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Understanding SCIF Design & Construction
A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) is constructed with the purpose of handling, storing, discussing, or processing confidential, secret and top-secret information. The goal is to...
3 Technologies Impacting Food and Beverage Manufacturing
When it comes to food and beverage manufacturing, producing safe, quality food is of the utmost importance with each and every run. But, when disruptions like a global pandemic or a natural disaste...
Why Sustainability Matters in a Time of Crisis - Part 2
From sustainable packaging to waste reduction, sustainability remains top of mind for manufacturers and consumers alike. Find out in Part 2 of a two-part series why sustainable packaging matters. T...
Why Sustainability Matters in a Time of Crisis – Part 1
From sustainable packaging to waste reduction, sustainability remains top of mind for manufacturers and consumers alike. Find out in Part 1 of a two-part series as why water management matters. The...
LEED for the Industrial Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturing and Green are not two words that have historically been used in the same sentence, but the times they are a-changing and now more than ever manufacturing plants are choosing to be LEE...
Food Safety - Building a Safer Future
Hygienic food plant design isn’t a new concept. Food and beverage manufacturers have been employing food safety systems for quite some time in order to control food safety hazards and mitigate risk...
Reopening a Building After Shutdown
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies were forced to close their doors and send their employees home. But what happens to the building during that time and how do we transition toward...
CFD Modeling is Reducing Surprises During Construction
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling (CFD) is the art of modeling the air within a space as a fluid and analyzing how different variables such as air flow patterns, velocities, temperatures, and p...
3D Laser Scanning: Better Accuracy for Less
3D Laser scanning offers better accuracy and quality through the density and complexity of detail in the point cloud of your space. Laser scanning can determine where structural beams and columns ...
Drones are Becoming Essential in the Built Environment
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have long since moved passed the days of only being relevant in government and highly secure industries. They are becoming more standard pieces of equipment within A...
UNT Grad Jamie Wood Joins C1S Engineering Fraternity
C1S Hires Jamie Wood as our Newest Mechanical Designer Jamie Wood, the 2017 UNT Cum Laude graduate joined the C1S Engineering Team last month as our newest Mechanical Designer. He will be working ...
Understanding Arc Flash and Arc Flash Protection
An Arc Flash is the release of energy that travels through the air from one conductor to another or from a conductor to ground. An Arc Flash may occur as a result of the following items: An Arc Fl...
Optimize CAPEX Spending with a Facility Condition Assessment
Your facilities are tasked with doing more with less, and the facility improvements you want to make must compete against all the other worthwhile needs before your leadership team. You want to spe...
Airflow Studies: The Basics
Are you experiencing heating, cooling or pressurization issues in your mission critical facility? As the facility manager, the last thing you need is an HVAC issue leading to product contamination...
The Big Transition—AutoCAD to Revit
In the world of business, there’s an old saying that if you’re not evolving, you’re dying. As a company, success hinges on your ability to meet and exceed customer needs, and if you aren’t keeping ...
The New Definition of Sustainability
It’s a word commonly associated with recycling programs and efforts to reduce energy and water usage. Sustainability trends like solar panels, bike racks and rain water reclamation systems come to ...
Meeting Construction Deadlines Matters. Let’s Talk About Why.
When it comes to construction projects, there are two questions on the mind of every client. How much? When can you get the work done by? There are tons of things that go into pricing from materia...
The Road to C1S-Mechanical Designer, Brooke Holley
Ask ten C1S employees about the journey that led them to our team, and you’re sure to get ten different answers. Some went the more traditional route, getting their engineering degrees and finding ...
Basics of Compressed Air System Design and Troubleshooting - Part Two
Last week , we gave you a taste of what goes into compressed air system design and troubleshooting, touching on everything from system components to fixing common issues....
Blue Jeans for A Button Up: Dustin White
For more than a dozen years, construction sites felt like a second home for Dustin White. They were a place he could bring plans to life and talk shop, getting into detail about design, budget, saf...
Basics of Compressed Air System Design and Troubleshooting
Compressed Dry Air (CDA) systems are an essential part of the manufacturing industry. In fact, compressed air is so common, it’s frequently considered the fourth utility, after electricity, natural...
MIC: Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion – The Fire Sprinkler Pipe Terrorist
Microbiologically influenced corrosion, or MIC. You may have heard it referred to as “The Fire Sprinkler Pipe Terrorist” because it infiltrates systems and is undetected until the pipes are obstruc...
Drones Are Lifting Off for the Construction Industry
When we hear about drones, most of us think of unmanned military aircraft. Or, we imagine the potential of an unmanned aircraft hovering outside our home delivering our latest online purchase. Thes...
Trial By Fire
At C1S, our team members are our most valuable assets. That’s why we take the time to invest in them professionally through things like continued education and networking opportunities, personally ...
Dust Collection in an Industrial Context Promotes Quality, Safety & Health
Enhancing safety, increasing efficiency and reducing costs are important goals to manufacturers. Dust collection systems can play a big role in accomplishing them. In a manufacturing setting, dust ...
The Challenge and Potential of Solar Power
From the Chinese using mirrors to reflect light to ignite torches for religious purposes in 20 A.D., to the Anasazi people in North America building their cliff dwellings on the south-facing cliff ...
Safety First! Meet Construction Superintendent, Jason Burrhus
Construction can be a dangerous, even deadly job. In a world where dangers can come from nature, environmental conditions, heavy equipment and even human error, the risks workers face are numerous....
Options for Designing Chilled Water Pumping Schemes
The system for delivering chilled water to end users has changed significantly since the introduction of central chilled water plants. Drivers of this change have included increased cooling demands...
Office “Funny Guy” Making a Serious Impact at C1S
Let’s face it. Unless you work at Facebook, life in most offices has a reputation for being a little dull. At an engineering office? The pace of play generally screeches to a halt. But walk through...
Cleanroom Construction Concepts, Part 4: The Cleanroom Construction Process
Our final blog on the topic of designing and cleanroom construction process focuses on the actual construction process. In the first three installments of this series, we reviewed the standar...
C1S Intern Follows In Family Footsteps Pursuing Dream of Becoming an Engineer
What drives a person towards becoming a Professional Engineer? For some, knowing their hard work provides people with structurally sound facilities to do business and earn a living guides them into...
Could 3D Printing Revolutionize Construction?
3D printing is a fast-growing technology that offers many advantages in manufacturing. But can this same process be adapted to the construction of buildings? It appears the answer is yes. Both rese...
Cleanroom Design Concepts, Part 3
Our third installment on cleanroom design dives into the three methods used to manage air recirculation in a clean space. Previously, we examined the standards that guide construction and certifica...
Strategies for Maintaining a Safe Construction Jobsite
Construction sites are inherently risky places because of the type of activities occurring, equipment in use, and many people involved. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’s not possible to stay sa...
Cleanroom Design Concepts Part 2
In the first installment of our series on the design and construction of cleanrooms, we covered the internationally recognized standards that govern cleanroom design, discussed the utility matrix t...
Hey Millennials: We're Listening
by Julie Strong CEO and Owner of C1S Group If you follow our social media pages or check out our website often, you’ll notice we have been doing a lot of celebrating lately at C1S. In 2014 and 2015...
Cleanroom Design Concepts, Part 1
Cleanrooms are an important component of industrial manufacturing and laboratories, used extensively within the technology, pharmaceutical and medical industries. Accordingly, a cleanroom design ...
Chiller Basics: Understanding the Advantages and Drawbacks of Five Types of Chillers
Chillers are the most common type of machines used for cooling large commercial spaces. There are several types, and each type offers specific pros and cons based on the application, facility budge...
Inc. Magazine Says C1S is Among Best Places to Work; We Agree
It’s not every day that your company is named one of the “50 Best Places to Work” in the U.S. by Inc. magazine. But when your company places as high a value on its employees as it does its custom...
Understanding Five HVAC Performance Measures
Energy efficiency is an important consideration for users of all types of HVAC equipment. In order to compare equipment and systems, there are five ways to measure the energy efficiency of HVAC uni...
Four Steps to Sizing Roof Drains
Getting water off a building’s roof is important, but how do you know what size drain to use to provide adequate drainage? Using tools from the International Plumbing Code (IPC) it’s not that hard....
Four Steps to Sizing Sanitary Sewers & Vents
Sanitary sewers and vents play important roles in maintaining the quality of the indoor environment of a building. Correct sizing is crucial to their proper functioning, so you want to be sure you ...
Three Steps to Sizing Plumbing Piping Systems
Sizing plumbing piping systems is not a difficult task when you have the resources to calculate the correct size pipe. The International Plumbing Code (IPC) includes a variety of charts to assist y...