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Lightweight modular composite firewall system wins Pankow Award


In December 2006, a transformer explosion in Oregon plunged 50,000 people into darkness. In 2004, a transformer fire cost the Arizona Public Service West Wing substation $29 million. How can the impact of such events be mitigated in the future? Composite Support & Solutions, Southern California Edison, San Diego State University Research Foundation and the University of Southern California developed a lightweight modular firewall system that is the winner of the Pankow Award for Innovation. Read about the system, which protects each transformer and isolates potential damage associated with catastrophic failures. The award will be presented on April 30 during ASCE's annual OPAL Awards Gala at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. Learn more and register.