Powerhouse Design Architects and Engineers Ltd. offers Architecture, Engineering, and Telecommunication design services. As Pittsburgh’s only small AE firm, and one of only a few in the country, our firm is uniquely positioned to provide Clients “Big Firm Services with Small Firm Advantages”.
Powerhouse Design embraces the use of sustainable and regenerative design concepts for all projects. Innovation is integral to our processes and integration of systems is fundamentally aligned to our solutions. Powerhouse Design uses the latest technologies available to better enable our processes to fully capture the required information for integration and collaboration among designers and their systems.
The following is a list of services offered by our in-house professionals.
By taking a client focused approach, our team offers full design integration in a modern, cost effective process. This process leads to user-centric, innovative solutions. The following is a general list of architectural services to accompany a full range of engineering services offered:
- Project Management
- Programming
- Existing Facility Survey
- Existing Conditions Survey and Documentation
- Code Review and Survey
- Masterplanning
- Regulatory Agency Approval Assistance
- Site Analysis
- New Facility, Addition and Renovation design
- Space Planning
- Interior Design
- Cost Estimating/ Project Budgeting
- Quality Assurance/ Quality Control Review
- Construction Administration
- LEED Design and Documentation
- 3D modeling/ visualization
Capabilities include the preparation of design documentation and specifications, assessment and analysis of existing systems, and construction administration responsibilities for:
Mechanical Engineering and Design:
- Focus on providing maximum levels of comfort with energy conservation in mind.
- Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning system design: Central Chiller Plants, Central Boiler Plants, Commercial Kitchen Systems, Direct Digital Controls, Process Exhaust and Ventilation, Indoor Air Quality
- Energy Modeling and Analysis
- Design of systems utilizing hot water, steam or electric reheat, radiant floor systems, energy recovery systems, industrial heating and ventilating systems and incorporating building automation for control and monitoring of HVAC equipment.
- Additional capabilities include utility studies and building assessments
Electrical Engineering and Design:
- Building power distribution system (>600VAC)
- Medium voltage power distribution (>600VAC)
- Emergency and standby power distribution – critical, essential, and life safety
- UPS systems and critical/clean power systems
- Additional capabilities include short circuit analysis, coordination studies, power quality assessments, and utility studies
Plumbing Engineering and Design:
- Domestic water distribution: Cold, hot and hot water recirculation, including pressure booster and recirculation pumps, gas or electric water heaters and storage tanks as well as instantaneous steam water heating systems
- Sanitary and Storm Drainage: Sanitary waste and vent, roof drainage, foundation and under slab drainage systems, oil and grease removal, sump pumps and sewage ejectors
- Healthcare medical gas: Medical air, oxygen, vacuum, nitrous oxide, nitrogen and carbon dioxide piping distribution, alarm systems, compressors, vacuum pumps, manifolds and bulk supply systems
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Plumbing Fixtures: Residential type, commercial kitchens, private and public restrooms, commercial, healthcare, educational and ADA accessible facilities.
- Additional capabilities include utility studies and building assessments.
Fire Protection System Design:
Life safety and property protection are the main goals of a Fire Protection system. Many factors will influence the type of system designed for a particular project including type of occupancy, building construction and budget. Powerhouse Design will perform the required code research and work closely with the owner and local authority having jurisdiction to design and specify the most efficient and economical fire protection and suppression systems to suit the project. Our design services include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Standpipe systems: Water supply, piping distribution, Fire Department connections and valves
- Wet Sprinkler systems: Sprinkler layout, piping, drains, indicating valves with tamper switches and flow indicating devices.
- Dry and Pre-action systems: Valves, sprinklers, detectors and air maintenance devices.
- Fire Pumps: Pump sizing and selection, piping, valving and control layout.
- Clean Agent systems: Distribution piping, nozzle layout, photoelectric and heat detectors, pull stations, strobes, horns and alarm interface.
Specialized Consulting and Design:
These specialized consulting services are provided as part of an overall service offering meeting the most challenging of projects:
- Illuminating Engineering and Design
- Interior decorative and architectural lighting design
- Exterior site, landscape, and façade illumination
- Street lighting design and analysis.
- Lighting ordinance and code creation
- Additional capabilities include photometric analysis of spaces using computer modeling, lighting control designs, daylighting analysis, and energy studies.
- Daylighting study and analysis
- Lighting Power Density (LPD) computation and analysis
- Skylighting studies
- Photometric proofs for site lighting requirements
- Lighting control systems
- Energy Modeling and Reduction Services:
- Energy Modeling and Simulation
- Payback Analysis
- BIPV (Solar) design for on-grid and off-grid systems
- Co-generation systems
Powerhouse Design provides fully professional Information Transport System (ITS) design for both inside and outside plant systems. All systems are designed by a Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) certified by BICSI.
Telecommunications and Low Voltage Systems Engineering and Design:
- Fiber and data infrastructure – inside and outside plant
- Telephony systems including traditional PBX and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
- Fire detection systems
- Audio and Video systems
- Security systems including CCTV and IP based camera systems
- Entry and access systems
- Patient care system including nurse call, emergency call, and patient wandering systems
- Radio systems – mobile and fixed
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