Ameren Trade Ally Network Awards
Recently, Jim Gianopulos was interviewed about the Ameren Trade Ally BizSaver Program. This interview will be shown at the Trade Ally Network Awards. You can read his interview below. What do I think about the Ameren program? I think the program is great. It’s been a tremendous asset in driving attention to the reduction of […]
Plumbing Maintenance Programs
We take for granted our water heaters, toilets, faucets, sinks, drains, ice makers and water coolers until they stop working. Then comes the panicked call to the service company, and a repair job that always ends up costing more than we expect. Regular care and preventative maintenance can forestall most of these breakdowns at a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Preventive Maintenance for your Plumbing System
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE OFTEN ELIMINATES DISRUPTION Proper maintenance of your commercial, industrial, or municipal building plumbing systems can save money and energy. We take for granted our water heaters, toilets, faucets, sinks, drains, ice makers and water coolers until they stop working. Then comes the panicked call to the service company, and a repair job that […]
Fix a Leak Week
All leaks in any part of your pluming system whether clean water or sanitary wastes are damaging to your home, possibly unhealthy and a waste of resources. If drain lines are leaking they are both a health and structural hazard. Typically these types of leaks are best left to an experienced person to repair. These […]
Severe Weather Week – Communication
Throughout the week we have discussed many specifics when it comes to severe weather; thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, and being prepared. What we haven’t covered is the many ways to receive severe weather updates. This information is critical in the event of severe weather and you need to be informed. There are many ways to receive […]
Severe Weather Week – Thunderstorms
Today we are discussing the dangers with thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are dangerous because they include lightning, high winds, heavy rain that can cause flash floods, and tornadoes. A severe thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that contains large hail, one inch in diameter or larger, and/or damaging straight-line winds of 58 mph or greater. So what should we […]
Severe Weather Week – Flash Flood
Today’s topic is something we at IFS are all too familiar with; flooding. Severe weather comes in many forms and in most cases it brings rain. As we know, excessive heavy rains can cause flooding. Flash flooding poses many risks and most underestimate the power of water. Low water crossings are especially dangerous when water […]
Mike Schwaller Joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS)
Mike Schwaller Joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS) ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Mike Schwaller of Eureka has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as safety director. He is responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring safety initiatives and training programs for IFS, a St. Louis-based HVAC, plumbing, piping, fire protection and building automation firm. Schwaller holds a bachelor’s degree […]
Severe Weather Week – Tornado Safety
The first thing that pops into many peoples minds when they hear the words “severe weather” is TORNADO. In St. Louis, we have seen the destruction first hand. No doubt many of you in the area will remember the Good Friday Tornadoes in 2011. Those images and feelings will stick with us forever. Many of […]
Severe Weather Week – Preparedness
It is Severe Weather Week and this week we will be sending out daily communications focused on different topics surrounding severe weather. Today we are going to focus on being Prepared. There are many things we need to do to be prepared, today we are going to focus on three main points that will help […]
Art Bottorff Joins Integrated Facility Services (IFS)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6466″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Art Bottorff has joined Integrated Facility Services (IFS) as sales and marketing manager. Prior to joining IFS, Bottorff was Midwest Area Sales Manager for Carrier in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is responsible for developing and implementing sales and marketing strategies for IFS, a St. Louis-based HVAC, plumbing, piping, fire […]
Integrated Facility Services completes $8 million project at Spartan Light Metal Products
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI – Integrated Facility Services (IFS) in Columbia, formerly Air Masters, has completed an HVAC, process piping, and building automation systems project for the $8 million office and plant expansion at Spartan Light Metal Products in Mexico, Missouri. The 68,000-square-foot expansion included a complete renovation of the existing plant offices, a new office addition and a new […]
Reduce Your Chiller’s Energy Usage
Reduce Your Chiller’s Energy Usage up to 30% by Adding a Variable Frequency Drive! A centrifugal chiller is typically the single largest consumer of energy in a building and as the cost for large horsepower VFD comes down, their application on centrifugal chillers has become more economically attractive. Since most chillers operate at part load/off […]
Our New Name: A Message from John Rundquist
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”5574″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]January 4, 2016 We’re excited to begin the New Year as Integrated Facility Services (IFS), our longtime corporate holding company name. Over the past 50 years, we’ve grown and diversified to provide a full range of integrated facility services, so the name fits us better than ever. Moving forward, we will integrate […]
Air Masters is Rebranding as Integrated Facility Services
ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis-based Air Masters Corporation and its affiliated companies – Gateway Mechanical, Gateway Mechanical Fire Protection, Inc. and Automation Solutions Group – today announced a rebranding as Integrated Facility Services, Inc. (IFS), their corporate holding company name. IFS has annual billings of more than $50 million, employs more than 220 people […]
Air Masters is rebranding as Integrated Facility Services
ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis-based Air Masters Corporation and its affiliated companies – Gateway Mechanical, Gateway Mechanical Fire Protection, Inc. and Automation Solutions Group – today announced a rebranding as Integrated Facility Services, Inc. (IFS), their corporate holding company name. IFS has annual billings of more than $50 million, employs more than 220 people […]
The Importance of Retro Commissioning
Most buildings have never gone through a formal, systematic commissioning or quality assurance process, and are likely performing below their potential. Retro-commissioning is designed to assist in improving building performance, and in the process capture the energy and demand savings opportunities. Retro-commissioning not only identifies problems due to design flaws or events that occurred during […]