How we actually work: understand the building's condition, respect its constraints, and make the call that serves the owner — then stand behind the result.
Seven built-up air handlers running on aging pneumatic controls over a LonTalk network — increasingly hard to service and impossible to optimize.
An occupied facility serving clients every day, delivered as subcontractor to The Jamar Company — no room for extended downtime.
Convert pneumatics to full DDC and migrate LonTalk to BACnet/IP on ABB Building Automation, adding optimal start/stop and heating-loop resets.
A fully modern, serviceable DDC system with energy-saving sequences — while retaining the mechanical infrastructure the building already owned.
An advanced data-center cooling plant — only the second system of its kind in the U.S. — requiring chiller control with no tolerance for failure.
True redundancy: every element of the control system duplicated, with zero single points of failure.
Program Phoenix Contact JACEs to monitor two fully redundant systems simultaneously, validated across failure scenarios.
Fully redundant chiller control with zero single points of failure — mission-critical uptime by design, not by luck.
A community building needing better air quality and lower energy waste from an aging mechanical setup.
A small-facility budget that had to deliver visible results the staff could actually use.
New VAV controllers, an air-handling unit, and an energy-recovery ventilator — fronted by NiagaraMods Reflow dashboards with KODE Labs analytics.
Minimized energy waste and improved air quality, with navigable floor-plan graphics the library staff can read at a glance.
Our first engagement as a full-service contractor — engineering, programming, and installation. District-wide integration plus a full system replacement at Sterling High School, complete with district-wide analytics.
Universal Controls Solution outfitted this new school building with VAV air handlers, exhaust fans, and water systems, using ABB BACnet controllers for system communication and KodeLabs for analytics. We also integrated the existing Trane controls into a Niagara framework. CCIC received our custom graphics package, tying every system together in a clean, user-friendly interface.
Part of our ongoing partnership with Cherry Creek School District, extending modern controls and district-wide analytics across additional campuses. (Project in progress.)
Cutting-edge upgrades that minimize energy waste while maximizing air quality — new VAV controllers, an Air Handling Unit, and an Energy Recovery Ventilator, with NiagaraMods Reflow and KODE Labs platforms.
Building automation controls for the campus.
New building-automation controls for Mountain View Academy, delivered with mechanical partner Murphy Mechanical — completed in 2025.
Invited to perform programming and technical support on an advanced system — the second of its kind in the U.S. Phoenix Contact JACEs monitor two redundant systems simultaneously for fully redundant chiller control with zero single points of failure.
Controls installation for Micron’s new Longmont facility — a combination of comfort-cooling and high-end data-center work integrating chilled-water In-Row Coolers (IRCs) at large scale.
Installing contractor for a complex lab design — a venturi-valve system with BACnet-to-Modbus integration enabling tight control of lab pressures and air circulation for a high-level lab environment.
Maintaining the pristine conditions of NREL’s clean room for solar energy research — managing humidity, particulates, and critical processes, with Honeywell Midas hydrogen gas monitors for real-time detection and alarms.
Controls centralization across the Waterton campus (Phase 2, Hill Area), partnering with Albireo Energy — unifying disparate building controls under a centralized supervisor for streamlined monitoring across a secure aerospace campus.
UCS was selected by ABB to deliver this project as an ABB Cylon System Integrator. The expansion was completed with a fully integrated smart building platform built for long-term performance and operational excellence. The system gives ABB intelligent control of the new space while prioritizing comfort, energy efficiency, cybersecurity, and scalability.
One of our first large projects — programming and commissioning support alongside installation for the new Bureau of Land Management building, meeting the high operational standards of the GSA.
A significant controls upgrade as subcontractor for The Jamar Company — converting seven built-up air handlers from pneumatic to full DDC, transitioning Lon Talk to BACnet IP with ABB Building Automation, with optimal start/stop and heating-loop resets.
Installation contractor for the Moxy Hotel’s Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) systems — over 200 terminal units supplied by two dozen condensing units, delivered through changing scope and timelines.
Snowmelt control expansion for the resort village, partnering with Design Mech — precise control of slab snowmelt zones for safety and efficiency at altitude.
State-of-the-art energy management for the Tallahassee and Columbus facilities — Honeywell Optimizer Advanced controllers with KODE Labs analytics delivering tracked, validated, real-time energy savings.
Building automation controls for the State Patrol office.
A multi-phase controls refresh of Advanced Energy’s Building 2 — RTUs, VAVs, and heating-water systems brought under JACE supervisory control across three phases (2021–2024), sequenced around a fully operational facility.
Controls work is straightforward when the building can be shut down. The hard version is converting a system that has to keep running. These are the jobs behind the zero-downtime number above.
A central chiller plant on Siemens controls, with a state controls standard that called for a different platform.
The plant could not go down. An operating building, mid-season, with loads that had to be served throughout the conversion.
Stage the cutover with a written sequence and a defined fallback at every step: inventory first, verify the new path point-to-point, then transfer. Convert to Distech because the owner’s standard required it — not a line we lead with.
The plant never dropped. The building met its state controls standard, and the owner got a documented system their next contractor can work on.
Two wings needing to share controls data across a run of more than 2,000 feet — roughly twenty times what standard Ethernet will carry.
Trenching fiber or building a chain of intermediate closets was disproportionate to the need, and the equipment on both ends was not T1L-native.
Use T1L purely as the long-run transport: media adapters at each end, single-pair Ethernet across the span, standard equipment on both sides.
Full data sharing between wings over one pair, without fiber trenching or added closets — a fraction of the conventional cost.
Existing communication trunks that other bidders scoped for a complete re-pull, priced into their proposals.
Occupied buildings where opening ceilings and conduit is the most disruptive and expensive part of the job.
Test the existing pair first. Where it is sound, run T1L over the copper already in the wall instead of pulling new cable.
The re-pull line item comes off the estimate entirely. Same scope, same outcome, materially lower number — and we have won work on exactly this difference.
We build detailed 3D models and custom operator graphics of the facilities we control — so operators navigate their building, not a list of cryptic point names. It's a capability most controls shops don't offer in-house.
We build custom Reflow front-ends on top of Niagara — branded dashboards, navigable 3D floor plans, and intuitive equipment graphics that turn raw points into something operators can read at a glance.
Your knowledge and experience were clearly evident throughout the process, and it gave us a lot of confidence in the work being done.
— UCS clientTell us about your facility and requirements.
