Mission Critical

Although many in the industry know RDA as a leader in the MEP design of high-tech tenant fit-outs and building modernizations, since 1980 we have also designed over 2 million square feet of high reliability Data Center and Trading facilities for major financial and technology institutions.

The RDA Mission Critical Group (RDMC) is a team of professional design and consulting experts in the fields of Electrical, Mechanical, Fire Protection, Telecommunications and Security dedicated to meeting the needs of our clients with mission critical operations.

The Mission Critical Group Services Include:

• MEP Design of Tier I-IV Infrastructures
• Risk assessments
• Load density evaluations
• High density IT cabinet cooling solutions
• 3D Computer modeling of air conditioning
• PRA–Probabilistic Reliability Assessments
• Single points-of-failure analysis
• Budget & schedule compliance reviews
• Commissioning documents
• Integrated BMS & power monitoring systems
• Factory witness testing
• Pre-purchase documents for long lead items
• Short circuit, Coordination & Arc Flash studies
• Voltage Profile studies
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• On-site engineers
• Commissioning & Peer Review

The following is a list of current clients who hire RDA for critical
facilities design:

• Bank of America
• Bank of New York
• Barclays
• Bear Stearns
• Blackrock
• Cervalis
• Citigroup
• DE Shaw
• Deutsche Bank
• Ernst & Young
• Garban Intercapital
• Instinet
• McGraw Hill
• Wachovia

Commissioning Projects

• Deutsche Bank – 60 Wall Street; Chilled Water Plant
• Doitt – 59 Maiden Lane, New York, NY
• Garban Intercapital – Harborside 5, NJ
• Mitsui Properties – 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
• Standard Chartered Bank – One Madison Avenue, New York, NY
• Morgan Stanley – Baltimore, MD
• Condé Nast Publications, Newark, DE