Building Automation and Optimization Across Different Industry Types throughout Nebraska

Tecumseh State Correctional Institution

The Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (TSCI) is a medium / maximum security state correctional institution for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services.

The TSCI is in Nemaha Township, Johnson County, about two miles north of Tecumseh, Nebraska, it was established in 1997. Construction began in 1998, and the TSCI began accepting inmates in December 2001. All inmates at TSCI are males who were adjudicated as adults and classified as medium or maximum custody. The institution is designed to house 960 inmates; it is the only facility in Nebraska to house death row inmates (except inmates who are within a week of their execution, who are housed at Nebraska State Penitentiary).

•    Security Levels: Maximum, Medium, Death Row

•    Average Population: 900

•    Number of Staff: 432

Control Services installed a computerized campus-wide facility automation network for the 950-bed multi-building facility networked over fiber optics. Integration with the fire alarm system to control smoke evacuation.

Omaha Correctional Center

The Omaha Correctional Center (OCC) is a medium/minimum security facility located on a 37-acre site in East Omaha, just south of Eppley Airfield. The OCC was opened April 24, 1984, with a designed capacity of 240 inmates at a total cost of approximately $17 million; today the facility has an operational capacity of 712 inmates in single, double, and multiple occupancy rooms. In 1994 an additional housing unit brought the designed capacity of the OCC to 396 inmate beds.

Control Services installed an Automated environmental and smoke evacuation system for the county jail and correctional facility.

Beyond these two jails, we have also worked at facilities throughout the state of Nebraska including Community Corrections Omaha, Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility, and the Work Ethic Camp in McCook, NE.

Lincoln Public School District

Lincoln Public Schools is the only public school district in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It is the second largest of Nebraska's 596 school districts, surpassed only by Omaha Public Schools. LPS educates more than 35,000 students in 57 schools.

Wide Area Network provides direct digital control in 38 elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Lincoln Public School District. Each facility is provided with direct digital control of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. All the facilities report to a central operator's station over a district-wide Ethernet network.

Creighton University

Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Creighton is the largest private religious university in Nebraska. Sitting on a 132-acre (53 ha) campus just outside Omaha's downtown business district, the university currently enrolls about 7,730 graduate and undergraduate students.

Distributed intelligent control system connecting numerous buildings throughout the campus. Buildings controlled and monitored include medical research, classroom buildings, science centers, and residential halls.

Alegent Health System

Alegent Creighton Health is made up of ten acute care hospitals, six of which are located in the Omaha metro area. Bergan Mercy Medical Center, Creighton University Medical Center, Immanuel Medical Center, Lakeside Hospital, Midlands Hospital, and Mercy Hospital in neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. Alegent Creighton Health has more than 100 sites of service, with over 1,300 physicians on its medical staff and roughly 9,000 employees.

Alegent Creighton Health is sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives. It was created in 1996, resulting from a long-standing partnership between Immanuel Medical Center and Bergan Mercy Medical Center under the Community Health Vision. Both boards unanimously approved the union. The campuses joined together along with Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and two regional health partners, Corning and Schuyler, as one health care system while maintaining their own identities and religious affiliations. In 1997, Midlands Hospital joined Alegent Health.

Direct digital control system for medical office building including control of variable air volume systems and central air handling units. In addition to the direct digital control system located in the medical building, the entire hospital campus is protected by an automated asset protection system furnished and installed by Control Services, Inc.

Creighton University Medical Center (also known as Creighton University Medical Center-Saint Joseph Hospital) is a hospital located in North Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. On April 24, 2012, CUMC signed an agreement to be part of the Alegent Health System during the summer of 2012. It is owned by Creighton University.

The hospital is the teaching hospital for the College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the College of Health Careers.

Control Services, Inc. provides and installs building management control systems and fire alarm systems for the healthcare facility over one million square feet. Systems controlled include variable air volume central air.

Veterans' Administration Hospital

Three Nebraska VA medical facilities (Omaha, Lincoln, and Grand Island) integrated in November 1999 to become the newly formed, VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. Each of the three divisions provides a unique array of health care services.

The Omaha Division is an acute, highly affiliated, tertiary care facility. The Omaha facility provides inpatient, medical, surgical and psychiatric care in addition to its ambulatory care services; the Omaha Division is also home to major clinical research programs. The Grand Island Division focuses on ambulatory and extended care, including geriatric and rehabilitation services. The Lincoln Division focuses on ambulatory care services.

Control Services, Inc. furnished and installed facility-wide energy management for control of central mechanical equipment.

Zoetis

Zoetis, Inc. (/zō-EH-tis/) is the world's largest producer of medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock. The company was a subsidiary of Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, but with Pfizer's spinoff of its 83% interest in the firm, it is now a completely independent company. The company operates in 70 countries worldwide with recent expansions into Southeast Asia and China. Contemporaneous with the spinoff in June 2013 S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Zoetis would replace First Horizon National Corporation in the S&P 500 stock market index.

Building Automation System containing over 10,000 points for a major animal pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The system includes central multi-chilled water plant optimization, variable air volume system control including terminal units, laboratory pressurization control, integrated card access security system, and manufacturing process control. Environmental condition alarm monitoring in critical laboratory areas and temperature-sensitive product storage areas, along with after-hours voice dispatch of maintenance personnel is provided. Central operator station residing on plant-wide Windows NT Server network.

Merck

Merck Corporation is a United States-based pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1851 by Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering as Schering AG in Germany. In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough (founded by Memphis area entrepreneur Abe Plough in 1908) to form Schering-Plough. On November 4, 2009 Merck & Co. merged with Schering-Plough with the new company taking the name of Merck & Co. Schering-Plough manufactured several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which were the allergy drugs Claritin and Clarinex, an anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin, and a brain tumor drug Temodar. These are now available from Merck & Co.

Schering Corporation, established in the late 1800s as the U.S. subsidiary of Schering AG, a German-based pharmaceutical and chemical company, was incorporated in New York City in 1928 and in New Jersey in 1935. Its first offering consisted of a modest but promising line of pharmaceutical products to U.S. consumers, which led to steady growth and a rapid expansion of facilities

Square D Company

Square D is an American manufacturer of equipment used to control and distribute electric power.

Square D was founded in 1903 in Detroit, Michigan as Detroit Fuse and Manufacturing by Bryson Dexter Horton who is credited with the invention of the safety switch which encased high voltage switches and started the company's main line of business of circuit breakers and encased control panels. Horton served as Square D's president until 1928. In 1991, the company was acquired and became a subsidiary of Schneider Electric.

Direct Digital Control System for mechanical systems in the molding manufacturing area. Occupants of the facility can acquire information from the system using their standard desktop Internet Browser software.

Case New Holland

CNH Industrial N.V. is an Italian-American company registered in the United Kingdom that, through its various businesses, designs, produces, and sells agricultural equipment and construction equipment (Case and New Holland brand families), trucks, commercial vehicles, buses, and special vehicles (Iveco), in addition to powertrains for industrial and marine applications (FPT Industrial). Present in all major markets worldwide, CNH Industrial is focused on expanding its presence in high-growth markets, including through joint ventures.

Direct Digital Control System for mechanical systems in the molding manufacturing area. Occupants of the facility can acquire information from the system using their standard desktop Internet Browser software.

Molex

Molex is a manufacturer of electronic interconnectors. Molex sells over 100,000 products, including everything from electrical and fiber optic interconnect solutions, to switches and application tooling. Molex supplies a variety of industries, including the telecom, datacom, computer and peripheral, automotive, premise wiring, industrial, consumer, medical and military markets.

Facility-wide intelligent building control system and proximity card access system for manufacturing facility located in Lincoln, Nebraska.

First National Bank

The First National Bank Tower is a 634 ft (193 m), 45-story skyscraper at 1601 Dodge Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built-in 2002, it is currently the tallest building in Nebraska. It was built on the site of the former Medical Arts Building which was imploded on April 2, 1999. Inside the glass, the lobby is a large section of the ornamental facade from the former Medical Arts Building.

The First National Bank Tower also plays host to Trek up the Tower, a vertical stair climb race up to the top of the tower. This race is presented by The Wellness Council of the Midlands.

Control Services installed a Building automation and control system for the 44-story office tower. The system provides all environmental control functions as well as the smoke control system for this nearly 1 million square foot facility.

First National Bank needed a way to control access into their 6 elevator lobby entrances for this 44 story facility. They turned to Control Services, Inc. to come up with a solution that would: be aesthetically appealing, not disrupt high employee traffic flow, and operate smoothly with high durability. The glass gate barrier turnstiles from Smarter Security were a perfect match to meet these needs.

We also work on the surrounding business park. First National Business Park is located at 144th & Dodge Streets, just north of Boys Town in West Omaha.CB Richard Ellis regards the park as Omaha's "most prestigious location".It was a significant part of the largest annexation in Omaha's history, which former mayor Hal Daub called for in 1999.

Founded in 1997, the 80-acre (32 ha) business park is notable as one of the most desirable locations for business parks in the Midwestern United States. The Park had its last building commitment within a year of its founding. The park includes a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) building finished in 1998, the Empire Fire and Marine Insurance building of 135,000 square feet (12,500 m2), the third building of 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) building, and a 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) building. Harlan Noddle, a past chairman of the University of Nebraska Foundation and a prominent Omaha businessman, was involved in building the park.

Control Services installed a Building Automation System providing direct digital control of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems for a commercial office building. Applications include third-party software connections to boilers and chillers, lighting control, and real-time data paging to an analog paging system.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific Railroad Harriman Dispatch Center

The Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center is located at 850 Jones Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Called "the Bunker" by some, the Harriman is Union Pacific's rail traffic control headquarters, where the movement of more than 850 trains and nearly 36,000 miles of track across the country is controlled and monitored. Originally a freight depot, the building was redeveloped in the early 1990s as a way to unite 10 regional dispatch centers the UP once ran across the country.

Control Services installed a direct digital control system for a critical central railroad dispatching center which monitors and controls rail activity throughout the entire Union Pacific system.

Union Pacific Center

Union Pacific Corporation is one of America’s leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, is the largest railroad in North America, covering 23 states from California to Illinois. The company’s new $260 million corporate headquarters building in Omaha, Nebraska, the Union Pacific Center, is a beautiful 20-story, 1.3 million square foot, glass exterior structure. It’s the largest office building in the state! The property, which was designed by Gensler and developed by Hines, was ready for occupancy in the summer of 2004.

Control Services installed and integrated a site-wide HVAC system with fiber redundancy to storm shutters, fire, smoke, lighting, weather station monitoring, Chillers, Crac Units PDI's, and more.

Mutual of Omaha

The Mutual of Omaha Building is a 285-ft (87 m), 14-story skyscraper in midtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Built-in 1970, it is currently the sixth tallest building in Omaha. The building houses the headquarters of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company and is the largest building in Mutual of Omaha's Midtown Crossing development. Joined to the main building, the Mutual of Omaha Dome is an underground facility topped by a large glass dome. The dome houses an employee café. The building's north face was covered with a large photograph of an Olympic swimmer in June 2008 as an advertisement for the U.S. Olympic swim trials being held in Omaha in July. Again, in June 2009 the company’s north face was adorned in a larger-than-life tiger to celebrate its centennial. The building wrap was completed by Super Color Digital, a large-format digital printing company based in Orange County, California.

Control Services installed a Building Automation System containing over 2,500 control and monitoring points for insurance facilities with over 2,250,000 square feet of floor space. Central operator's stations and file server providing HVAC and security functions operating on a local area network. Mutual of Omaha will always hold a special spot in our heart, as it was our first ever customer when we started in 1974.

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies was a large United States telecommunications carrier. Qwest provided local service in 14 western U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Control Services, Inc. has provided building management control systems for over 300 Qwest sites in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. The total number of control points is more than 20,000. Systems operate over a Wide Area Network remotely accessible throughout the US West system. AT&T - Various Locations Environmental control systems for telephone electronic digital switching equipment in numerous facilities providing redundant control of mechanical systems.

Windstream

Windstream is a wireless service provider, primarily based in the United States. Before acquisition by Verizon Wireless, it served 34 states. After the merger, Alltel continues to serve six states, mostly in rural areas. Following the merger, Alltel is the ninth largest wireless telecommunications company in the United States, with approximately 800,000 customers.

Intelligent environmental and access control systems networked across multiple facilities located throughout southern Nebraska. Access and Intrusion detection systems report back to a secure central monitoring station designed and installed by Control Services, Inc.