BAS Design & Installation
From simple programmable controls to full enterprise BAS deployment. Trend logging, alarm notifications, and dashboards are tailored to how your facility team actually works — not a vendor template.
Building automation & controls
Visibility and control across your entire facility.
Manufacturer-independent BAS design, integration, and support — engineered around how your building actually runs, not a vendor's product line.
- Serving Chicagoland since 1949
- Employee-owned
- Manufacturer-independent
- In-house engineering
Active HVAC issue? Call directly so it can be routed in the right lane.
The Chicagoland Reality
Three different interfaces. One building.
Most existing commercial buildings in Chicagoland have controls from multiple eras and vendors — older Johnson Controls in one wing, newer Siemens in another, standalone thermostats running the third. The facility team manages the building from three different screens, sometimes four.
We unify them. Point-to-point integration brings every system under a single front end, so your team operates the building from one place — with one alarm queue, one schedule, one set of trends.
- ✓Multi-vendor controls integration under one front end.
- ✓Point-to-point commissioning of every device.
- ✓Operator training on the unified system.
Manufacturer-independent. We integrate with existing controls where the system allows it.
SiemensJohnson ControlsTraneCarrierHoneywellAutomated Logic
The full BAS lifecycle, under one roof.
Six capability areas that cover a building automation system from first scope to ongoing service context.
System Integration & Controls
Bringing fragmented multi-vendor controls under a single unified front end. A useful lane for Chicago-area buildings with controls from multiple eras.
Energy Management & Optimization
Demand-based ventilation, optimal start/stop, supply air reset, and chiller or boiler sequencing configured against your building's actual operation. BAS data can also support Chicago Energy Benchmarking conversations.
Monitoring & Diagnostics Support
For buildings with monitoring under a service agreement, alarms can move into a service workflow instead of becoming another surprise for the facility team.
Commissioning & Retro-Commissioning
For new installs, point-to-point verification. For existing buildings, identifying the gap between original design and current operation.
Operator Training & Support
Hands-on training at commissioning, documentation built around your building's graphics and equipment names, and ongoing support after the system goes live.
Four ways a BAS earns its keep.
A BAS isn't a screen. It's the operational layer that lets a building run lean — quietly, every day.
Fewer after-hours surprises
The 2 a.m. Saturday alarm belongs in a service workflow, not as a surprise for the facility team.
Scheduled shutdown of unoccupied space
Setbacks, optimal start/stop, and demand-based ventilation that follow how your building is actually used.
Equipment-level energy trending
See where the kilowatt-hours are going at the chiller, the AHU, the pump — not as a single line on the monthly utility bill.
Consistent comfort without thermostat-chasing
Setpoints, schedules, and zone control hold the building where it should be instead of forcing the office to chase hot and cold calls all day.
Every building is different. We won't put a percentage on the savings until we've walked yours — but the value drivers above are consistent across the work we do.
Retro-Commissioning
Your building probably has more performance left in it than you think.
The pitch isn't equipment failure. It's the gap between how the building was designed to operate and how it's actually running today. Years of overrides, workarounds, and forgotten changes accumulate quietly. Our engineers walk the system, the sequences, and the trends — and identify what's drifted.
Most of what we find can be corrected in the controls — without capital investment. The fix is software, schedules, and sequences. Not a new chiller.
Across Chicagoland — commercial and industrial.
BAS work crosses building types. The useful common thread is a facility team that needs clearer control, cleaner alarms, better trends, and less vendor lock-in.
Medical
Manufacturing
Multi-Tenant Commercial
Retail
Warehouse & Distribution
Data Centers
Institutional
Hospitality
Mixed-Use
The engineers who actually understand your building.
The reasons facility teams keep us on retainer — across decades of buildings.
How We Specify
Manufacturer-Independent
We engineer for the building, not for a vendor's quota. You get the platform that fits your operation, not the one with the best margin this quarter.
Who Does the Work
In-House Engineering
Our controls engineers design the sequences, write the graphics, and stand behind them. The person who programmed your VAV box is the person you reach when it misbehaves.
OwnershipEmployee-OwnedThe people who do the work own the company. There is no third party between you and accountability.
HeritageSince 1949Chicagoland buildings. Several generations of controls platforms. We have seen the system before.
Questions
Before you start a controls conversation.
A useful first conversation usually starts with building type, current controls, square footage, complaint patterns, and what prompted the review.
What is a building automation system?
A building automation system connects HVAC equipment, sensors, schedules, alarms, trends, and operator controls so the building can be managed from a clearer operating layer instead of isolated devices and disconnected screens.
Can you work with existing Siemens, Johnson Controls, Trane, Carrier, Honeywell, or Automated Logic equipment?
Often, yes. The point is not to force a rip-and-replace conversation before anyone has walked the building. We start by understanding what is installed, what still communicates, what is locked down, and where integration or migration makes practical sense.
Do we need a new BAS, or can retro-commissioning help?
Many buildings have performance left in the controls already installed. Retro-commissioning looks for drift in schedules, setpoints, sequences, sensors, and overrides before assuming the answer is new equipment.
How does BAS help with Chicago Energy Benchmarking?
A BAS can make energy and operating data easier to collect, trend, and interpret. For buildings dealing with Chicago Energy Benchmarking, that visibility can support a cleaner conversation about where energy is being used and where controls changes may help.
What details should we send first?
Send the building size, building type, current controls if known, the complaint pattern, energy or comfort issues, and what changed recently. A few useful sentences are enough to route the conversation.
Do you support the system after installation?
Yes. BAS work is strongest when the team that understands the graphics, sequences, alarms, and equipment history remains available after commissioning. Service agreement options can include monitoring and diagnostics support where the building and system are set up for it.
Tell us about the building.
A few sentences is enough — square footage, current systems, and what is prompting the conversation. Your details go to the commercial team so the next step can be routed correctly.
Talk through a building automation problem.
Send the building type, current controls if known, what is prompting the review, and any comfort, alarm, energy, or operator pain that keeps showing up.