After several visits to the IUOE International Training and Education Center in Crosby, Texas, we saw a need for a quality BAS trainer. They didn’t ask for one. We took it on ourselves.

It started with a Friday afternoon trip to Home Depot with Jamie Hardouin and Mike Clayton. We bought a rolling tool cart, and Jamie built it into our first trainer: a working CBAS panel on wheels that a student can wire, program and break without hurting a real building.

Nasser Dollah, IUOE’s Director of Stationary Training, liked it enough to show it to Milwaukee Tool, and Milwaukee donated a full set of carts. Milwaukee provided the carts; we did the design and the build-out. Today fourteen of them are in use at ITEC.

That’s what the partnership is about: operating engineers learning on real controls so they own their buildings, not the other way around.

Read more about Computrols and the IUOE International Training & Education Center.