Overview of Engineering Services at Runge & Associates Inc.

Runge & Associates Inc. (RAI) offers all aspects of electrical and mechanical engineering services, including preliminary engineering, detail design, approvals, construction management and post-construction services. The following items will identify the majority of the services offered by RAI under the various market sectors:

Mechanical Engineering

• HVAC System Design: Overall building cooling and heating requirements.
• Boiler system reviews and energy efficiency designs.
• Building Management Systems: Building automation and control systems design and implementation.
• Water quality assessment reviews.
• Fire Fighting Protection Systems: Sprinkler design.
• Plumbing Systems: All aspects of industrial and commercial plumbing design.
• MOE Certificate of Air Approvals for diesel engine generator sets

Electrical Engineering

• Power Design: Low and medium voltage distribution (up to 44kV), substation, transformer and switchgear design, load analysis, power breaker controls, protective relaying, short circuit and coordination, harmonic analysis, and local utility coordination.
• Standby Power Systems: Selection of standby power engine-generators and transfer switches, ensuring they meet the MOE’s standard specifications.
• Motor Controls: Variable frequency drives and reduced voltage “soft” starter applications, motor control centre layouts, customer metering and elementary control diagrams.
• Instrumentation: Instrument selection for process measurements of pressure, level, flow, temperature, humidity and analytical, including calibration verifications. Implementation of loop controllers, actuators, control valves, instrument loop diagrams and P&IDs.
• Control Systems Reviews and Specifications: Controller (PLC and HMI) selection and evaluations, control narrative descriptions, System Integrator co-ordination, and analog and digital I/O verifications.
• SCADA Integration Reviews: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, communication networking, Ethernet architectures, Radio telemetry integration and propagation reviews, hardware and software selection, and system configurations.
• Lighting Designs: Design of various indoor and outdoor lighting arrangements, including fluorescent, LED, high pressure sodium and metal halide.
• Building Automation: Building control systems for energy conservation and HVAC control.
• Security Access Control and Surveillance Systems: Authorized and unauthorized entry systems, door interlocks and card readers.
• Fire Alarm Systems: New building designs and upgrades to existing facilities.
• UPS Systems: Uninterruptible power supply integration and distribution.
• Data Systems and Management: Communication wiring for technologies and data systems, including wireless.
• Building Inspections: Assessing life safety systems and making recommendations.
• Specialty System: Design/layout for paging, nurse call, infant abduction and patient wandering systems.

Exterior Lighting, Traffic Signals and Land Development

• Power Distribution: Underground power design for utility services, including feasibility studies and substation designs.
• Servicing Designs: Underground services for building lots and building tenants.
• Street Lighting Design and Analysis: Photometric calculations and street lighting layouts, and preparation of standard specifications.
• Traffic signal design and coordination.

Utility Industry

• Pole Line Designs: Overhead distribution lines (up to 44kV) as per CSA and USF (Utility Standards Forum) standards.
• Layout and Field Analysis: Staking of pole locations and assessing of existing pole lines.
• Third Party Attachment: Assessing pole heights for attachment of communication cables (i.e., third party).
• Coordination Studies and Reviews.

Energy Generation Sector (Wind, Hydraulic)

• Collector System Design: Overhead transmission line connection to utility grids (up to 44kV).
• Interconnection Design: Assessment of interfacing generated system with utility grid system.
• Utility Coordination: Compiling information for customer connection agreements with utilities, including liaison with electrical inspection authorities, Hydro One Form A and B submissions.

Industrial

• Mechanical safety reviews for pre-start health and safety (PSRs).
• Safety Circuit Design: Design of circuits with light curtains, safety relays and interlocking schemes where interfacing between “machine and personnel” are required for pre-start health and safety reviews.
• Control Integration: Line integration and design coordination for various network platforms.
• Instrumentation: Instrument selection for process measurements of pressure, level, flow and temperature.

Contract Administration

• Contract Preparation: Technical specifications, tender documents and tender assessments.
• Contract Coordination: Shop drawing reviews, contractor coordination/scheduling and assessing payment certificates.
• On-site Services: Inspections and commissioning.
• Maintenance Inspections and Analysis: Post-construction and maintenance period.
• Operating and Maintenance Manual Reviews.
• Factory and Site Acceptance Testing: Perform FAT and SAT tests to verify compliance with specifications.