Hendersonville, Tennessee and Mayfield, Kentucky. Since 1983.
Smart controls for buildings and plants that can't afford to stop.
Facility automation, industrial controls, security, and audio visual. One team designs, installs, trains, and services what we sell.
One team for facility automation and controls.
C-Tech was established in 1983 and has been a one-stop source for facility automation and controls ever since. We build smart solutions around what your application actually needs.
- Environmental and HVAC controls
- Process instrumentation and controls
- Multi-vendor system integration and HMI development
- Power and utility monitoring
Intelligence Through Technology
From sales and engineering to install and service.
We love what we do, and we promise top-quality results and customer service to match. C-Tech takes a progressive approach to design, project management, and general contracting, and develops full-service solutions together with our clients.
HVAC Controls
C-Tech offers a wide range of products to meet your controls needs and picks the best-of-breed system for each application.
Industry-standard LON or BACnet communication between controllers meets your specifications and integrates with the devices you already have.
Schneider SmartStruxure
- Enterprise-level system with BACnet, LON, and Modbus options.
- Web-based interface that needs no software.
- Intuitive configuration software.
- Communicates with any third-party system.
SmartStruxure Wireless
- Enterprise-level control for small to medium buildings.
- Wireless communication saves wiring costs.
- Wireless sensors and switches for HVAC, lighting, and monitoring.
- No additional software. Web configuration tools are embedded in the controllers.
Schneider I/Net
- A large installed base of I/Net systems and satisfied customers.
- Stable, reliable hardware and software.
- Multiple LAN levels for fully programmable and application-specific controllers.
- Web-based interfaces for third-party systems.
Schneider Vista
- LON-based system with a web-based interface.
- Stable, reliable front end and operating software.
- Full line of fully programmable and application-specific controllers.
- Scalable to the enterprise.
Schneider I/A
- Web-based system with both LON and BACnet interfaces.
- Third-party interfaces to many systems.
- Fully programmable and application-specific controllers.
- Scalable to the enterprise.
Honeywell Controls
- We install and support Honeywell Optimizer, WEBs, Tridium N4, and Legacy AX web-based systems.
- Installed as LON, BACnet, or both.
- Many third-party interfaces to integrate your systems.
- Fully programmable and application-specific controllers.
- Integrates into most older Honeywell legacy systems.
Industrial Automation
C-Tech's industrial division provides top-quality instrumentation and programmable logic controllers to manage your process. Get a complete view of your central plant from a single HMI package, so your staff can monitor all of your equipment with better visibility and easier operation.
We handle industrial central plants, mist collectors, HVAC controlled by PLC, and laser product tolerance test benches. We can supply PLCs that match the brand already in your plant, the one your employees are trained on.
PLC and HMI integration
- PLC programming in Allen-Bradley, GE Fanuc, Yokogawa, and others.
- HMI programming in Rockwell FactoryTalk, GE Cimplicity, Wonderware, and several brands of touchscreens.
- Multiple network protocols integrated into one central HMI and database, for a complete system that is easier to maintain.
- Graphics development for HMI operator interfaces.
Plant utility PLC control
- Chilled water, process water, and cooling tower control.
- High-capacity steam and hot water boiler control.
- Compressed air usage and electrical consumption.
- Plant wastewater control and critical environmental data collection.
- Industrial gas measurement and point-of-use metering.
- Compressed air system monitoring and control.
Critical temperature control
- AHU integration with your facility management system.
- Multiple energy monitoring systems integrated into one central HMI.
- Critical temperature, relative humidity, and high-purity control for process areas.
- QA data acquisition for traceability.
- Large-capacity oven zone control for curing and aging processes.
Bulk process fluid control
- Tank farm automation, with level control and monitoring for precise delivery to plant systems.
- Transfer and distribution pump automation.
- Supply and return process water temperature control for critical production areas.
- Water treatment chemical and filtration control for environmental regulatory compliance.
Metering and instrumentation
- Application engineering for instrumentation selection.
- NIST-traceable calibration of plant instrumentation, with documentation.
- Calibration checks of your equipment with NIST-certified test equipment.
- Calibration and startup and commissioning of meters and instruments.
Control panel fabrication
Our panel shop builds control panels and power distribution panels in a clean, well-lit shop to keep quality high. Other contractors may build panels on site in the middle of heavy construction. Compare for yourself: our UL panels are clean and impressive.
At the end of every project we install laminated control drawings inside the panel door. The extra documentation supports uptime and easier maintenance.
Energy Management
Upgrading an old energy management system means updating the controller logic with new energy-saving strategies. Adding variable frequency drives to constant-speed cooling tower fans cuts energy and operating costs, and load-shedding logic reduces monthly peak utility demand. We have helped many customers meet mandated energy-saving goals.
Our energy dashboard gives you easy access to facility energy usage and helps prove the return on your energy-saving projects. Facility managers can mine data and generate consumption reports, and with the data in view an energy manager can track equipment efficiency and upcoming maintenance issues.
Metering of energy usage
- Natural gas
- Air
- Electrical energy
- Water consumption
Monitor your energy, then verify your bills are accurate. Track consumption by area of your plant or by production line. With eyes on the usage, maintenance techs can trace the causes of peak demand charges and pinpoint the equipment responsible.
Schneider Electric power meters
- Available in a range of features to meet your needs.
- PM8000 series for general monitoring, with programmable ION technology.
- ION7750 high-end meters with waveform capture to verify your grid power quality.
For schools, we can set up a web page showing energy values by week or month for green initiatives.
Security
C-Tech installs door access control systems, from a single computer room door to your entire facility. On new construction we work closely with your door provider so the access system is installed correctly at every step.
Our video surveillance is built around Mobotix cameras, with models from pan-tilt-zoom to fisheye that talk over Ethernet to your video recorder. Your video data is protected by hardware-level RAID and industry-standard backup. For small jobs, ask about IP cameras with integrated storage, a 4 GB card recorder built right into the camera. Schedule a camera demo and look around our engineering office.
Access control
C-Tech sells, installs, and services Open Options and Andover Continuum access control.
Open Options is an open-architecture platform that lets you integrate existing systems by changing only the front end. In most cases all of your existing hardware can stay in place.
CCTV
We sell, install, and service Mobotix, Avigilon, and Pelco camera systems. From small camera systems to enterprise-sized systems, C-Tech designs and installs a custom system for your current and future needs.
Mobotix Q24 Hemispheric
An elegant, ultra-compact, weatherproof IP dome camera that opens up new scenarios.
- 360-degree all-round view captures an entire room, with a complete panorama view that suits access control.
- Quad view shows images from four angles at once.
- Digital, continuous zooming and panning.
- Robust and maintenance-free, with no mechanically moving parts.
- Event-controlled, complete room recording directly in the camera (4 GB microSD card included).
- Alarm function with an integrated speaker and microphone.
Audio visual
C-Tech provides one-stop, end-to-end AV integration, from wiring to lighting, sound dampening, and furniture. Our installations balance practical and aesthetic needs in every room, new or existing. We carry some of the most prestigious names in AV integration equipment and work with each manufacturer on both function and performance.
- Video conferencing: distance learning, telemedicine, video arraignment, corporate boardrooms, point-to-point use.
- Digital signage: public information systems, campus information displays, house of worship displays, emergency information displays.
- Sound masking: public and private facilities, medical facilities, military installations. Also works as a public address system, system-wide or by zone.
- Pro audio: houses of worship, boardrooms, theatrical, training centers, employee meeting areas, emergency operation centers, paging systems.
- Pro video: houses of worship, boardrooms, theatrical, training centers, employee meeting areas, emergency operation centers, web casting.
- Lighting: houses of worship, boardrooms, theatrical, training centers.
Sound masking with DynaSound
C-Tech partners with DynaSound for your privacy needs. Sound masking is electronically generated, unobtrusive ambient sound, tuned to work with ceilings, furniture panels, and walls. Ask to schedule a demonstration of the system in our Hendersonville, TN office.
Integrated building management with Schneider Electric
Centrally manage the vast amount of information your building generates every day. From the smallest system to the largest, open interoperable systems provide powerful HVAC control, flexibility, complete interoperability, and efficient energy management.
- Security and access control: wide-ranging building management integration and interfaces at every level. A scalable architecture and secure but open networks let the system expand cost-effectively.
- Power and lighting: eliminate costly hard-wired interface panels, custom software, and duplicate networks and controllers, with seamless integration of lighting, power management, and power distribution.
- Digital video: fast, easy retrieval through integrated DVR. View live and recorded video and search events by time, date, location, camera, alarm, and more.
- Web solutions: anytime, anywhere access with lower software and upgrade costs and less training time. Retrieve real-time building data and reports, handle alarms, change setpoints, and run diagnostics and routine maintenance instantly, on secure but intuitive software.
Video Conferencing
C-Tech video conferencing helps transform and strengthen education and training. Video connects instructors with students, so distance learning programs expand both the revenue and the reach of higher education institutions, and information can be shared across several locations for significant savings.
Staff no longer need to travel to attend training. Full-motion video is the next best thing to being there. We use LifeSize video codecs and cameras to build interactive distance learning rooms that connect students and teachers through video streaming and application sharing. Visual presentations improve education and retention, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
Mobility
Mobile AV systems are a flexible, robust fit for government communications, education, remote patient care, on-demand project collaboration, and more. C-Tech offers portable solutions including projectors, flat panels, carts, visual presenters, sound systems, and roll-around video and teleconferencing stations.
Position a mobile cart or floor stand anywhere you need telepresence or video conferencing. Keeping employees connected and interacting wherever they are improves productivity, and we help clients set up solutions for remote workforces and for professionals who are always on the go.
Design-Build
Our engineering team designs a cost-effective control system to your exact requirements. Have a custom application? We can design, install, train, and service what we sell, and we are proud of the quality of our solutions.
Services offered
- Budget estimates
- Fully engineered, P.E. reviewed controls drawings
- Project management
- Onsite supervision
Service
Our HVAC controls and industrial service teams support your operation so it keeps running at peak efficiency with maximum uptime. We service what we sell.
Services offered
- Hourly-rate service calls
- Custom service contracts at preferred rates
- Support for unit change-outs and controls relocation
- Scheduled downtime maintenance
Contact our service department to review your needs and get current rates.
System Analytics
Our analytics packages make it easy to see whether your equipment is running at peak efficiency. Get a daily equipment report by email, or upgrade your HVAC monitoring system with analytics add-ons and data mining that roll power meter data up by day, week, or month.
Analytics show your maintenance department which units need attention without clicking through every HVAC unit graphic page. Energy dashboard products give easy access to facility energy usage and help prove the return on your energy-saving projects. Facility managers can track equipment efficiency and upcoming maintenance issues, and your maintenance team gets the tools to keep your tenants happy.
What's included
- Remote data collection on C-Tech servers, with a daily emailed status report.
- Honeywell and Tridium N4 meter analytics add-ons.
- Electrical energy reports with PME software.
- Water consumption monitoring and high-use alarms.
Know your utilities
Monitor your utilities, then verify your bills are accurate. Track consumption by area of your plant or by production line.
Engineered designs, built and running since 1983.
Our record speaks for itself on quality and reliability. We are proud of our partnerships with our customers and of the work we have done for them.
ORNL Supercomputer
Industrial Automation
C-Tech installed the industrial controls for the water cooling system of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Redundant Allen-Bradley processor PLCs handle tower staging and pump management.
The system is capable of rejecting 20 megawatts of heat from the IBM processors.
Middle Tennessee State University
Industrial Automation
C-Tech modernized the MTSU boiler plant with state-of-the-art Allen-Bradley controls and workstations, bringing existing boiler control panels and operator workstations up to the latest Allen-Bradley PLC technology. Operators can now locate and repair boiler components faster, which improves uptime.
The plant's natural gas turbine generates electricity to offset part of the campus demand, and its heat recovery boiler turns waste heat from the turbine into steam for campus HVAC heating and domestic water heating.
TN State Museum
HVAC Controls
C-Tech was awarded the HVAC controls for the new Tennessee State Museum, a building going up next to the Farmers Market in Nashville. The controls run on the Honeywell N4 solution.
UT Martin University
HVAC Controls
C-Tech has installed Honeywell HVAC controls across the majority of the UT Martin campus.
Security Cameras
Security
C-Tech installed a large camera system at an undisclosed Nashville campus. As with most security systems, the details are not disclosed to the public.
Triumph Aerostructures
Industrial Automation
C-Tech installed Yokogawa PLCs on four large ovens for Triumph, and has serviced their controls for over 10 years.
Service contracts we have kept for years.
A sampling of the clients who count on C-Tech to keep their controls in peak condition.
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Dollar General
C-Tech provides scheduled HVAC controls preventative maintenance at the Dollar General corporate headquarters in Goodlettsville, TN. Keeping the HVAC controls, hot water valves, AHU variable speed drives, and VAV air dampers in peak condition saves money and keeps employees comfortable.
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Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville
C-Tech maintains the Honeywell HVAC controls for the school, daycare, and sanctuary, and also takes care of access control in the school expansion.
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Levee Authority, Evansville, Indiana
C-Tech maintains a central office monitoring system and pump station controls spread across Evansville. The pumps are critical to keeping flood waters out of downtown businesses.
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Nashville District Energy Plant
We help maintain the cash register metering for Constellation Energy. The district energy system provides steam heat and chilled water cooling to many buildings in Nashville. Our industrial division calibrates the utility metering and data loggers that C-Tech installed.
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Columbia State Community College
C-Tech performs HVAC service work under a maintenance contract. We service what we sell and work to keep our clients happy.
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UT Martin University
Our Mayfield, KY office works with the UT Martin HVAC department to maintain its Honeywell DDC controls. Our custom energy dashboard software is on display in their maintenance office.
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Audubon Head Start, Hopkinsville
C-Tech holds a service contract and maintains the HVAC controls for Audubon's Head Start school.
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Tennessee Army National Guard
C-Tech maintains controls under service contract at many National Guard locations in Tennessee. Our service department maintains the controls that centrally report mechanical equipment issues and reduce downtime.
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Sheraton Downtown Nashville
Our service department helps maintain central plant HVAC controls for the Sheraton maintenance department, from replacing legacy controllers to front-end software upgrades.
What clients say about C-Tech.
“Their Mobotix cameras and Open Options Access controls work great.”
“C-Tech has done a great job maintaining our Industrial controls needs.”
Great work takes great people.
C-Tech was built on tradition, integrity, and trust. Those values were handed down over our long history and remain the framework for how we do business. When you work here, you work alongside people who share those beliefs.
Get started with usJoin our team
When talented people join C-Tech, they become more than employees. They become part of the C-Tech family. Each of us has a stake in the company's success and takes pride in the work, and we know our actions directly affect our customers and our bottom line.
That is why we complete every part of the work as a team, from estimating the details of a new project to installing hundreds of HVAC controllers. We teach each other and learn from each other to get the job done and get it done right.
Current opportunities
Our capabilities are diverse, so you can work on projects of all sizes and types, from HVAC renovations to industrial PLC projects. Whether you want to manage projects, install low-voltage conduit and cable, or draw CAD drawings, we have opportunities in the office and in the field for a wide range of interests and specialties.
We are looking for dedicated people. Are you ready for a career that is anything but average? This might be the place for you.
Rewards and benefits
We keep the best people by offering benefits that go beyond the industry standard.
Health and wellness
Extensive healthcare and wellness benefits throughout the year.
Time off and paid leave
Take time off or look after a relative without losing your salary.
Retirement and financial protection
A 401(k) plan for team members, so you can plan for a well-provided retirement.
Employee development
We encourage you to build your skills and benefit from your work here.
Hiring process
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To be considered, applicants must meet all minimum position requirements for education and training, certification, and experience.
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If you are a fit, the HR department prepares and issues a letter of appointment. After you accept the offer, we complete the statutory requirements.
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Every new employee takes part in an induction program during their first week, covering general information about the company and specifics about their job role.
Recruitment questions
Where can I find C-Tech's current list of open positions?
Contact HR for the current list of open positions. In the meantime, send your resume to Lyndsey at LGilman@ctechcontrols.com and we will contact you.
How long will it take to get an update after an interview?
Our HR department will call you within a week of your interview about the status of your application. Unsuccessful candidates receive a regret letter by email.
If you are nearby, come visit us.
Two offices in the Southeast, and a service line that answers when your system needs attention.
Nashville headquarters
33 Industrial Park DriveHendersonville, TN 37075
- Phone
- 615-264-9494
- Accounts payable
- Extension 103
- Accounts receivable
- Extension 117
- Fax
- 615-264-9495
Service
- Phone
- 1-888-868-1688
- Service@ctechcontrols.com