Spring Clean and Check
Spring is in the air! In St. Louis that means two things; Cardinals Baseball is almost here, and it’s time to get your home air conditioner ready for summer. Your system has been sitting idle for 6 months, but it won’t be long until you are relying on it around the clock. Checking your air […]
St. Louis Home and Garden Show 2017
This week is the St. Louis Home and Garden Show! Please be sure to stop by our booth, #508 and say hi! For more information on the show, visit https://www.stlhomeshow.com/homegarden/homepage.aspx Click this link for a map to our booth location http://www.expocad.com/host/fx/HBASTL/hg17stl/default.html?zoomto=508
Integrated Facility Services to install building automation system for VA Hospital in Mountain Home, TN
ST. LOUIS, MO – Integrated Facility Services (IFS) has been awarded a contract to install a building automation system (BAS) as part of an $8.85 million complete renovation of Building 8 at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Hospital in Mountain Home, TN. The Mountain Home VAMC Campus is located outside of Johnson City, TN […]
James Busch joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as CFO
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – James Busch of Columbia, Illinois, has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as chief financial officer (CFO). Busch, a Certified Public Accountant, oversees financial operations and activities for IFS, a St. Louis-based HVAC, plumbing, piping, fire protection and building automation firm. He also serves as the firm’s ethics officer and is responsible […]
Winter HVAC Preventive Maintenance Tips
The winter season is here, which can only mean one thing; now is the perfect time to start preparing your commercial building for the harsh, frigid winter season. Is your heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system ready for the cold weather? As a property manager or building owner, it is better to find out […]
Integrated Facility Services Celebrates 50th Anniversary
ST. LOUIS, MO – Integrated Facility Services (IFS), a full-service mechanical engineering firm and the eighth largest specialty subcontractor in Missouri, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. IFS provides HVAC, plumbing, piping, building automation and energy conservation services to clients across the country from offices in St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri. Established by Bill […]
Richard Paist joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS)
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI –Richard Paist of Springfield, Missouri, has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as Senior Project Engineer. Paist is working on 51st and Oak, a new mixed-use development in Kansas City, MO; and The Ranch, an Epworth Living Community senior living project in Stillwater, OK. IFS is a St. Louis-based HVAC, plumbing, piping, fire […]
Safe Driving Month – Distracted Driving
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Safe Driving – Distracted Driving”][vc_column_text]This week’s post for our Safe Driving Month is Distracted Driving. Distraction.gov defines distracted driving as “Distracted driving is any activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving. All distractions endanger driver, passenger, and bystander safety.” Traffic safety experts classify distractions into three main […]
Ben Moore joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS)
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Ben Moore of Wildwood has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as Commercial Account Representative. Moore is responsible for tenant finishes on IFS projects. He has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. ABOUT INTEGRATED FACILITY SERVICES (IFS) Integrated Facility Services (IFS) is a full-service […]
Safe Driving Month – Seat Belts
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Safe Driving Month – Seat Belts”][vc_column_text]As our Safe Driving Month rolls on, this week we are discussing the importance of wearing seat belts. Wearing a seat belt properly can reduce our risk of serious injury or death in motor vehicle crashes by 50%. According to the CDC; from 2003 to 2012 there were 8,073 […]
Integrated Facility Services completes HVAC retrofit at Missouri Athletic Club
[vc_row][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]The Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) is a private social, business, athletic, and dining club with locations in Downtown St. Louis and Town and Country in West St. Louis County. The MAC’s Downtown Clubhouse was dedicated in a ceremony in 1915. The downtown MAC facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and […]
Safe Driving Month – Speeding
This month we will be posting weekly blogs concerning safe driving. This campaign has a goal to raise awareness and educate our reader to help prevent automobile accidents. This week we are discussing Speeding. According to the National Safety council more than 38,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2105, and speeding was a […]
IFS Job Featured in CNR St. Louis
We are very excited to once again be featured in St. Louis Construction News and Review Magazine. This time, due to our involvement in a project at the Robert A. Young Building. Robert A Young Federal Building To Get Innovative Seismic Retrofit Constructed in 1933, the 20-story, concrete-framed RAY building was originally a warehouse for […]
Ryan Gowert joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS)
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Ryan Gowert of Maryland Heights has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as Project Engineer. Gowert is responsible for project support on healthcare and data center projects for IFS, a St. Louis-based HVAC, plumbing, piping, fire protection and building automation firm. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Southern […]
Craig Wright joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS) in Columbia
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI – Craig Wright of Gravois Mills has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) in Columbia as Mid-Missouri Commercial Sales Representative. Wright is responsible for sales and marketing for the Mid-Missouri office of IFS, a St. Louis-based HVAC, plumbing, piping, fire protection and building automation firm. A United States Marine Corps veteran, Wright has 40 […]
HVAC & Plumbing Product News: IFS Installs HVAC Rooftop Units Via Air Crane Helicopter at Popular Mall
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IFS Installs HVAC Rooftop Units Via Air Crane Helicopter at Mid Rivers Mall
ST. LOUIS, MO – More than 42 tons of heating, ventilating and air conditioning HVAC equipment were lifted and moved by air crane helicopter when Integrated Facility Services (IFS) recently replaced the HVAC rooftop units at Mid Rivers Mall in St. Peters, Missouri. The four-hour project on a Sunday morning involved 16 helicopter lifts to […]
Building Automation – Fire Protection
Fire protection can be a very serious issue, especially when a building has expensive equipment stored, and more importantly a number of employees or customers that occupy it daily. Choosing the proper fire protection system will not only protect your building, its contents, and employees, but it will save your business from destruction. Fires are […]
IFS Featured in CNR St. Louis
IFS is once again be featured in St Louis Construction News and Review Magazine. This time, for our Chiller Optimization Package, an energy saving retrofit option for chillers. Featured Article: Building Certification Is Down, But Energy Efficiency Is Not Out “…IFS pride themselves on their ability to retrofit chillers in existing buildings to make them […]
Contracting Business: Integrated Facility Services Acquires Wally’s Refrigeration at Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.
[vc_btn title=”View Original Article” color=”green” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fcontractingbusiness.com%2Frefrigeration%2Fintegrated-facility-services-acquires-wally-s-refrigeration-lake-ozarks-mo||target:%20_blank|”] ST. LOUIS, MO – Integrated Facility Services (IFS), a full-service mechanical contractor with offices in St. Louis and Columbia, has acquired Wally’s Refrigeration at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. The acquisition expands IFS Mid-Missouri’s commercial refrigeration system sales, installation and service for businesses such as restaurants and bars, grocery […]
Integrated Facility Services acquires Wally’s Refrigeration at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
August 11, 2016 Integrated Facility Services acquires Wally’s Refrigeration at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri ST. LOUIS, MO – Integrated Facility Services (IFS), a full-service mechanical contractor with offices in St. Louis and Columbia, has acquired Wally’s Refrigeration at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. The acquisition expands IFS Mid-Missouri’s commercial refrigeration system sales, installation and service […]
Why does my air conditioner (fill in the blank) ?
Hot summer days here in St. Louis probably means that your air conditioner is getting a lot of use. As with any piece of machinery, things may not always function as intended. We took to Google to see what people were searching for the most in terms of their air conditioner, and answered the top […]
Building Automation – Lighting
Lighting is an important aspect of any building and, therefore, burns up a lot of energy, especially when used improperly. Though it often goes unnoticed, businesses waste an immense amount of resources by having an inadequate or nonexistent lighting control system. Setting into place an automation control system for lighting can conserve energy and save […]
Christina Schafer promoted to Service Manager – Plumbing at IFS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Christina Shafer Promoted to Service Manager ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Christina Schafer of Barnhart, MO has been promoted to Service Manager – Plumbing at Integrated Facility Services (IFS). Schafer joined IFS in 2004 and previously was plumbing service coordinator. Schafer holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Lindenwood University. ABOUT INTEGRATED FACILITY SERVICES (IFS) […]
Kurt Voss promoted to Vice President of Engineering at IFS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kurt Voss promoted to Vice President of Engineering at IFS ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Kurt Voss, P.E. of Saint Louis has been promoted to Vice President of Engineering at Integrated Facility Services (IFS). He is responsible for overall management and strategic direction of the IFS Engineering & Design Team. Voss joined IFS in 2008 […]
National Safety Month – Heat Stress
The National Safety Council has deemed June as National Safety Month, every year thousands of organizations across the country work to raise awareness of what it takes to stay SafeForLife. This month focuses on reducing leading causes of injury and death at work, on the roads, and in our homes and communities. We will make […]
Building Automation – HVAC
Often times, when people think of Energy Management or Building Automation Systems, they believe that automation only pertains to Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. In the “Building Automation Blog Series” we will discuss the various applications that building automation can be used to save you money and to make equipment operate easier and […]
Clean Air Month 2016
What does the Clean Air Act and Clean Air Month have to do with you? Well if you are old enough to remember smog in major cities in the 60’s and 70’s then you know there has been a change in our environment, both good and bad. For those few who were alive in the […]