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East Harris County Emergency Communications Center
The new East Harris County Emergency Communications Center will receive emergency calls through the Greater Harris County 9-1-1 network. The Center will dispatch emergency medical service events or fire service related events for five area emergency agencies. The five emergency agencies provide services within an area located North of the Houston Ship Channel, East of…
Port of Houston
PGA Engineers is currently in design to provide a new fiber optic link between two sides of the Houston Ship Channel at the Turning Basin Terminal. To accomplish this, a directional bore technique is being designed that will end up 150 meters long and 20 meters deep. The existing wireless link across the channel will…
Houston Airport System
As a subconsultant to the Derek Consulting Group (DCG), PGA provided consulting, engineering, and design for the new “Free Airport WIFI” system based on IEEE 802.11ac. As part of the design scope, PGA conducted radio frequency (RF) site surveys, RF modeling, large scale data network design (over 100 network switches), provided recommendations for data network…
Chevron, Jack & St Malo, Gulf of Mexico
As an engineering subcontractor to Inmarsat, PGA Engineers provided project engineering for: Distributed Satellite Entertainment Television (ETV) System, Person on Board (PoB) Mustering and Digital Video Systems. Additionally, PGA is providing engineering support for the following systems: C and KU Band Stabilized Satellite System, Paging and General Alarm (PAGA) systems, Automatic Weather Observation System (AWOS),…
AT&T, Houston
PGA Engineers designed a telecommunications infrastructure consisting of a fiber optic cable and conduit system between separate buildings throughout the campus. The design included drawings and specifications prepared in accordance with AT&T requirements, the Houston Airport System Tenant Improvement Project guidelines and ANSI/EIA/TIA/BICSI standards.
Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro), Strategic Security Planning
As a sub-consultant to TRC Security, PGA Engineers provided security vulnerability and technology assessments to over 100 different facilities ranging from office buildings, operation centers, park and rides and rail platforms. PGA Engineers developed vulnerability recommendations, inventory spreadsheets, technology analysis and system 1-line diagrams.
Terminal D Renovations, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston
PGA Engineers provided a design for a Radio IDF and Antenna Farm compliant with the Motorola R56 Standard. Additionally, a Distributed Antenna System (DAS), VHF Air to Ground Service, and Legacy Trunk Radio System was designed to provide Radio and Cellular Coverage throughout the Terminal Building. Once installed, the systems will support airport and airline…
Australia Pacific LNG, Queensland, Australia
PGA Engineers provided front-end engineering design (FEED), and engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) services for remote site communications at the Australia Pacific LNG plant in Queensland, Australia, operated by Conoco Phillips. PGA Engineers’ scope included engineering and design for point-to-point (P2P) microwave communications, marine, aeronautical and plant radio systems, very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite communications,…
Marathon Oil Company, Gulf of Mexico
PGA Engineers provided an analysis and engineering recommendation to relocate and upgrade a DC power plant from an existing communications room to the main operations deck. The report included a hazardous location analysis of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Electric Code (NEC). The final recommendation provided battery bank placement and enclosure requirements…
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
PGA Engineers provided IT (information technology) programming and cost modeling to support a public-private partnership proposal to the General Authority of Civil Aviation. The scope included 25 different airport IT systems to support the growth and operation of the airport for 25 years. Special requirements were considered for reusing a portion of the existing terminal…
Freeport LNG Liquefaction Expansion, Freeport, Texas
As a consulting engineer to Honeywell Process Solutions, PGA Engineers is providing front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for all communications systems. Owner workshops, basis of design and specifications are being developed for microwave, plant radio systems, LAN, WAN, and Public Address/General Alarm (PAGA). Construction is scheduled to begin in 2013 with completion in 2016…
Shah Gas Development Project, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
As a consulting engineer to Honeywell Process Solutions, PGA Engineers is developing a design for an extreme-weather, industrial Wi-Fi system to be used throughout the plant. Shah, about 180 kilometers (112 miles) from the city of Abu Dhabi, poses a technical challenge because the plant sits in an extremely hot location with large sand dunes…
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
PGA Engineers was selected to perform security technology consulting for the renovation of a medical support facility for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in the world renowned Houston Medical Center. The project scope included the design of an access control system and digital video surveillance system to be integrated with the…
Central Plant Expansion and Renovation, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston
As a member of a design build project team and subcontracted by the Derek Consulting Group, PGA Engineers provided IT (information technology) infrastructure and security consulting engineering services for the central plant expansion and renovation project at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. The project included the relocation of the telecommunications main distribution facility (MDF)…
Terminal B South Side Replacement Project, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston
In August 2011, the City of Houston and United Airlines agreed to a $1 billion reconstruction of Terminal B at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) that includes increasing the available aircraft parking positions, enlarging centralized passenger hold room facilities, concession facilities and three new concourses. PGA Engineers provided a design for an access control system…
PDVSA TECHNIP Dragon-Patao, Sucre, Venezuela
As an engineering subcontractor to Inmarsat, PGA Engineers is providing project bid engineering for marine/air band communications, Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB), search and rescue transponder, Collision Avoidance Radar System (CARS), LAN/WAN/VOIP, Public Address Emergency Alarm System (PAES), CCTV, subsea security sonar, person on board, Non-Directional Beacon (NDB), and Telecommunications UPS. Bid engineering consists…
SASOL Mozambique Offshore Drilling Project (MODE)
The MODE Project started with the drilling of one well at Mupeji 1 (approximately 105 km due west from Inhassoro in Mozambique waters) to commence by July 2012 with the option of drilling a second well (Mupeji 2) based on the findings on the first well. PGA Engineers provided expert cost modeling, vendor management and…
Total Eniga Fields FPSO, Nigeria
PGA Engineers is providing professional bid engineering to Honeywell Process Solutions for a rugged industrial Wi-Fi system to be used on a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit currently in design. The FPSO will be designed to handle 200,000 barrels per day of oil and 160 million cubic feet per day of gas,…
ExonMobil, Morning Star, Qurna Gas Field, Iraq
In this project PGA Engineers acted as bid engineer to develop a proposal for a data network, access control system, digital video surveillance system, vehicle access control system (net and wedge) and perimeter intrusion detections system. Additionally, PGA Engineers managed vendor quotes and the preparation of a 10,000 item cost model using a modern cost…
UT Police Department Campus Security Controllers
PGA Engineers is providing planning and design to upgrade the access control system for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Basic Medical Research Building (BSRB). It is a 20-story building with hundreds of access control doors and field panels that must remain operational during the upgrade. To accomplish this, a survey of every…