Smith Capital Equipment Live Work Division specializes in live substation maintenance and construction from 11KV to 132 KV as well as overhead powerline maintenance 11KV to 765KV. Live work is work carried out on energised equipment and apparatus using approved standards and procedures with approved live work techniques. Our team is made up of highly skilled individuals with more than 120 years combined live work experience. Our team is capable of all live work methods including spray washing. We own our own fleet of live work access platforms and have access to a helicopter and pilot with Eskom rating. We also provide training for new Live Line Workers.

We offers the following services:

  • Turnkey design and construction of all power lines from 11kV up to 765kV
  • Turnkey design and construction of all substations 11 KV up to 132 KV
  • Refurbishment of lines
  • Conductor replacement
  • Insulator replacement
  • Foundation refurbishment
  • Anti-climb device installations
  • Bird guard installations
  • Steel member/ X arm replacement
  • Guy anchor link refurbish and replacement
  • Spacer/ Damper replacement
  • Stringing works
  • Earth-wire and OPGW/ADSS/ADLASH replacement
  • 5 wood pole suspension structure replacement
  • 5 wood pole strain structure replacement
  • Live line construction
  • Live line maintenance
  • Spray washing
  • Substation live work (maintenance and construction)
  • Air mobile
  • Live work consulting
  • Transformer installations
  • Switchgear installations
  • Rail road vehicles (RRVs)
  • 3kV DC, 25kV AC and 50kV AC Railway Electrification Projects also referred to as Overhead Track Equipment (OHTE) or Overhead Contract Distribution Systems (OCDS)