The company is currently engaged in several combustion turbine projects in Indonesia, China and Thailand.

Black & Veatch uses the right proven technologies to reduce end-user risk and provide best life-cycle benefits, and integrate smoothly with current or other technology. Our reliable technology meets performance guarantees with measurable standards for cost and schedule.

Clients rely upon our technologies for industry-best project execution and superlative risk management techniques as crucial to success. No matter the technology that is in place or the new plant plans that are in development, Black & Veatch provides comprehensive combustion turbine capabilities. The company has utilized combustion turbines from every major manufacturer, both aeroderivative and large frame combustion turbines, and the latest combustion turbine technology, including "FB" and "G" class machines.

Transmission and Distribution

Black & Veatch is one of the largest and most geographically diverse organizations in the power delivery industry. By utilizing its geographic reach and breadth of services, Black & Veatch provides every service needed to plan, study, configure, site, permit, design, procure, construct and commission any type of power delivery facility, providing clients with a single-source prime contractor for all sizes of projects.

Black & Veatch strives to achieve a ‘zero-incidents’ safety record for all its projects. This dedication to safety was recognized earlier this year when the Vietnam Government presented the company with a Safety Excellence Award for implementing exceptional safety procedures and training at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park project. The project includes construction of a 110-kilovolt (kV) substation and supporting transmission lines designed to provide reliable energy for a major manufacturing plant being constructed in the Hi-Tech Park, southwest of Ho Chi Minh City.

Working to improve the quality of life

Black & Veatch’s professionals are passionate about living the company’s mission of Building a World of Difference®, every day on every project. By advancing the frontiers of knowledge, Black & Veatch provides its clients with reliable solutions to their most complex challenges, thereby helping improve and sustain the quality of life around the world. The company's Web site is www.bv.com.