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Electrical engineering
Integration powered by operational simplicity
PAE’s electrical systems are tailored to each owner’s project requirements and adaptable enough to meet future needs. We work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders to develop innovative lighting, control, power, and distribution solutions that match the needs of the built environment and the people who work there.
Electrical engineering services
- Utility coordination, including net metering and islanding considerations
- Power distribution architecture with consideration for adaptable capacity and growth
- Retrofit design with consideration of critical load, cutover sequence, and reliability
- Overcurrent device selection and selective coordination
- Power quality considerations
- Load segregation and advanced metering strategies
- Control and resiliency strategies
- Generation integration (generators, photovoltaics, wind, fuel cell)
- Battery storage considerations for resilience and islanding
- Luminaire selection and specification
- Lighting-controls integration
- Life-safety distribution and alternate-source application (standby generators, central battery inverters, unitary battery equipment, UPS systems)
- Single-point-of-failure and concurrent maintainability considerations
- Medium-voltage radial and loop site and building distribution
- Fire-alarm systems
- Integration with security, AV, and telecommunication systems
