Control Services

The foundation of a good controls system is programming.  Our engineers and programmers know our products inside and out, enabling us to understand how each change affects the HVAC, lighting and other building systems as a whole. We have a thorough understanding of the mechanical systems, electrical systems, and lighting systems that we work on.  Often proper DDC programming can be the difference between an inefficient and poorly functioning HVAC system and an energy efficient reliable system.  We spend as much time as it takes to make sure our clients’ systems are operating at the highest level.

Along with programming, commissioning is a critical piece of making sure the system operates correctly.  Surprisingly, many buildings are never properly commissioned, which means they might not even be operating as designed!  With our engineers, we commission each system and its individual components to make sure they are operating correctly and efficiently.  We have commissioned very large and complex systems and we have sophisticated commissioning processes in place to ensure accurate setup and implementation for any complex DDC or EMS project.

Once the initial system programming and commissioning is completed, the system is turned over to our ongoing maintenance team.  We provide full retrocommissioning for our clients in order to regularly evaluate and tweak system performance.  Without proper maintenance and retrocommissioning, every system will degrade over time and eventually become inefficient and unreliable.  Our maintenance contracts are designed to continually optimize the system performance and find small problems before they turn into big or expensive issues.  Many times the energy savings from our maintenance agreements actually pay for themselves, not to mention the capital savings from giving equipment a longer life.

Building Sentinel™ System is easy to deploy and changes everything. Cutting edge technology watching over your building. Building Sentinel is like having a “virtual,” full-time facility engineer, energy manager and operations manager monitoring your building infrastructure around the clock. The Building Sentinel platform requires minimal touch and effort on the part of property managers and owners. With Building Sentinel, a building’s critical systems, equipment and work environments are monitored using expertly developed rules and algorithms to allow for proactive optimization of comfort, energy and reliability.

One of the challenges of working with a building system is that there are so many controls products out there and they don’t always talk to each other.  We are very familiar with this challenge and we have a wonderful, inexpensive solution: System Integration.  Our engineers are experts in complex controls integrations and getting different components to work together seamlessly.

Many building owners would like to add a controls component to their building automation system or simply replace an old controls component but are told they would have to replace the entire system in order to do so due to either system obsolescence or a different communications protocol.  Some components communicate via a Modbus protocol, others use the BACnet protocol, still others use SNMP protocol, and so on.

With our integration service, we can add new controls or replace a few old controls without replacing the whole system.  We have the ability to get all the components to communicate with each other, so your system continues to run correctly without incurring a huge cost.  We can also update the “front-end” system or the user interface to set up more sophisticated energy saving programs without needing to change the “unit level” controls components.  This is a great way for clients to save money on the front end and gain a more cost-effective controls solution.

Our controls group can create a rich graphical web portal for your building controls system. Using this interface, you can manage entire campuses of buildings, and all the equipment in each one. Because this system can be accessed from within the building or across the world you can respond to tenant problems within seconds, no matter where you are, and without the hassle and expense of travel to the site.  Today’s tenants demand instant satisfaction, and we enable you to provide it to them immediately and inexpensively. 

The controls system’s interactive graphical display allows you to immediately engage with the system and intuitively understand how to make system or component adjustments.  Plus, because the display is optimized by device resolution, automatically adjusting so that users don’t need to scale up or down, you can use the system from any internet-enabled device.