Case studies

In the course of Portugal's Secondary School’s Modernization Program, the secondary school Loulé in the Algarve region has been modernized by RACE using LOYTEC products.

The Kuwait fire directorate is Kuwait’s first building that is considered to be a smart and green building. The building was automated by the LOYTEC Competence Partner AHMED ISHAQ CO. using LOYTEC components. 

The AIM recycling center, the most advanced dry material recycling facility in North America, received a new building and dust collection automation system from the LOYTEC Competence Partner AIREX CONTROLS Inc.

The LOYTEC Competence Partner AAG GmbH from Wülfrath in Germany has been awarded the contract for the re- and new construction of control cabinets for the plant automation of the penal institution Schwerte. 

Rheinwerk 3 is a premium office facility located in the former German capital Bonn. Kieback & Peter used LOYTEC product solutions to implement a DALI lighting control system and to provide operations for the conference rooms and for the rooms via desktop PCs.

The LOYTEC Competence Partner RACE implemented a new building management system using the latest technology of LOYTEC in the Continente Hypermarket in Matosinhos, Portugal.

Osceola County Health Department is a five million dollar medical facility in Florida. For the control of the HVAC system of the building, the LOYTEC Competence Partner Total Building Integrations Inc. installed an ALL-IP BACnet system with LOYTEC components. 

The LOYTEC partner M&C Engineering and Trading Sdn Bhd implemented a project for a new hypermarket in Alor Setar - Kedah, Malaysia. There, LOYTEC’s powerful LINX-110 Automation Servers extended with L-IOB I/O Modules are in charge of controlling and monitoring the hypermarkets’ systems. 

A project of the LOYTEC Competence Partner Dr. Diestel regarding control and visualization of different room air conditioning systems of the newly built Quartier 17 in the Hanseatic City Stralsund in Germany.

The LOYTEC Competence Partner Mechanical Products BAS (MPBAS) implemented in conjunction with the manufacturer DeVenthere Industries a fully integrated, demand controlled ventilation and heat recovery system (DVHR) with added free cooling capability meeting the ASHRAE standards 189.1 and 62.1 for Heatherbrae Elementary School.

The Camões Building is used as headquarters of the Court of Criminal Investigation (ICT) and the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP). The LOYTEC Competence Partner RACE implemented the project with LOYTEC equipment. The project comprises the refurbishment of the building including maintenance and conservation work.

The shopping center Allegro Setúbal resulted from a Jumbo hypermarket enlargement. The integrated building automation solution was developed and installed by the LOYTEC Competence Partner RACE and is controlled and monitored by LOYTEC components.

The private health care institution „Hospitals Senhor do Bonfirm“ (HSB) is equipped with modern and innovative facilities at national and European level that were built with excellent materials. Many of them are used for the first time in Portugal. The systems for building automation were installed and implemented by the LOYTEC system integrator RACE.

The five-star Evolutee Hotel is located in the western region of Portugal. Only materials and techniques that meet environmental standards were used for the construction of the building, along with the efficient technology of LOYTEC that was implemented by the LOYTEC systems integrator RACE.

The retail, office, and hotel block "Galleria" in India receives a comprehensive BMS solution from the LOYTEC systems integrator Venba Tech, including monitoring an controlling of air handlers, ventilation and plumbing system, and lighting. 

The Indian LOYTEC systems integrator Venba Tech implemented the building management software for the AKDR Tower, an IT building in Chennai that mainly houses information technology companies.

A sustainable and comprehensive renovation of a bank branch, considering ecological, economical, and social aspects, carried out by the LOYTEC systems integrator EAM Systems GmbH.

In the "Passeio des Aguas Shopping", a newly built shopping center in Goiânia, Brazil, the LOYTEC systems integrator RACE installed HVAC, lighting, and energy metering systems, controlled and monitored by LOYTEC components.>

The PARC HOTEL ALVISSE**** was equipped with the latest technology in the course of a total renovation. L-INX Automation Servers, L-VIS Touch Panels and L-IP Routers of LOYTEC were installed that are now responsible, among other things, for visualization and integration of the indivudual room controllers of the hotel rooms.

The revolutionary room automation system L-ROC proves its capabilities in the new LOYTEC headquarters, where it automates heating/cooling, sunblinds, and lighting.

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB AG) extended the maintenance facility Herdern at the Herdern-Areal in Zurich-Altstetten to one of the most modern maintenance facilities for service and repair work. PentaControl AG was entrusted by the general contractor Allreal AG with the complete building automation, whereby it applied latest technologies.

“The Warehouse” in Copenhagen is a new office building for different tenants. The new building needed an appropriate automation system for automating the functions of ventilation, heating/cooling, and lighting.

COWI is one of the largest consultant engineering companies in Denmark. Its headquarters is situated in Kongens Lyngby just outside the center of Copenhagen. In course of a total renovation of the building it was necessary to implement a Building Management System for ventilation, heating, and lighting.

The Institute for Physical Chemistry of Christian-Albrechts University (CAU) at Kiel, Germany, was reconstructed. In particular, the installation of the ventilation system and the associated building auto­mation system was commissioned. 

In September 2012 the construction of the new REXHOLM distribution center and warehouse was completed. The new 15,000 square meters facility is the central point for REXHOLM’s textile business in Scandinavia.

California Plaza, Walnut Creek, CA had the task of upgrading the 200,000 square foot, three level covered parking garage for their ten story Class A office. The existing system ran on a preset time schedule and did not provide condition status of the exhaust fans.

The City of Chandler, Arizona, marks 100 years of age in May 2012. Chandler describes itself as “an All-America City where entrepreneurial spirit and hometown traditions intermingle to make Chandler a truly fun place to be. Chandler has exceptional services, a diverse culture and a vibrant history.”

Offshore oil rigs have stringent design considerations for mechanical and control systems. Special materials and durability is a must to last in the conditions of salt air. This requires that the mechanicals have special skills.

Sea Lion Sound is a new exhibit for the Zoo of St. Louis, opening in June 2012. According to the zoo's website: “For the first time anywhere in North America, visitors will walk through an underwater tunnel into the sea lions' habitat to see the animals swimming all around them!....

The R&D facility of Sony Corporation at Sony City Osaki is equipped with a wide range of energy-saving features that ensure an outstanding environmental performance. These include....

The administration building of Sparkasse Duisburg, situated at a first class location in Duisburg’s downtown, became revitalized entirely. In constructional and ecological terms the building was brought to an as-good-as-new-level.

Bouygues’ new headquarters building is the first Green Building all over Turkmenistan. Based in the capital Ashgabat, Bouygues Turkmen (BTK) is a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, a French construction company.

Located between the traditional Hamburg fish market and the ferry terminals, “Holzhafen Hamburg” is one of the top addresses on the river Elbe. This is the location of the office building “Holzhafen West”, whose style is inspired by typical Hamburg storage buildings.

With more than 1.100 beds, Rigshospitalet is the largest hospital in Denmark and has responsibility for 65.000 yearly inpatients and approximately 420.000 ambulant visits annually.It is by far the most specialized hospital in Denmark with more than 8.000 employees.

One of the most attractive museums in the Netherlands is the Kröller-Müller Museum near Otterlo. Situated in the center of the De Hoge Veluwe National Park, it exhibits the world’s second largest collection of Van Gogh paintings.

It’s a building of superlatives: the biggest building site in Germany while under construction, one of the largest office complexes all over Europe and the biggest one in Germany, measured by its gross floor area of 160,000 square meters. And Europe’s biggest private TV station has moved in, the RTL media group....

The Decatur Intermediate Learning Center and local district Sports Center, located in the Decatur Township, Indiana USA, faced a situation common to many modern schools with a building having multiple use requirements throughout the week for regular and extracurricular activities. To maximize energy savings on equipment usage the ability to schedule occupancy properly has become a must.

It was Europe’s biggest house moving when ThyssenKrupp relocated its headquarters to Essen (Germany) last summer. Dominant centre of the new headoffice is the Q1 building, forming an impressive landmark in its distinctive shape of a cube. All the buildings on the campus are based on an overriding design framework, the shell-core principle.

R+V insurance is one of the largest insurance groups in Germany. 2010, at the companies site in Wiesbaden (Germany) the room automation of the representation floor and the company canteen as well as the control technology for central ventilation and refrigerating systems were renewed.

Being a subsidiary of RWE AG, RWE Supply & Trading GmbH is one of the leading companies in European energy trading. RWE Supply & Trading takes the responsibility of a gas procurement volume of nearly 50 billion cubic metres per year and is responsible for all of RWE’s activities on the international procurement and wholesale markets for energy.

The Parkway Atrium Building is a 23 year old four story 184,000 sqft Class B office building located in the suburbs of Washington DC. The building was constructed as a spec building and has been through numerous small changes and a major renovation in 2004. In 2006 a new management of the building began to identify and implement energy conservation methods.

It is the most spectacular stadium in the world, an architecturally-significant and technologically advanced sports venue. The 3 million-square-foot stadium has an approximate capacity of up to 100,000 fans. As the largest NFL venue ever built, the new stadium boasts the most spectacular column-free room in the world, stretching a quarter-mile in length.

The building of the ‘Landesbank Baden-Württemberg LBBW’ with a surface area of 58,000 m² is located 300 meters away from the central station of Stuttgart, Germany. The most important goal was to create a comfortable room climate for the employees and at the same time keep the operating costs low.

For the largest-ever cruise ship 'Oasis of the Seas', LOYTEC’s L-IP Redundant CEA-709/IP router was chosen to set up an IP-852 (Ethernet/IP) channel as a backbone for high speed communication.

New high-rise Ernst & Young Center in Sydney, Australia comprises the main tower of 44 levels offering minimum A grade quality accommodation. The building benefits from a central core with full height double glazed windows, allowing excellent natural light and views from the upper levels to all elevations.

With the head office of Italy’s leading financial journal ‘Il sole 24 ore’, a building complex with more than 1,200 office and conference rooms and a surface area of 48,000 m² arose.

The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza (commonly known as  the Empire State Plaza or less formal as The South Mall) is a complex of several state buildings in downtown Albany, New York State.

The 'Landesmesse Stuttgart' is a state-of-the-art showground with architectural and functional convincing buildings. A widely ramified CEA-709 network takes care of lighting and shading.

The China Reinsurance office building is near the famous Financial Street in Beijing, China. The building automation system is designed to use LOYTEC components.

Designed by the architect Meinhard von Gerkan, the station was built on the former ground of the Lehrter Bahnhof and put in operation on May 28th, 2006 as Berlin Central Station.