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CLAUDIA PRADO PE

CLAUDIA PRADO PE

Our geomatics staff is focused on accuracy and timeliness to help our clients achieve their vision. Our team of professional land surveyors are supplied with the latest field equipment and software to produce accurate plats, legal descriptions and maps. Our Geomatics department is knowledgeable about the historical and legal aspects of surveying and works with our other departments to proactively handle a property’s past so that the future vision can be realized. In addition to our traditional geomatics services, McAdams offers customized services specifically tailored to our Energy clintele, including LiDAR acquisition for transmission corridors for both existing as-built and topographic surveys; plan and profile documentation of existing and proposed transmission lines utilizing PLS-CADD; transmission lines and structure modeling of LiDAR data utilizing PLS-CADD; substation asbuilts with aerial image overlay; and construction layout. Additional capabilities include:

› Preliminary Design Surveys

› Construction Staking

› Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

– Our SUE team locates and identifies visible and underground utilities early in a project’s design process to avoid costly conflicts and dangerous safety hazards.

› Laser Scanning

› Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) + LiDAR Services

– Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Licensed Remote Pilots utilize photosensors designed for aerial photogrammetry to capture imagery within the project limits

› Building Information Modeling

› Hydrographic Surveying

› Route Location Surveys

GREG BEWLEY PLS Vice President, Geomatics

Greg has more than 20 years of experience within the surveying industry and has been with McAdams since 2005. Throughout his career at McAdams, he has served many roles from senior crew chief to Project Manager and he now serves as the director of our Geomatics department. Through his career in surveying, Greg has managed a wide variety of projects, including boundary, American Land Title Association, platting, construction staking and as-built surveys, for substation and transmission line projects, as well as residential and commercial projects. Additionally, Greg is well-versed in PLSCAD.

EDUCATION:

Studied at Wake Technical Community College

Project Experience

› Calvander-Eubanks Substation / Chapel Hill, NC

› Lake Latham Retail Substation Siting / Mebane, NC

› Pine Lake Substation Stakeout / Raleigh, NC

› Columbus Substation Plan + Profile / Davidson County, NC

› Stokesdale Retail / Stokesdale, NC

› Angier 230kV Substation Expansion Surveying / Angier, NC

› Linden 230kV Substation Site As-built Survey / Linden, NC

› Nichols 115kV Substation Flood Protection / Nichols, SC

› Louisburg 115kV Substation Replacement of X-FMRs / Louisburg, NC

› Lumberton 115kV Substation Flood Protection / Lumberton, NC

REGISTRATIONS:

Professional Land Surveyor (PLS): NC #4805

› Goldsboro Wonmack 115kV Construction Staking / Goldsboro, NC

› Wallace 115kV Yard Construction Staking / Wallace, NC

› Castle Hayne 230kV Substation Rebuild / Castle Hayne, NC

› Maiden Operations Center Complex / Catawba County, NC

› Newport + Harlowe Substation Siting / Carteret County, NC

› Bear Branch 230 kV Substation / Harnett County, NC

› New Hill 230kV Substation / New Hill, NC

› Leland Operations Center Renovation / Brunswick County, NC

› Garner Operations Center Yard Expansion / Garner, NC

› Florence Operations Center / Florence County, SC

› Raleigh-Durham Airport 230kV Substation / Raleigh, NC

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