ENERGY

Tandem Services delivers civil and development services built for the realities of electrical distribution infrastructure. We support utilities and energy clients with site due diligence, constructability input, and turnkey civil site packages for new and upgraded facilities—especially substation sites—where grading, drainage, access, and foundations must be executed with precision to protect long-term reliability.

Substation civil work is high-consequence construction. Our crews understand the coordination required around energized environments, tight outages, permitting constraints, and critical-path schedules. Tandem brings disciplined planning, experienced field leadership, and a “do it right the first time” mindset—so sites are ready for structural steel, control buildings, and equipment installation without rework, surprises, or schedule drift.

We also build emergency staging areas that help clients respond faster when weather and disaster events hit, from rapid site prep and access improvements to laydown yards and stabilized pads.

IRA Prevailing Wage and Registered Apprenticeship Ready

Tandem Services supports owners, developers and EPC partners pursuing Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy incentives. Our project controls, payroll processes and workforce-development practices are structured to support applicable prevailing-wage, registered-apprenticeship and record-keeping requirements.

  • Department of Labor-registered apprenticeship participation

  • Applicable prevailing-wage and fringe-benefit administration

  • Apprentice labor-hour and journeyworker-ratio tracking

  • Certified payroll and workforce documentation

  • Subcontractor compliance coordination

  • Wage-determination and worker-classification review

  • Records organized for owner, tax-advisor and audit review

  • Experience with civil, utility, substation and energy-infrastructure construction

A fenced electrical substation with power transformers, insulators, and high-voltage power lines, under cloudy sky.
Industrial electrical substation with large transformers, metal structures, and electrical equipment, set on a gravel surface under a partly cloudy sky.
Electric substation with electrical equipment enclosed by a chain-link fence, with cloudy sky overhead.
Electrical substation with metal structures, yellow bollards, a concrete walkway, and three workers, with a fence and trees in the background.
An industrial electrical substation with metal equipment and wiring, surrounded by gravel, with parked pickup trucks to the right and a blue sky with clouds overhead.
An electrical substation with metal framework, transformers, and support structures, parked with several white and gray trucks on a gravel lot under a cloudy sky.
Electrical substation with equipment, vehicles, and a worker, under a cloudy sky.