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ALPHA ENGINEERINGPower & Energy · Since 1979
A drawing set describes intent. What actually gets built is the sum of a few hundred small decisions made in the field by people who were never in the design meeting, and most of those are sensible at the time. The ones that cause trouble are the substitutions and sequencing calls that pass code and still miss what the design was counting on. We can pick a project up as early as the budget estimate and the bid documents and stay through commissioning, because catching one of those in week three costs almost nothing next to finding it at energization.
The system you paid for is the system you get, and the drawings on file match what is actually in the building.On most jobs nobody decided this. The contractor reports on its own work because the question never came up.
The GC reports progress as they see it, with no separate engineering review. They judge changes against code, not the design's engineering assumptions.
Fine on a project simple enough that engineering judgment calls are unlikely to come up.Schedule, budget and coordination handled by someone without an electrical background. Works well on the commercial side of a project, but a substitution can be perfectly code-compliant and still miss what the design was relying on.
Works as long as technical submittals are going to an engineer somewhere else.The same role, filled by an engineer who can read the submittals and judge a field change against the design intent rather than only against code.
What you want when performance hangs on details a GC or a non-technical rep can't evaluate.Four points between the first submittal and final sign-off where an engineer needs to be looking.
We review what you send and follow up about where the oversight usually needs to be on work like it.
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