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The demands placed on today's facilities have never been greater. Modern buildings must be flexible and reach new levels of energy efficiency. They require attentive cost-control practices in all stages of initial construction and modernization, as well as in daily operation. Those charged with building construction and management must rely on technologies and the people behind them to meet their facility-related responsibilities. For 40 years, KMC Controls has been designing, building, and, through our distribution partners, delivering innovative control solutions. We are committed to being the provider of choice for HVAC controls and building automation.

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Commercial Office

Kuwait Oil Company Headquarters
(Al Ahmadi, Kuwait) – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), a subsidiary of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, is universally recognized as one of the world’s top oil energy producing enterpris...
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Wachovia Bank Building
(Tampa, Florida) - The 22-story, 387,000 sq. ft. high rise at 100 South Ashley Drive is known as one of the friendliest and most e...
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Intel - IDC 9
(Haifa, Israel) – Computer hardware giant, Intel Corporation, has received LEED® Gold certification, the internationally recognized stamp of approval from the U.S. Gre...
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100 North Tampa Building
(Tampa, Florida) – Located downtown, the 100 North Tampa building is a prominent piece of architecture in the city’s skyline. It is the tallest building in Tampa wit...
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Forsyth Center
(St. Louis, Missouri) - In the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, MDR Properties has added a second 14-story class A office complex imme...
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SouthTrust Plaza
(Tampa, Florida) – With the exception of some geographic variability, commercial office space remains amply available to the buying/leasing community. As a result, many ow...
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Energen Headquarters
(Birmingham, Alabama) - Located in the foot-hills of the Appalachian Mountains, Birmingham, Alabama is home to over 240,000 residents w...
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Nationwide Insurance Company
(Gainesville, Florida) – What does an insurance provider do to insure the continued comfort of their own staff? For Nationwide, one of the largest insurance and financial ...
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LEED & ENERGY STAR

Greenway Middle School
(Phoenix, Arizona) - Greenway Middle School has a proud history dating back to 1912. What began as a one room schoolhouse in northeast Phoenix has evolved int...
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Intel - IDC 9

(Haifa, Israel) – Computer hardware giant, Intel Corporation, has received LEED® Gold certification, the internationally recognized stamp of approval from the U.S...

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Goshen College, Rieth Village
(Goshen, Indiana) - When Luke Gascho, Goshen College’s Merry Lea Building Executive Director, interviewed contractors and architects for a new collegiat...
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Wachovia Bank Building
(Tampa, Florida) - The 22-story, 387,000 sq. ft. high rise at 100 South Ashley Drive is known as one of the friendliest and most easily...
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Schools (K-12)

Franklin School District
(Franklin, Massachusetts) - The city of Franklin is located in Norfolk County, one of the original four counties of the Colony of Massa...
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Nantucket Public Schools
(Nantucket, Massachusetts) Nantucket, a place of charm and beauty, is located thirty miles from the mainland of Massachusetts on...
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Greenway Middle School
(Phoenix, Arizona) - Greenway Middle School has a proud history dating back to 1912. What began as a one room schoolhouse in northeast Phoenix has evolved int...
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Clay Community Schools
(Clay County, Indiana) - The rural county is located in west-central Indiana approximately 15 miles east of Terra Haute. The small...
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Colleges/Universities

TDK's Headway Technologies

(Milpitas, CA) - Continuous Improvement.  When there's a great deal of low-hanging fruit to gather, it's an easy concept to...

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University of Guelph
(Guelph, Canada) - With approximately 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Guelph (U of G) is a leading educat...
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Goshen College, Rieth Village
(Goshen, Indiana) When Luke Gascho, Goshen College’s Merry Lea Building Executive Director, interviewed contractors and architects for a new coll...
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Saint John's University
(Collegeville, Minnesota) Saint John’s University is an all men’s school of approximately 1,900 students. The Univer...
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Retail

Brandon Town Center
(Brandon, Florida) – Setting on a beautifully landscaped 262-acre lot just 8 miles east of downtown Tampa, Florida lies the Brandon Town Center mall. This 1.2 million squa...
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Hospitality

The Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago
(Chicago, Illinois) - A landmark on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile” the Westin Michigan Avenue is rich in history ...
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Essenhaus
(Middlebury, Indiana) - Located in the center of a predominant Amish community, the Essenhaus attracts many visitors every year. The fa...
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TPC at Deere Run
(Silvis, Illinois) – The annual John Deere Classic golf tournament is held at TPC at Deere Run in this Illinois town near the Davenport, Iowa border. According to D.A. Wei...
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Government/Public

Royal Saudi Naval Force
(Riyadh, KSA) – In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF) is the naval branch of the armed forces. Founded in 1960, the RSNF was developed largely as a defensive f...
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Kuwait Oil Company Headquarters
(Al Ahmadi, Kuwait) – Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), a subsidiary of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, is universally recognized as one of the world’s top oil energy producing enterpris...
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Indiana State Museum
(Indianapolis, Indiana) – Located in White River State Park in the heart of Indiana’s capital city, the Indiana State Museum is a world-class institution where India...
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Government Palace
(Brasilia, Brazil) – The Brazilian government’s recently completed headquarters required the newest technology and control systems. ISAI Controles of San Pablo, Braz...
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Glenmont House
(West Orange, New Jersey) - Llewellyn Park, located in West Orange, New Jersey, was the first planned residential community in the United States. Developed in...
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Federal Police Building
(San Pablo, Brazil)  Brazilian-based Federal Police now have a new building with plenty of offices and jail space. The...
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Jefferson City Correctional Center
(Jefferson City, Missouri) - The new Jefferson City Correctional Center is now open for inmate occupancy. The facility is capable of ho...
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Department of Defense Computer Facility
(Ogden, Utah) – The Defense Department’s Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) is a facility with complex environmental control system requirements. When it came time t...
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Industrial

Seattle Life Sciences Building
(Seattle, Washington) – Seattle is home to numerous firms in the life sciences arena.  The buildings that house them are often described as mixed use with office, laboratory, and research s...
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OPTODEV Inc.
(Manila, Philippines) – Since 1998, OPTODEV, Inc., a subsidiary of Essilor International, one of the leading global players in health care, has been a producer of high-index ophthalmic lens...
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Midwest Laboratories
(Omaha, Nebraska) - Founded in 1975, Midwest Laboratories analyzes the components of many different items—from soil, to plant tis...
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Molex
(Lincoln, Nebraska) - One of the fastest growing companies, Molex, stands as number two in the electronics molded connectors industry. ...
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Healthcare

OPTODEV Inc.
(Manila, Philippines) – Since 1998, OPTODEV, Inc., a subsidiary of Essilor International, one of the leading global players in health care, has been a producer of high-index ophthalmic lens...
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Bellin Health System
(Green Bay, Wisconsin) – Bellin Health System is an integrated healthcare delivery system based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, serving 450,000 people in northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula ...
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HEALTHSOUTH Lakeshore Rehabilitation Hospital
(Birmingham, Alabama) - HEALTHSOUTH Lakeshore Rehabilitation Hospital is a top-tier healthcare facility serving north central and centr...
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St Edwards Mercy Medical Center
(Ft. Smith, Arkansas) – Product reliability and customer service are important, but not always common currency among products and companies. When St. Edwards Mercy Medical...
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Pinellas County's Forensic and Medical Examiners Center
(Largo, Florida) – In recent times forensic science has garnered quite a following in the popular culture scene. Though the associated control system may never be featured...
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Intel - IDC 9

(Haifa, Israel) – Computer hardware giant, Intel Corporation, has received LEED® Gold certification, the internationally recognized stamp of approval from the U.S. Green Building Council, for its latest design/data center – IDC 9 – that opened in Haifa, Israel on June 15th. The all-new facility boasts the most advanced engineering infrastructure and is Intel’s first LEED-certified green facility, as well as the first building in Israel to receive LEED Gold certification. Additionally, the 259,000 square foot facility is noted for housing a 6500 square foot high performance data center.

The energy needed to power and cool today’s high-tech design/data centers has radically increased in recent years. Factor in the reality of rapidly rising energy costs, and it’s easy to understand the heavy impact these types of facilities can have on an organization’s operational costs. With this in mind, Intel saw the design and construction of their new IDC 9 facility as not only an excellent opportunity to progress their “next generation” initiative of corporate citizenship and sustainability, but also as a potential target for significant costs savings. Thus, the mission defined the scope for a LEED-certified facility.

Certification became possible by leveraging an integrated design approach and mobilizing a “Green Building” team in the early stages of the building’s design. A very important player on that green team was Tempmaster Israel® , a local energy management firm and a KMC Controls® authorized representative. Understanding that a high-efficiency HVAC and building automation system would play the largest role towards, not only energy conservation, but also indoor air quality and occupant comfort, the team came to rely heavily on Tempmaster. “Their expertise, knowledge, and professional presence were exceptional. Our systems at IDC 9 are highly complex and Tempmaster succeeded in keeping things simple. We are fully operational with a very reliable system,” commented Tzach Namer, the Mechanical/Electrical Project Manager at Intel. 

Utilizing KMC’s BACnet® Direct Digital Controls (DDC), Tempmaster integrated with the Schneider Electric® programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) and GE® SCADA systems to give Intel engineers precise control over their air handling systems. KMC's STE-6011 room temperature sensors installed throughout the employee offices and cubicles are connected to the inputs of approximately 400 KMC BAC-7003 BACnet Advanced Application Controllers (AAC) mounted on the VAV terminal units serving those spaces. Their “present values” are used as the “controlled variable references” for the PID loop to manage space temperature.

In turn, 12 KMC BAC-7301 BACnet (AAC's) create a "hard-wire" data interface between the MS/TP net and the PLC in control of the local air handling unit’s fan speed drive and chilled water valve to minimize fan power and unnecessary cooling energy. The BAC-7301s are connected to five KMC BACnet routers working through a pair of BACnet OPC servers which form the BACnet IP network. Systems management is made possible through the use of KMC’s BACstageä operator workstation running at a remote server location.

IDC 9 also measures carbon dioxide levels for improved air quality, captures and recycles condensate water from the AC system and uses it for irrigation, and heats itself using dissipated heat from ACs and data center computers.

After completion, Charles Marcus, owner of Tempmaster Israel commented, “When we went into the project, Intel had trepidations over problems that could arise from the tight integration required between the BACnet controls, OPC servers, GE Cimplicity SCADA and their own in-house, individual employee, control application. The confidence we had in KMC's product won us the go-ahead. Additionally, KMC’s BACStage operator workstation and their BACnet routers were of great help in getting all of the controllers up and running on schedule," he added.

Although there are a number of other noteworthy elements of sustainability that contributed to the facility's LEED Gold certification (such as rooftop gardens, processor-based data center, chimney racks, and day lighting), the advanced HVAC and building automation systems will have the greatest impact on ROI potential. The sustainable design of IDC 9 results in a net 17 percent reduction in total building energy use, with projected annual savings of 750,000 NIS (about $200,000 USD). Because of Tempmaster, KMC, and the rest of the green team, IDC 9 is hailed as one of the greenest design centers in the world and has set a new standard for Intel R&D buildings.

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