William E. Brown and Eugene F. Wakefield found Control Service Company (CSC) out of Bill’s home with a focus on customer service. They had previously spent years at Honeywell performing service on various manufacturers of pneumatic, electric and electronic control systems throughout Kansas City.

Straight out of high school, Ed Brown joins the pipefitters apprentice program to work alongside his father, Bill, now the sole owner of the company.

A very early example of a distributed processing direct digital control (DDC) system is installed at the University of Melbourne by an Australian company. DDC begins to take off throughout the building automation industry soon thereafter.

ASHRAE forms a committee to begin developing a standardized building automation and control networking protocol, which is now known as BACnet.

ASHRAE adopts BACnet as the ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135.

Gary Hull of Automated Logic awards CSC the prestigious President’s Award for its success as the year’s top performing field office.

Automated Logic introduces WebCTRL as a true web-based building automation platform.

Automated Logic recognizes CSC for Project of the Year for its work on the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

CSC consolidates its offices into a new 12,000-square-foot building in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, positioning itself for future growth.

CSC lands its first million-dollar project with the award of its work for the Kansas City Star.

Fort Leavenworth selects CSC and Automated Logic as its standard BAS platform with the award of an energy performance project.

With the transition of ownership from Ed Brown to Mike Riley and John Crownhart, CSC sets its sights on a new growth trajectory. Together, Mike and John bring more than 50 years of building automation experience to the team.

CSC expands its services by adding lighting control systems to its portfolio of building automation system offerings.

CSC celebrates the addition of its 50th employee as part of its continued commitment to outstanding client service.

CSC purchases the control division of James River Mechanical in Springfield, Missouri, and opens up its Springfield office with a highly talented group of employees to serve the Southern Missouri market.

As part of its continued investment in smart buildings, CSC adds a security division and structured cabling division to its technical complement, developing synergies between all aspects of building technology.

CSC breaks ground on a new 25,000-square-foot office building that will service as the Kansas City headquarters and training facility.

Automated Logic recognizes CSC as Dealer of the Year due to its superior field performance, excellent customer service, sustained yearly growth, and community engagement.