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CASE STUDIES
Simon Property Group, Inc. (SPG)

With over 245 million square feet of leasable property, Simon Property Group was seeking a solution which would allow them to leverage the most innovative and advanced technology in Building Automation fully integrated with Automated Meter Reading. Historically, Simon Property Group has manually read thousands of check meters in order to measure common area, tenant, and heating & cooling plant energy usages. Simon had inherited legacy systems as they expanded their portfolio of properties. Many of these legacy systems needed significant technical updates and had limited support options.

 

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last updated: 04/18/07
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Hotel 1000 at Madison Tower
Seattle, Washington
Madison Tower is a 23-Story, Luxury Building which includes 47 luxury homes atop a premier boutique hotel. The building is situated in the heart of downtown Seattle on the corner of first avenue and Madison street, poised over Elliott Bay, surrounded by the culture and attractions of Seattle and steps from the waterfront and Pioneer Square. With 120 luxury guest rooms and 47 magnificent and spacious view residences on the top floors, this is Seattle’s leading hotel and residential address.

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Novo Nordisk Laboratory
New Brunswick, New Jersey
2-story, 72,000 square foot class- A office building and state-of-the art Laboratory. The customer required a single front-end, web-based, Graphical User Interface for the following building systems; Cleaver Brooks Boilers, Trane Tracer Chillers, Danfoss VFD Pumps, Square D Altivar VFD’s, Semco Energy Recovery Wheels, Phoenix Controls (approximately 78) Lab fume hoods, ASCO’s Automatic Transfer Switches and 50 RZ VAV’s. Building systems protocols include BACnet/IP, BACnet/MSTP, LonWorks, Modbus/IP, Modbus RTU and several others.
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last updated: 05/11/06
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Newark Public Schools
Newark, New Jersey
The initial project was 3 Schools in 3 different locations. The challenge was the existing building automation systems (BAS) in all three schools consisted of Johnson Metasys (JCI) controls, with a Johnson NCM in each school. The customer was disenchanted with the incumbent BAS vendor and frustrated with the lack of access to the valuable information in the BAS system. NPS wanted all JCI data to be available, to read-write, in native IT standards (XML~HTTP~TCP/IP). The challenge was to “open up” the system.
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last updated: 11/03/05
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Japs-Olson Company
St. Louis Park, MN
Team. With a shared vision of the future, Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors (MMC) and Richards-Zeta (RZ) worked together to leverage, through systems integration, the existing building assets, advancing the building systems user interface up to the network~IP backbone and providing a future proof platform for the eventual and optimal intelligent building.

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last updated: 11/03/05
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SunTrust Office Building
St. Petersburg, FL

A 5-story, 50,000 square foot class A office building located in downtown St. Petersburg. The Managing Partner
was searching for a way to upgrade the building’s existing HVAC controls which were beginning to fail, but still had elements which represented a substantial original investment and continued to function marginally. The existing service agency saw the infrastructure as basically useless and recommending replacing it in total, including the VAV terminals and controls, air handling controllers and chiller controls. The original Trane Tracer 100 system was connected to sixty-three VAV terminals, five air handling units and a chiller with a pumping system. The air-handling units were non-operational, no one could operate the existing Trane control system, including the existing servicing agency.

The customers goals were to leverage the existing assets (multiple BAS manufacturers, BAS, lighting and security), as the cost of replacing all the VAV terminals with their controls would have been prohibitive and the building disruption was of significant concern to Mr. Wallace. His tenants were uncomfortable, sometimes due to equipment failure, and he knew his energy bills were high. He realized the building was out of control and had to take action.
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last updated: 07/15/05
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Tacoma Financial Center
Tacoma, Washington
This 23 year-old buildings’ mechanical system was originally equipped with a legacy Barber-Colman NW 8000 system with N-View. The customer wanted a migration path to upgrade the existing building systems to allow access from “anywhere” over installed IT network (IP backbone).

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last updated: 03/31/05
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Energizer Battery Manufacturing
Asheboro, North Carolina
For Energizer Battery Manufacturing, Inc. the decision to install Richards-Zeta controls over several other name-brand manufactures just seemed to make sense.

Richards-Zeta’s Products, Solutions and Business were compared to several other well-known and “name-recognized” BAS manufactures controls: competition Richards-Zeta welcomes. System requirements included the capability of supporting the newest building expansion, provide real-time power monitoring, historical data and trending, and be capable of expansion, to include: fire/life safety systems, security, digital video, etc. Other requirements included ease of programming, user- friendliness, a non-proprietary system and a truly ‘Open’ System architecture.

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last updated: 02/10/05
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Bright house Networks
Bakersfield, California
Advanced Systems Integration leveraging existing Barber-Colman NW 8000 VAV’s/zone controls and McQuay Int’l Rooftop units (LonWorks) while migrating all systems and subsystems into an IP-Centric platform.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Thomas Built Buses Manufacturing Facility
High Point, North Carolina

The Mediator infrastructure, with perfectHOST, is the most advanced building automation system and systems integration platform. This Integration Solution integrates Richards-Zeta, LonWorks, Trane, and BACnet using advanced networking capabilities and a web-based GUI.
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last updated: 03/21/04
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Washington Mutual Tower
Seattle, Washington

The DDC upgrade you don't want to miss. Richards-Zeta created and our Systems Integrator installed an advanced interface to integrate and communicate with the existing legacy controls in this 54-story one million square foot class 'A', high-rise office building.
Equity Office Portfolio of Wahington Mutual Tower
BOMA Awards

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last updated: 03/21/04
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Los Angeles International Airport Control Tower
Los Angeles, California

This innovative and groundbreaking design of the LAX Tower truly provides a clear demonstration of the robust flexibility that Richards-Zeta's controls offer.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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TDK Factory
Taipei, Taiwan

Richards-Zeta's graphical programming interface, perfectHost, transcends language barriers.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Three Bellevue Center
Bellevue, Washington

See how Richards-Zeta's advanced controls were used in the retrofit of the world's largest factory built rooftop penthouse system incorporating five primary supply fans and three building relief fans.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Four Newport
Bellevue, Washington

Integration and interoperability in its truest form. Richards-Zeta's controls programmed to communicate with two TRANE rooftop package units controlled through a Building Automation Control interface.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Five Newport
Bellevue, Washington

Richards-Zeta's control system controls two Mammoth packaged VAV rooftop units. The building workstation is easily accessible via phone modem or PC, anywhere!

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Sunset I-90
Bellevue, Washington

Richards-Zeta's systems four individual buildings, of the same size, controlled remotely by Richards-Zeta's systems on the company network via PC-anywhere to the facility workstation.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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1800 Ninth Avenue - Regency Medical
Seattle, Washington

Complete DDC upgrade included creating and installing a custom interface driver that allows the new Richards-Zeta control system to communicate and operate the existing Staefa VAV terminal unit controllers.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Casey Family Building
Seattle, Washington

An existing Staefa system replaced with the Richards-Zeta system and perfectHost software operating on the existing mechanical equipment. The project included an operator workstation to provide a graphical user's interface for the system.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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TRC Tower
Tacoma, Washington

The historic Schoenfeld Building was renovated and upgraded to a commercial office building using the Richards-Zeta system and perfectHost software.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Stonemill Office Park
Portland, Oregon

Richards-Zeta control system and perfectHost software installed providing graphical user interface and after hour tenant billing functions for the property managers.

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last updated: 11/10/04
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Pioneer Place, Shopping Mall
Portland, Oregon

This facility started in 1990 and in 1999 the control system along with another city block four-story retail center was converted to Richards-Zeta's controls. The new facility was commissioned with Richards-Zeta Echelon control system while the existing buildings were retrofit from the Staefa controls system.

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last updated: 06/15/04
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