Installation

Our Service Offerings

Professional installation of generator systems, ensuring reliable and efficient operation. We handle everything from site preparation to final commissioning, ensuring a smooth installation process.

VarcoMac's Generator Installation services provide complete turnkey solutions for implementing reliable backup power systems across various facility types. Our comprehensive approach covers every aspect of generator deployment, from initial planning through final commissioning, ensuring your power generation system is properly integrated, fully functional, and code-compliant.

Our installation expertise includes:

  • Site Assessment and Planning: We thoroughly evaluate your location to determine the optimal generator placement, considering factors like noise requirements, exhaust routing, fuel delivery access, and code compliance while working within your facility's space constraints.
  • Engineered Solutions: Our team develops detailed plans for all installation aspects including concrete pads, vibration isolation, acoustic treatments, fuel systems, exhaust systems, ventilation, and electrical connections, ensuring all components work together as a cohesive system.
  • Permitting and Compliance: We navigate complex regulatory requirements, securing necessary permits and ensuring installations meet all local, state, and federal codes including electrical, mechanical, fire, environmental, and noise ordinances.
  • Professional Installation: Our experienced technicians handle every aspect of physical installation with precision and care, from site preparation and equipment placement to fuel system setup, exhaust systems, and electrical connections.
  • Transfer System Implementation: We install and configure automatic transfer switches and associated controls, ensuring seamless transition between utility and generator power without disrupting critical operations.
  • Integration with Building Systems: Our team coordinates generator operation with building management systems, fire alarm systems, and other critical infrastructure for comprehensive emergency response.
  • Comprehensive Testing and Commissioning: We perform rigorous startup procedures, load bank testing, and complete system verification to confirm proper operation before handover.

The VarcoMac difference lies in our single-source accountability and cross-disciplinary expertise covering mechanical, electrical, and control aspects of generator installations. Our technicians' extensive experience with complex projects enables us to anticipate and address challenges before they become problems. From small standby units for light commercial applications to large paralleling systems for mission-critical facilities, our installation services deliver generator systems that perform reliably when needed most, installed correctly the first time.

OUR PRINCIPLES OF SERVICE

Delivering innovation, value, and quality with every project.

Performance

In everything we do, our work seeks to deliver the highest levels of business, environmental, and asset performance for our clients.

Partnership

Our success is our clients’ success and is always the result of skill, dedication, and collaboration. To achieve our goals, we rely on every stakeholder.

Responsibility

We have a duty of care for our partners and communities. We’re active corporate citizens, working in an equitable and environmentally friendly manner.
Our Industry impact

We develop and deploy a range of client-specific strategies.

Years of Expertise
40
+
Delivering quality and value to every project for over four decades.
Emergency Service
24
/7
Providing round-the-clock emergency electrical services to ensure continuous operation and safety.
Highly-Trained Technicians
900
+
Supporting our clients with a skilled workforce across the DC metro area.
Key Market Sectors
5
+
Specializing in biomedical, commercial, data center, government, healthcare, and other mission-critical sectors.
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VarcoMac works with building engineers, property managers, and commercial buildings to help do everyday electrical repairs, maintenance, and emergency service calls.

David Mitchell
Account Executive, Service Division
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