Engineering in Design-build

Delivering better outcomes.

Whether your project is a new build or an infrastructure upgrade, our Engineering Services team turns complex challenges into successful outcomes. We help customers achieve better outcomes by integrating design, procurement, and construction delivery—improving field quality, reducing delivery time, and resolving issues before they impact your project

Integrating Design and Construction

From project origination through construction, operations, and maintenance, Mortenson integrates design and construction to improve project certainty and deliver long-term value.

Optimizing Design

All designs undergo constructability reviews with construction teams—minimizing delays and helping you keep projects on schedule.

Facilitating Growth

By rotating professionals between design and construction roles we strengthen alignment across disciplines, which translates to smoother project execution for you.

Improving Efficiency

We incorporate lessons learned into every drawing set and provide detailed kitting drawings—helping crews work more efficiently in the field and improving your experience.

Value Engineering Alignment

By supporting more than 300 early-stage designs over the past five years, we bring proven best practices and real-time market pricing insight to every project—helping you reduce costs through innovative design choices and procurement integration.

Your Engineering Partner

Whether acting as Engineer of Record, providing early-stage design support, or conducting third-party reviews, we help developers and utilities deliver energy and infrastructure projects with greater efficiency and certainty. Our services include substation design, wind and solar collection, energy storage, transmission line design, controls and SCADA, system studies, and civil design.

Substation Design

By designing substations in 3D with our in-house teams, specializing in physical, P&C, relay, SCADA, and civil/structural disciplines, we identify constructability issues early—improving design quality and avoiding costly rework.

Controls and SCADA

Our Minneapolis engineering lab replicates control buildings to test relay settings and SCADA programming before implementation—reducing risk, improving quality, and enabling faster troubleshooting.

Wind and Solar Collection

Our team offers wind electrical, solar AC/DC, SCADA design, and collection system services. Our patented generative design tool optimizes layouts quickly—helping you maximize project efficiency and adapt to the latest turbine technologies.

Energy Storage

With more than 28GWh of energy storage experience, our team provides constructability-driven designs that reduce risk, accelerate installation, and ensure system reliability across leading battery technologies. We provide technical support, including AC/DC, aux collection, system studies and SCADA, on all Mortenson storage projects ensuring consistency, EOR or not.

Transmission Line

Our transmission line experience ranges from 34.5kV overhead collection to 500kV systems supporting generation-tie line connections to the grid. Our 3D framing approach provides a single source of truth for transmission line design—improving accuracy and reducing uncertainty in construction.

System Studies

Our system studies team models electrical infrastructure from generation source through substation to interconnection point, performing short circuit, reactive power, losses, harmonics, TOV, and arc flash analyses. These studies support engineering, procurement, and construction, ensuring projects meet operational and interconnection requirements.

Vicki Schneider, P.E. - Vice President of Engineering Services

Steve Lay - Director of Engineering Services

Kevin Bullis - Manager of Engineering Services

Better Than You Imagined Possible

Engineering Services Team

Our team of innovators uses engineering expertise and problem-solving skills to design better outcomes for our customers and teams in the field. We are ready to collaborate to make your project better than you imagined possible.

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A Career with Mortenson

Join the team at Mortenson and take your career to new heights. Be part of our dynamic and inclusive culture – one that values teamwork, unique perspectives, innovation, and personal development. What will you build?

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How We Are Working Together

Integrated Energy Businesses

To deliver comprehensive renewable energy construction expertise, our dedicated energy businesses are working together to advance your project and the industry, more effectively. Together, let’s build the next generation of green infrastructure.

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