Benfield Control Systems, Inc. · Est. 1978
Three jobs a Westchester supply house doesn't usually get to name.
Benfield doesn't claim a portfolio of dozens of named jobs. It claims three, and they are the ones the company puts its own name to publicly: PLC control systems for two pieces of New York City transit infrastructure, and the software behind a facility that treats the city's drinking water. That's the record, stated plainly.
World Trade Center Towers
PLC control systems.
Benfield Control Systems provided the PLC control systems for the World Trade Center Towers. It is the kind of job where the control equipment has to be exactly right, and it's one of the two named projects the company has put its name to publicly.
South Ferry
PLC control systems for the terminal.
The same in-house group provided PLC control systems for South Ferry. Both jobs came out of the same engineering department that also handles a plant's arc flash study or a factory's control panel troubleshooting call, which is the point worth taking away: it's one group, doing the same kind of work at very different scales.
Catskill-Delaware Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility
PLC software development and integration.
This is the plant that treats New York City's drinking water, which is worth saying because it explains the standard the software had to meet, not because Benfield claims any specific capacity figure or completion date for the job. The work itself was PLC software development and integration, the same discipline behind every other control system BCS builds.
Where BCS builds
The markets, beyond the three named jobs.
- Industrial plants
- Commercial buildings
- Critical power facilities
- Hospitals
- Data centers
What made those jobs possible
- In-house PLC and HMI programming
- Full design and AutoCAD drawing capability
- Power monitoring and SCADA system design
- Short circuit coordination and arc flash studies
- NYC EPR drawing submission
- On-site start-up and commissioning
- Certified NETA testing