Haverfield has established the most comprehensive aerial service offering in the transmission industry, developing a reputation as a full lifecycle solutions provider. Since the Company’s founding, Haverfield has invested heavily in techniques and proprietary work procedures to enhance its technical and highly profitable service offerings, continuously innovating to address the evolving demands of its customers. The Company focuses on providing the broadest range of aerial services to its customers, with far greater variety of mission-critical services than any of Haverfield’s competitors. This breadth of services enables utilities, contractors and EPCs to minimize the number of service providers used and rely on the Company throughout the entire lifecycle of transmission infrastructure.
Comprehensive Visual Power Line Inspections
Make next day line inspections and enable on-the-spot repairs with Comprehensive Visual Inspection (CVI). Our helicopter power line inspection services include a helicopter and crew using a combination of gyroscopically stabilized optical equipment and naked-eye methods to make their visual observations. These activities are completed according to a very broad and all-inclusive system of condition reporting criteria. This approach is a highly effective way to eliminate the need to extend the contractor’s schedule.
Several levels of detail are available, from a general patrol to the comprehensive visual electric line inspection. Haverfield’s Comprehensive Visual Inspection procedure results in reportable conditions recorded in a customized database and sent to you in any format.
Our quality assurance inspection is also used for post-construction projects. With this service, utilities are able to make virtually next day inspections of construction projects that enable repairs to be made on-the-spot. To date, Haverfield has inspected over 210,000 structures in the U.S. and abroad.
Patrols
Haverfield has performed aerial patrols since the Company’s inception more than 30 years ago. Haverfield is able to efficiently inspect 150-200 miles of transmission lines per day and conducts routine, emergency and forestry patrols.
You can count on Haverfield’s years of expertise to complete detailed inspections of your equipment including Comprehensive Visual Inspections.
Infrared Power Line Inspection
Haverfield has the ability to provide aerial infrared transmission and power line inspections. Our established experience along with enhanced high resolution equipment allows us to locate potential problems and assist utilities with eliminating failures in transmission, distribution and substation systems. Infrared inspections incorporate computer enhanced infrared imaging to detect hot spots on transmissions line and line components. This can be a valuable airborne tool to prevent a failure before it happens.
X-Ray Power Line Services
Haverfield Aviation, the leading provider of helicopter power line inspection and maintenance services to the utility industry, are pioneers in the use of X-Ray inspections. The advantages of digital technology include: very high resolution images, the ability to distribute radiographs to all levels of the organization and easy archiving.
Haverfield has the capability to provide X-Ray images of full tension splices, split sleeves, armor rods and conductor shoes. In most cases we can complete this work without having to de-energize the line.