History:
Merrick has provided professional services to the electric and gas utilities since the company’s inception in 1955. Merrick’s focus in the early years was on surveying and design services for electrical transmission and distribution projects throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Most notably Merrick successfully completed a 150-mile 500Kv line for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation. The staff grew as the company’s reputation for excellence expanded. Merrick’s professional service capabilities were adapted to meet their customer’s needs for full engineering, procurement, and construction management services.

Today:
Today Merrick offers a full range of professional services for the electric and gas utility industry service areas including generation, substation design, surveying & mapping and high pressure gas design.

Electric Generation

Mechanical Capabilities:

• Modular industrial and process skid design
• Custom process equipment design
• Thermal pipe stress analysis
• ASME B31.1, B31.3, B&PV; NFPA design
• Peaking plant design
• Carbon capture and sequestration design
• HVAC , fire protection, and ventilation

Electrical Capabilities:

• Load flow and short circuit analysis
• Protective relay and coordination design
• Power distribution design
• Switchgear and MCC design
• Uninterruptible power supplies
• Standby and backup power generator sets
• SCADA and RTU Design
• Lightning strike mitigation

Civil/Structural Capabilities:

• Permitting
• Drainage
• Construction inspection
• Industrial process structures
• Modular skid and pipe rack design
• Vibration analysis and attenuation

Instrumentation & Controls Capabilities:

• DCS configuration and graphics
• PLC, PAC, RTU, & HMI design and programming
• Integrated database design and programming
• Advanced control model generation and implementation
• Instrumentation design, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Instrument bus networks
• Wireless communications and remote I/O
• SCADA and telemetry

Piping Capabilities:

• Generation of 3D piping models
• Clash detection
• AutoCAD, CADWorx, SolidWorks, Pro-E
• Smart P&IDs

Substations

• Civil/Structural
• Electrical
• SCADA
• Site planning and engineering
• Surveying and construction staking
• Design and EPC
• Substation automation
• Transformer monitoring & RCM integration
• Landfill syngas integration & generation

GSS Surveying and Mapping

• Property descriptions
• Right-of-way mapping
• Plan & profile generation
• Aerial mapping for transmission line corridors
• Topographic mapping
• LiDAR for multiple T&D applications
• Cadastral & boundary surveys

High Pressure Gas Design

• Planning
• Gas gathering and transmission design
• Integrity management
• Compressor stations
• Refrigeration and gas conditioning
• Propane blending & BTU stabilization
• Dehydration
• CO2 and H2S removal
• Product fractionation and storage
• Plant control systems
• Main replacement
• Custody transfer metering
• Mainline flow & pressure regulation
• City gate and mainline odorization