RPA HELPS GROVE CITY COMMUNITY WITH NEW LIBRARY EXPANSION  RPA Engineering was pleased to play a lead role as the Design Project Manager for all aspects of the design involving the library expansion in Grove City, Pennsylvania. The new addition will add 2,657 square feet to the library's current 6,625 square foot facility. RPA provided the complete MEP engineering and worked with the borough and library board including overseeing and coordinating the architectural and civil engineering services. We also coordinated all the documents for Code and Grant submittal and approval. The total project is targeted to come in below budget. Construction is scheduled to begin within 90 days and be completed by spring 2011. |
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SARAH WILSON RECEIVES
MARTINDALE MBA FELLOWSHIP
 RPA Project Manager Sarah Wilson has been selected to participate in the Martindale MBA Fellowship.
The Martindale MBA Fellowship is a collaborative effort between the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise and the Lehigh MBA program. She will spend the next year studying global business practices and corporate social responsibility, which will include a field study where she will travel to the UK (University of Nottingham and London). The trip will be a mix of classroom seminars taught by professors from the Nottingham University and meetings with business leaders in Nottingham and London.
As a Lehigh University MBA graduate, Sarah was eligible to apply and had to submit an essay explaining what she hoped to gain by studying business abroad and participate in a round of interviews. Twelve people were selected to participate in this prestigious program.
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THOMAS SANTARELLI JOINS RPA
 RPA is pleased to announce that Tom Santarelli has joined the company as a Senior Electrical Engineer. Tom brings more than 20 years of extensive experience in project management, control system design and diagnostics, planning and installation, evaluation and testing, quality control, and electrical and electronic maintenance. He also has experience with photovoltaic PV (solar) power systems.
Most recently Tom was employed with Nordic Air, where he focused on electrical projects for military and industrial clients. His professionalism, industry knowledge and proven accomplishments will assist clients in the design, development and delivery of cost-effective solutions. Tom is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and is licensed in both Pennsylvania and Ohio. He is a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). He will be based in RPA's Grove City, Pennsylvania office. |
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DID YOU KNOW...
A few fun facts:
· The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
· An average home creates more pollution than the average car.
· There are 2,500,000 rivets embedded in the Eiffel Tower and the total weight of the metal is 7000 tons. If you include everything else, the weight of the tower is well over 10,000 tons. When the structure was being designed, the engineers decided that it needed to be painted so they hired 25 painters for the task. Every seven years, the entire structure is repainted so that the metal doesn't rust and it takes about 50 tons of paint to do so. |
 HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
From all of us at RPA Engineering, we thank you for your friendship and business over the past year and wish you and your family a holiday season filled with joy and a prosperous and healthy 2011!
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Each year at this time we hustle to complete all of our holiday preparations and enjoy visits with family 