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As the Coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread across the country, hospitals and clinics will need to find ways to support an increase in patients who test positive for the virus. The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) and the CDC both recommend that if possible all coronavirus patients be isolated in rooms at negative…
Doug Sandridge, PE, Principal at RTM Engineering Consultants, answers the question: What trends do you see in the future for refrigeration design? RTM Engineering Consultants has experience working on a wide range of commercial and industrial refrigeration projects, including grocery stores, food and beverage manufacturing facilities, distribution warehouses, laboratories, and craft breweries and distilleries. Since…
Doug Sandridge, PE, Principal at RTM Engineering Consultants, answers the questions about RTM’s refrigeration design services: What types of facilities is RTM working on? What are the main challenges and considerations for different projects? As consulting engineers, we design mechanical and electrical systems for diverse facilities. Refrigeration is a specific type of mechanical system that…
Town of Littleton Cares (TLC) Meals on Wheels is a nonprofit organization that has provided nutritious meals, volunteer visits, and other services to seniors and home-bound adults in the south metro Denver area since 1968. Every month, TLC Meals on Wheels delivers more than 10,000 hot meals to hundreds of people across an area that…
WHAT ARE ARC FLASH HAZARDS? In today’s safety conscious environment, there is growing concern and increased discussion regarding arc flash hazards. An arc flash is a technical name for an electrical explosion – this occurs during a fault, or short circuit condition, which passes through an arc gap. An arc flash event can expel large…
Brian Clark, Senior Project Manager at RTM Engineering Consultants, answers the questions: What types of facilities is RTM designing in the emerging marijuana market? What are the main design challenges of each? In 2012, Colorado became the first U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Now recreational marijuana is legal in eleven states…
In this installment of our Ask an Engineering Expert series, April Halling, P.E., Project Manager at RTM Engineering Consultants, answers the question: How do you design for energy efficiency in schools? When designing K-12 education projects, it’s important to keep the different primary audiences in mind: the students, teachers, administrators, and facility staff. Each space…
In this installment of our Ask an Engineering Expert series, Sheetal Roy, P.E., Principal at RTM Engineering Consultants, answers the question: What do you need to consider when designing senior living facilities? When designing senior living facilities, the most important factors to take into account are: the comfort of the residents, the appearance of the…
In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward architectural projects that focus on building upward instead of sprawling outward. When land is limited, particularly in urban areas, this is the most efficient use of space and resources. In Chicago alone, the number of active high-rise construction sites more than doubled (from 14 to…
Civil engineering is a discipline with a long history, dating back to the design, construction, and maintenance of the world’s earliest infrastructure projects. But it still continues to evolve and modernize with emerging trends and technologies. RTM Engineering Consultants’ civil engineering department has more than 30 years of experience in developing site engineering designs for…