Methodology
APPROACH TO NEW CONSTRUCTION
Empire Controls is known in the construction industry for:
- Pricing
- Fair, competitive and consistent
- Shop Drawings
- Project specific
- Timely, meaningful & accurate
- Controls provided by others integrated into overall systems
- Clear & comprehensive sequences of operations
- Complete damper & valve schedules printed in color for clarity
- Control Devices
- Quality, name brand Direct Digital Controls or conventional electric & electronic controls
- Installation by staff, no subcontractors
- Good quality control
- Roughed in when appropriate
- Completed with a reasonable period after installation of mechanical & electrical systems
- Testing and Commissioning
- Thorough & effective
APPROACH TO IMPROVING BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Empire Controls has successfully retrofitted scores of fully occupied multi-residential, educational, commercial and institutional buildings, ranging from public housing and hospitals to five star hotels. While the range of issues varies, the commonality is that we are a guest in someone's facility for the duration of the project.
Customer satisfaction can be achieved only if there is a recognition of the importance of noise and dust control, interruption of services, hours of work, security. The project plan must provide for careful management of these issues, and good advance communication with the tenants. Construction must happen on schedule and without "surprises" due to poor planning, failure to negotiate service interruptions, lack of advance notice and poor cleanup.
Opportunities for cost effective energy and cost savings in include lighting, fuel conversions, domestic water conservation, scheduling domestic hot water, heat recovery, demand limiting, heating medium scheduling, temperature setback and other control strategies. However, the characteristic high domestic hot water consumption favors water conservation, and strategies as scheduling temperatures.
Empire Controls has also successfully used hot water storage to shave demand, or take advantage of off peak power rates. Control systems and other retrofits, combined with electronic security systems may be correctly applied to reduce operating costs other than energy. These retrofit strategies imply the application of a wide range of mechanical and electrical devices including boilers, water conservation devices, heat exchange and ventilation devices, direct digital controls. However, Empire Controls has also designed and implemented systems such as card access, keyless entry, fire alarm notification, burglar alarms, power metering of individual suites, and other multi-residential exotica.
In our work, we manage a broad range of security issues, including:
- screening of subcontractors against security risks
- maintaining building security during construction
- designing and installing systems to improve building security
- managing construction to prevent damage to the building and disruption to tenants
- scheduling interruption of services around tenant operating hours
- selection of vandal resistant materials and components
- remote monitoring of the performance of building systems
CONCLUSION
Empire Controls would like to leave you with the following thoughts.
- We have extensive, successful experience doing construction work in a variety of building types, including health, education and multi residential.
- We actually install the systems. We do not simply broker it to subcontractors.
- We service what we sell.
- We have extensive, successful experience doing energy management retrofits in a variety of building types.
- We provide quality service, and achieve high customer satisfaction.
- We plan our work, and work our plan.
- Engineers, technicians and tradesmen under one roof.
- We are creators and builders of projects, not brokers.
- We are price leaders.
We have the credit rating to get the best prices on purchased goods and services.