THE PLANNING.DESIGN e Eskom CONSTRUCTION OF Overhead Power Lines 132 kV above The planning design and construction of overhead power lines EDITORIAL COMMITTEE S Bisnath AC Britten DH Cretchley D Muftic T Pillay R Vajeth February 2005 THE PLANNING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF OVERHEAD POWER LINES Prepared by a staff of experts from Eskom Holdings Ltd under the direction of Thavanthiran Pillay and Sanjeev Bisnath This book is dedicated to the memory of Mike Korber one of the authors who sadly passed away while developing the material.His contribution is greatly appreciated by the Eskom team. While the authors and Eskom Holdings Ltd have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this document they cannot be held responsible for any errors or any infringment of copyright and patent rights nor any direct or consequential loss or damage suffered by any person or organisation however caused which may result from the use of this document. All rights to this document are reserved.Except where allowed by the Copyright Act no part of this document may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means either electronic or mechanical without prior written pe...