RINA North America provides a variety of services for institutional facilities, such as administration and office buildings, research and development laboratories, healthcare institutions, and educational facilities.
We understand the need for campuses to operate safely and efficiently while improvements are being constructed, and to obtain input and buy-in from stakeholders during project development.
We understand that reliable, redundant power is critical for ongoing facility operations, and ease of maintenance is a practical concern.
We prioritize system modifications to work within budget constraints and schedules, while offering flexibility for future upgrades to enhance the campus-user experience and sustain ease of maintenance.
- Asset and Facility Management
- Program Management and Owner's Representative
- Utility Master Planning and Design
- Transportation Planning and Design
- Electrical Engineering and Power System Studies
- Site and Civil Engineering
- Data Center Design
- Emergency Planning and Power
- Solar and Battery Planning, Design and Construction Geospatial Services (ArcGIS Indoors)
- Geotechnical and Environmental
We partnered with a university in the Midwest to provide arc flash updates to the electrical infrastructure across the campus. This included short circuit analysis, protective device coordination, and arc flash studies for the 138kV substation, central utility plant, medium voltage loops, and approximately 100 buildings on campus.
We provided coordination for the analysis with the local utilities and building coordinators to evaluate and audit the entire western campus system. Circuit analysis ranged from 12.47kV medium voltage system down to 480V and 208V low voltage building equipment.
We provided engineering design services for new infrastructure to support two new 13.2kV circuits on a major university campus. The two new circuits increased reliability to a growing area of campus, as well as relieved electrical loading around the athletic facilities.
The infrastructure design included a new duct bank, electrical cabling, vaults, existing utility coordination, installation and startup sequencing including cut-over, commissioning of new equipment, site survey, civil, structural, electrical, and maintenance of traffic plans
We designed the replacement of a failing potable water well with a new well 750 GPM deep water well, replacement of two existing aboveground water storage tanks of 350,000 gallons capacity with new two new tanks totaling 500,000 gallons capacity, and replacement of the associated aeration treatment system, piping, and service pumps at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida to provide a complete water supply and treatment system.
This system was needed to replace the existing aging and failing systems. One of two existing wells was abandoned and the remaining well serves as a backup to the new well.
We prepared site/civil design plans, mechanical, electrical and controls plans, erosion and sediment control plans, and associated details and specifications.
We were awarded the project as design-build, and services included obtaining permits, and performing construction and construction management services.
We have been working with a Mid-Atlantic university's facility operations team since 2019 to create a functional digital twin of their campus utility infrastructure using Esri's ArcGIS platform, provide best practice recommendations for CAD to GIS workflows and data management overall, enable the utility GIS infrastructure data for future Utility Network management analysis, and provide key facility operations support and decision making through apps for use in the office and in the field.
The campus utilities GIS now includes electric, gas, water, and storm water assets. Key business benefits include improved construction and event planning, faster response times during outage events, and overall greater operational visibility of current conditions in support of "look before you dig" actions and related activities.
