UC Berkeley Hearst Gym
Berkeley, CA · Education · Client: UC Berkeley
Project details
Mechanical and electrical engineering services for the historic university gymnasium building.

Electrical, Mechanical & Sustainable Engineers
HRA Engineering & Energy Services is a Bay Area-based mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering practice that delivers sustainable design and engineering services for public and private sector clients. Founded by Hamid R. Arbabaraghi, who brings over 20 years of consulting engineering experience, the practice provides complete planning, design, and construction engineering for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, telecommunications, and electronic security systems. It also specializes in renewable energy design-build packages, including photovoltaic solar power and wind turbine installations, maintaining offices in San Francisco and Fairfield, California.
Hamid R. ArbabaraghiFounder
Provides thermal, fluid, and HVAC design solutions for complex building environments and clinical laboratories.
Delivers robust power distribution, emergency generation, and lighting systems optimized for energy efficiency.
Implements integrated fire detection, alarm systems, and smoke evacuation paths to protect facility occupants.
Designs structural pathways, cabling infrastructure, and equipment rooms to support modern data and voice networks.
Develops commercial monitoring, access control, and intrusion prevention systems to protect critical physical assets.
Packages complete engineering, procurement, and construction for wind turbine and photovoltaic power installations.
Evaluates existing facility systems through computerized modeling, value analysis, and thorough field surveys.
Provides quality assurance, collaborative delivery, and system commissioning from project inception to completion.
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Berkeley, CA · Education · Client: UC Berkeley
Mechanical and electrical engineering services for the historic university gymnasium building.
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