The Keeping it Real series is your chance to hear from Allen & Shariff staff on life, lessons, and leadership, straight from the trenches. Sometimes literally.
Name and Title: Ali Arshian, Senior Electrical Engineer
Office location: Columbia, MD
Years at Allen & Shariff: 11 years & 5 months
What’s the one skill that you would say is essential to being a great mechanical designer?
Attention to detail is essential because one little mistake can cost the owners of the facilities we work in a lot of money. We do everything we can to maintain our good relationship with them.
What are the skills that you would say are essential to being a great electrical engineer?
Having a great memory and common sense.
What is the most innovative advancement you’ve seen since you first started your career?
LED
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Posted on: March 28, 2019
Building codes. They’re important standards that almost all industries have to meet in order to keep people safe, remain efficient, and ensure an environmentally conscious setting. Codes are constantly evolving in order to stay ahead of trends, right size issues, and account for changing environments. These changes often have compounding effects—from prompting slight updates to warranting major redesigns and, in the most extreme cases, rebuilds.
A major code change (or a change in the interpretation or enforcement of a code) hits hospitals in particular every few years, causing many hospitals to rush to make the necessary updates to meet the code requirements. Allen & Shariff has partnered with several hospitals to not only ensure they get up to code when a change occurs, but also to help them stay on top of trends and a step ahead of future changes. A recent hot button issue concerning hospital code is how in-hospital pharmacies handle hazardous drugs (HDs) such as chemotherapy medications. While the code in question is extensive and has implications in areas beyond MEP engineering design, here’s everything you need to know from an MEP standpoint.
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