Digital Air Control NEBB Certified…

Digital Air Control has been Certified in Air and Hydronics Testing, Adjusting and Balancing, Sound and Vibration Testing by the National Environmental Balancing Bureau NEBB. Digital Air Control is responding to our clients request to take a broader role in facility operations and management.

NEBB was established in 1971 as the premier international certification association for firms that deliver high performance building systems. NEBB members perform testing, adjusting and balancing of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, commission and retro-commission building systems, execute sound and vibration testing, building envelope testing, test and certify laboratory fume hoods, and electronic and biological cleanrooms.

Building owners and tenants are concerned about their buildings' environmental systems, so performance must be at a maximum while costs should be at a minimum. These "green" goals can be accomplished can be accomplished only when a building's environmental system is properly tested, balanced and/or commissioned by a NEBB Certified Professional or Technician. NEBB's function is to establish, promote and maintain high quality standards through certification of Firms, Professionals and Technicians.

There are more than 650 NEBB Certified Firms worldwide and over 1800 NEBB Certified Professionals and Certified Technicians. They are recognized by the industry and building owners as specialists having the skills necessary to measure the efficiency of building systems, and as the leaders in practical knowledge and communication skills for creating customized solutions for business owners. NEBB Certification offers tangible proof of their qualification in the procedures outlines for NEBB disciplines.

NEBB delivers through Certifications, Procedural Standards, seminars, publications and through the NEBB Quality Assurance Program.

Digital Air Control has staff members who are Certified Energy Managers (CEMs), LEED AP and licensed contractors. Digital Air Control has a team of Professional Engineers and Architects we work with on projects of all sizes and complexity. Digital Air Control brings a broad offering of construction management, HVAC, access control, lighting control, building automation, indoor air quality, building automation and energy management. Digital Air Control can bring total facility management to your team from initial planning to life cycle analysis.

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Digital Air Control TACLA License…

Digital Air Control has been granted a State of Texas Air Conditioning license in Environmental Air and Commercial Refrigeration/Process Heating and Cooling. Digital Air Control has been issued License # TACLA44151C.

Digital Air Control is responding to our customer's requests to take a broader role in the management of their facilities. Digital Air Control has a broad network of contractors and end users we work with to assist in implementing complex facilities. Combined with our certification from the National Enviromental Balancing Bureau for Air, Water and Sound Testing, we can offer our clients a broader base of services. Digital Air Control offers a broad base of services to maximize both front end facility costs and ongoing operational costs.

Digital Air Control is well versed in facility design, facility operations facility maintenance and life cycle costs. Digital Air Control builds teams to work with owners and end users to maximize your facility. Digital Air Control's staff can assist with planning, programming, design, construction and life cycle of your facilities. Digital Air Control's on staff team brings all aspects of construction and facility management to your assistance.

Digital Air Control has had customers go from a simple control project to full remodel of laboratory space to handling general construction projects of civil, architectural, mechanical, electrical and process piping installation. Digital Air Control is also responsive to maintaining your facility and helping you manage your energy management of the facility.

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GDS Corporation Gas Detection…

GDS Corporation Gas Detection

Digital Air Control has been selected as a distributor for GDS Gas Detection Systems for the West Texas area and New Mexico. Digital Air Control can integrate Gas Detection Systems into your new or existing facility. GDS Corporation delivers reliable and cost effective systems for Oil and Gas, Chemical Process, Semiconductor, Water Treatment, Waste Water Treatment and other industries requiring affordable gas detection solutions for the most difficult and challenging environments. GDS is CSA Certified in Gas Detectors and Alram Controllers and are truly "state of the art". GDA offers unparalled features and capabilities. GDA Corporation also has Wireless Systems that offer Near-Zero Installation Cost with the reliability of wired solutions.

Digital Air Control has been a integrator of control components since 1993. Our experience in integration offers you a unique experience of having all your complex facility systems integrated into a web based platform and not tied to a single point of use computer. You can effective manage your facilities from multiple locations and anywhere you require access. Digital Air Control can tailor your access to your needs and your facilities needs. You can access from anywhere in the world through secure servers and platforms. You can control all aspects from gas detection, access control, lighting control, building automation, and energy management.

Digital Air Control is a design-builder, who can not only design and build your new facility, but also help you focus on upfront construction costs and the ongoing operational cost of your facility.

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DAC Exhibiting at TASA/TASB Conference…

Digital Air Control is Exhibiting at the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Annual Show and Exhibition. Digital Air Control will be exhibiting our abilities in Building Automation, Access Control, Lighting Control, Energy Management, Commissioning Facilities, Testing, Adjusting and Balancing, Facility Maintenance, Laboratory Systems, Gas Detection, and Cleanrooms. Digital Air Control provides your organization experts in their field. 

Digital Air Control will also be illustrating our abilities to do your contracting through Choice Facilities Partners. Choice Facility Partners reduces your time to purchase. Choice Facility Partners is a cooperative purchasing organization. CFP brings your team a legal, competitively-bid facility contracts that your organization can award to contractors in short order. CFP is free to join for schools, municiplaties, education related organizations, schools, colleges and universities and other governmental entities across the United States. Choice Facility Partners uses job order contracting of pre-determined price lists to expedite the order process.

Our team will be in the Exhibit Hall waiting to answer your questions, so stop by.

Information on TASA/TASB:

Since 1960, the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) have partnered to bring school board members and school administrators the state's premier education-related Convention.

This Convention offers school board members and school administrators the opportunity to earn almost 17 hours of continuing education credit, hear outstanding keynote speakers, explore a tradeshow with hundreds of exhibitors, and network with more than 6,000 public school officials.

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DAC Awarded Choice Facility Partners Contract…

Digital Air Control has been awarded a contract with Choice Facility Partners to provide Building Automation Controls. Members of Choice Facility Partners can purchase through the cooperative organization with the confidence they are receiving competitive pricing for their purchase.

Choice Facility Partners describes the program as follows:

Cooperative Purchasing for Facilities

Choice Facility Partners is a cooperative purchasing organization that brings legal, competitively-bid facility contracts to schools, education-related organizations and other governmental entities across the United States.

Best value contracts offered through a facilities cooperative purchasing solution provide choices so client members can select the contract that best meets their needs.

Get the technical expertise you need for facility services by using contracts legally procured by Choice Facility Partners, the facilities cooperative of Harris County Department of Education. Contract areas include

• Construction: Job Order Contracting; roofing, HVAC, flooring, painting, electrical, elevator services, modular buildings and classrooms with concrete flooring, project construction services and software, including owner’s representative and project controls, and medical facility development;
• Energy Conservation and Management, including energy consulting, aggregation and purchase, conservation efficiency program, energy efficient HVAC services and preventative maintenance, and performance contracts;
• Disaster Restoration and Recovery: disaster recovery, power generation, disaster restoration, tree trimming and debris removal, insurance adjuster services;
• Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment (FFE): office and classroom furniture, science and specialty furniture, cafeteria and library furniture, whiteboards and amplification sound systems;
• Building Infrastructure: digital archiving, security systems, signage, applied technology lab, webcasting solutions including webstreaming and meeting management services; and
• Building Exterior and Grounds: trenchless technology rehabilitation, playgrounds, fencing, tree trimming, greenhouse gas reporting and exterior cleaning.

CFP audits contract use and performance to ensure quality and customer service.

Organizations and institutions can take advantage of these contracts for facilities services.  In Texas, governmental entities sign an interlocal contract and become a client member of the cooperative purchasing organization; Entities in other states have found that the competitively bid process used by Choice Facility Partners will meet most state requirements. Saving money in facility budgets is a cooperative purchasing benefit that needs to be shared!

Purchasing your organizations building automation and energy management has never been easier. Please contact Digital Air Control for your inquiries.

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DAC Awarded Cleanroom Project for AOI…

Digital Air Control is awarded a cleanroom remodel of an existing cleanroom area for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. of Sugar Land, Texas. Digital Air Control is responsible for providing and installing the architectural features of modular walls, vinyl curtain walls, doors, return air chases, testing, balancing and adjusting after the installation is completed.

We want to thank AOI for their confidence in use to complete their tight turn around time on the installation of their remodel.

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI) was founded in February 1997 and designs, develops, and manufactures advanced optical semiconductor devices, packaged optical components, optical subsystems, laser transmitters, and fiber optic transceivers. These products are used in fiber optic communications equipment for FTTX (Fiber-to-the premises, curb, business, and home), point-to-point telecom, datacom and access networks, and systems supporting cable television (CATV), direct broadcast satellite and wireless network infrastructure.

AOI is a vertically integrated company with a state-of–the-art semiconductor component fab at our USA Headquarters near Houston, TX. Coupled with an SMT production line at our China operation, a high degree of manufacturing integration enables us to deliver performance with fast lead times at a competitive cost.

AOI transceiver products feature AOI lasers with superior performance and excellent reliability. The transceivers are designed in our California R&D facility with volume manufacturing from our Taiwan Division. Each division of AOI has assembled a world-class pool of talent, from optoelectronics professionals, to mechanical engineers, RF and digital circuit designers, all with the goal of developing best-in-class products.

Broad product lines make AOI capable of extending its addressable market to more fiber optic applications. Equipped with excellent design capability, key in-house optical components, and volume manufacturing facilities, AOI is offering a uniquely high level of price competiveness and performance.

The above was taken from AOI's website at http://www.ao-inc.com/

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DAC Attends Interphex New York…

DAC staff attended the INTERPHEX Show at Javits Center in New York City. Interphex is the trade show of the year for Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology professionals. Interphex brings in all people associated with the Pharmaceutical Fields. DAC staff were able to reconnect with pharmaceutical suppliers, vendors, service suppliers, and facility users of pharmaceutical cleanroom facilities.

INTERPHEX is sponsored by International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE). ISPE has nearly 22,000 members representing all aspects of the pharmaceutical industry. Seeing old friends in the industry is an extra special treat. It is even better when you get to work with your old friends on their facility requirements.

Our design build cleanroom staff at DAC have been involved in ISPE for over a decade. Bob Barbour and Bill Johnson have used the GMP standards for facility design and construction.

Our DAC staff has over 40 years experience in cleanroom facility design and construction. We also enjoy being able to work with friends over and over. Get in contact if you are in need of a quotation for cleanroom facilities.

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Platinum LEED Building…

Digital Air Control, Inc. provides the Building Automation System on three Platinum LEED buildings.

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Every Client Gets PlanRoom, A Facility Documentation Solution…

Digital Air Control, Inc. has recently acquired a licensing agreement with MediaLogic Inc. that allows the use of their electronic facility documentation solution to be integrated into the facility automation web site as part of every system that is installed.  "All clients of Digital Air Control, Inc. will get the latest in facility documentation organization and delivery when they hire us for their automation solutions.  No other automation system provider currently offers this solution as part of their system"   Pete Kurtz, President of Digital Air Control.  The operations and maintenance manuals, specifications, drawings, wiring diagrams and all other documentation that describes the installation of systems provided by the company are integrated into the clients facility automation web site.  In addition, the site is available for the client to use for all their facility documentation.

MediaLogic, Inc. is a leading developer of web based facility documentation storage and management software.  www.medialogicsoftware.com

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DAC Attends Facility Decisions Trade Show In Las Vegas…

Facility Decisions is a trade show and educational conference that was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 5th and 7th 2010.  The company attended with three employees to interact with  professionals responsible for the management, operations, maintenance, renovation and construction of non-residential buildings.  We also went to review the latest BACnet and internet based products that could be incorporated into our product mix.  The competitors  Automation Systems were checked out to see what they had to offer.  "We left Las Vegas with great confidence that the basic Building Automaton systems we install for each client are as good or better than all the show quality demonstrations on display at the trade show"  stated Enrique Garmendia, Engineering Manager for the Company. "Web tools they were showing as the latest in automation are features we have been using for years"

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Philips Aquires Teletrol…

Philips strengthens position in lighting controls and energy management solutions with acquisition of US-based Teletrol Systems

Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Manchester, NH, USA – Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced July 16, 2009 that it has acquired Teletrol Systems Inc., a leading supplier of integrated solutions for simultaneous multi-site management of lighting and energy usage. The Teletrol product portfolio will strengthen Philips’ range of sophisticated control solutions for institutional customers, including the seamless, networked management of lighting and environment facilities, including heating and air conditioning.

"Professional customers, such as retail chains, hotel groups and building owners with multiple premises, increasingly demand better control over their lighting and energy use," said Rudy Provoost, Chief Executive Officer of Philips Lighting. "They also want to provide comfortable environments for their employees, guests and residents, while at the same time keeping operational and energy costs to a minimum. This acquisition will add significantly to the solutions we offer those customers to meet these needs."

Founded in 1985, Teletrol, based in Manchester, New Hampshire in the United States, has built up a leading position in software and hardware-based energy management systems and controls, with installations in more than 10,000 commercial and retail sites around the world. The company has posted double-digit sales growth in recent years, a performance level which is expected to continue in years to come as it leverages Philips’ existing global distribution channels.

Teletrol’s operations will be incorporated into the Lighting Electronics group of the Philips Lighting sector. The addition of Teletrol builds upon a program of strategic acquisitions by Philips to expand the range of complete solutions it can offer across the lighting value chain. Earlier this year Philips acquired the Australian lighting controls company Dynalite, while growing its capabilities in architectural and entertainment lighting solutions with the acquisitions of Ilti Luce in Italy, and Selecon of New Zealand.

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DAC Obtains Texas State Security License…

The Company holds Texas Security License #B16589.  As part of our Automated Building Systems Solutions, the installation and servicing of access control and video surveillance are licensed by the state of Texas.  The license ensures that the company is in good standing and has the experience, qualified employees and necessary insurance as required by the state to perform services for hire.

In today’s security-conscious world, facility executives need an effective yet easy means to protect their facilities and employees. Integrated Access Control Systems let authorized employees get in and out of various parts of a facility while keeping other people out. In environments such as a schools, manufacturing, hospital or universities, specific buildings or even departments may have multiple levels of access.  The increased security provided by a modern access control system is important to many types of businesses - and for businesses working with government contracts, it's often a requirement.  As part of an Integrated Automated Facility, we greatly simplify the management of a facility: no need to replace lost keys, hunt down old keys from terminated employees, dive to the office on the weekend or wonder who has access to which areas.  Log onto the automation website for the facility to manage and make changes.

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