The safety, security, and resilience of our nation’s transportation infrastructure are vital for safeguarding socioeconomic well-being, freedom and continuity of travel, and domestic military operational capability. Having developed the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) first industry document addressing security design for highway bridges and serving in key technical roles for much of the seminal transportation security R&D efforts over the last decade, PEC is at the forefront protecting our nation’s transportation infrastructure. We help industry stakeholders, asset owners, and multi-disciplinary design teams identify baseline risk for security threats and natural hazards, quantify asset and human vulnerabilities, and implement risk mitigation solutions to achieve desired risk objectives for airports, transit stations, long-span bridges, and tunnels.

Industrial hazards can be challenging to address, as they manifest from many different physical/chemical processes and may not be readily apparent; examples include Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosions (BLEVE), arc-flash explosions, vapor cloud explosions, ignitable dust explosions, thermal flashing, and fire jetting. PEC offers rich experience and capability in hazard identification, code analysis (e.g., IBC, IFC, NFPA, and CCPS), failure and consequence analysis, and hazard mitigation design. Our industry experience includes fuels and petrochemical facilities; food, cosmetics, and medical devices; automotive and aerospace; electronics and high-tech; printing and coating; building materials and machining facilities; sanitary systems and infrastructure; and Education and research.

Like transportation infrastructure, our nation’s electrical grid is another vital type of lifeline infrastructure that must remain safe, secure, and resilient in the face of existing and emerging security threats and climate change impacts. PEC is well-versed and possesses outstanding experience in this highly regulated market sector. Our engineers have delivered risk mitigation solutions for beyond-design-basis natural hazard events and postulated terrorist attacks at commercial nuclear power plants both domestic and abroad. Our engineers can operate under an NQA-1 Quality Assurance Program and Nuclear Safeguards Program, and we know how to deliver the technical excellence required to gain U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval of our calculations and designs for safety-related structures, systems, and components (SSCs). We are also intimately familiar with and have executed projects involving all aspects of the NERC CIP-014 process and regulations for physical security of transmission stations and substations.