Project Overview
Professional Systems Engineering, LLC (PSE) provided expert fire and technology consulting and engineering service to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, for their historic Kirkpatrick Chapel. Rutgers required an engineering firm of the highest caliber for the technologies retrofit within this magnificent historic building. PSE provided the complete scope of services, working directly with Rutgers building and construction staff. PSE also provided design, bid, and construction consulting services to the university.
PSE blended technology into the historic architecture of this beautiful brownstone Chapel c. 1872. Kirkpatrick Chapel is part of the Queen’s College Historic District on the original Rutgers campus. It is a classic example of High Victorian Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, with some of the first opalescent and multicolored sheet glass manufactured in America within the chapel’s stained glass windows.
Services Provided
- Fire alarm detection systems
- Connection to the campus fire alarm system
- Beam smoke detection
- Coordination for hazardous materials within the building
- ADA devices
- Blending of technology into historic architecture
- Protection of the buildings historic integrity
- Color, fabric, surface, and texture matching
- Unique and alternate solutions for difficult and special spaces
- Advanced sound reinforcement
- Audio recording and distribution system for Chapel Services
- High articulation index design
- Hard surface review
- Hi-Q speaker alignment
- Custom equalization
Upper Darby, Pennslvania
