Pablo Posada, PE, LEED AP
Plumbing & Fire Protection Engineer
Lakewood, NJ 08701
Cell 201-***-****
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Education National University of Colombia (Colombia, South America) Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering, 1979.
Professional Licensed and registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York and New Jersey. Registration
Experience Twenty (20) years in Colombia and twenty (20) years in USA designing Plumbing & Fire Protection Systems.
General
• Plumbing & Fire Protection design for more than six (6) million sq. ft. of building construction including new and existing facilities.
• Literate in NYC Building and Plumbing Codes, International Building Code applicable in New Jersey.
• NFPA 13, 14, 20, 25 & 2000.
• Design and calculation for Plumbing & Fire Protection Systems.
• Design and calculation of gas systems (Natural Gas, Propane, CA, VAC, O2, N2, H2) for medical, pharmaceutical and manufacturing facilities.
• Twenty (20) years of experience in AutoCAD.
• Design and calculation of sprinkler systems (wet, dry, pre-action, deluge).
• Supervising and mentoring members of the Plumbing & Fire Protection Department.
• Coordination with the Architect and other professionals.
• Elaboration of reports for the different phases of the project (schematic and construction documents)
• Application for approvals with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (NYC DOB, NYC DEP, NJ DCA).
• Application with Natural Gas companies (ConEd, National Grid, NJ Natural Gas, PSE&G).
• Review of shop drawings.
• Responses to RFI’s.
• Creation of bulletins.
• Review of change orders.
• Inspections during construction.
• Punch lists.
• Sprinkler special inspections.
• Elaboration of As-Built drawings.
Notable Projects
• Approximately forty (40) school buildings and universities totaling an area of approximately 4,000,000 sq. ft.
• Essex County Correctional Facility (300,000 sq. ft.)
• 16-story Hotel building in downtown Manhattan (100,000 sq. ft.).
• NYTA Staten Island Railway Maintenance Building (150,000 sq. ft).
• NYC Sanitation Department Garage and Maintenance Building (150,000 sq. ft.).
• Complete renovation of Plumbing & Fire Protection Systems for three high rise buildings converting them to “white box” space.
• Upgrade of medical gas systems in the Pasckack Valley Hospital.
• Tokiwa Cosmetics manufacturing facility in Monroe Township (150,000 sq. ft.)
• Celgene Corporation in Summit, NJ. Pharmaceutical. Renovation of several laboratories.
• Merck Corporation in Rahway, NJ. Pharmaceutical. Renovation of several laboratories.
• Trumpf Corporation in Cranbury NJ. Manufacturing of the state of the art of precision laser machinery (30,000 sq. ft.).
• Montclair University. Renovation of College Hall building. (120,000 sq. ft.). Employment Stantec Consulting
New York, NY
Plumbing & Fire Protection Department Head
February 2020 to July 2020
TMG Engineering, Inc.
Edison, NJ
Plumbing & Fire Protection Department Head
January 2018 to January 2020
Goldman Copeland Associates, P.C.
New York, NY.
Lead designer.
August 2011 to January 2018.
DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Hackensack, NJ
Plumbing & Fire Protection Department Head
August 1999 to July 2011