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H&H Systems and Design, an architecture firm, has completed projects throughout the United States. The firm specializes in designing health care clinics. It has completed projects for medical offices, imaging centers and hospitals. Combined, H&H Systems and Design has completed more than 700 assignments. Through relationships with subcontractors, consultants and suppliers, the firm also provides design assistance for renovations or equipment upgrading, including installation of medical equipment. H&H Systems and Design, based in New Albany, Ind., also has a location in Nashville, Tenn.

Founded in 1995, Ops Plus is an outsourced service providing company that specializes in the utility and electric industry. The company provides staffing services for strategic source management, administrative and clerical work and construction site management, as well as high-voltage electric analysis, construction, maintenance and repair. It also offers construction site management and metering services, safety programs and training sessions for various commercial, industrial and municipal clients. Ops Plus has completed projects for American Synthetic Rubber Company, Metropolitan Sewer District, CEMEX, Critical Systems and East Kentucky Power Cooperative. Its clients include various cogeneration facilities, general contractors, investor-owned utilities, government entities, hospitals and universities. The company is located in Louisville, Ky.

Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its own right. We get State and Local Building Permits. A State Certified Engineer will analyze your new or existing buildings to insure they are acceptable structurally, electrically and with proper ventilation. We check snow load, wind load, earth quake loads. We combine these with floor loads, trolleys, winches, vibration lifts, even forklift impact as required by OSHA. NASA designed a process called “finite element modeling” to predict material failure. We use this process to determine the safe load level for maximum strength and minimum material.