Kappa Design - Electrical and Systems Design for Construction

Kappa is located in Louisville, KY and specializes in providing fully engineered shop

drawings for Fire Alarm Installers.

In addition to Fire Alarm design, Kappa has over 10 years of experience designing Camera Systems, Access Control, Nurse Call, Paging, Duress, and Intrusion Detection systems, specifically in Mission Critical Federal Healthcare settings.

Kappa has also been designing power, lighting, and power for HVAC since 2007,

with extensive experience in Healthcare Essential Electrical Systems (EES).

We can help relieve your firm of overflow Electrical work during busy design times.

Whether you're a fire alarm installer or an MEP consultancy looking to add a robust

systems design to your existing product, Kappa can provide you with fully engineered

fire alarm drawings including device plans, battery calculations and circuit calculations

to help eliminate uncertainty in your systems design, and avoid change orders for your clients.

Site Investigation and floor plan preparation-

Installers especially know that your clients don't always have floor plans to work from.

Kappa is available for site investiagtion to generate floor plans in addition to design.

Kappa is also available to perform electrical site investigation for MEP firms,

so you can keep your designers designing rather than on the road.

Straightforward Pricing for fire alarm design

Fire Alarm Permit Drawings

As our primary service, we offer simple and straightforward pricing for Fire Alarm drawings. Pricing is based on number of points in the system. Each set of wire terminals is 1 point. So, most initiators and notification appliances are 1 point. Dual-circuit appliances such as speaker-strobes are 2 points.

Base Fee

$600

Includes:

Up to 4 Sheets:
- 2 Floor Plan Sheets, minimum scale 1/8"=1' on 24x36" sheet
- Calculations Sheet: Battery, Circuit Load & Voltage Drop
- Riser Diagram
1 FACP & up to 20 points (devices)
Drawings provided in PDF and DWG format

Additional Points (Devices) - up to 100 total

$10 ea

Additional Points (Devices) - up to 500 total

$7 ea

Additional Points (Devices) - 501+

$5 ea

Additional Sheets / Floors

$75 ea

CAD Labor

$75 / hr

CAD time is included for floor plans provided in non-CAD formats.

Expedite

$400+

Current turnaround is 14 days.

Expedited service of less than 14 days may be available.

Pricing indicated here is a guideline - Please contact us for a quote