Educational

Project Profile: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, Camden, and New Brunswick, NJ

Project: Fire Safety Upgrades and Life Safety Consulting for more than 100 buildings on Campus Sites

Client: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Construction Cost: $100 million

Scope of Work: Professional Systems Engineering, LLC has served, since 1989, as fire protection engineer and consultant to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey under a 9-year Uniform Fire Code Retrofit program required by the State of New Jersey.

The designs encompassed protection for over 7,000 students in over 3,500 rooms including over 100 low- and high-rise buildings on campuses state-wide. PSE provided bid documentation for each site, including schematics, design development, and construction documentation. Our quality documentation enabled contractors to install each project on a fast-track basis with no change orders.

Designs represent over $10 million in systems in over $400 million of new and existing facilities for New Brunswick, College Avenue, Newark, Camden, Douglas, and Queens College campus locations.

• Fire protection design services
• Smoke detection
• Fire alarm/control
• Audio evacuation
• Elevator recall/monitoring
• Command center architecture and operations
• Fire sprinkler
• Fire pump design
• Building fire water service
• Fireman’s communication
• ADA compliance

• Asbestos abatement coordination
• Construction management
• Fire code retrofit project management
• Emergency generators
• Generator building design and custom finishing
• Shared fire pump and generator services reduced costs
• Earthquake restraint design for piping
• Test commissioning and observation