Systems Experts

Professional Systems Engineering, LLC (PSE) specializes in consulting, design, and engineering services for advanced building systems including security, fire protection, life safety, communications, multi-media, and specialty lighting. PSE is a leading expert in the integration of sophisticated systems and technologies into highly specialized building envelopes. Our primary focus is systems for corrections, justice, museums, nuclear power, universities, high-rise office buildings, and Fortune 500 facilities. PSE has worked in a range of settings from urban to remote locations, single facility to large multi-site building campuses, and building types from historical structures to state-of-the-art new construction.

Comprehensive Capabilities

PSE offers complete engineering and associated consulting services directly to clients, architects, and allied design professionals to facilitate project planning and overall systems’ quality. We have the capacity to provide comprehensive services and complete documentation, or individual services such as a single study, report or schematic design. PSE performs needs analyses, feasibility studies, and life-cycle studies as required for specific projects.

Innovative Leaders

For 25 years, our resources and engineering capabilities have helped provide technically advanced systems that fulfill clients’ long-term goals and financial objectives. PSE has successfully completed projects nationwide with total construction costs exceeding $3 billion. Our staff experience includes security consulting and engineering for over 90 percent of the nuclear power plants in the United States; a program consisting of 400 sites for a major utility company; diverse consulting and engineering for maximum security correctional facilities; and services for renowned arts centers, museums, international pharmaceutical, chemical, refinery and computer companies. Our expertise may be measured in the great number of system designs in operation, which total several hundred. PSE is particularly known for state-of-the-art automation, multi-system integration, and advanced systems consulting employing the latest technologies.

Key Projects

The following projects showcase both the talent of PSE and our dedication to providing clients top quality service and solutions.

• The new $17 million Saint Eilzabeths Hospital in Washington, DC where PSE provided physical and electronic security, and life safety procedures.
• The new National Museum of American Jewish History, where we specified all computer, voice, and video communications including migration services.
• An award-winning, first-of-its-kind, mountain tunnel lighting design and control system project as part of $7 million tunnel lighting renovation for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
• Security at over 100 U.S. shipping ports at the nations most active berths.
• Unmatched experience of our nuclear security experts who have worked on projects at over 90 percent of the nuclear power plants in the U.S.
• Security consulting, design, and engineering to critical infrastructure facilities and industries such as utilities, refineries, water utilities, and financial.
• Consulting and systems for maximum security prisons projects totaling over $1 billion internationally.
• Campus-wide fire and life safety systems protecting thousands of students in dormitories and buildings on university and college campuses throughout U.S.
• Design and consulting services for control, communications, detection systems, and infrastructure for new state-of-the-art detention centers in the U.S. and international.
• Virtually impenetrable fencing/security systems for federal, state, and local correctional facilities.
• Advanced security/access/CCTV systems for Fortune 100 companies such as BASF who described PSE’s services as "World Class."
• Comprehensive life safety services for high-rise office towers, courts, hospitals, prisons, and universities.
• Specialized audio/visual, noise, and acoustical control for museums, schools, courts, and life sciences.

Multi-Disciplined Capacity

PSE maintains a multi-disciplined team encompassing security, communications, fire protection, electrical engineering, electric power engineering, CAD, lighting, and multi-media specialists. Our diversity of technical disciplines allows PSE to complete all phases of a building system project in-house from inception through completion.

Qualified Staff

Our staff’s extensive project experience coupled with solid educational backgrounds ensures our clients of well-designed, proven solutions. Staff qualifications include advanced degrees, registration and/or certification for professional engineering in electrical and fire protection engineering, security and/or communications in several states; security clearances for U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Nuclear Plant Access; Certified Quality Assurance Engineers; Certified Protection Professionals; and membership in numerous professional societies.