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Sound familiar?

What district facilities teams tell us

None of these are unusual in a district that grew one building at a time.

Where districts get stuck

  • A different control system in every school, each with its own front end.
  • A small facilities team covering a lot of buildings.
  • Work that has to fit into summer, breaks and after-hours windows.
  • Only one contractor who can service each school, so pricing is whatever they say it is.
  • No accurate points list, sequence of operations or as-built for the older buildings.

What we do about it

  • District-wide integration under one open Niagara front end.
  • Four major control lines, so an existing school is not a forced replacement.
  • Phased modernization that protects wiring, field devices and capital budgets.
  • Analytics-driven service that points a small team at the faults that matter.
  • Graphics and documentation the next operator can pick up.
School projects

District work we have delivered

From a single campus to district-wide integration.

Sterling, Colorado

RE-1 Valley School District

Engineering, programming and installation as a full-service contractor. District-wide integration plus a full system replacement at Sterling High School, with district-wide analytics.

Aurora, Colorado

Cherry Creek School District

An ongoing partnership extending modern controls and district-wide analytics across campuses, including Eaglecrest High School, now in progress.

Denver, Colorado

Denver Jewish Day School

Building automation controls for the campus.

Colorado

Mountain View School

New building automation controls, delivered with mechanical partner Murphy Mechanical and completed in 2025.

Preferred vendor. Universal Controls Solution is a preferred vendor for JLL Denver, Cherry Creek School District, and US Engineering. See all projects →
How it runs

How a district program usually goes

Most district relationships start with the school nobody wants to touch. Here is the usual path.

Step 01

Assess and document

We inventory panels, controllers, field devices and the front end, and tell you plainly what carries forward.

Step 02

Stabilize

Fix what is actively costing comfort, energy or downtime before anyone talks about replacement.

Step 03

Phase the modernization

A plan matched to your capital cycle, upgrading in stages while the building keeps running.

Step 04

Operate and improve

Analytics-driven service, benchmarking and reporting, so performance is measured, not assumed.

Occupied schools. We convert and upgrade systems with staged cutovers, after-hours transfer windows and a written fallback at every step, so students and staff are not the ones who find out.
Analytics. With Environ analytics, each open fault carries a dollar figure built from the building’s own energy rates and equipment, so a small team works the costliest faults first. Cost impact on faults is available with Environ’s January 1, 2027 launch. Product availability is confirmed at quotation. See how Environ works →
Secure remote access. Neeve provides zero-trust, encrypted connectivity for monitoring and managing a building remotely, with no direct path from the open internet to your controllers. About Neeve →
FAQ

School district questions we hear most

Can you work on the systems our schools already have?

Usually, yes. We work across four major control lines, ABB Cylon, Siemens, Honeywell and Johnson Controls, and integrate on the open Tridium Niagara framework. Our team has also installed, programmed and serviced lines we do not represent.

Do we have to replace everything at once?

Almost never. We inventory what you have, identify what carries forward, and stage the work around your capital cycle, highest-risk equipment first, with the building running throughout.

Can the work happen without disrupting classes?

That is how we plan it: staged cutovers, after-hours transfer windows and a written fallback at every step.

Can one team watch every school?

Yes. A Niagara supervisory layer gives the facilities team one view across buildings, and Neeve provides zero-trust, encrypted remote access without exposing controllers to the open internet.

Planning controls work across a district?

Send us the school list and what each building runs on, and we’ll tell you honestly what carries forward. Call (720) 282-5099 or request a quote.

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