Underground Engineering Agent · Phase 7

Vaults, conduits, cables — modeled like the rest of the system.

A Universal Vault Model for underground distribution. Pulling tension, ampacity, fault current, OH→UG conversion. Native catalogs for padmount enclosures and S&C PMH switchgear. Same shared pole graph as the overhead agent.

MCP Tools
68

wired into the agent

Unit Tests
162

engineering rules covered

Categories
10

vaults · conduits · ampacity · pulling · clearances · network · risers · what-if · faults · duct banks

Phase
P7

active development

Honest about where this is: The underground agent is in active development. The catalogs, calculators, and viewer ship to production today; we're still adding new equipment classes and what-if studies.

Demo video coming soon

Native padmounts, port-aware conduit, and a vault viewer in Babylon.js.

Capabilities

Ten categories of tools, vault to circuit.

Each tool reads and writes the Universal Vault Model. Geometry, equipment, conduit, cables, and analysis all share the same shape — and the same circuit graph extends through risers into the overhead model.

Vault assembly

5 tools — create vaults, add ports, install equipment, export complete vault models.

Conduit routing

7 tools — segments, runs, conductor placement, bends, trench profiles.

Fill & pulling

7 tools — NEC conduit fill %, three-cable jam detection, pulling tension through bends, intermediate vault placement.

Ampacity & thermal

4 tools — Neher-McGrath with soil/depth/grouping corrections, emergency ratings, voltage drop.

Sizing & clearances

5 tools — vault selection, OSHA / NEC 110.34 working space, bending radius, padmount clearances.

Network topology

8 tools — unified overhead + underground circuit graphs, shortest path, alternate feeds, single points of failure.

Riser transitions

3 tools — dead load, conduit sizing, termination and arrester specifications.

What-if studies

9 tools — overhead-to-underground conversion, voltage cutover, reconductoring, storm hardening, wildfire risk scoring.

Fault & protection

4 tools — cable fault withstand (ICEA), concentric neutral duty, arc flash (IEEE 1584).

Duct bank design

4 tools — layout optimization, multi-circuit derating, concrete encasement, trench dimensions.

What sets it apart

Catalog-accurate and graph-aware.

Native enclosure catalogs

Primary (sizes #5, #6, #7) and secondary enclosures with port elevations pre-populated. Modeled from utility standard drawings.

S&C PMH switchgear

All twelve models (PMH-3 through PMH-19) with per-compartment layouts. Enforces utility new-only / replacement-only / discontinued rules. Auto-pairs companion splice vaults.

Port-aware conduit routing

Wall-face and elevation placement on padmount enclosures. Auto-connect picks optimal port pairs from vault layout.

Three-cable jam detection

Flags cables in the D/d 2.8–3.2 danger zone before they get installed.

Unified circuit graphs

Merge overhead and underground nodes and edges into one graph. Find paths, redundancy, and OH→UG conversion candidates.

OH→UG conversion studies

One call returns vault placement, pulling feasibility, riser details, and a cost estimate.

See the vault viewer.

Drop in your utility's standard doc numbers and watch the enclosures snap into place with the right wall ports. We'll walk you through pulling tension, ampacity, and an OH→UG conversion study.