Industrial & Manufacturing
Industrial buildings are driven by what happens inside them — process equipment, racking, throughput, and the expansion you're already planning. We deliver MEP design, prepared for your engineer of record’s review, sized for real connected and demand loads, with documented headroom and ceiling space coordinated against ESFR sprinklers and roof structure to reduce the risk of field clashes.
Process Loads, High Bays, Heavy Power.
Industrial MEP isn't a comfort problem — it's a load, clearance, and continuity problem. Motors, compressors, and process exhaust set the electrical and mechanical basis; racking, ESFR sprinklers, and roof structure fight for the same ceiling; and a single tripped feeder stops the line. We size to real demand with documented headroom, design ventilation to the occupancy, contaminants, and process, and coordinate every system in BIM so it can build clean and grow on schedule.
HVAC & Process Ventilation
Ventilation sized to the occupancy, contaminants, and process — not to a generic air-change rule of thumb.
- Make-up air balanced to process and general exhaust so the building doesn't go negative
- High-bay destratification and gas-fired heating or evaporative cooling sized to envelope and dock infiltration
- Local capture and process exhaust for welding, fumes, dust, and heat-generating equipment
- Battery-charging-room ventilation and hydrogen dilution per the IMC and IFC
- Dehumidification and freeze protection for dock-adjacent zones
- DOAS and spot cooling for occupied production and QC areas to ASHRAE 62.1
Electrical & Power
Heavy power with the studies built into the set, not bolted on after award.
- 480/277V distribution, switchgear, MCCs, and motor schedules with starter and VFD coordination
- Service sizing from connected loads per NEC Articles 220 and 430, using code-table motor currents, with process demand factors applied only where the AHJ permits them — not raw nameplate totals or rules of thumb
- Short-circuit and protective-device coordination studies, plus arc-flash studies per IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E, with label data updated to approved equipment before field application
- Emergency and legally required standby generation per NEC 700/701 and NFPA 110; optional standby per NEC Article 702 — with ATS and load-shed schemes
- High-bay and task lighting to IES levels with controls, plus NFPA 72 fire-alarm coordination
- Busway, conduit, and controls pathways roughed in for future automation and ASRS
Plumbing & Process Piping
Process and sanitary utilities routed around racking, equipment pads, and trench drains.
- Compressed-air, process-water, and gas piping coordinated to the equipment schedule
- Trench, hub, and floor drains with smooth, cleanable, corrosion-resistant finishes for wash-down areas
- Sand/oil interceptors and RPZ backflow protection per the IPC/UPC
- Process and sanitary waste pretreatment coordinated to the local sewer authority's limits
- Domestic hot water, plus tepid-water eyewash and safety-shower fixtures per ANSI/ISEA Z358.1 where required
- Distribution sized and routed to clear forklift aisles and rack uprights
- What we need from your process team: an equipment list with connected electrical load, voltage and phase; compressed-air scfm at pressure; process water gpm and temperature; drain size and effluent character; and heat rejection per unit — plus the expansion allowance you want carried per utility
Cold Storage & Refrigeration
Building MEP coordinated around the refrigerated envelope and its transition zones.
- Supporting MEP coordinated to the ammonia (IIAR-2) or packaged DX/CO2 refrigeration system supplied by the process vendor
- Non-ammonia machinery-room ventilation, detection, and emergency exhaust per IMC Chapter 11 and ASHRAE 15; ammonia (IIAR-2) systems coordinated with the refrigeration engineer
- Under-slab heating designed by the refrigeration or cold-storage specialist, with its power coordinated in our electrical design
- Dock-door infiltration, air curtains, and freeze protection carried into the heating loads
- Condensate, defrost-water, and evaporator drainage routed and heat-traced
- Power, controls, and standby provisions for refrigeration and battery rooms
Fire Protection & Coordination
MEP coordinated against the storage protection scheme so ceiling space is resolved on paper, not in the field.
- MEP routing coordinated with ESFR and in-rack sprinklers per NFPA 13 and FM Global data sheets
- Clearance held to commodity classification, rack height, and high-piled-storage requirements (IFC)
- Roof coordination: RTUs, smoke/heat vents, solar-ready zones, and structural loads reconciled
- Utility capacity with documented headroom for phased build-out and tenant expansion
- Hazardous-material and process-area requirements coordinated to the classification established by the owner's process team, the fire code official, and the project's engineer of record
- BIM clash detection across MEP, racking, sprinklers, and building structure
Yes. We build the load from connected values per NEC Articles 220 and 430, using code-table motor currents, apply process demand factors only where the AHJ permits them, and carry documented headroom for phased expansion. That means the service, switchgear, and mains reflect actual throughput today plus the growth you're already planning, so a planned line or building pad can use that headroom, subject to actual added loads and utility capacity. We document the basis of design so the licensed engineer of record on your project can review the load assumptions quickly.
Yes — short-circuit and protective-device coordination studies, plus arc-flash studies per IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E, are built into the construction documents, not handled as a separate after-award deliverable. We produce the incident-energy results and preliminary label data, updated to the approved equipment and settings before field application, coordinate breaker and fuse selection for selectivity, and document arc-flash hazards for the owner's maintenance procedures. These ride behind your seal as part of the electrical set.
Ceiling space is one of the tightest constraints in a high-bay building, so we work to resolve it in BIM before it becomes an RFI. We route ducts, piping, busway, and lighting against the ESFR or in-rack sprinkler layout per NFPA 13 and the applicable FM Global data sheets, and hold clearance to the commodity classification and high-piled-storage requirements in the IFC. The fire protection engineer's scheme drives the geometry, and we coordinate the balance of MEP around it.
Yes. We coordinate our MEP to the ammonia (IIAR-2) or packaged refrigeration system supplied by the process vendor and design the supporting systems around it — machinery-room ventilation and detection for non-ammonia systems, dock-door freeze protection carried into the heating loads, and building drainage connections for condensate and defrost water. Under-slab heating and the cooler and freezer boxes themselves are designed by the refrigeration or cold-storage specialist; we coordinate their power requirements. We carry the standby power and controls provisions the refrigeration plant depends on, all behind the seal of the licensed engineer of record on your project.
We design make-up air and process, welding, and battery-charging exhaust to the area classification and occupancy established by the owner's process team, the fire code official, and the authority having jurisdiction, so the ventilation matches the hazardous-area basis in the submittal. The classification itself and any OSHA process-safety scope are set by those parties and the project's engineer of record — not by us. We engineer the conventional MEP to satisfy that basis and document it clearly for review.