Mortenson has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company a patent that covers their WindBuilder wind energy construction technology.The generative design tool (US Patent No. 11441915) is used to optimise the Balance of Plant (BOP) design for wind energy projects. BOP designs include the road network to access wind turbines and other electricity generating units, the crane path to move crawler cranes for one turbine to the next during the construction phase, and the underground electrical collection system that connects all turbines to a central substation, often across hundreds of acres. The proprietary design tool was programmed in-house by team members at Mortenson.
