Design Drafting

Drive ShaftWe have a full-time team of design drafting experts experienced in mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and control (I&C), facility, structural construction, nuclear, and prototype design.Our experienced staff has developed many designs, from conception through construction, for the nuclear industry, as well as many commercial industries.Columbia Energy maintains a rigorous ASME NQA-1 compliant quality assurance program to ensure the highest quality standards are met for every project. The design drafting staff uses the Autodesk 2009 software suite which includes AutoCAD®, Inventor®, Civil 3D®, and P&ID.

Mechanical Drafting

Columbia Energy’s mechanical design drafting staff has over 100 years combined experience and an unblemished performance record managing accelerated schedules, construction control, innovative designs, procurement, fabrication, quality assurance, and on-site installation and start up. Our mechanical design drafting experience includes:

  • 3D modeling
  • Prototype design
  • Process pipe design
  • Weldments
  • P&IDs
  • Exploded isometrics
  • Steel-beam structures
  • Machine design
  • Waste handling and disposal
  • Skid design
  • Site plans
  • Utilities
  • Facility design

Drafting Fabrication Support

Our drafting fabrication support team works hand-in-hand with prototype engineers to provide support to our in house prototype and testing shop. We develop fabrication and testing drawings and research materials. Our fabrication shop manufactures vendor parts for use in construction, and we offer fabrication support including     as-built drawings.

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Electrical Drafting

In electrical drafting, our experience includes the Tank Farm Motor Control Center, Waste Retrieval Systems for S 112, S 102, UX 302A, S-302 and U 200 a programmable logic controller, Wiped-Film Evaporator & Controller for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and multiple Homeland Security Mega-Port Projects.

Electrical Instrumentation and Control design drafting experience includes:

  • PLC systems
  • P&IDs
  • Power distribution
  • Instrumentation and control systems
  • Loop diagrams
  • VFD motor designs
  • Facility electrical design
  • Skid design
  • Resistivity systems

Facility Design

Our team has designed facilities developed for nuclear materials management. Columbia Energy’s facility design drafting experience also includes the development of a 110 million gallon ethanol facility that is slated to be built in Finley, Washington.

Our facility design drafting experience includes:

  • Nuclear waste shipping facilities
  • Homeland Security IC3 Project
  • Ethanol Plant Project
  • Fast Flux Test Facility
  • Columbia Generating Station (formally WNP-2)
  • Canister Storage Building