R-S-H has an experienced staff of electrical designers and engineers ready to handle your electrical design needs. Our professionals listen to our clients and discuss with them the expectations and needs specific to their project. This custom approach ensures that you receive the engineered solution that provides you the most economical solution that best meets your technical challenges.

Our electrical staff offers depth as well as breadth of experience. Electrical engineering project experience includes a wide variety of industrial facilities.

While performing all functions typical of an engineering consultant, we also offer many other related services necessary to ensure a complete and competitive solution in today’s marketplace.

Below are some of the services R-S-H can provide as your electrical consultant:

 • Power and Distribution System Overhead and Underground Design

 • Medium and Low Voltage System Design

 • Motor Control Center and Transformer Room Design

 • Protective Relay and Device Coordination Studies

 • Arc-Flash Analysis and Label Generation

 • Feasibility Studies

 • Electrical Control Systems, DCS and PLCs

 • Systems Commissioning

 • Power Quality Testing & Monitoring

 • Lightning Protection & Specialty Grounding

 • Code Compliance and Area Classification Studies

 • Standby & Emergency Power Systems

 • On-site Power Generation Systems

 • Lighting Design

 • Forensic Investigation

Our staff of instrument engineers and designers have broad knowledge and expertise in the design, integration, software development, testing and commissioning of instrumentation & control systems experiences with a variety of industries and processes. While we are regarded as experts in instrumentation in several industries, we believe it is our broad base of instrument design across many different industries that is our greatest assest to our instrumentation customers. This background allows us to apply the best, most economical, proven technology in solving your instrumentation needs.

Our instrumentation staff is comfortable in generating custom instrument specification sheets utillizing either our R-S-H custom software or your custom or commercial packages. Our team is also experienced with integrating instrument specification data with other drawings such as P&ID’s. In addition to specification sheets, our instrumentation team offers complete instrument package services by providing the following services:

 • Piping and Instrumentation Drawing Development and Drafting

 • Custom Loop Sheets

 • Wiring Diagrams

 • Junction Box Design and Construction

 • Scope-of-Work Documents and Bid Packages for Contractors

 • Systems Commissioning and Start-up Services

 • Coordination among various vendors and package suppliers to ensure a functional system and successful project

 • Process Hazard Analysis and SIL determination

Our Instrument team has extensive experience in specifying controls and instrumentation for hazardous areas. These include areas subjected to flammable, explosive, and highly corrosive environments. Areas such as natural gas and fuel handling facilities, truck and ship loading stations, gunpowder handling facilities, and highly flammable processes all require specialized instrumentation and knowledgeable design to ensure adherance to governmental and safety regulations.

In addition to working with you on new instrumentation projects, R-S-H also provides complete start-up and system trouble-shooting services, providing proven solutions to assist in your project commisioning or plant turnarounds. Our engineers can work with your engineers to supplement your short term needs.

R-S-H is a recognized regional leader for controls engineering. Our controls department has experience with most of the major PLC and DCS platforms in the industrial world today. We have designed and programmed controls and operator interfaces on the following systems:

 • Allen-Bradley PLC platforms (ControlLogix, CompactLogix,  MicroLogix, PLC5, PLC2, and specialty card interfaces such as ASCII and ProComm modules)

 • Modicon PLC platforms

 • Emerson DCS platforms (ProVox and DeltaV)

 • Honeywell DCS platforms (HPM, MFC, EPLCG, AM, LM, Experion,  Universal Station Graphics, Gus Stations, HMIWeb, and PHD implementation)

 • ABB DCS platforms

 • Bailey DCS platforms

 • Bristol-Babcock PLC platforms

 • TI/Siemens PLC platforms

 • GE IFIX

 • Wonderware HMI

 • Intellution HMI

 • Moore APACS and QuadLog

In addition to new standalone systems, we are experts at integrating controls for new equipment into your existing systems. R-S-H Engineering has evaluated, re-designed, and upgraded or replaced OEM instrumentation, controllers, computers, operator interfaces, networks, and software for process equipment and complete facilities. Our team can assess your current automation systems, recommend upgrades, and develop new software to improve reliability, optimize process control, and reduce operating costs.

R-S-H Engineering has extensive engineering experience in the design, programming and construction of control systems and electrical facilities that operate in hazardous areas. We have designed, built and commissioned high reliability, fail-safe alarm and control systems for the detection of fire, explosive/flammable vapors, and control of plant emergency shut down systems. These include burner management systems and emergency shutdown systems for kilns, ovens, and boilers (gas, coal, wood, and multi-fuel). Our engineers are knowledgeable of all applicable safety laws and guidelines to ensure your system meets all current standards. We have had extensive experience in configuring paper mill control systems to comply with BLRBAC and Factory Mutual guidelines.

Our engineers are recognized as experts in the automation and control field. R-S-H Engineers are frequent presenters at technical symposiums and user conferences. Automation and controls is an active and changing field. Our engineers are active in technical societies promoting peer interaction and the exchange of new ideas, collaborating with commercial and academic trials for new algorithms.

The R-S-H Civil Engineering Department provides civil and structural design for a variety of engineering and construction projects. Projects include the design of buildings, equipment foundations, steel structures, concrete structures, equipment supports, pipe supports, utility bridges, compressor foundations, drainage, storm sewers, grading plans and other civil and structural facilities. R-S-H has an experienced staff of registered engineers, designers and drafters with many years of experience.

Projects include the structural analysis and design and preparation of detail engineering drawings for a variety of commercial and industrial projects. These projects involve the design of facilities using computer programs such as Micro Station, AutoCad, STAAD Pro, PCA MATS and PCA Column. Designs are made in compliance with the applicable codes and manuals including AISC, ACI, OHSA, ANSI, API, ASCE-7, and IBC.

Below are some of the services R-S-H can provide in the civil and structural engineering field:

 • Gas Compressor foundations and buildings along with the associated equipment and pipe supports.

 • Building and Equipment Foundations on soil bearing or pile foundations.

 • Steel and concrete structures including elevated floors, bridge crane systems and equipment supports.

 • Concrete structures for heavy or vibrating equipment and tank foundations.

 • Utility bridges and pipe supports.

 • Rail and truck loading and unloading facilities including platforms, rail car dumpers and truck dumpers.

 • Boiler buildings, Pulp Mill Buildings, Paper Machine buildings, Finishing Buildings, Wood Yard facilities including stacker reclaimers, hog and chip screening buildings, long wood stacking cranes, debarking and chipping facilities, and conveyors.

 • Bridge cranes, jib cranes and monorails.

 • Civil design and lay out of facilities including grading, drainage and facility roads.

Let R-S-H assist in satisfying your civil and structural design needs in both a timely and cost effective manner.

The R-S-H Process Engineering Group that has extensive experience in defining the process for Compressor Stations, Woodyards, Chip Mills, Pulp Mills, Bleach Plants, Chemical Preparation, Chemical Recovery, Lime Recovery, Steam and Power Generation, Paper Machines, Stock Preparation and Paper Finishing.

R-S-H offers the following services for the Gas Transmission, Wood products, Pulp and Paper, and Industrial Power Industries:

 • Process Design

 • Flow Sheet Development

 • P & I D Development

 • PHA Support

 • Equipment Selection

 • Equipment Specification

 • Bid Review

The R-S-H management system is based on the fundamental principles of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. These principles are currently in use on all R-S-H projects and reflect the experience gained from numerous large-scale projects.

Key Services:

 • Budget and schedule controls

 • Contract administration

 • Environmental management

 • Integrating with other client-selected service providers

 • Project execution plans and procedures

 • Procurement administration

 • QA/QC procedures

 • Right-of-Way acquisition

 • Validation of safety procedures and controls

 • Assistance with start-up/commissioning services

R-S-H has an experienced procurement staff able to support our clients with the level of procurement services that meets the clients' needs. R-S-H's procurement team is competent to complete all procurement tasks including, but not limited to, the following:

 • Bid evaluations

 • Bid solicitations

 • Material receiving/control

 • Purchase orders/contracts

 • Scheduling and expediting

 • Subcontracts

 • Supplier evaluation surveys

 • Technical specifications

 • Transportation/logistics surveys

 • Witnessing performance testing

R-S-H has the professional staff to manage projects from initial conceptual studies through commissioning and startup. Services consist of:

 • Contract Operations

 • D.O.T. compliance certification

 • Engineering support

 • Operations and maintenance manuals

 • Operations training

 • Startup assistance

R-S-H has a broad project experience and offers preliminary project feasibility and economic analysis studies to support a wide range of projects. Through our extensive project management experience, our team is competent to perform preliminary feasibility studies and front-end engineering design analysis to enable you to make more informed and accurate decisions on projects. Depending on your needs, we can prepare estimates ranging from "back-of-the-envelope" to fully documented P3 packages.

Key Activities:

 • Conceptual design and flow sheets

 • Current and balanced construction cost and material data to

    support accurate estimates

 • Experience-based construction and project scheduling

 • Facility audits and evaluations

 • Operational planning and analysis

 • Risk and sensitivity analysis