Building & Automation

Insight Services & Co. offers comprehensive engineering solutions that seamlessly integrate building systems and automation technologies.

Our expertise in designing, implementing, and managing advanced automation systems ensures optimal performance, energy efficiency, and long-term reliability for your facilities.

Whether you’re constructing new buildings or retrofitting existing structures, we provide tailored solutions that meet the specific needs of your project, maximizing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime.

Smart Building Solutions

Project Management

Control Optimization

LiDAR 3D Scanning

Electrical

Refrigeration

Plumbing

Mechanical & HVAC

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Engineering

Project Management

Insight provides facility engineering, design, consulting, project management and commissioning expertise to ensure the designed systems are installed as specified and ultimately function and operate optimally as designed.
Our portfolio of synergistic engineering and design capabilities can be integrated to deliver a customized solution to your facility’s operational challenges and requirements whether new or remodeled. The result is a high-performance building that provides efficiency, comfort and reliability. We deliver:
  • A fully functional, well-designed facility
  • Optimum and reliable indoor environment
  • Immediate and long-term energy cost savings
  • Reduced operational and maintenance costs
  • Enhanced facility market value
  • Turnkey project management capabilities
  • A corporate halo of environmental intelligence and responsibility

From Inspiration To Installation

Insight has experienced project managers on staff who provide complete project management and administration of the engineered systems we design. From pure project management to full turnkey implementation, check-out and commissioning of MEPR engineering, and energy conservation projects, we have the multi-disciplinary expertise to engineer and implement optimized building systems.

Capabilities

  • Performance of all required design and engineering work
  • Development of construction documents
  • Detailing new building MEPR requirements to owners’ specifications
  • Provide detailed scope of work and the full specifications for bidding and construction.
  • Submission of signed and sealed engineering plans and specifications.
  • Provide technical reviews of all bids and proposals from contractors
  • Project kick-off and construction meeting attendance.
  • Engineering construction and work oversight
  • Project management
  • Commissioning

Control Optimization

Energy management controls and building automation systems optimize facility performance and energy efficiency and reduce operational and life cycle costs.
Insight has deep experience in the design and the application of BMS systems to control and effectively manage the operation and performance of HVAC, refrigeration, lighting, and energy control systems.
We have worked with and provided consulting services to several major refrigeration control manufacturers to develop the algorithms relating to parallel compressor capacity control, as well as methods and procedures for floating and uniquely low discharge pressure operation.

LiDAR 3D Laser Scanning

Electrical

Our experienced electrical engineering team delivers the most advanced and innovative designs for new or existing building lighting and power systems.
Electrical system engineering and design is a key function of every building. Insight has an experienced and knowledgeable team of electrical engineers who deliver the most advanced, and cost-efficient designs applying the most effective technologies available today.

Capabilities

  • Utility service coordination
  • Power distribution design
  • Control and low voltage wiring
  • Energy management system networking and wiring
  • Standby generating system design and building integration
  • Full building co-generation system design
  • Lighting design/upgrades
  • Short circuit and protection coordination studies
  • Arc flash studies
  • Equipment duty evaluations
  • Site Lighting and Photometrics

Referigeration

Commercial refrigeration system engineering has been a highly regarded core competency at Insight and its predecessor companies for over 35 years. We have pioneered some of the most innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective refrigeration system designs operating today worldwide. Whether it is a supermarket, refrigerated food processing plant, restaurant, or refrigerated warehouse, we can provide the engineering expertise to ensure optimized life cycle cost, environmental sustainability, practicalities, and a highly reliable effective design.

Capabilities

  • Full service refrigeration design
  • Evaluation and computing of heat load and optimum capacity requirements
  • Development of optimum capacity control algorithms
  • Installation oversight and supervision
  • Commissioning and performance verification
  • Experience and knowledge of the refrigerant industry resulting in the best application solutions

Plumbing

Our plumbing designers and engineers are experts in the design, specification, analysis and inspection of complex plumbing and water conservation systems. They have extensive expertise in all types of facility plumbing design. Being well-versed and knowledgeable about federal, state and local codes ensures our client projects meet code requirements while keeping material and labor costs in line.
Insight is proficient and passionate about every aspect of building plumbing system design. We don’t just get the plumbing engineering done; we get it done right from the start.

Capabilities

  • Domestic hot and cold water systems
  • Natural gas piping networks
  • Sustainable water collection systems
  • Sanitary drainage system requirements
  • Grease interception
  • Roof drainage
  • Hot water boiler designs

Mechanical & HVAC

Our Mechanical and HVAC engineering team is highly experienced and well informed about the latest thinking related to facility heat transfer and environmental optimization.
HVAC systems are a critical component of any building. They ensure comfort, create optimal environments, and account for nearly 40% of the energy used in commercial and residential buildings in the U.S. As such, they are a smart target for building owners or facility professionals looking to create ideal interior conditions that maximize energy savings and return on investment. Additionally, energy-efficient replacement and upgrades of chillers, boilers, cooling towers, pumps, fan systems, and compressors are a Insight specialty.

Capabilities

  • Complete heating, ventilating and air conditioning design
  • Dehumidification systems for critical environments
  • Optimized supermarket HVAC system design and integration
  • Indoor swimming pool HVAC design
  • Controls and energy management
  • Unitary and distributed systems (multi-family)
  • Variable Air Volume (VAV)
  • Fluid cooler/cooling tower design and evaluation
  • Hot Boiler Design
Whether it’s to create the ideal humidity conditions, design radiant underfloor, or develop chilled water VAV systems, Insight will analyze, evaluate and identify the most effective design for any specific application.