• HVACC has been in business over 19 years -- concentrating on controlling and monitoring facilities throughout the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.
• HVACC identified the change in the control industry from proprietary to interoperable systems and has made substantial investments in understanding, integrating and supporting LonWorks based systems.
• HVACC has maintained and supported all of its installed systems. Over 99% of all systems ever installed in the company's 19 year history are still running at 100% capacity.
• HVACC operates a 24-Hour Monitoring and Service Center to handle alarm functions and customer service needs.
• HVACC can select, install, integrate, and support LonWorks based products from hundreds of manufacturers including products from leading national controls companies. This enables HVACC to select the BEST product available for the application.
• HVACC is an Authorized Tridium System Integrator and is experienced in presenting LonWorks, Bacnet, Modbus, and several proprietary control networks via the web with the Tridium JACE Controllers.
• HVACC is committed to continue developing its web site and web services to provide easy access to: (1) support data (control drawings, data sheets), (2) site data (alarm information, service call tracking, multiple site reports, utility reports), and (3) software and site specific file updates.

HVAC Concepts, Inc. has recently received some national attention for our work with Wawa on their building automation project. Wawa is a leader in the C-Store market and recognized as a company that leads the way with innovative use of technology to improve business efficiency.

Wawa, Tridium, and HVAC Concepts won the Silver award in the Retail section of the M2M (Machine to Machine) Value Chain Awards. The Value Chain Awards recognize the most successful adopters of M2M technology and their enablers, the teams of solution providers that made their successes possible. The awards highlight the successful and innovative process of combining multiple technologies to create a winning solution.

Wawa, Tridium, and HVAC Concepts were also a 2007 Buildy Award Finalist at the 2007 Builconn show. The Buildy Awards recognize the individuals and organizations who have stepped up the challenge of integrating a system into the entire scheme of a building.

Microsoft repushed a new release of this "update". To remove the "click to enable" behavior for now remove patch "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP (KB916281)". Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, (make sure Show Updates box is checked). Find update, remove. Reboot. Click to update should no longer be an issue.

Note: Tridium is working on a solution so JACE sites will work with Microsoft's new "feature" of Internet Explorer.