Florida | Trane and State of Florida, Department of Management Services, Community Shelters Stand-By Power

Duffey Southeast was selected as the construction manager to provide backup power systems for five hurricane shelters in Florida. Our services were retained by Trane and Kellogg, Brown & Root who spearheaded the effort on behalf of the State of Florida’s Department of Management Services. The existing shelters on school properties were designed to accommodate special needs individuals in the event of an emergency. Utility power was already in place at the shelters and our firm installed backup power supply systems consisting of new standby diesel generators, automatic transfer switches, electrical distribution system modifications, and other related equipment to serve the facility, in the event of a power outage. Several different engineering consultants worked with us in order to complete this project. This project as performed over the period of two regular school years with no disruption to normal school activities. Due to our construction activities taking place on school grounds with high student traffic, we took extra safety precautions to keep students away from the construction site while work was in progress.