Market Awareness
BROOKS is sensitive to the needs of the industry. Our approach to the market is based on designing and manufacturing products that fill a niche within the utility sector. While we manufacture many items which are recognized as industry standards, we also custom design applications for your specific and unique requirements. Since we manufacture products only for the electric utility industry, our interest is totally vested in responding with creative solutions to your unique challenges.
Engineering
Proper application of sound engineering analytic and design principles is the cornerstone of our quality product designs. Full scale product testing is used to verify the reliability of the applications. Years of successful field installations through 345kV confirm that experienced engineering is a key to long-term economical service from wood structures.
The BROOKS Engineering Department has the necessary knowledge in structure analysis and wood design, and the years of experience, to assist you with your product applications and designs.
Many of our Transmission products can now be found in PLS. For engineering details and use within PLS-POLE™, please visit http://www.powline.com/files/pls_pole.html to download BROOKS Manufacturing’s Crossarm & Brace Libraries.
BROOKS Manufacturing’s single pole distribution and transmission crossarms are also now available for new and existing pole designs within SPIDACalc Software. Please contact [email protected] to request a copy of the BROOKS Manufacturing’s client file library.
Quality Materials
BROOKS manufactures wood products only from coastal region Douglas fir. When properly kiln-dried, it has the best strength-to-weight ratio and dimensional stability of any species used in crossarm and transmission framing. When properly manufactured and treated, Douglas fir will provide a service life of over 50 years in most environments.
Our full-service facility is located in the heart of Douglas fir country in the coastal region of the Pacific Northwest. Our designs utilize both solid-sawn and conventional glued laminated stock. We have ready access to many quality mills producing solid-sawn stock and laminated billets to our standards.
Our assembled products use a multitude of dependable galvanized fittings securely bolted to the wood components. Fitting designs are tapped for the assembly bolts to ensure that hardware connections remain permanently tight. We design our own hardware and have it manufactured to industry standard by select custom manufacturers who have decades of experience in production of sophisticated hardware.
Sound market awareness, responsive and innovative engineering, and quality materials all manufactured in a high-efficiency production environment — that’s the heart of BROOKS Manufacturing Company’s commitment. Our commitment is built into every product we make. When you need the best, specify BROOKS.
