Eric Auth Earns Professional Engineer (PE) License

Congratulations to Eric Auth for earning his Professional Engineer license in the Commonwealth of Virginia! A graduate of the University of Maryland’s fire protection engineering program, Eric passed both the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) – Fire Protection exams and completed more than four years of direct fire protection engineering work… Read More

Summer Consultants Awarded GSA Region 3 IDIQ Contract

Summer Consultants was awarded a $10 million IDIQ contract by the General Services Administration (GSA) Region 3 to provide full engineering design services for the repair, alteration, renovation and modernization of federal facilities throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Projects may include site investigations, pre-design and existing conditions studies, programming, renovation design and commissioning projects. Summer Consultants… Read More

The Art of Fire Protection Design

I began my career in the fire protection field as a consultant engineer. My main duties consisted of surveying facilities for fire hazards and recommended improvements, including the repair, replacement or provision of new fire protection systems. Now, as a licensed fire protection engineer, I am designing the systems that are to be improved or… Read More

I2SL Conference

Last week Amanda and I attended the I2SL (International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories) conference in Raleigh, NC. There were a broad range of individuals in attendance, including: government, university, and private labs users, health and safety, procurement, and facilities groups lab equipment vendors HVAC and controls equipment vendors sustainability champions architects and engineers The sessions… Read More