Pinnacle Precision Services (Pinnacle) is a national specialty contractor that has a ten plus year history of successful projects performed in various industries including Nuclear Power, Fossil Power, Petrochemical, Oil Refinery, Chemical and Pulp and Paper. Pinnacle has provided project managers, welding engineers, safety managers, superintendents, supervisors, technical specialists, pipefitters, boilermakers, millwrights, welders and machinists on projects requiring highly skilled and professional personnel. Without exception, every project undertaken was a complete success with total customer satisfaction. Every project undertaken was completed well within the scheduled durations with a high percentage of the work being either on critical path or within a few hours of critical path.

Pinnacle personnel have been directly responsible for reducing outage durations at nuclear facilities by utilizing innovative techniques and thinking outside the box. A few examples of this include a completely different approach to low pressure steam turbine installation and alignment during turbine upgrade projects. Pinnacle utilized “templating” techniques on replacement turbine casings and nozzles allowing for installation of extraction piping spool pieces and final machining of all weld joint preparations prior to installation of the turbine casings. This innovative approach resulted in shortening six nuclear power plant outages by approximately four days each (a total valuation of approximately 24 MM).

Pinnacle has designed and built many mechanical apparatus and fixtures to facilitate expeditious and safe completion of its work activities. On a recent project involving four large main feedwater pipe spools, Pinnacle designed and built special fixtures and temporary supports that allowed for the fitting and welding of these pipe spools off of the critical path schedule. These activities were critical path because a polar crane, being heavily utilized by other work groups on critical path activities, was thought to be the only method capable of holding the spool pieces in position during the fitting and welding process. This resulted in a dramatic savings of critical path polar crane time and a significant reduction in the overall outage schedule.

These are only a few examples of the many instances where innovative thinking, commitment and a team approach, coupled with flawless implementation, have resulted in substantial improvements in project performance and increased customer satisfaction.

During the course of this work Pinnacle supported the removal of piping and components connected to the old steam generators in preparation for their removal, installed temporary pipe supports on main steam piping, main and auxiliary feedwater piping... to read more Click Here