Automated Facility Solutions recieves TOP TREND Award!

The annual Trend Controls Business & Sales Conference was held this past week in VA and as always Automated Facility Solutions was recognized with several achievement awards.

For the 5^th straight year AFS was awarded the Trend Top Shelf Award which is recognition for top performance in several categories surrounding growth of our business.

AFS was also awarded a top performance award from Honeywell Field Devices for our overall commitment to the Honeywell Partner program. This program extends very competitive pricing multipliers for all HW field devices that are comparative to what some of our other vendors pay such as ACR and CC Dickson. With this program we can eliminate the middleman mark up on HW Field Devices. Contact me for more information on this program if you desire to be more competitive on your quotes.

Saving the best for last. Automated Facility Solutions was also recognized as the #1 Dealer for Trend Sales Volume in North America for 2010. AFS is consistently #1 in the Southeast Region and in the top 5 throughout the US but in 2010 we blew past the other 75 dealers.

This achievement could not have been possible without the open minded and forward thinking of each and every associate at PSG/AFS. We have the product, expertise, and personnel  throughout NC to recognize and identify HVAC and Lighting  opportunities. We provide our customers with solutions to their building automation needs, and can tackle the most complex system design and strategy for any application that is uncovered.

So congratulations to every associate at PSG/AFS for their team effort in securing this prestigious award.

Thank you for your support.

Kevin Riley

Division Manager

Automated Facility Solutions

Safety First

Piedmont Service Group's Greenville office recently participate in a Safety class addressing CPR. Piedmont is a huge supporter of constantly reinforcing such classes and information to ensure the safety and health of workers.  Way to go PSG Greenville!

Keep up the great work!



Congratulations Kim!

Kim Stokes has been promoted to the Project Accounting Group.  In this new role, she will be assisting Gwen with construction and project related accounting activities along with maintaining some A/P processes.  Please join me in congratulating Kim in her new responsibilities.

Piedmont Lends A Helping Hand

On Saturday, April 16, 2011 a series of devastating tornadoes hit many areas of Central and Eastern North Carolina. NC Baptist disaster relief volunteers began doing assessment and disaster recovery as soon as the storms passed. Piedmont Service Group was happy to find this amazing group and donate a check to help them in their efforts.  Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone effected by the storms.

For more information, or to find out how you too can help please visit the Baptist on A Misson website at

http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/North-Carolina/Tornado/Update

Golf Anyone?

On Thrusday April 14th, Piedmont Service Group was proud to sponsor the 10th hole at the BOMA Southern Regional Conference Golf Tournament.

New Name...Same Great Company!

Piedmont Air Conditioning was founded in 1971 and we are celebrating our 40 year anniversary throughout all of 2011. Our employees today still strive to deliver the level of service that our founders, Larry and Buddy Kelly, built the company around. Over the last 40 years, the portfolio of services and solutions we offer to our customers has grown exponentially. Piedmont employees are working with customers to help them

• Develop and implement cost effective preventative maintenance programs

• Design and build energy efficient mechanical systems for their buildings

• Design and install state of the art energy management and building automation systems

• Identify, design, and install energy efficiency measures aimed at reducing the utility costs, utility consumption, and carbon footprint of commercial facilities

• Address indoor air quality issues

• Identify and correct electrical system issues

• Construct and maintain LEED rated buildings

In an effort to insure our current and future customers are aware of the vast array of value added services offered by Piedmont, we have elected to change our name from “Piedmont Air Conditioning” to “Piedmont Service Group”. This change will be effective on April 11th, 2011. There has been no change in ownership of the company. Over the next couple of months, you will see our new name and logo show up on trucks, signs, invoices, proposals, and other various areas.

Our new website will be www.piedmontservicegroup.com and our new email addresses will be @piedmontsg.com instead of @piedmontac.com.

This is a very exciting time for us and we are glad to share it with you!

Congatulations!!!

As many of you already know Piedmont recently hosted a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) class in which participants from Piedmont, other Service Logic companies and outsiders reviewed CEM material, studied hard, and took the CEM exam. 

Special congratulations to Chris Turner, Shane Corbett, Mark Fowler and Scott Gugenheim for successfully passing the test.  This is a great accomplishment for these 4 as individuals and as members of the Piedmont Team. 

We anticipate continuing the process of CEM certification for the others who participated with continuing class, study and testing.  One of the most important things for all of us to remember is that this class greatly increased and enhanced our knowledge about energy concepts, financial impacts and energy strategies.  Everyone who participated in the class is smarter now than they were when they started.  Without regard to testing outcome, this alone made it worth it for all of us.  For that we thank all of the participants.  

Great job everyone!!!!

-Peter Williams, President