To demonstrate RAI's commitment to renewable energy solutions and to solar energy in particular, we installed a photovoltaic
system at our corporate headquarters in 2006.
This system was designed to "zero out" our yearly electric utility bill. Because the available roof space on our existing office
building was too small to accommodate the necessary size, we designed and built an adjacent 10,000 square foot pre-engineered
Butler™ building to be used as a storage facility for company equipment and tools. It also acted as the canopy structure to support
the additional photovoltaic modules needed to complete our system. We built the entire new structure in less than three days over
the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, including footings and foundations, all structural steel, roof skins, fencing, asphalt, and site
grading/restoration.
In conjunction with this project we upgraded our primary utility service to a 3-phase system. The new main distribution panel feeds
three separate buildings and connects our two roof-mounted arrays to the utility grid.
RAI scope included but was not limited to:
- Insurance, project permitting, design/build of a 10,000 square foot Butler pre-engineered building on site
- Main utility service upgrade and changeover to 3-phase system
- Underground conduits, duct banks and cable installation
- Rigging & lifting of all switchgear and photovoltaic modules
- Concrete footings and foundations, steel erection & welding
- Installation of modules, combiner boxes, disconnects, inverters, conduit, junction boxes, raceways, trenching, wire, C.I.S.,
fuses, main breakers, transformers, DAS system, weather monitoring, equipment, CAT 5 communication line, kiosk, system
start-up, testing & warranty.