RLT Engineering Solutions, LLC is the private engineering practice of Jeff Collins, P.E. RLT Engineering was founded to serve customers by providing specialized engineering expertise in the lifting planning, specialized rigging design and heavy transportation disciplines. RLT Engineering provides solutions that allow our customers to reduce their risk while increasing their effectiveness through the employment of innovative solutions. We also provide third party review of lifting and transportation plans for contractors and owners to help ensure the safety of these operations.

In addition to my responsibilities as the administrative vice president, I am responsible for production and/or oversight of the production of engineered drawings, calculations, engineering analysis and related reporting and documentation pertinent to the services provided by W.O. Grubb. Recent projects have included:• Rigging and rough setting boiler components at Maryland hospital complex• Two-crane lift of HVAC components at a federal government facility in Washington, DC utilizing innovative rigging techniques that allowed a load to be passed from one crane to the other in mid-air.• Designed rigging in support of recovery of fallen mobile crane in Washington, DC area • Developed rigging plans and methods for setting generator, turbine and condenser on a project in New England. Designed a unique, light-weight turntable mounted to the trailer deck used to rotate a 90-ton condenser. • Developed rigging plans and methods for removal of several rolling mill components weighing approximately 200 tons from a steel mill in the Mid-Atlantic US. The design was required to overcome uneven support conditions and vertical clearance challenges to remove the components. I designed a powered adjustable lift beam that reduced headroom requirements and compensated for offset center of gravity of the components. • Developed engineered drawings, calculations and method statements for receiving, transporting and transloading to railcar a 390-ton combustion turbine.• Designed 300-ton capacity elevated runway lift system. Design included fabrication drawings for numerous components including base grillages, end bents, lift beams, strandjack supports as well as load test design and oversight of same.

Responsible for leading the engineering effort on numerous heavy rigging and heavy transportation projects across a variety of industry segments including power generation, refineries, and heavy civil including development of calculation packages and operational procedures. Some highlights include:• Pressurizer replacement at a nuclear facility in the northeastern US using a unique rigging arrangement I designed to accommodate the extremely low headroom available and to overcome a defect in the plant's overhead crane hook• Multiple large stator lift and rough-set operations• Barge-mounted lifting and support frame for lowering a 1,200-ton inlet structure to the bottom of a lake in the western US. • Rapid replacement of a railroad bridge in the Mid-Atlantic region using platform trailer and gantries • Developed the segmentation, lifting and transportation plan that was part of the winning proposal for the dismantling and transportation to a remote disposal site of a nuclear research laboratory facility in the western US. Promoted to the role of Engineering Manager in August 2008, becoming responsible for managing and staffing engineering offices in Virginia and California.

Responsible for leading the engineering effort on numerous heavy rigging and heavy transportation projects including development of calculation packages and operational procedures. Some highlights include:• Synchronized jacking, sliding and rough setting of a newly constructed pollution control module from its construction location to its permanent location 150 feet away. The structure was 80 feet wide, 120 ft long and 150 feet tall and weighed more than 800 tons.• 450-ton static vertical load test of load handling components for a nuclear power plant. • Numerous generator and turbine lifts using hydraulic gantries and lift frames equipped with strand jacksAlso responsible for the structural design, analysis and testing of many pieces of rigging and jacking hardware. Charged with hiring additional staff to accommodate growing demand.

Responsible for leading the engineering effort on numerous heavy rigging and heavy transportation projects across a variety of industry segments including power generation, refineries, and heavy civil. Some highlights include:• Removal and replacement of two 580-ton rotor ‘spiders’ on a hydroelectric plant using strand jacks• Uprighting and setting of a refinery vessel using lift towers and strand jacks• Numerous transportation projects using conventional hydraulic platform trailers as well as dollie-based transporters Also responsible for the structural design, analysis and testing of many pieces of rigging and jacking hardware as well as a modular long-span bridge used in heavy hauling operations.

Worked as a structural project engineer on the industrial design team. Responsible for analysis and design of steel, reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures occurring in seismic zone III. Specific projects included a cereal packaging facility, a guitar factory, a hangar for C-130 airplanes located on the gulf coast, a multi-span concrete bridge for the City of Memphis, a multi-level parking garage and a large distribution facility.