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Seismic Design & Certification Projects

Three decades of seismic engineering work across hospitals, data centers, airports, transit, and industrial facilities — from OSHPD/HCAI hospital component anchorage to shake table qualification of generators on the largest shake table in the United States.

OSHPD / HCAI Hospital Projects

Selected California hospitals and skilled nursing facilities where PANACHE ENGINEERING INC has delivered nonstructural component anchorage, equipment support, and OSP/OPM preapproval submittals.

  • Kindred Baldwin Park Hospital
  • Canyon Ridge Hospital
  • Loma Linda University Medical Center
  • Encompass Health Murrieta
  • Coachella Valley Medical Center
  • Cedars-Sinai Health System
  • Norwalk Community Hospital
  • Kaiser Woodland Hills
  • Sutter Roseville
  • St. Luke's Hospital
  • UCI Medical Center
  • HealthSouth Tustin
  • Escondido Acute Rehab
  • Delano Regional Medical Center
  • Vermont Care Center
  • Long Beach Sub-Acute
  • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
  • Parkview Hospital
  • Palm Springs Healthcare
  • El Centro Regional Medical Center
  • Pacific Alliance Medical Center
  • Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center – San Pedro
  • Fountain Valley Hospital
  • Rancho Mirage Rehabilitation Facility
  • Temecula Valley Hospital
  • Tehachapi Hospital
  • Vacaville California Medical
  • Fremont Rideout Memorial Hospital
  • Del Amo Hospital
  • Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
  • Community Memorial Hospital
  • Good Samaritan Hospital (Ventura)
  • Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose)
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital
  • Baptist Rehab Hospital
  • Kona Community Hospital
  • Kaiser Riverside
  • Santa Fe Convalescent Hospital DPF Structure
  • Sunray Hospital
  • San Joaquin Community Hospital
  • Sonoma Valley Hospital
  • Howard Hospital
  • Mercy Medical Center
  • Stockton State Prison Hospital
  • Feather River Hospital
  • Villa Convalescent Hospital

Featured: Cummins Genset Shake Table Qualification

Cummins Power Generation earned OSHPD preapproval for seismic certification in California through shake table testing engineered and witnessed by our team.

YouTube · Cummins Power Generation OSHPD seismic certification
McMinnville modular substation building seismic design project
McMinnville modular substation — structural & seismic design
ANSYS finite element seismic analysis of McMinnville substation building
ANSYS finite element seismic analysis model
Watch on YouTube

Certification & Shake Table Test Projects

OSHPD, IBC, and IEEE-693 seismic certifications, plus shake table qualification programs for generators, switchgear, air handling units, fuel tanks, and more.

Autostore seismic bracing design and shake testing of warehouse structural aluminum grid supporting moving robots
University of California Berkeley shake testing of 2000 kW Cummins genset
Shake testing on the largest shake table in the US (see YouTube video)
University of Nevada Reno shake testing of Kohler diesel and natural gas genset lines
ACS 50-foot sound enclosure seismic testing for Edison Alhambra Data Center
FAA control tower console for Las Vegas Airport
Ameridex heat exchangers — OSHPD certification
Global Power Components fuel tanks — OSHPD certification
Phoenix Power fuel tanks — OSHPD certification
Cummins automatic transfer switches — OSHPD certification
Cummins digital master controls — OSHPD certification
Caterpillar gensets — OSHPD certification
Kohler gensets — OSHPD certification
Trane air handling units — OSHPD certification
Trane chillers — OSHPD certification
McQuay air handling units — OSHPD certification
Evapco cooling tower — OSHPD certification
Temtrol air handling units — IBC certification
L & S governor control cabinet — IEEE-693 certification

Structural Engineering Projects

Building design, retrofit, plan check, and equipment support engineering for higher education, transit, aviation, industrial, and commercial clients.

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UCLA electric equipment anchorage and support for student apartments — Le Conte, Lot 15, and Southwest
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Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) — steel design of diesel particle filter support structure
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Building retrofit and multistory equipment support structures for Tesla Corporation
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Plan check review for 20-story building at 8055 Irvine Center Drive (The Irvine Company)
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Plan check review for John Wayne Airport (sub-consultant to Seismic Structural International)
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Multistory process platforms for Myriant Lake Providence Inc.
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Retrofit design for the Student Union Building at California State University East Bay
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Several buildings at the Honeywell vacuum extraction facility in El Segundo
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Modular substation building — Langford wind farm project, TX
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Modular substation building — Peaker Project, TX
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Kaiser Riverside Hospital power emergency center design
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Rideout Memorial Hospital generator aluminum enclosure and steel tank design
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Long Beach Court House — seismic design for electrical/mechanical component supports and attachments
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VTA TPSS P1 — structural design of foundations, electrical component attachments, and substations 1, 3, 5, and 14 (Balfour Beatty Rail)
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Structural and seismic design of 1.5 miles of cable conduit support to Sunset Rail Tunnel (Balfour Beatty Rail)
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Foundation design and seismic anchor design for VTA Traction Power Substation #17A (Balfour Beatty Rail)
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Foundation design and conduit support for Muni Metro East (MME) Phase II — Five Storage Track Extension Project
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Redwood City grade crossing improvement — shoring plans and calculations (Balfour Beatty Rail)

Related services & resources

See the engineering disciplines and certification programs behind these projects.

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