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Page 8 Section D Master Consulting Engineers, Inc. Extreme Engineering | Incredible Results • Emphasis is placed on integrity, team collaboration, careful planning, and frequent communication with all parties involved in the success of a project regardless of size or complexity. • State of the art equipment and computer software is utilized from the design phase through construction phases of a project to provide clear lines of collaboration and communication among the owner, architect, engineers, and general contractor. • The latest technology and security capabilities are maintained by purchasing top of the line servers and replacing them frequently. Hardware and Software Capabilities: MCE is a full-service Engineering Firm. MCE has its servers that host websites, Email, and Secure FTP. Having own Email server and Secure FTP allows the performance to transfer large BIM files to and from clients. The email file size is only limited to the Microsoft Exchange Mail software system limits, meaning MCE can send and receive emails up to 1 Gigabyte. MCE buys top of the line servers and replaces them regularly to maintain the latest technology and security capabilities. The servers are located in MCE’s headquarters with built-in mirrored redundancy servers at the branch offices. Also, MCE has an offsite non-linked backup of all projects to combat against ransomware. MCE’s state-of- the-art routers block the IP-addresses of entire countries notorious for spam and ransomware attacks. All servers are maintained daily by MCE’s full-time on-site IT staff. The engineers use the latest engineering technology (BIM) to make designs efficient and effective. Programs include Autodesk AEC Building Design Suite and Autodesk BIM 360 cloud service licensing, allowing MCE to work with clients that have adopted this form of BIM provided by Autodesk. Innovative/Challenging Projects: Since its founding, MCE has extended services across the United States, while still keeping our Small/Minority Business status. Specializing in structural design, threshold inspections, and forensic engineering, MCE has blazed a trail of high -performance engineering. No project has been too great and no opportunity has been too small to capture creativity towards generating dynamic, sustainable designs. The owners continue to be individually involved in each project, ensuring the same expertise and passion that the firm was founded on is poured into every structure designed. Project Highlight One (1): The Museum of Science and Industry scope consisted of an 130,000 square feet addition of exhibit space for traveling and permanent exhibits and an Omnimax Theater that is over 104 feet in diameter with seating capacity for 353 people. The Omnimax Theater has a pre- cast dome roof structure constructed 15 feet above the ground on a framed slab that is covered in blue curved stainless steel. The exhibit spaces are four-stories tall and are constructed from reinforced concrete. A pedestrian walkway, on of the project’s most challenging aspects, spirals around the sphere to a vantage point at the top. Project Highlight Two (2): This project, at Orlando International Airport, consists of the underpinning for six (6) columns that support ramps to the airport. The total supported load was in excess of 2000 kips. The roadways remained open to traffic while new foundations were installed. The columns that supported enplane and deplane vehicular ramps required lengthening. The existing pile caps were exposed and the design team designed a structural steel underpinning system which temporarily supported the existing column that carried 600,000 pounds. The system was erected and jacked into place and the existing column was cut from its foundations and extended to the mat foundation below.