OUR SERVICES
Below is a list of our major services. At Hawkeye Electric, providing top-notch service is our #1 goal and the reason our customers keep coming back to us time and time again. The versatility and wide-ranging experience of Team Hawk lays the groundwork for providing them the best service available, cultivating relationships built on trust, performance, and success. Please give us a call to discuss your project today.
Ground Up Construction
Unlike tenant improvements and remodel projects, ground-up construction requires skilled, experienced field supervision well trained in best practices for civil construction including trenching, and trench shoring, scaffolding, confined space work, fall protection, and many others. Hawkeye provides its personnel with all the training necessary to exceed OSHA requirements for new construction.
Successful management of the electrical trade on ground-up construction projects also requires experience in coordinating the needs and designs of multiple utility companies involved in the project. Examples include right-of-way improvements, traffic signaling, primary power to the site, adding transformers & switching cabinets, street lighting modifications & additions, easement dedications, relocation of overhead power lines to new underground duct banks, telecommunications lines, fiber optics duct banks, etc.
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE
Infrared electrical inspections find hot spots caused by defects in connections and components. Infrared thermography is used to find areas of excess heat (caused by increased resistance) so problems can be corrected before a component fails, causing damage to the component, creating safety hazards and loss of productivity. Because increased heating is a precursor to electrical equipment failure, infrared is the best diagnostic tool available for finding these hot connections in the early stages of degeneration. This is why your insurance company may have asked for an electrical infrared inspection, to find and prevent problems before they cause damage to your personnel, equipment, and facility.
Infrared inspections are beneficial by providing real time data to determine defects that can lead to equipment failure. IR thermal inspection programs can provide a quick return on investment (“ROI”) through preventative maintenance, reduced downtimes, and protection of adjacent equipment. IR thermal scanning also provides a documented history for specific electrical equipment and its operating conditions.
Hawkeye Electric can scan electrical cabinets and components and survey multiple wires/connections. This scanning process produces an instant picture of potential trouble areas, effectively finding problem areas and repairing them before a real problem occurs. The most common pieces of electrical equipment inspected include fuses, splices, motors, starters, electrical panels, transformers, bolted connections, and switchgear.
In addition to diagnosing problems, Hawkeye Electric provides customers with Before & After images to document the problem as well as show proof of repair performed. Please feel free to contact Hawkeye with any questions you may have about this service. Hawkeye looks forward to working with you on your next project!
CONDITIONS DETECTABLE VIA INFRARED INSPECTION:
- Loose/deteriorated connections
- Overloads
- Open circuits
- Unbalanced loads
- Inductive heating
- Harmonics
- Defective equipment
EXAMPLE THERMAL IMAGE OF HOT CONNECTION:
ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY METHODS
Most alternative delivery methods include inviting the contractor’s participation during design, rather than after completion of design. Hawkeye excels in this environment and participates in projects of this nature on a daily basis. Hawkeye utilizes REVIT Building Information Modeling software to correspond and interface with the project Architect and Engineers. Utilization of REVIT eliminates clashes between building systems and identifies opportunities for more efficient use of limited space in building design.
ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY METHODS
Most alternative delivery methods include inviting the contractor’s participation during design, rather than after completion of design. Hawkeye excels in this environment and participates in projects of this nature on a daily basis. Hawkeye utilizes REVIT Building Information Modeling software to correspond and interface with the project Architect and Engineers. Utilization of REVIT eliminates clashes between building systems and identifies opportunities for more efficient use of limited space in building design.
LED LIGHTING AND RETROFITS
Some LED facts:
- Good-quality LED bulbs can have a useful life of 25,000 hours or more — meaning they can last more than 25 times longer than traditional light bulbs.
- Unlike incandescent bulbs — which release 90 percent of their energy as heat — LEDs use energy far more efficiently with little wasted heat.
- From traffic lights and vehicle brake lights to TVs and display cases, LEDs are used in a wide range of applications because of their unique characteristics, which include compact size, ease of maintenance, resistance to breakage, and the ability to focus the light in a single direction instead of having it go every which way.
- EDs contain no mercury, and a recent Energy Department study determined that LEDs have a much smaller environmental impact than incandescent bulbs. They also have an edge over compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) that’s expected to grow over the next few years as LED technology continues its steady improvement.
- Between 2011 and 2012, global sales of LED replacement bulbs increased by 22 percent while the cost of a 60-watt equivalent LED bulb fell by nearly 40 percent. By 2030, it’s estimated that LEDs will account for 75 percent of all lighting sales.
- In 2012, about 49 million LEDs were installed in the U.S. — saving about $675 million in annual energy costs. Switching entirely to LED lights over the next two decades could save the U.S. $250 billion in energy costs, reduce electricity consumption for lighting by nearly 50 percent and avoid 1,800 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
- The useful life of LED lighting products is defined differently than that of other light sources, such as incandescent or CFL. This is because LEDs typically do not “burn out” or fail. Instead, they experience lumen depreciation, where the amount of light produced decreases and light color appearance can shift over time. Instead of basing the useful life of an LED product on the time it takes for 50% of a large group of lamps to burn out (as is the case with traditional sources), LED product “lifetime” is set based on a prediction of when the light output decreases 30 percent.
TENANT IMPROVEMENTS AND REMODELS
JOB ORDER AND IDIQ CONTRACTING
- 1GPA (1 Government Procurement Alliance) Job Order Contract for on-call Electrical Services.
- Arizona Department of Administration On-Call Electrical Services – State of AZ Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7.
- City of Phoenix Parks & Recreation Department Electrical Job Order Contracting Services
- Cox Communications
- Harrahs Entertainment
Frequently, public agencies and private companies that have changing needs resulting in numerous small projects resort to utilizing multi-year Job Order Contracts (“JOC”) to cut down on the paperwork process. Hawkeye is a contract holder for numerous JOC Contracts with clients including the City of Phoenix, Arizona Department of Administration, 1GPA.org, and Cox Communications. Having a pre-existing contract in place helps the Owner source the work quickly to expedite completion. As an example, Hawkeye performs approximately 15 projects a month for Cox Communications and 5 projects a month for Harrahs Entertainment, both under multi-year JOC Contracts.
Energy Efficiency Studies and Upgrades
Photovoltaic Design & Installation