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SPECIAL SYSTEMS

By Dustin Cognetti, Operations Manager, and Luke Fenner, Division Manager

osendin's Special Systems Services Group was and developing and incorporating world-class solutions
established more than 15 years ago in the Bay tailored to meet the customer's needs while delivering
the lowest installed cost with the highest quality.
R Area when special systems were more basic:
structured cabling, fiber optics, security, and camera Rosendin's Special Systems Group excels on design-build
projects because designers have more control over the system,
systems. Since then, the technology and the designs providing the customer with a single design solution integrating
have grown more sophisticated and complex, as have data, sound, comms, and electrical. Here, Rosendin's team
Rosendin's capabilities. Rosendin teams nationwide can also control costs, help customers with budgets, and
give cost updates as design changes. Designers can design
provide special systems services for various facility to the customer's budget and needs, eliminating the chance
types in commercial, industrial, and municipal of overdesigning the systems. The design-build process also
removes the back and forth of designing and bidding, which
environments. But what are special systems, and why helps speed things up and reduces time and money.
does Rosendin need a group dedicated to this service? Rosendin's teams are working with our partners to design
networks that are the superhighways for all these systems.
Special Systems include a broad number of systems. They are the
result of a project coming online with all systems communicating Fiber optic pipelines are getting bigger thanks to investments
with each other: electrical, lighting, BMS, cameras, security, from companies like Google, AT&T, etc. While designing these
life safety, fiber optics, networks, and structured cabling. networks, our teams are also building specification libraries
Together, these systems allow the building to be smart and and detail libraries that can be used repeatedly, allowing our
communicate with each other. Before, they were treated as installers to look at them and build them precisely to specs.
more of an afterthought once the MEP was done, but these are Rosendin Special Systems Group currently has 12 dedicated
systems that really matter. Today, Special Systems are integrated designers. However, as Rosendin grows and expands to
with MEP. MEPSS is the 4th utility which includes all of the support markets across the country, we foresee significant
special systems identified above. In the past, things worked growth opportunities for the Special Systems Group,
linearly – plumbing was plumbing, electrical was electrical. But particularly in the East region and Texas. It's truly an
today, the facilities we construct require all these systems to exciting time to be a part of Rosendin and the Special
work together. This calls for coordination among the trades. Systems Group as we continue to support our partnerships
with BART, CalTrans, and Texas Instruments. With projects
Rosendin's highly skilled team of designers and engineers
has expertise in integrated technology systems. These underway at major airports such as San Diego International
designers and engineers work with stakeholders throughout Airport and the T1C Project at San Francisco International
the process, beginning with understanding the project needs Airport, Rosendin's teams are busier than ever.n

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