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Click here to register !Electrical Transmission Conference Tours
No cost - only full registrants are eligible to attend.
YOU MUST PRE -REGISTER TO ATTEND ANY TOUR.
No Registration will be allowed after September 8, 2006.
The Structural Engineering Institute and the Committee on Electrical Transmission Structures invites you to attend a variety of technical tours sponsored by industry leading utility manufacturers. All tours will be held on Thursday, October 19 and are scheduled throughout the day to allow participants flexibility in reviewing the product lines of their choice. Pre-registration for tours is required and space is limited. Tour details and schedules are as follows: (To register go to registration page on web site)
Aerotec and Nation Wide Utility Poles & Supply (Cahaba Pressure Treated) Tour:
Aerotec invites you to visit our office and hanger facilities, located in Bessemer, Alabama, to meet our friendly and knowledgeable staff. Aerotec specializes in providing rapid and effective airborne LIDAR surveys and digital imagery solutions for government and private industries using both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. Our products include LIDAR, digital aerial photography, infrared photography, and corona detection using remote sensing data. Our tour will include a review of our hanger facilities, including remote sensing aircraft, and our electric power transmission applications. For additional information, please see our web site at http://www.aerotecusa.com. We look forward to seeing you at the Conference.
CAHABA PRESSURE TREATED FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.
CAHABA PRESSURE TREATED FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.
invites you to visit our work- class manufacturing facilities and meet our dedicated professional staff.
The tour will help you understand our company operates in the wood utility pole business. We would like to show you how the poles are milled, conditioned, framed and then treated. We offer treatments in CCA, Creosote, Penta and Copper Naphthenate.
Our sales office, Nationwide Utility Poles and Supply, INC. is just one of the many branches of CAHABA. Please visit our website at http://www.nwpoles.com and see a brief summary of just what we can offer.
We are very pleased with our company and we think you will be too- after you take our tour. We take pride in our plant facilities and the product that we produce.
Valmont Newmark 
Valmont Newmark is a single source for steel, concrete, and hybrid structures for power delivery; transmission, distribution, and substation applications. The tour will visit our first concrete pole plant in Tuscaloosa, AL in production since 1983 and will include a presentation on the design, manufacturing, and use of spun prestressed concrete poles for the utility market. We will provide breakfast or lunch for the two morning tours and snacks, beverages for the afternoon tour. Our website is http://www.valmont-newmark.com to learn about our company. We look forward to the SEI conference here in Birmingham, Alabama and hope that many attendees will visit our plant.
Thomas & Betts 
The Steel Structures Division of Thomas & Betts invites our customers to tour the Gadsden, Alabama steel pole fabrication facility. Built in 2001 this 250,000 square foot facility is the newest of the four Thomas & Betts U.S. pole fabrication plants.
As a leader in the design and fabrication of steel poles used in the transmission of power in voltages through 765kV, Thomas & Betts offers three tour times to fit even the tightest schedule. Our tour starts with a short 50-minute bus drive from Birmingham to our plant located near Steele, AL. Items presented will be an overview of the Thomas & Betts pole design process and an up-close view of the fabrication process, including plasma cutting, the press brake, and various welding and finishing processes. After touring the plant, visitors will view a demonstration of a caisson being installed with a vibratory hammer by the American Piledriving Equipment and Erickson Air-Crane Companies. Erickson Air-Crane will then install an 80-foot single piece pole into the newly installed caisson.
Each tour will include breakfast, lunch or snacks/refreshments depending on tour time.
Thomas & Betts and Erickson look forward to seeing you at the Gadsden, AL plant.
For additional information about Thomas & Betts, please visit www.meyersteelstructures.com. For additional information about Erickson and American Piledriving Equipment, please visit http://www.ericksonaircrane.com/ and http://www.apevibro.com/.
Tour Registration (no cost) - Advance registration for the tours is required. There will be no onsite registration for the tours. The deadline for Tour Registration is September 8th. Please note that some tours require a bus ride of approximately 1 hour each way. No private transportation will be permitted. Space for each tour is limited so please indicate both your first and second choice. Tours may be cancelled if there is insufficient participation. Confirmation of tour selection and notification of any cancelled tours will be included in the registration materials. Companies sponsoring tours reserve the right to refuse admission to any individual for any breach of safe practice or company policy.
Morning Tours Thursday, October 19, 2006
7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thomas & Betts (Breakfast included)
7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Valmont Newmark (Breakfast included)
8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Aerotec & Nation Wide Utility Poles & Supply
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Two buses leave the hotel with one bus bound for Nation Wide and the other bus bound for Aerotec. For the 8:00 a.m. tour only, all participants will see both Aerotec and Nation Wide facilities (Lunch included).
10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Valmont Newmark (Lunch included)
Afternoon Tours - Thursday, October 19, 2006
(Refreshments included for all tours)
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Thomas & Betts
3:00 p.m. to 6:00p.m. Valmont Newmark
3:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Aerotec
3:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Nation Wide Utility Pole & Supply
