Healthcare environments demand resilient power, precise air quality and unwavering reliability. We engineer systems patients and providers can depend on.
Reliable power and controlled environments for ambulatory and procedural care settings.
Rapid-deployment electrical packages with resilient backup power and life-safety systems.
Flexible tenant infrastructure that adapts to diverse medical practice requirements.
NFPA 99 requires healthcare facilities to have an Essential Electrical System (EES) with three distinct branches: the Life Safety Branch (exit lighting, alarms, egress), the Critical Branch (patient care areas, nurse call, task illumination) and the Equipment Branch (HVAC, sterilizers, large equipment). We engineer all three branches with the correct transfer switch sequencing, circuit segregation and panel labeling required for NFPA 99 compliance and AHJ approval.
Yes. We engineer emergency power systems for outpatient surgery centers, urgent care clinics and medical office buildings (MOBs) to NFPA 99 and NEC Article 700 — including generator sizing, automatic transfer switch coordination, required transfer times (under 10 seconds for life safety, under 60 seconds for critical branch) and critical circuit identification in the construction documents.
We design healthcare lighting to IES RP-29 (Lighting for Hospitals and Health Care Facilities) which specifies: 50 fc in examination rooms, 30 fc at nursing stations, 1 fc minimum in patient rooms at night mode, and task lighting at patient bed heads. We also design to IES RP-2 for surgical suites where required, and ensure all emergency/egress lighting meets NFPA 101 and local life-safety codes.
Yes — rapid rollout is one of our strongest capabilities. We develop prototype electrical packages for urgent care clinic brands that can be adapted for each site in days rather than weeks. Our templates include standard electrical panels, exam room power and lighting packages, and nurse call and low-voltage layouts — reducing engineering time per location while maintaining full NEC and NFPA 99 compliance.
NEC Article 517 governs electrical design in patient care spaces — requiring hospital-grade receptacles, redundant branch-circuit sources for patient bed locations in critical care areas, specific grounding of patient care spaces, and correct separation of the Essential Electrical System branches. We classify every room by patient-care category with the facility and design the wiring, receptacle counts and circuit sources to match — a common plan-review focus area for healthcare projects.
Yes. Healthcare ceilings are the most congested in construction — and the electrical scope alone includes normal and essential power distribution, nurse call conduit, fire alarm pathways and structured cabling, all competing for space with the other trades above infection-control ceilings. We model the complete electrical scope in Revit and run Navisworks clash detection against the other trades' models before any ceiling is closed, reducing expensive above-ceiling change orders on active healthcare campuses.
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