DALLAS - TAC has installed a $2.1 million building automation system (BAS) in the recently completed Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Containing 1.7 million square feet, the new convention center is the largest meeting facility in New England and has the capacity and services to host tens of thousands of people under one roof. To effectively manage all the systems in place at this massive building, the owners, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA), turned to TAC to provide a building automation system.

The MCCA asked TAC to deliver a BAS solution that would allow multiple third-party systems to interoperate and be controlled through a single front-end system. TAC utilized the facility's Ethernet backbone network and installed its Andover Continuum® products to handle building controls and integration with an Allen Bradley programmable logic control (PLC) system to address central plant requirements.