Services

At Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers our mechanical engineering services focus on creating comfortable and healthy environments for building occupants, as well as on the distribution and efficient use of energy. B&P provides the following mechanical engineering design services:

• Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems
  
• HVAC systems technologies
• Geothermal
• Direct / indirect evaporative cooling
• Chilled beams
• Under floor air distribution
• Radiant heating & cooling
• Natural & displacement ventilation
• Variable refrigerant flow systems
• Specialized ventilating & exhaust systems
  
• Indoor air quality
• Heat recovery
• Solar water heating systems
  
• Computer analysis & modeling
• Energy use
  
• Annual economic analysis
  
• Air systems
  
• Hydronic systems
• Life cycle analysis
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Utility system master planning
  
• Central energy plant design & master planning
  
• Thermal energy storage (water & ice)
  
• Cogeneration systems
  
• Steam generation / distribution systems
  
• Piping distribution
• Chiller & boiler systems
• High temperature / pressure district systems
  
• Smoke control systems
  
• Clean rooms / laboratory design
  
• Humidification control
  
• Containment ventilation system

Bridgers & Paxton's Electrical Engineering Group was established in 1995. Experienced and highly talented electrical engineers, designers and technicians were hand-selected to create an extraordinary professional, knowledgeable, and skilled electrical engineering group. This group forms an integral component to B&P's integrated consulting engineering services.

B&P's Electrical Engineering Group includes registered professional engineers, certified lighting consultants (LC), certified technology specialists (CTS), and registered communication distribution designers (RCDD) certified in Network Transport Systems (NTS) and Outside Plant (OSP). The group is experienced in all facets of the building construction process from conceptualization, study, and analysis through engineering design and construction administration. Electrical services include:

• High, medium & low voltage electrical distribution systems
  
• Lighting design & control systems
• Lighting / daylight modeling
  
• Occupancy & daylighting controls
  
• Renewable energy sources (photovoltaic, wind turbines, cogeneration)
• Technology / telecommunications design
  
• Energy audits & energy conservation studies
  
• UPS, emergency, standby & mission critical systems
• Security systems
  
• Fire alarm systems
  
• Grounding & lightning protection systems
• Utility master planning
  
• Transmission & distribution
• Substations
• Power line design
  
• Utility & grid interconnection assistance
• Short-circuit, load flow, protective device coordination and arc flash studies

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers has over 60 years of professional experience designing plumbing and fire protection systems. Our Plumbing & Fire Protection Group includes experienced and highly-talented fire protection engineers and designers that are Certified Plumbing Designers (CPD) and Certified in Plumbing Engineering (CIPE). This group forms an integral component to Bridgers & Paxton's consulting engineering services. These services include:

• Domestic water & treatment systems
  
• High purity water systems
• Sanitary waste systems
• Gray water systems
• Storm drainage, capture & reuse systems
  
• Natural gas systems
• Medical & laboratory gas and vacuum systems
• Process piping
• Compressed air systems
• Fuel oil & gasoline systems
• Central vacuum systems
• Water-based fire suppression systems including fire pumps
• Specialty agent fire extinguishing systems

Consistency, reliability and flexibility: Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers knows the importance of well-designed control systems. Our firm has a full-time, in-house Controls Design Group that includes specialized individuals with backgrounds in the controls industry. We take great pride in their ability to evaluate the control requirements for a project and provide practical solutions that offer the client the best value solution. Instrumentation & controls services include:

• Building automation
• Energy Management & Control Systems (EMCS)
  
• Facility Management Systems (FMS)
  
• Process Control Systems (PCS)
  
• Communications system design
• Computer networking & database design
• Distributed control systems
• Enterprise system master planning
• Legacy system evaluation & migration planning
• Plant efficiency & reporting
• DCS, HMI, PLC & SCADA
• Distributed Control System (DCS)
• Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
• Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Regulated system design & validation
• Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
• System process control optimization
• Utility data management

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers' knowledge of energy assessments and renewable energy planning are founded on the understanding of cost-of-ownership standards and the awareness of utility escalation and market conditions, through years of analysis. By following a methodical process, B&P is able to deliver realistic and reliable costs of equipment ownership, and in some cases, finding alternative financing mechanisms in the form of rebates, tax credits and other incentives. We offer the following energy consulting services:

Planning & Optimization

• Net-zero energy use benchmarking & coordination
• Energy modeling for building codes using performance compliance
• Capital planning for long-term energy efficiency projects
• Energy systems master-planning
• Building automation optimization

Analysis

• Building walkthroughs & energy audits consistent with ASHRAE guidelines
• Energy modeling & analysis of building systems and architecture 
  
• Renewable energy systems planning (including fuel-cells and wind-energy)
• Life cycle costing & lowest cost systems selection
• Evaluation of energy systems with new construction & building retrofit/replacement decisions

Alternative Financing Assistance

• Energy rebates & incentives assistance
• Federal energy efficiency tax credit coordination
• Assistance with green loan financing programs
• Energy modeling & reporting for state and federal energy grants

Post Occupancy Services

• Energy star portfolio manager coordination
• Energy data analysis
  
• Energy budgeting in existing facilities
• Energy data logger installation & coordination
  
• Measurement & verification studies
• Ongoing measurement & verification

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers provides Building Information Modeling (BIM) services supporting our clients design and engineering needs in the mechanical, plumbing, electrical, technology, instrumentation & controls disciplines.  BIM services focus on enhancing project quality using 3D modeling and 4D phasing tools along with the B&P BIM Project Process which includes BIM project contracting, planning and implementation elements from the AIA E202 Building Information Protocol Exhibit and the BIM Project Execution Planning Guide V2.0.

B&P continues to advance both its BIM and CAD expertise through an employee evaluation and mentoring program coupled with specialized internal and external training in the mechanical, electrical, plumbing and technology disciplines.  BIM project assignments are distributed thoughtfully to provide our modelers, designers and engineers hands-on project experience with BIM methodology and Revit software application across all disciplines.  Distribution of project workload provides more team members the opportunity to be involved in BIM projects and increases the number of employees with actual BIM project experience.

B&P’s mechanical, electrical, plumbing, technology and controls BIM project services include:

• Identifying BIM goals and uses
• Designing BIM project execution processes
• Developing information exchanges
• Defining supporting infrastructure for BIM implementation
• Collaborating with owners, architects and other engineers to successfully complete BIM projects
• Delivering the appropriate BIM Model Level of Development and traditional documents for design and construction project deliverables

We focus on keeping current with industry trends by working with our clients to implement the most current versions of the following software platforms:

• Autodesk Revit MEP
• AutodeskRevit Server Administrator
• Autodesk Activity Stream for Revit
• Autodesk Bluestreak Desktop
• Autodesk Navisworks
• Autodesk AutoCAD MEP
• Graphisoft MEP Export to ArchiCAD
• Bentley Microstation

B&P’s project experience, employee development, and ongoing BIM research and content creation allows us to design and engineering services to fully support project needs.  Our understanding of the differences between BIM projects and traditional design, engineering and construction projects allows us to collaborate with owners, architects, contractors and other engineers more effectively – contributing to more successful BIM projects.

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineer's Technology Consulting Group has been developed through the request of our client's. Our technology consulting team is well versed in the management, planning, engineering and design of technology systems. Our staff members have many industry leading certifications by organizations like Building Industry Consulting Services International (BICSI) and InfoComm. In the Information Transport Systems specialty, we currently employ four Registered Communications Distribution Designers (RCDD), one Network Technology Systems Designer (NTS) and one Outside Plant Designer (OSP). Our Audio Video team is comprised of two Certified Technology Specialists and one Certified Technology Specialist Designer.

In the ever-evolving world of technology it is critical to maintain present day knowledge of standards and best practices. Our technology team is not only trained annually in various technologies, but also assists in the development of today's standards and best practice guidelines. Our current technology services include the following:

Information Transport Systems

• Structured cable plant design
  
• Building / campus backbone cable plant & infrastructure design
  
• IT pathways & spaces design
• Campus assessment & audit services
• Capital planning
  
• Wireless networking systems
  
• Design review & assessment

Audio-Visual Systems

• Video / graphics displays ( projectors & flat panel monitors)
• Sound reinforcement
  
• Collaborative solutions (electronic whiteboards, annotative displays)
  
• Media production (capture, broadcast & archival)
  
• Teleconferencing, telepresence, distance learning

Distributed Notification Systems

• Paging, public address & intercom
  
• Television (cable TV, satellite, master antenna, IPTV)
  
• Synchronized clocks
  
• Digital signage (wayfinding, announcements, branding / advertising)
  
• Nurse call
  
• Distributed antenna system (DAS)

Security

• Video surveillance
  
• Access control
  
• Intrusion Detection & alarms
  
• Emergency response (duress / panic alarms)
• Asset Protection Systems (RFID)
• Digital video recording (interview rooms)
• Integration with LAN & BMS systems
• Biometric systems

Miscellaneous Services

• Project management & owner's representation
• Master planning / prioritization & project management
• Request for Proposal (RFP) development & assessment
• Bid / proposal response evaluation
• Data center design & assessment
• Technology assisted classroom design
• Infrastructure standards development and assessment
• System integration (EMS, BMS)
• Multi-Site coordination

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers has been a leader in sustainable design since the 1950's, when Frank Bridgers and Don Paxton designed the world's first solar water heated commercial office building. Since the early 1960's, B&P has been a nationally recognized leader in solar heating and heat recovery design. Many of our original designs are still in use today. In the 1970s and 1980s, we were a national leader in the design and implementation of solar energy systems and thermal energy storage systems.

We also had an early commitment to the LEED certification process. We have been a member of the USGBC since 2001 and we are an Energy Star Partner. With over 21 LEED Accredited Professionals with various specialties and over 80 projects designed for LEED certification, we bring a vast amount of knowledge to our building designs. This long history of a commitment to sustainability, underscores that it has always been our philosophy to provide energy efficient, maintainable, cost effective and sustainable designs to our clients and owners. Our sustainable / renewable design services include:

• Exhaust air heat Recovery
• Efficient HVAC
• Geothermal
• Indirect evaporative cooling
• Chilled beams
• Water efficiency
• Low flow fixtures / plumbing
• Auto shut-off
• Waterless systems
• Water harvesting
• Gray water
• Natural ventilation
• Efficient lighting systems / LED
• Raised floor
• Displacement ventilation systems
• Occupancy and daylighting controls
• CO2 sensors for outside air control
• Photovoltaic
• Solar water heating
• Wind turbines
• Biomass
• Fuel cells
• Bio-walls