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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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Forsyth Center
(St. Louis, Missouri) - In the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, MDR Properties has added a second 14-story class A office complex immediately adjacent to their existing Smurfit-Stone Center office building, also 14 stories tall. They have met many of the challenges of suddenly doubling the amount of space to be managed by installing a state-of-the-art building automation and control system by KMC Controls. Managing tenant comfort levels, controlling energy costs, and easy access to building operating data were all top concerns of the building ownership and management staff.

The original Smurfit-Stone Center was constructed in the mid 1980’s and uses primarily pneumatic controls. In 1999 MDR recognized that the antiquated energy management system which controlled start/stop features on their central plant was not year 2000 compliant. They chose Taycon Building Technologies of St. Louis to replace the existing system with a KMC Controls KMDigital Building Automation and Control System.

The following year MDR began designing the brand new Forsyth Center facility to be located next to the original building. The success of the original retrofit project gave MDR the confidence to design a complete DDC control system for the new modern facility and once again Taycon and KMC were chosen. The controls for the new building were brought on line as individual floors were completed, allowing management to control various areas differently during construction so as to minimize utility use. Outdoor air intake, fan speed, setpoints, and other parameters on both the new and existing building could be modified at the touch of the mouse as construction conditions required.

With the Forsyth Center now completed, the owners and managers of both buildings have ready access to system operations. A fully graphical user interface results in very modest HVAC experience requirements for the building management staff. They can review current conditions, floor temperatures, air handling equipment efficiency and other information by scrolling quickly through a handful of graphic representations of the building equipment and floor plans.

With nearly 300 zones in the Forsyth building alone, instant access to airflow and temperature data in every zone saves hours of time investigating problems or complaints. DDC control of the central equipment means that only the amount of cool air required is provided the terminal units for the offices, thus keeping operational costs to a minimum without sacrificing tenant comfort.

The digital hardware sends an alarm to the operator workstation if there is an equipment malfunction, and sends a pager alarm to the building manager during an after-hours critical failure. A Saturday afternoon failure can be identified and corrected long before tenants arrive at the building on Monday morning.

The KMDigital system is integrated into the building access system (also installed by Taycon), allowing for after-hours override of space comfort levels by tenants. It also controls all the lighting in the building. The KMC system puts the HVAC equipment in setback mode, and cycles the lighting off after normal building operating hours. When a tenant uses their access card to enter the building after hours, the KMC system restores the lights and HVAC operation in their portion of the building. The system then records who overrode the building and when, thus allowing MDR to invoice tenants for after-hours energy consumption according to their lease.

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