Services

One team for the whole life of the facility.

Most engineering firms hand over drawings and move on. We stay. The engineers who design your systems also commission them, write the switching procedures, and come back years later for the upgrade. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection, all in house.

01

Studies

Know what you have before you spend.

02

Design

Built to be maintained without an outage.

03

Commissioning

Proven before it carries load.

04

Operations

Still there after turnover.

01

Studies and analysis

Know what you have before you spend.

  • Site assessments and single-point-of-failure analysis
  • Reliability reviews and risk assessments
  • Uptime Tier reviews
  • Capacity studies and capital planning
  • Feasibility studies and cost estimating
  • Short circuit, coordination and arc flash hazard analysis
  • CFD analysis
  • Forensic and failure analysis
02

Design

Built to be maintained without an outage.

  • Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection
  • Fire alarm
  • Building automation systems
  • SCADA and electrical power monitoring (EPMS)
  • Sustainable design
  • Third-party design reviews
03

Commissioning

Proven before it carries load.

  • Owner's project requirements and commissioning plans
  • Design reviews
  • Factory acceptance testing
  • Functional performance testing
  • Integrated system testing
  • Retro-commissioning
04

Operations support

Still there after turnover.

  • Maintenance programs and O&M reviews
  • Testing plans and switching procedures
  • Master drawings and documentation reviews
  • Control systems reviews
  • Spare parts and warranty reviews
  • Capital planning
  • Operator training

On-call engineering and owner's representation

For clients who want an engineer who already knows the site. Many of our clients keep us on call for general engineering, third-party reviews and owner's representation between major projects.

Where we go deep

Expertise built on decades of mission critical work.

Data centers

AI GPU clusters and HPC. Liquid cooling with CDUs and rear-door heat exchangers. 400 V class rack power distribution. Water-cooled mainframes. Modular, containerized and off-site constructed facilities. Design for concurrent maintainability, including checkerboarded mechanical power. Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer on staff.

Electrical systems

Medium-voltage distribution and utility intertie switchgear. Generator plants and paralleling switchgear, including multiple 20 MW campus plants. Double-ended substations. UPS systems. Static and automatic transfer switches. PDUs, RPPs and busway. Hardened control systems and SCADA/EPMS. Selective coordination, short circuit and arc flash studies.

Mechanical systems

Central chilled water plants. Air-side and water-side economizers. Computer room cooling. Chilled water and make-up water storage. Building automation, sequences of operation and controls. Pre-action and clean agent fire suppression. Fuel storage and polishing. Design for cold weather and part-load conditions.

On-site power and sustainability

Microgrids and peak shaving. Natural gas generation. EPA Tier 2 and Tier 4 diesel plants. Battery energy storage. Electrification and water conservation.

Why clients choose FEA

Small by design. Senior on every project.

Mission critical infrastructure is our core business.

About 90% of our projects are data centers, central plants and campus power distribution. It is not one market among many.

Our engineers design, commission and operate.

Time in the field during construction and occupancy makes our engineers better designers.

We do the work other firms subcontract.

Power system studies, third-party reviews, owner's representation and third-party commissioning are all done by our own staff.

We live with our designs.

Client relationships that run 10, 15 and 20 years mean we see how our systems perform over their whole life, and we bring that to the next project.

Not sure where to start? Begin with a site assessment.

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