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Truly excellent electrical system design begins with identifying the Owner’s needs, goals, and the development of design solutions that will remain beneficial to the Owner year after year. It is only through rigorous programming, including the establishment of parameters and definition of specific requirements that a solid foundation for a successful project can be created. 

Sidhu Associates' electrical team always strives to achieve balance between first and life cycle costs by reviewing the benefits and alternatives to our engineering designs with our clients. 

Lighting, power quality and layout of power and communication devices have significant impact on a building’s functionality and the comfort of its occupants. With the reliance on personal computers and electronic equipment for so many of today’s tasks and communications, the electrical distribution system must be designed to minimize any lost time and productivity due to power quality issues.

Lighting design is accomplished using the Advanced Graphical Interface for Lighting (AGI) software package. With this program a wide variety of lighting applications can be studied for both indoor and outdoor designs. We can produce a model of actual scenarios which show lighting intensity and uniformity. The complete project will meet the design criteria recommended by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) as well as, meet the requirements of the Owner. Lighting should be evaluated in terms of luminaire selection and location to reduce glare and reflections, as well as control and flexibility. 

It is within these situations that as design professionals we must endeavor to be creative but not compromise the design of the electrical systems to exceed our client’s goals, as well as our goals of a well-engineered project.  We have experience in investigating, testing and design of electrical distribution systems from 208 volts to 33 kV, including high voltage cables, ductbanks and transformers up to 20 MVA. We have in-house computer programs-ETAP and DAPPER to perform load analysis, short-circuit calculations and CAPTOR for coordination studies. Our engineers have extensive experience in performing these studies.