Westlake is very excited about our involvement with utility scale, wind power developers as we continue to work on numerous wind farm projects. Our engineers and surveyors have supported project planning, design, and construction to more than two dozen wind farms around the U.S. Wind farms often come with many difficult challenges and in remote areas with difficult terrain – the problem-solving is half the fun!

Our Director of Engineering, Bernard Smith, PE, PLS, and Chris Holland, PE recently took a trip to McAllen, Texas. The trip included a visit to the Hidalgo II wind farm for a 75% design walk down and meetings with state and local officials to discuss improvements within their right of way for transmission. Site visits are important to ensure improvements are accurate and the site is as expected – on this visit, our engineers found a gas line where the proposed wind turbine was located and had to redesign an alternative location.