CentraLine Partner Profile — Canham Controls
CentraLine Partner Canham Controls, based in Peterborough, is one of the UK’s longest established system integrators with a proven track record of designing, engineering and delivering building-control systems to the specific requirements of clients.
Founded by managing director Geoff Canham in 1990, the company has built an industry reputation for engineering professionalism based on investment in people, training and equipment.
Canham Controls take a highly structured approach to delivering building-management systems (BMS) — with individual departments specialising in sales, projects, engineering, panel manufacture, installation and commissioning.
Administration is given particular attention and importance as process and system compliance is essential in delivering overall client satisfaction from project conception to completion.
Geoff Canham explains, ‘We employ fully trained and qualified staff who provide state-of-the-art technology delivered on time in a wide range of complex projects.
‘Canham Controls has always appreciated training, and updating of personal skill levels is a critical factor in ensuring that our staff can design and engineer a high-quality solution based on a best-fit selection from a wide range of manufacturers’ products and systems.’
Canham Controls has invested in an extremely powerful AutoCAD system tailored to meet the exacting needs of the controls industry as an integral part of the project from application to final commissioning.
Extensive office and workshop facilities ensure staff, some of whom have been with Canham Controls for nearly 20 years, can provide the full spectrum of the company’s capabilities — including in-house panel manufacture, AutoCAD design, software engineering and front-end graphical interface creation.
The company’s own electrical, commissioning and service teams provide the comprehensive building and process automation installation and maintenance services expected from a company of Canham Controls’ standing in the industry.
The combination of skills and leading technology in products and engineering tools enables Canham Controls to provide high-quality cost-effective control solutions across the complete range of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning building services.
This has helped the company build an impressive portfolio of building-automation projects both in the UK and overseas.
The customer base covers the full spectrum of blue-chip clients — including private sector, local authorities and consulting engineers who demand high-quality installations that perform within and often beyond the original specification.
To ensure a system integrator can offer its clients the most effective and efficient BMS it must be able to select the best solution from the leading control manufacturers.
Open-protocol engineering has liberated integrators and their customers from closed manufacturers’ proprietary systems that effectively bind them to the original installation.
The CentraLine Hawk AX integration controller utilising the Niagara AX enables Canham Controls to provide clients with BMS solutions engineered to incorporate the best-fit products and sub-system using open protocols —typically DALI (lighting), Modbus (inverters), BACnet (controllers), LON (fan-coil units) and M-Bus (meters).
Geoff Canham says, ‘We have built this company on the firm belief that delivering competitive-value building-management systems depends on offering our customers leading technology systems specifically designed for their specific requirements.
The capability to continue to challenge ourselves in designing, engineering and delivering systems that incorporate the best-economic-fit products ensures we continue to invest in people, equipment and manufacturing efficiency.
‘The CentraLine Hawk multi-functional controller enables us to combine control and integration in one unit with a reliable user touchscreen.
‘It is a key part of our capacity to offer a Canham controls system that matches and exceeds customers’ expectations by enabling us to select, engineer and integrate the best product/system combination specifically for that customer’s BMS requirement.’
Roger Coote, senior account manager for CentraLine by Honeywell, summarises, ‘Canham Controls is a great addition to our CentraLine Partner Network. The company’s industry standing, experience and professional excellence will be of great assistance in helping build both Canham Controls and CentraLine’s growth, whilst continuing to offer real value to customers.
‘We look forward to working with Canham Controls on rewarding projects that utilise the flexible and cost effective integration capability of the Hawk AX integration controller.
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