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A modern building runs on software as much as copper. Building automation ties lighting, HVAC, and energy use into one controllable system — and the difference between a system that saves money and one that gets overridden by the first frustrated occupant is entirely in the programming and commissioning.

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What building automation covers

The control layer of a building: networked lighting control with occupancy sensing, daylight harvesting, and time-of-day scheduling. Building automation and management system field devices, controllers, and the wiring that connects them. HVAC control interfaces and equipment interlocks. Energy monitoring feeding data back so decisions are made from numbers rather than opinions.

On the wire side this is sensors, controllers, actuators, and communication trunks running protocols like BACnet, Modbus, and DALI. On the software side it is the sequences of operation, schedules, setpoints, and scenes that decide how the building behaves.

Programming and commissioning is the product

Anyone can mount a controller. The value is in the commissioning: walking the building and tuning what each sensor actually sees, writing schedules that match how the space is really used, setting scenes that staff will not immediately defeat, and documenting the sequences so the system outlives the person who installed it.

We also come back after occupancy. Living in a building reveals what a commissioning walk cannot — the conference room that goes dark mid-meeting, the corridor sensor with too short a timeout. Retuning after a few weeks of real use is what turns an installed system into one people trust.

What's included

  • Networked lighting control design, install, and programming
  • Occupancy, vacancy, and daylight-harvesting sensor commissioning
  • BAS / BMS field wiring, controllers, and device installation
  • HVAC control interfaces and equipment interlocks
  • Schedules, scenes, and sequences of operation documented
  • Energy monitoring and reporting integration
  • Post-occupancy retuning visit included
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Building Automation & Controls: questions we hear

Do you program the system or only wire it?
Both. We keep controls programming in house rather than subcontracting it, which is unusual for a regional electrical contractor and is the reason our systems get commissioned properly instead of merely energized.
Will lighting controls actually save money?
Yes, when they are commissioned honestly. Occupancy sensing and scheduling routinely cut lighting energy well beyond the LED savings alone. Systems that are installed but never tuned get overridden by occupants, and then they save nothing — which is why the commissioning matters more than the hardware.
Can you work with the system we already have?
Usually. We extend, repair, and reprogram existing lighting control and automation systems as often as we install new ones. Send us the make and model and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth extending or has reached the end of its useful life.
What happens when the internet goes down?
A properly designed system runs its schedules, scenes, and sensors locally — only remote access needs the internet. That distinction drives the systems we specify, and it is worth confirming on any system you are quoted.
Do you handle code-required lighting controls?
Yes. New York’s energy code has specific lighting control requirements for commercial work, and they are a normal part of our scope on any project in the Tri-Lakes area — designed in, installed, and documented for the inspection.
Who maintains the system afterward?
You can, and we document it so you genuinely can. Many clients keep us on a maintenance agreement for schedule changes, seasonal retuning, and adding zones as the building changes.

Where we do this work

Saratoga SpringsBallston SpaMaltaClifton ParkWiltonGreenfield CenterStillwaterMechanicvilleHalfmoonSchuylervilleCorinthGalwayGlens FallsQueensburyLake GeorgeWarrensburgHudson FallsAlbanySchenectadyTroyNiskayunaColonieLake PlacidSaranac LakeTupper LakePlattsburghWilmingtonKeene & Keene ValleyAu Sable ForksPeruJayUpper JayBloomingdaleRay BrookLake ClearPaul SmithsGabrielsVermontvilleElizabethtownKeesevilleWestportWillsboroMorrisonvilleCadyvilleSchuyler FallsSaranacDannemoraWest ChazyChazyBeekmantownPort KentEssexLewisBlack Brook & Clayburg

Building Automation & Controls for builders, homeowners, and businesses across 54 towns in Upstate New York — see all service areas.

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