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GENERAL INFORMATION
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Spencer Engineers, Inc. provides
Forensic Engineering Expert Witness Services to the
public at large plus
Mechanical and Electrical engineering design services to architects for
construction projects. These
services include HVAC, Plumbing, Lighting, Power Distribution,
Emergency Power Generation, Construction Contract Administration, Construction Cost Estimating, Life Cycle Cost Analysis,
and Energy Consumption Analysis.
Gerald Spencer is also the Engineer of Record for space simulation, cryo
pumping, helium
Refrigeration, ultra high vacuum systems, Liquid Nitrogen circulation systems, Liquid
Oxygen systems, and other cryogenics system projects at NASA-JSC.
Gerald Spencer is also the Engineer of Record low temperature refrigeration
systems for refrigerated food storage projects. Gerald Spencer is the Prime
Professional Design Contractor and the AE of record (or the EOR) for
both commercial and federal
government projects
located
in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, New
Mexico, Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Colorado,
Kansas, Tennessee, California, New York, Middle East, Pacific Islands (CNMI), Chile, India,
Denmark, Barbados, and Nassau, Bahamas.
Our projects have been located in Arctic, Desert, Coastal, Earthquake, High
Altitude, Monsoon, High Humidity Climates, and Hurricane Prone areas around
the world.
Gerald Spencer has had professional
licenses of at least one discipline in 26 of the 50 United States of America and one foreign
territory. Gerald R. Spencer, P.E. founded this firm as Spencer & Associates in 1967 to
provide Mechanical and Electrical engineering design services as
consultants to architects. This practice was incorporated in 1971 as Spencer Engineers,
Inc. (SEI). We have
specialized in the design of Federal Government Facility Construction Projects. SEI has been
directly awarded multiple AE federal government design prime professional contracts by the U. S. Army
(48 projects from CESWF & CESWA) , NASA-Johnson Space Center (57
projects from JSC), NASA-White Sands Test Facility
(WSTF), the U. S. Air Force-Lackland AFB (5 projects from USAF), the
U. S. Department of State-Foreign Buildings Operations (15 projects from FBO), the National Imagery and Mapping Authority-St.Louis
AFS (4 projects from NIMA, now NMA), the
U. S. Navy-Corpus Christi NAS (6 projects from CCNAS), the City of Houston Aviation Department (6
projects from HAS), The Methodist Hospital (7 projects from TMH),
M D Anderson Cancer Center (2 projects from MDACC), Exxon USA (55 projects), the United States Postal Service (34
projects for USPS), US General Services Administration, and many
other commercial and private clients since 1968. We are the prime AE design contractor of
record for
more than 200 Federal Government facility construction projects that have
ranged from $300,000 to $10,500,000.00. We
have
offered one stop design capability with experienced construction project management to
federal government agencies for the last twenty years.
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Federal Government projects (almost) always have
government staff architects and engineers in each design discipline that review all of our design
drawings, calculations, and engineering
calculations in detail. This peer review keeps us up-to-date with our
design methodology and essentially makes our contract documents almost error free. We are up-to-date with the latest FEMA seismic design criteria, the
latest Green Building environmental criteria, the latest DoD construction
criteria, the latest DoD communications and
security facility construction regulations, the latest Force Protection design,
the latest South
Florida hurricane
environment design criteria, and the latest ASHRAE 90 energy consumption, and
the latest life cycle cost analysis calculation methodology. The
ACASS summary (Department of Defense AE contract performance summary maintained
by the Corps of Engineers) printout on 30 SEP 96 for our firm indicates 21
completed projects with one excellent performance rating, one above average
rating, and the remaining 19 projects with an average performance rating. The
ACASS summary printout 08MAY00 reveals 11 projects with one above average rating
and 10 projects with an average rating.
A copy of this report is available for your review. The complete ACASS report indicates that all but
two of these DoD projects were completed without contract modifications due to
design deficiency.
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These two
project modification amounts totaled less than $10,000 for a total
construction amount in excess of $60M. A copy of this report is
available for your review. These reports are in reference to the total project including programming, design,
management, cost control, timely service, quality of work and construction
contract administration. SEI must be performing to the satisfaction of
these federal government clients, or SEI would probably not have been awarded such a continuous stream
of construction projects.
We
have had in-house PC computers for engineering calculations and word
processing since 1979. These in-house programs provide specification
writing/word processing, construction cost estimating, desktop publishing,
electronic mail/communication, structural frame analysis - for steel and
concrete design, lighting level, electrical short circuit analysis,
electrical circuit protection device coordination programs, power system
analysis programs, Harmonic Circulating Current Analysis, dBase, Autocad,
Intergraph microstation, Pagemaker desktop publishing, Photoshop, Coreldraw,
HVAC load calculations, EZ-DOE,
KYPIPE water multiple loop flow analysis, SANSYS gravity
water flow analysis for sanitary sewer and stormwater flow analysis. We
also prepare formal
Department of Energy life cycle cost analysis a
according to the Fort Worth District
Corps of Engineers, USAF, US Navy, NASA, GSA, DOS, and DoD
criteria and procedures.
We have prepared formal Department of Energy building energy compliance
program studies.
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