Make the Most of Manufacturing Facility Electricity

In high-production environments, every advantage counts. Safe and dependable manufacturing facility electricity in San Diego, CA, allows you to keep pace with the competition. When you need smart design, next-generation upgrades, or insight into your facility’s energy needs, MPE Consulting has the expertise to assist. Turn to us for experience professionals and empowering solutions.

Projects

BAE Liberty Station

Features

  • LEED silver certified.
  • 350kW diesel generator and ATS.
  • Eaton 100KVA redundant uninterruptible power supply (UPS) SCIF rated Labs.
  • Tenant improvements on the lighting, mechanical, panel and circuit upgrades.
  • Site data center.

Owner/Client
McMillin Realty

Architect
Childs Mascari Warner Architects

General Contractor
Tyce Construction

Size & Description
105,000sf

Chromalloy

Features

  • Consolidation of five buildings into one new state-of-the-art facility.
  • Design build.
  • Verified the power & connection requirements for over 500 individual manufacturing tools and equipment.
  • Upgraded the existing high voltage service and generator.
  • Replaced over 5000A of gear and installed new distribution boards for future flexibility to cover the life of the 10 year lease and beyond.

Owner/Client
Chromalloy

Architect
Mansour Architecture

General Contractor
Pacific Building Group

Size & Description
108,000sf

Clean Air Power

Features

  • Service upgrade for an existing building.
  • Design layout for the new switchgear, transformers, control panel, panelboards and ATS.

Owner/Client
Clean Air Power

Architect
Hurkes Harris Design Associates

General Contractor
Roel Construction

General Atomics Buildings 16 & 17

Features

  • Complete Headquarter relocation.
  • Integrated new tier 25,000sf server room.
  • System ties into additional three buildings for building interconnection and power backup.
  • New generator design incorporated a 300kW generator with the capacity for the server room and additional building backup requirements.
  • The completion of these designs led to over 450,000sf of additional tenant improvements for General Atomics.

Owner/Client
General Atomics

Architect
Krenek Design Group

General Contractor
PCL

Size & Description
140,000sf 2 stories 2 buildings

Illumina Building 2

Features

  • Provided complete short circuit, coordination and arc flash report for new and existing switchgear.
  • Design services for emergency power distribution for labs along with addition of a 225kVA transformer and 800A 208V switchgear at each floor. Twelve 208V panels added for new lab branch circuit homeruns
  • Shop drawings and submittals for all performed work per specification.
  • Close out documents including owner training sessions of electrical system operations.
  • Mechanical system design/connections (HVAC and plumbing systems).
  • Lighting design and controls system based on meeting the LEED requirements.

Owner/Client
Alexandria Real Estate Equities

Architect
DGA

General Contractor
DPR Construction

Size & Description
166,798sf of laboratory and manufacturing space

Life Technologies

Features

  • 6,000sf lobby remodel.
  • Boardroom addition.
  • Luton lighting system.
  • One of the 23 completed projects since 2009.

Owner
Life Technologies

Client
McFarlane Architects

General Contractor
JR Construction

Architect
McFarlane Architects

Maxwell Technologies

Features

MPE Consulting has worked with Maxwell Technologies on 13 projects since 2000. The projects included a transformer addition, site service upgrade and short circuit coordination study with arc flash report.

The lab tenant improvement design services had lighting (title 24) metering, load analysis summaries and power engineering line diagrams and layouts for electrical rooms/switchgear/panel boards.

Owner/Client
Maxwell Technologies

Architect
PCA

Other Clients

  • Abbott Labs
  • Alexandria Tech Center
  • Denso Wireless
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • L3 Communications
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Peregrine
  • Qualcomm
  • Sony