Metro Engineering Solutions

St Louis URD Program

Services:

  • Permitting
  • Planning
  • Easement Acquisition
  • Construction Staking
  • Traffic Control

Project Profile: In 2023 DTE entrusted MES with their Pilot Project, the STLUS1136-Urban Underground Residential (URD) conversion, an overhead to underground project in the City of Detroit. The scope of this project was to convert 435 customers from overhead to underground to improve the reliability of their service. In order to convert the 435 customers, MES completed the planning and design of 15 miles of URD conduit and cable which included primary, secondary, and service wire.