Distribution Design Studio

Double-Digit Gains in Utility Design Productivity

Empowering utilities with improved accuracy, compliance and customer satisfaction.

50%

In-field time saving

100%

Built-in compliance

Build Smarter and Faster

Your single platform from assignment to construction approval

The DDS Advantage

Design Smarter, Not Harder.

Cut field time in half with safer, faster mobile data capture. Engineers can gather terrain and project data on a single field visit using only a smartphone or tablet. No brush cutting required.

Build with Confidence.

DDS integrates 100% of standards, materials, and structural analysis tools. Compliance is built-in, not added later.

Visualize. Collaborate. Deliver.

Achieve faster consensus with customers and contractors using 3D visualizations that reduce confusion and costly rework.

Transform Your Utility Design

2025 Geospatial Innovations Design Conference

Sep 30 – Oct 2 | Dearborn, MI

Reduce Material and O&M Costs 

DDS can shave hundreds of days in the average utility designer’s project schedules each year, reduce over-design material and O&M costs by 5% or more, and significantly enhance customer experience.

DDS Performance vs. Traditional Design Workflow

Let’s Build the Future of Utility Design

Current State

  • 80% of engineer time spent navigating disconnected tools
  • Design by “rules of thumb,” not analysis, timelines delayed
  • Multiple field visits, unclear 2D sketches, rework loops

DDS Transforms the Workflow

  • Single platform, mobile-first field capture with 50% time savings
  • Integrated compliance and visualization tools
  • Reduced overbuilding and material waste

Trusted by Innovators in Utility Design: 

What Customers Say

Featured Case Study

AEP relies on DDS to streamline Make-Ready Engineering for Joint Use Attachments

Designing over 70,000 jobs per year using DDS, AEP has set a new standard for engineering-driven efficiency and compliance. With the surge in broadband deployments and increasing pressure from attachment requests, AEP uses DDS to meet today’s demands while maintaining distribution system resilience.