Forensic Engineering 

Keith Lane has a significant amount of experience in the design and troubleshooting of critical facilities. Keith has been the Engineer of Record for many data centers, call centers, collocation facilities, communication facilities and medical facilities. In addition, Keith has been asked to provide his professional opinion and analysis of several system failures.

Keith has participated as an expert speaker on building design in a national telecast web cast. In addition, Keith has written numerous articles published nationally in Electrical Design, Maintenance and Construction Magazine, Consulting Specifying Engineering Magazine, Pure Power Magazine and BICSI Magazine. See Published Articles Section

In addition, Keith has completed several power studies for critical facilities. These studies have included; fault current analysis, protective device coordination studies, load flow, generator sizing and arc flash studies.

Keith has been a long time member of the National Fire Protection Agency, The 7x24 End-to-End Reliability Exchange, The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, The Washington State Society of Health Care Engineers and BICSI (Building Industries Consulting Services International). In addition, Keith has served on the Seattle Code Review Committee.

See Specific Forensic Engineering Resume

Some of the Forensics Engineering Keith has provided have included the following:

UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) Failure Analysis.

Loss of Power in Critical Facilities Based on Over Current Protective Devices Tripping from Fast Transfer Switches and Inductive Loads. See Article

Bus Duct Short Circuit Failure Analysis.

Loss of Power in a Critical Facility Based on the Location of Static Transfer Switches and Transformers. See Article

Generator Sizing Analysis. Verification that existing generators can serve new loads. See Article

Fault Current Analysis to determine if existing facility equipment complies with increased fault current levels. See Article

Analysis of the effect of new codes in existing facilities.

Lightning Protection Analysis. See Article