For more than 43 years, Raba Kistner, Inc. has been serving the energy needs of local and regional utilities and industries. Our extensive project history with energy-based clients includes multiple projects for oil, gas, and coal power plants and pipelines; nuclear plants; solar and wind farms; and transmission stations and lines. Our trusted consultation expertise combined with our extensive laboratory testing and construction inspections within the energy industry as a whole allows us to bring flexibility and rapid deployment of resources to meet clients’ needs related to fossil fuels, transportation/transmission linear projects, alternative and renewable energy sources and others by self-performing the following services:
- Construction Materials Testing
- Concrete Strength and Durability Testing
- Asphalt Laboratory and Field Testing
- Soils Characterization and Compaction Testing
- Foundation Observation and Testing
- Reinforcing Steel Observation and Testing
- Structural and Mechanical Steel Observation and Testing
- Nuclear-Specific Testing Programs
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Engineering Geology Studies
- Geotechnical Design Studies
- Geophysical Studies
- Permitting
- Environmental Assessment
- Section 404 (USACE)
- Biological Impacts (USF&W), Endangered Species Act
- Archeological/Historical (Texas Antiquities Code and Section 106 of the NHPA)
- Public Involvement
- Agency Coordination
- Stakeholder Involvement
- Media Relations
- Recycle/Reuse Planning and Services
- Market Surveys and Economic Evaluations of Reuse of Industrial Waste Streams
- Fly Ash Reuse Consulting and Testing
- Construction Demolition Recycling
- Non-Hazardous Waste Recycling
- Fly Ash Certification Testing
- Oil Field cutting Recycling and Testing
- Industrial Processed Waste Recycling and Testing
- Transportation Quality Assurance
- Transportation Consulting
- Interface Coordination
- Third Party Review
- Survey
- Create a comprehensive ROW map of the project and adjacent lands
- Create a parcel plat and legal description for each parcel
- Survey, analyze, and resolve the existing ROW
- Survey the new ROW and adjacent partcels
- Verify existing utilities and encumbrances
- Utility Coordination
- Assemble utlility adjustment packages
- Certify the ROW clearance for construction
- Coordinate the relocation of utilities
- Determine utility conflicts using SUE and record plans analysis
- Locate and verify existing utilities using SUE Levels “A” through “D”
- Water Resource Services
- Water Availability/Aquifer Capacity
- Geophysical Surveys
- Well Siting
- On-site Storage
- Treatment
- Transmission
- Disposal of Spent Water