Fire Protection, Plumbing, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering Services
CEA provides coordinated Fire Protection, Plumbing, Mechanical, and Electrical engineering design services for colleges, universities, schools, student housing, athletic facilities, laboratories, kitchens, and campus infrastructure.
Education projects require careful coordination between student safety, comfort, campus standards, occupied facilities, academic calendars, future growth, and long-term maintenance needs.
CEA develops practical FPME engineering solutions for both higher education and K-12 environments, supporting renovations, additions, new construction, infrastructure upgrades, laboratories, student housing, athletic facilities, and specialty academic spaces.
CEA supports campus and school projects with coordinated engineering design focused on function, constructability, code compliance, and long-term facility performance.
Sprinkler, fire alarm, and life safety design for academic and student-use buildings.
Domestic water, sanitary waste, kitchen, restroom, laboratory, and specialty plumbing systems.
HVAC, ventilation, humidity control, equipment replacement, and campus system upgrades.
Power distribution, lighting, emergency systems, data center support, and building electrical upgrades.
Renovations and system upgrades for dormitories and student residential facilities.
Engineering support for labs, nursing simulation spaces, server rooms, and specialty academic spaces.
Design support for athletic centers, locker rooms, gyms, dining, and student gathering areas.
New schools, additions, renovations, HVAC upgrades, and life safety improvements.
CEA’s education portfolio includes higher education, K-12, student housing, athletic, culinary, simulation, and campus infrastructure projects throughout South Carolina.
Renovations to a College of Charleston student housing building totaling approximately 3,600 SF. Engineering services included fire alarm, fire sprinkler, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical design. Renovations included laundry, bathroom, kitchen, HVAC replacement, and plumbing upgrades.
Design for fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical services for an approximately 19,000-SF, two-story facility with locker rooms, conference rooms, offices, and support spaces for Athletic and Kinesiology departments.
Indefinite Delivery Contract for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing projects, including HVAC upgrades to the Business Technology Building 200 and Math and Science Building 300 at the main campus.
Mechanical and electrical engineering design services for campus projects, including AHU replacement for the Academic Computer Center Server Room and HVAC/asbestos analysis reports for the James A. Rogers Library.
New 26,800-SF Leadership Center featuring classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms, and seminar facilities. CEA provided fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical design through construction administration.
A 22,000-SF renovation for culinary arts training, including restaurant, production kitchen, training kitchen, baking lab, nutrition lab, mixology classroom, gallery, demonstration auditorium, and offices.
Design for new fire sprinkler systems serving three College of Charleston dorm buildings at 15 and 17 St. Philip Street and 300 Meeting Street.
Mechanical and electrical design services for new AHUs utilizing existing 95-ton air-cooled chillers repurposed to provide space cooling for major generator spaces.
Library relocation project. CEA provided fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical engineering design and drafting services.
Simulation learning upgrades converting a third-floor seminar room into a large group simulation room capable of running multiple simulation sessions at one time.
Mechanical and electrical design for HVAC equipment upgrades serving the fifth-floor data center, including secondary and tertiary cooling backup systems.
New two-story elementary school of approximately 87,000 SF designed for LEED Silver certification, including shared community use space and pre-K through 5th grade academic and support areas.
Campus-wide HVAC upgrades, including space-by-space infrastructure evaluations, analysis, and life-cycle cost comparisons for HVAC replacement across multiple buildings.
Additions and renovations to an existing school for approximately 12,000 SF of new classroom additions. CEA provided prescriptive fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical engineering design.
Emergency egress improvements for second-floor classrooms in Wing C. CEA provided fire protection, mechanical, and electrical design services.
Complete rehabilitation of an abandoned historic school building, including theater, classrooms, and toilets for use as a medical surgical facility and commercial lease space. Services included structural, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection design.
CEA’s approach helps education clients maintain safe, functional, and reliable learning environments.
We consider existing conditions, academic schedules, facility standards, student use, and operational needs.
We align fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical systems with architecture and campus requirements.
We help clients plan practical systems that support comfort, maintainability, safety, and future growth.
Partner with Constantine Engineering Associates, LLC for coordinated education FPME engineering design services.
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