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construction, general carpentry and general contracting. Both of our fathers expanded the business substantially, and around 2010 we became significantly more involved in the power and utility sectors, which are now a core part of what we do. We do a lot of work with a power supplier serving the Chicago area, including substation and transmission projects. Specifically, we provide civil underground services like excavation, equipment and building foundation installations, and erect some of their control buildings. While we do not touch the electrical side of things in any of these substations or transmission projects, civil underground work is very much our domain,” he opens.
The breadth of that capability is well illustrated by two of Lindblad’ s most notable recent projects. The first is the 345 kV Gas Insulated Switchgear( GIS) Building in Illinois, a $ 25 million project that involved the construction of a new 55,000-square-foot precast concrete gas-insulated substation building. Alongside the building itself, Lindblad installed four transformer containment pits and blast walls, 13 drilled piers for static poles, more than 30 additional foundations and an
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