Welcome to Hampton Roads Automation
"Automation Made Easy"
Industrial Automation
Engineering • Consulting • Contracting
Hampton Roads Automation provides industrial automation, instrumentation, and process control solutions for municipal water and wastewater systems. With more than 100 years of combined experience, our engineers and field service technicians support every stage of a project—from consulting, system design, and program management to fabrication, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance. Whether you need engineering expertise or hands-on support in the field, we have the capabilities to take your automation project from concept through operation.
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Class A Electical Contractor specializing in Water / Wastewater Electrical, Instrumentation and Control Systems Integration in Virginia
About The Firm
With over 100 years of combined experience and after 20+ years on the job together, we decided to offer our expertise to a greater audience with the goal of ensuring that your Industrial Control systems are efficient, optimized, secure, and are exceeding your operational needs.
- Class A Electrical Contractor
- License Number: 2705188426
- SWAM Certified - - #823818
- WOSB Certified - - #WOSB251455
- WBE Certified - - #WBE2502406
- Official V3 Certified Employer
EXPERTISE ACROSS LEADING AUTOMATION PLATFORMS
Who Are Our Customers?
HRA‘s primary customers are Public Utilities and Engineering firms that serve Public Utilities.
We specialize in:
– Wastewater Treatment
– Drinking Water
– Interceptor Systems
– Pump Stations
– PRS (Pressure Reducing Stations)
– Offline Storage Controls
– Aquifer Injection Systems
– Water Tower Controls
The members of the HRA team fully understand the vast importance of clean water. The systems that we work on have a huge impact on the environment. We take this responsibility very seriously.
Our Services
We offer a myriad of services, some of which are outlined below.
Industrial Automation Engineering & Consulting
From the field instrumentation to the DCS (Distributed Control System), PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), and/or SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system and everything in between; we can design, troubleshoot, build, repair, install, upgrade, document, and maintain your ICS (Industrial Control System).
Electrical & Instrumentation Field Service
Everyone on our staff started their career as field E&I / I&C technicians. If you are having problems with your instrumentation and control systems, we can solve your problems and get your systems back online.
Control Panel Design and Fabrication
HRA provides turnkey control panels from in-house design through installation, programming, and commissioning. UL-listed panels are produced with trusted local fabrication partners, including coordinated testing and delivery. When listing is not required, HRA fabricates UL-standard panels in-house for temporary controls, retrofits, instrument racks, skid-mounted equipment, and emergency replacements.
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
HRA specializes in programming, engineering, installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of the Allen Bradley family of PLCs and the Schneider Electric Modicon PLC series.
SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)
Emerson Ovation DCS (Distributed Control System)
HRA specializes in the programming, engineering, installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the Emerson Ovation DCS. We have extremely in-depth experience with this particular brand of DCS. We also have experience with the legacy WDPF and Westation systems.
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Why Choose Us ?
Experience and Education in the right areas are extremely important when considering a consultant firm. Experience is the most important of the two, because the field of Industrial Automation is a field of study that takes years of hands on experience to properly master.
Look for several team members to have over 20 years of experience while also looking for the ISA-CAP (International Society of Automation – Certified Automation Professional) credentials combined with higher education.
Hampton Roads Automation was founded by like-minded individuals who believe that integrity is a cornerstone that must be part of everything that we do.
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