BASS: Company History

One of the pioneers in the Direct Digital Controls (DDC) industry, BASS has been actively involved with the design and service of temperature control systems for over 23 years. BASS began in business as the service division of a respected area mechanical contractor. While the installation and service of conventional temperature controls had always been integral to our service business, the energy crisis of the late 70's spawned the energy management industry which created the need for more sophisticated control systems. As our customers looked to us to provide innovative control solutions so that they could control their comfort and ever rising energy bills, BASS responded by acquiring the technology, personnel and expertise necessary to meet their changing needs. At the same time we recognized that controls represented an opportunity to increase the diversity of our mechanical service business and further differentiate our full service capabilities from those of our competition.

MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to obtain and maintain customers through actions, attitudes, and service to the extent that we are recognized as exceptional in our endeavor to provide our customers the very finest state-of-the-art building automation and temperature control systems and support services.

In 1984 after carefully researching the building automation technologies that were available to us in the marketplace, we selected the American Auto-Matrix AI2100 system as our first automation product offering. As our sales volume and support requirements grew, the controls group was broken out of the service department to operate as a separate division within the company. The transformation was completed in 1987 when BASS became a totally separate temperature controls company.

In 1989 BASS became a licensed electrical contractor in order to improve quality control for our installations and to provide a single source solution for our customers in order to further differentiate us from our competition. In 1994 the Auto-Flow Associates division was added to our company to specialize in the laboratory and fume hood control business. In 1997 Johnson Controls, Inc. named BASS an Authorized Building Controls Specialist (ABCS) providing access to the complete line of Johnson Controls products including the Metasys Facility Management System, pneumatic control and fire and security product families.

As the controls industry continued to evolve from relatively simple temperature and time of day functions to today's fully integrated microprocessor based unitary control systems, BASS has kept pace in order to serve the needs of our customers and the marketplace.

Today, BASS has grown to over 24 employees dedicated to designing, installing, maintaining and servicing control systems of all types and sizes and we are proud to say our management, engineering and most of our technical personnel have been with the company since its beginning. We remain dedicated to providing our customers the very finest state-of-the-art facility management systems and developing long lasting relationships through quality installation and support services.

A good deal of our business is repeat business which can only be achieved by continuing to exceed the expectations of our valued customers. Our people and years of experience as a full service, single-source, turnkey controls contractor makes us a preferred supplier of control systems of all types and sizes.