ControlPoint Technologies

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ControlPoint Technologies

Being owned and managed by engineers uniquely positions ControlPoint Technologies to assist its clients in the electric power industry in fulfilling their responsibilities and overcoming complicated challenges. “Achieving these objectives in a manner that meets our clients’ expectations is how we measure our success,” co-owner Jim Kelly says.

Kelly and co-owner Jim Hall founded the Rockland, Mass.-based engineering and design firm in 1999 with the vision of providing innovative solutions to customers through professional engineering services. Kelly served in the U.S. Navy for six years after high school before completing his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Massachusetts. From there, he worked as a control systems engineer at Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. (SWEC) and other firms over a 19-year period. In that time frame, he focused on nuclear, combined-cycle and fossil-fired generating facilities.

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Strike USA

In an industry where services are often fragmented across multiple providers, Strike sets itself apart by providing complete pipeline and facilities construction and maintenance solutions. “We are a top-five pure-play to the midstream pipeline industry,” President and COO Cole Pate says. “We’re a big guy in the space, but we are intentionally focused very specifically on the midstream sector of the industry.”

“You can count on Strike to take it from the well head to burner tip,” Marketing Director Michele Kooken says. “We provide our customers safe and complete turnkey services.”

This requires a versatile workforce, which Pate considers one of Strike’s greatest assets. “Unquestionably, we have a very unique balance to the culture of our company in that we have been able to delicately mix veterans who are experts in assessing the risk of the work that we do in our industry with the energy and drive of a fairly young population base within our employees. We actively recruit conscientious, drive-hard individuals. Part of our challenge is to build the runway fast enough in front of them.”

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Shenandoah Tower Service Ltd.

Shenandoah Tower Service Ltd. CEO Dave Anthony wants to improve not just his own company, but also the entire industry it operates in.

“I’m involved in every initiative that I’m aware of that is trying to make this (tower erection and service) a safer and more professional industry,” he says.

The Staunton, Va.-based company, founded by Anthony and his wife Jo in 1983, is a full-service tower construction and maintenance company that builds, modifies and maintains towers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. STS serves a diverse customer base of communications and utility companies including Dominion Power, Washington Gas, Verizon, U.S. Cellular, Shentel, Crown Castle, Motorola and the Virginia and West Virginia Public Broadcasting Corporations.

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Savage Stone LLC

Construction projects require a strong base of stone and aggregates to give them the strength they need to do their jobs over their lifetime. Because of the importance they have in their products, concrete and asphalt producers look for the best and most reliable aggregate providers to work with. Based in Maryland, Savage Stone LLC says it has become known as one of the most successful and reliable providers of crushed granite for the construction industry, and that’s due in large part to the quality of its equipment at its granite quarry as well as the strength and guidance of its parent company, Aggregate Management Inc.

“Savage Stone offers a full line of quality crushed stone aggregates serving the contracting industry,” the company explains. “We supply materials for many of the area’s largest concrete and asphalt producers, as well as commercial and residential projects of all sizes.

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S&C Electric Co.

Now is a time of great change in the world of electrical infrastructure. Not only has technology continued to improve in terms of traditional electrical transmission, but the grid now needs to accommodate a growing number of energy sources that range from traditional generation such as coal to renewable sources like wind and solar generation. The entire industry from coast to coast is looking for the answers to modernizing their operations and preparing for the next great wave of changes, and S&C Electric Company believes it has those answers. Chief Strategy Officer Wanda Reder says bringing innovative solutions to the electric power market has been S&C’s mission for more than a century.

“We’re all about transforming the grid and allowing the grid to be modernized by bringing technology and solutions to the marketplace that allow more customer choice and more flexibility,” Reder says.