Low voltage · Building controls · New York City
Olive Controls, Inc. installs the low-voltage systems that run commercial buildings: network cabling, access control, cameras, HVAC controls and lighting.
Inside the walls
Scroll through a typical building, one layer at a time.
The network every other system rides on. Cat6 and Cat6A to every outlet, access point and camera, and fiber up the riser between the MDF and each IDF.
Card readers, locks and door hardware wired back to a panel, with schedules and credentials the building manager can run without calling anyone.
IP cameras on PoE, placed by what they need to see: entrances, lobbies, corridors, garages and equipment rooms.
The building’s brain. DDC controllers on air handlers, VAVs, fan coils, pumps and plants, written to the engineer’s sequence and tied into one front end.
Relay panels, dimming, occupancy and daylight sensors, on schedules and overrides run from the same system as the HVAC.
When the alarm goes, the building has to respond. We wire and program the controls side: fan shutdown, smoke dampers and the hand-off to the fire alarm contractor.
Data, doors, cameras, comfort and light on one network, documented, and handed to an operator who can actually use it. When something needs attention, one number picks up.
Why one crew
A modern building runs on low voltage: data, doors, cameras, comfort and light. Most jobs split it across five trades fighting for the same ceiling. We’re the one crew that knows how it all connects.
What we install
From the first J-hook to the last graphic. Hover a card to land the wire.
Controllers, supervisors, graphics, trends and alarms. BACnet and Niagara work, and one front end the operator can actually use.
Cat6 and Cat6A to every outlet, access point and camera. Racks, patch panels, labels and test results.
Air handlers, VAVs, fan coils, rooftop units, plants and pumps, sequenced to the engineer’s spec.
Relay panels, 0–10 V dimming, occupancy and daylight sensors, tied to the BMS.
Singlemode and multimode risers between the MDF and every IDF, terminated and tested.
Readers, locks, door hardware and video entry, with schedules and credentials the manager can run.
IP cameras on PoE, recorders and remote viewing, placed by what each camera needs to see.
Access point drops, PoE switching, MDF and IDF build-outs, and closets that stay clean.
Fan shutdown, smoke dampers and duct detectors, coordinated with the fire alarm contractor.
No-heat, no-cool, failed controllers, dead ports, adds and changes. We pick up.
Why Olive
We’re not a manufacturer’s captive office. The sequence, the panel and the service number belong to the building.
The same people pull the cable, land the terminations and write the sequences, so nothing falls into the gap between trades.
No captive brand. We work on open protocols and the equipment the job calls for, and we can take over systems someone else installed.
Night shifts, phased cut-overs, ceilings closed at the end of the day. Tenants keep working while we do.
Labels at both ends, point lists, as-builts and test results, handed over with the keys.
Bronx-based, working all five boroughs. When something stops working, you call us.
How we work
A site survey with the GC, the engineer or the owner: pathways, ceiling access, existing systems, and what has to stay live.
Takeoff from the drawings: drops, devices, points, panels and conduit. A clear scope, with the exclusions written down.
Installation drawings, riser diagrams, point lists and device data sheets, approved before installation starts.
Sleeves, J-hooks, tray, backboxes and conduit, then cable pulled, dressed and supported.
Panels landed, jacks and patch panels terminated, every cable labeled at both ends.
Every drop tested and recorded. Every point checked end to end, from the device to the graphic.
Sequences, graphics, schedules and alarms, then functional tests with the engineer.
As-builts, training for the people who will run it, and service after the punch list is closed.
Where we work
Questions
Anything else, call us. You’ll get a straight answer.
Everything in a building that runs on signal and control wiring rather than line power: network cabling and fiber, Wi-Fi, access control and intercom, cameras, building automation, HVAC and lighting controls, and the interface to the fire alarm.
Yes. Most of our work is in buildings people are using. We schedule noisy and disruptive work for nights and weekends, phase cut-overs so systems stay live, and leave ceilings closed at the end of the shift.
Usually, yes. We are independent, so we work on open protocols and the equipment that is already there. We start with a walkthrough and a look at the existing controllers, network and drawings, then tell you plainly what can be kept.
General contractors, mechanical and electrical contractors, engineers, and building owners and managers directly. On new work we fit the GC’s schedule; on service work we answer to whoever runs the building.
The five boroughs of New York City, from our base in the Bronx.
The job address and who the GC or mechanical contractor is, the drawings if you have them (or a walkthrough date), the existing system brand for service or add work, and the real need-by date.
Next step
Estimates, service and extra work. Send the drawings or pick a walkthrough date, and we pick up.
OLIVE CONTROLS INC. · BRONX, NY · (347) 972-4318