Gage Products Company Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineering Design

Peter Basso Associates provided MEP engineering services for the complete renovation of Gage Products’ 5,000 sf Innovation Center Ferndale, Michigan. Gage specializes in what is called a “closed-loop” recycling process for paint solvents that are used by Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and other automobile manufacturers around the world. All of Gage’s existing laboratory and testing facilities were consolidated into a single building and the existing labs were nearly doubled. The renovated facility also expanded the capabilities of the company’s in-house research and development. PBA provided services that enabled Gage Products to operate all of their processes under one consolidated space by providing ME engineering design services for the following:

• New high efficiency laboratory HVAC systems,
• New laboratory and domestic plumbing and waste systems,
• High grade, high GPM flow, deionized water system and distribution,
• New specialty fuels and solvent storage area,
• New laboratory gas, monitoring, and distribution systems for Hydrogen, Oxygen, Helium, Nitrogen, Butane and Iso-Butane,
• New Cryogenic Liquid, Carbon Dioxide system, monitoring and distribution system,
• New main power and distribution for the renovated facilities including main feeds to other existing buildings on campus and,
• New high efficiency lighting for all renovated areas.

With the renovated space, Gage Products can now:

•        ‘Perform aromatic and detailed hydrocarbon analysis for fuels;
•        Determine compound identifications through use of a mass spectrometry upgrade;
•        Execute critical testing on up to 50 distinct fuel properties and
•        Increase storage capacity for customer-product test samples.’