Building Automation for Schools & Educational Facilities
Weld County School District Projects
- Greeley West High School - Brand new construction where we installed over 280 Reliable Controls products at Greeley West.
- Greeley Central High School underwent extensive demolition and reconstruction in the summer or 2023, retrofitting it to better serve the students who attend the historic castle-like high school. The phase we were a part of included installation and programming of a new Air Handling Unit and 2 Cabinet Unit Heaters. We also provided them with 6 pages of overhauled floor plans with color changing animations to represent zone temps compared to setpoints for each supply air zone.
- Tointon Academy of Pre-Engineering - Included over 150 Reliable Controls installed devices.
- S. Christa McAuliffe S.T.E.M. Academy - S. Christa McAuliffe S.T.E.M. Academy was a partial retrofit, partial new construction that we completed in 2021 where we installed new unit ventilators in many classroms and new RTUs in common spaces.
- Brentwood Middle School - Brentwood Middle School was a retrofit we were also able to complete with updated equipment as well as updated programming and graphics.
- Prairie Heights Middle School We created and installed 10 pages of detailed floor plans that house animations to accurately report to maintenance staff how close all supplied zones are to setpoints. We programmed and installed 89 Variable Air Volume units, 6 Fan Coil Units, and a robust Radiant Heating Floor Panel system throughout the building.
- Billie Martinez Elementary School we installed, programmed, and curated graphics for 11 Variable Air Volume units, 4 Boilers, 3 Fan Coil Units, 1 Rooftop Unit, and multiple fans and single space heaters.
- Meeker Elementary School New equipment installed included 14 Variable Air Volume units, 2 Rooftop Units, a boiler system, and multiple exhaust fans and unit heaters
- Heath Middle School we installed 13 Variable Air Volume units, 4 Vertical Unit Ventilators, 1 Air Handling Unit, 1 Rooftop Unit, a Domestic Water Heating system, 3 Fan Coil Units, 2 Split System Air Conditioning units, 5 Cabinet Unit Heaters, 1 Unit Heater, 5 Exhaust Fans, and we also added a Boiler to their already existing system
- Northridge High School we installed and programmed 1 Air Handling Unit, 1 Make Up Air Unit, a system of Air Cooled Chillers, and 14 Variable Air Volume units. Along with these additions we outfitted their brand new culinary arts classrooms with the necessary exhaust fans and hoods for the kitchen area and commercial dishwasher. To keep the entry ways of this area temperate and held to an efficient standard we programmed 2 Cabinet Unit Heaters and 2 Destratification Fans as well.
- Shawsheen Elementary School The renovations included adding new dedicated outside air system (DOAS) rooftop units, as well as new constant volume DOAS units serving individual rooms. Part of the work included adding temperature controlled spaces
- Centennial Elementary School The renovations included adding new dedicated outside air system (DOAS) rooftop units, as well as new constant volume DOAS units serving individual rooms.
Tointon Academy of Pre-Engineering
We installed over 280 Reliable Controls products at Greeley West. Tointon Academy of Pre-Engineering included over 150 RC installed devices.
These projects included hundreds of hours of pulling wire, installing temperature sensors, programming controllers and creating graphics. We could not have done it without every single member on our dedicated and hard-working team. These projects included hundreds of hours of pulling wire, installing temperature sensors, programming controllers and creating graphics. We could not have done it without every single member on our dedicated and hard-working team.
S. Christa McAuliffe S.T.E.M. Academy
We were also able to participate in some retrofitting of existing schools with updated controls system.
S. Christa McAuliffe S.T.E.M. Academy was a partial retrofit, partial new construction that we completed in 2021 where we installed new unit ventilators in many classroms and new RTUs in common spaces.
Brentwood Middle School
Brentwood Middle School was a retrofit we were also able to complete with updated equipment as well as updated programming and graphics.
Colorado Early College (CEC) Colorado Springs
Colorado Early Colleges has been a client of ours for quite some time now and we most recently have completed another project for them, this time in Colorado Springs. CEC Springs Building 100 has been retrofitted to house several remodeled classrooms and a brand new commercial kitchen. We programmed and created graphics for 31 Rooftop Units of which there were 17 variations. Along with the RTU programming we also added a multi-thermostat voting system for several of the units.
Shawsheen Elementary School
Colorado Controls has been fortunate to continue to work with the Weld County School District to update their existing schools with Centennial Elementary and Shawsheen Elementary being our 2024 focus.
The renovations included adding new dedicated outside air system (DOAS) rooftop units, as well as new constant volume DOAS units serving individual rooms. Part of the work included adding temperature controlled spaces to new administrative and classroom areas, which we have represented on their BAS graphical interface with both color-shifting floorplans and individual VAV graphic pages.
Centennial Elementary School
Colorado Controls has been fortunate to continue to work with the Weld County School District to update their existing schools, with Centennial Elementary and Shawsheen Elementary being our 2024 focus. The renovations included adding new dedicated outside air system (DOAS) rooftop units, as well as new constant volume DOAS units serving individual rooms.
Highline Academy
Colorado Controls recently went on site to train school administrators on their new BAS system for the completed school addition, comprising of color-shifting floorplans and graphical pages for the new equipment installed.
Boys and Girls Club of Larimer County
The Boys and Girls Club of Larimer County recently remodeled the second floor of their Loveland campus, and Colorado Controls was fortunate to be a part of this project.
St. Mary's Catholic School in Cheyenne, WY
Colorado Controls had the privilege of updating and modernizing the existing building automation system that controlled the school and gym in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The existing BAS system was out of date, not as efficient as it could be, and involved a lot of in-person verification because there was no modernized user interface system.
Mechanical Engineering
As a mechanical engineer, you are under a lot of pressure to ensure buildings are up to code and have all of the elements they need to function properly. As a leader in the controls industry, we at Colorado Controls have been experts in this space for over 12 years with 80 years of combined experience.
Contractors
Our team at Colorado Controls partners with general contractors to help provide building automation systems that will make a building’s operating system use less energy while functioning more efficiently.
LED-Lighting Retrofit
Lighting is an integral part of your commercial or industrial building. However, if the lights in your building are old, your energy consumption and maintenance is likely costing you. At Colorado Controls, we want to ensure the lighting you use every day provides you with the most efficiency, longevity, and durability possible.
Careers
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