Red Brick Engineering delivers electrical engineering that survives contact with a real construction site — designs that a contractor can bid accurately, an inspector can pass, and an owner can operate. From service entrance to the last receptacle, our drawings are coordinated with the mechanical and plumbing work under one principal engineer, so the electrical set doesn't fight the rest of the building.
We design complete power distribution and lighting systems for commercial, multifamily, industrial, and institutional buildings — branch circuiting, feeders, receptacle and equipment layouts, and lighting that meets both the design intent and the energy code. Photometric layouts and site lighting are backed by point-by-point calculations so illuminance and uniformity are verified on paper before anyone orders a fixture. Because the same engineer who runs your electrical also owns the mechanical loads, the connected loads driving your service size are real numbers, not padded placeholders.
Energy compliance is handled in-house through COMcheck, with California Title 24 lighting and power compliance when the project sits in that jurisdiction. That keeps the lighting design and the compliance path aligned from the first sketch instead of getting reconciled during plan review.
The one-line diagram is where an electrical set either holds together or falls apart, and we treat it as the backbone of the drawings. Service and distribution equipment, panel schedules, feeder and conductor sizing, grounding, and overcurrent protection are all developed to carry a coherent load story from the utility transformer down to each branch panel. Panel schedules are built to be usable in the field — accurate loads, correct breaker sizes, and enough spare capacity called out so the owner isn't stranded on the first tenant change.
We coordinate the incoming service with the utility early, size the service to the actual demand load, and document it clearly enough that the contractor's estimator and the AHJ are reading the same design.
Available fault current isn't optional information — equipment has to be rated for what the system can actually deliver. On every electrical project that adds electrical equipment — a new or modified service — we perform a fault-current and short-circuit study to establish available fault current at the service and downstream, then specify equipment and overcurrent devices with adequate interrupting and short-circuit current ratings. We do this in-house, so the study and the equipment schedules stay consistent through addenda and construction.
Getting this right up front prevents the expensive surprises: under-rated gear flagged during submittals, or a plan-review comment that stalls the permit while ratings get re-verified.
EV charging is now a load-planning problem as much as a code one. We design EV supply equipment, size the infrastructure and spare capacity for phased buildout, and reconcile it with the rest of the building's demand so a future charger bank doesn't blow past the service. We also coordinate low-voltage and specialty systems — fire alarm interfaces, tele/data pathways, and equipment rough-ins — so the raceways, power, and space are actually there for the systems the owner and other trades will bring.
Every Red Brick project is stamped by one principal PE across mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, and every engineer on the team is cross-trained across all three. For electrical, that means motor loads, RTU and heat-pump circuits, pump and booster power, and equipment locations are known to the electrical designer because they're being drawn by the same firm. We work in Revit and BIM within ACC and BIM 360, which keeps clash coordination and equipment schedules live across the disciplines rather than reconciled by email. The result is a permit set that reads as one building — and, on many projects, a fast turnaround measured in weeks rather than months.
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing — designed and stamped by the same principal engineer.
