Project Profile: Oficinas en el Parque

Known as Torres Moradas due to their distinctive purple color, the Oficinas en el Parque are two towering steel-and-glass skyscrapers surrounded by landscaped grounds in Monterrey, the capital and largest city of Nuevo León. Both towers have five underground parking levels; Tower 1 has 24 floors, and Tower 2 has 28 floors. The Oficinas en el Parque have views of the Sierra Madre mountains and the Puente de la Unidad suspension bridge.

Authorized Dealer VIMAU installed a Reliable Controls building automation system during a retrofit of the Oficinas en el Parque.

The Reliable Controls system in each tower consists of a dedicated MACH-ProWebCom controller that provides facility operators with an operator interface for easy control. Each building is cooled by a dedicated variable-flow chilled water plant integrated via BACnet MS/TP. Building managers use MACH-ProSys (Tower 1) and MACH-Pro2 (Tower 2) controllers expanded with MACH-ProPoint modules to operate the chiller plants and serve distributed air-handling units. This integration allows for stop–start sequences, setpoint control, capacity control, and operation monitoring. Dozens of MACH-ProZone and MACH-ProAir controllers are networked throughout the buildings to control air-handling units and variable-air-volume boxes. All field controllers are connected to the main controller in each tower via BACnet MS/TP.

Security is important in the Oficinas en el Parque; using RC-RemoteAccess software, VIMAU deployed a flexible, secure BACnet Virtual Private Network.

The buildings were fully operational during the retrofit, which VIMAU completed in less than 2 weeks.