Advance Design Consultants, established in 1984, provides professional engineering services to industrial operations, commercial organizations and government agencies. The company s mechanical services include designing of heating and cooling ventilation, chilled water, hot water, steam and condensate, thermal storage and ice storage and building automation systems. The company designs and engineers electrical systems, including residential, commercial and industrial power distribution, interior and exterior lighting and control, switchgear and control and emergency power generation and distribution systems. It also designs process piping systems such as monitoring and alarm, domestic water, hot water and sanitary sewer piping systems. The company s project capabilities include electronic manufacturing and pharmaceutical plants, biotechnical, health care and educational facilities, office buildings and toxic and flammable gas handling facilities. It is based San Jose, Calif.