Huston Goes Gold!
After six years of steady growth, Huston AVTech has achieved Gold Dealership status with Control4. Control4 is the industry standard for Home Control and Small Business Automation systems. Control4 dealers can raise their status level by achieving purchasing goals for the year. The benefit of achieving these levels raises dealer visibility on the Control4 website and is a stamp of professionalism and competence for Huston AVTech.
A special thank you to all of our clients for trusting Huston to install these amazing Home Control and Business Automation systems. We look forward to new partnerships and growth in the future.
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Huston Electric, Inc. receives Journal & Courier’s Reader’s Choice Award for the category “Best Electrician”
For the 6th year in a row Huston Electric, Inc. is proud to accept the Journal & Courier’s Reader’s Choice Award for the category “Best Electrician”.We are so proud of our amazing staff who have made this possible, and for the community who has embraced us for so long.
We were founded in 1939 by Donald and Julia Huston. They worked out of a small office and barn located on Markland Ave. in Kokomo, Indiana. Don got his start doing small electrical work while Julia prepared and delivered the billings after a day of teaching school. At the start of WWII, Don had some copper wire on hand. This was an integral part of being able to do electrical work as copper wire was rationed for the war, but because he had stock he could replace it as he used it. In the early 70’s his son, David Huston, took over and ran the company as President & CEO before he passed away in 1997. It was around this time that Huston opened an office in Lafayette. Jon and Jason Huston currently manage our Lafayette location and are highly involved in the local community. In recent years we have expanded by opening a YESCO Franchise, and office in Westfield, and a large format printing division in Lafayette – Eight38 Graphics. Our roots are firmly planted in electrical contracting, but over the years Huston has expanded to offer our customers a wide variety of services. We have divisions in generators and compressors, telecommunications, signs and services, Control4 home and business automation and SMART interactive displays. Our customers appreciate that we are able to help them with so many of their home and business needs, while having employees that are knowledgeable in their specific division to ensure that the customer is getting the best service we can provide. Our employees, customers, and community have allowed us to grow and prosper for more than 75 years. We have had the privilege of being engaged in our community and are so thankful for the opportunities presented to us. Thank you for your continued support!
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Huston Team Helps City Of Kokomo With New Stadium Signage
Huston’s Sign Division had the privilege to work with the City of Kokomo on many of the signs at the Kokomo Municipal Stadium. The City of Kokomo approached Huston with architectural drawings and designs and Huston offered competitive pricing and ultimately delivered in manufacturing and installing the various sign packages. We worked closely with Ross Pierce, the City’s System Project Designer. The sign projects came in phases as the stadium was being built and from start to finish we were involved for a year and a half with approximately 70 signs throughout the stadium. We are grateful to have been a part of this beautiful stadium and all that it has to offer.
“Huston worked with us on the very specific designs that we wanted for the Stadium and exceeded our expectations on craftsmanship and with their technicians’ workmanship. From start to finish, everyone with Huston were extremely easy to work with and were eager to satisfy the City’s needs.”
– Ross Pierce, System Project Designer
Huston’s signs include the architectural letters identifying “Kokomo Municipal Stadium” and Section Seating signs, Suite, Restroom, and other Wayfinding signage.
The architectural letters reading “Kokomo Municipal Stadium” are 1” thick cast aluminum letters that are stud-mounted into the brick that surrounds the stadium.
Inside the stadium there are multi-layer painted aluminum signs that identify section seating, suite numbers, and restrooms. We ended up producing about 30 signs directing fans where their seats or other amenities are located, with another 30 signs labeling each room in the stadium. These signs hang from the ceiling or are mounted perpendicularly on steel beams.
Additionally, there are many multi-layer acrylic signs that are ADA compliant identifying handicap seating, restrooms, tickets, offices, storage rooms, and “No-Smoking”. To better define certain zones, we needed some extra signage to show that some space is for ADA compliant seating. We also wanted to re-emphasize that Kokomo Municipal Stadium is a smoke-free environment with signs throughout.
“This was an exciting project to work be a part of and, by far, one of my favorites! The signage plans for Kokomo Municipal Stadium began in the fall of 2014 and by the time the stadium was fully completed we were able to install the last of the signs in the spring of 2016. I was fully invested over the course of the project and take pride in the work that our Huston team provided. Any time my family and I go to a Jackrabbits game I can’t help but feel a sense of appreciation for getting to a play small part in Kokomo’s beautiful Municipal Stadium.” –Samantha Milburn, Project Manager for Huston’s Sign Division
Huston Signs/ Eight38 Graphics is a full service branding, graphics and custom signage company serving central Indiana. We specialize in helping our customers create their brand and then assisting them in marketing that brand to the public. We help our customers visually communicate their brand in the following ways: business cards and letterhead, vehicle wraps and vinyl lettering, interior wall wraps, construction site signs, post and panel signs and way finding signage. To learn more about Huston/Eight38 Graphics, please visit us at www.hustonelectric.com and www.838graphics.com.
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors.
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A Brighter, Lighter Kokomo Event Center Awaits You!
Kokomo Event Center
Huston’s Electrical Service Division recently provided an LED retro-fit at the Kokomo Event Center and the stats on cost savings are incredible! They are saving 170-watts per fixture, increasing the life expectancy of each fixture by 82,000 hours, and received a $238 rebate per fixture from Duke Energy. For a complete breakdown please see below.
Existing Metal Halide Fixtures:
Qty. 120
400-watt Metal Halides
40 foot candles
Average life of lamps 18,000 hours
Color rendering index 62
New LED Fixtures:
Qty. 120
230-watt LED High Bays
75 foot candles
Average life of LEDs 100,000 hours
Color rendering index 80
Annual Energy Savings:
$11,983 energy saved per year
Based on 10 cents per kilowatt hour burning at 3,744 hours per year
Local Utility Energy Incentive:
$238 – per fixture
$238 x 120 fixtures = $28,560 total rebate amount from local utility Duke Energy
For information on lighting retro-fits and energy savings for your home or business contact Dennis Lane at [email protected] or reach him at the Huston office 765-457-9137.
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors.
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Gas City’s Industrial Park Gets New Pylon Sign
Gas City’s Industrial Park now has a pylon sign to advertise its businesses including the Walmart Distribution Center, American Woodmark, Wright Repair, and BWI (Butterworth Industries). This multi-tenant sign is internally illuminated with LEDs providing a nice, bright-white illumination for the sign faces. The tenant faces are flat with digitally printed graphics while the header cabinet has pan formed faces with digitally printed graphics.
With the help of Bowman Construction, the foundation was added by excavating and setting two steel tubes in concrete. From there, we welded the signs to the steel tubes and the masonry was added.
“Huston Electric was an easy choice for the city’s new industrial park sign. We have worked with Huston in the past and have never been disappointed. Their level of training, attention to detail and quick response to our needs resulted in a successful project that complements our industrial park.The clients of our industrial park are pleased at the increased visibility for their companies. Samantha Milburn was great to work with, her knowledge, experience and professionalism are an asset to Huston. Thanks Huston, we look forward to working with you again.” – Brad Kline, Permits Officer
We want to send a big “thank you” to the City of Gas City for choosing Huston for this sign project!
Huston Signs provides and installs electronic message centers, channel letters, architecturalletters, monument signs, pylon signs, neon signs and blade signs. Huston has physical locations in Kokomo, Lafayette and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Huston Signs/ Eight38 Graphics is a full service branding, graphics and custom signage company serving central Indiana. We specialize in helping our customers create their brand and then assisting them in marketing that brand to the public. We help our customers visually communicate their brand in the following ways: business cards and letterhead, vehicle wraps and vinyl lettering, interior wall wraps, construction site signs, post and panel signs and way finding signage.
To learn more about Huston / Eight38 Graphics, please visit us at www.hustonelectric.com and www.838graphics.com.
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors.
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Huston Upgrades Rieth Riley’s Asphalt Plant Lighting
Rieth-Riley is an industry leader in asphalt and concrete paving, site preparation and excavation, bridge construction, and underground utility installation . Because they supply asphalt to a huge area, there is constant traffic through the plant at all hours of day and night. They simply don’t have time for inefficient exterior safety lighting, so they called Huston Electric for a much-needed upgrade.
Their 15 existing outdoor security lights were 500 watt halogen light fixtures. Not only did these lights cost around $3,200.00 to operate, they are 40 to 60 feet in the air. The height of the fixtures makes maintenance dangerous and very expensive.
Huston Electric replaced the outdated fixtures with LEDTRONICS energy efficient 150 watt LED light fixtures. These lights will be virtually maintenance free, eliminating that cost altogether. Because they are energy efficient, the new bulbs will save Rieth-Riley over $2,200 a year in energy costs. In addition to the money savings, these lights will increase plant safety by casting a brighter, cleaner light.
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, smart boards, lighting retrofits, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors. Huston Electric has four locations including Lafayette, Kokomo and Westfield, IN. To learn more about Huston’s products and services, please visit www.hustonelectric.com.
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Huston Electric Upgrades Lighting In Milestone’s Lafayette Location
Huston Electric recently upgraded the lighting in Milestone’s Lafayette location. Their 12 existing 1100 watt metal halide fixtures were inefficient and expensive to operate, costing them over $5,000 a year! We installed new 400 watt Cooper Lighting HBLED fixtures, for a utility cash rebate of over $1,000. The energy savings for these new fixtures will be over $3,000 a year, not to mention maintenance savings of $1,500 since they will never have to change a lamp.
Cooper Lighting HBLED fixture
Milestone Contractors provide construction services for all phases of highway construction and site development throughout the state of Indiana. Having the ability to be the sole contractor needed for the job is a great source of pride for them, and they strive to deliver intricate projects on time and within budget without compromising safety.
Saving money isn’t the only way these new LED fixtures will benefit Milestone. LED lights turn on immediately, with no wait time. The old metal halide lamps took up to 15 minutes to warm up before reaching their full light output. No more standing around waiting every morning for the lights to fire up, Milestone employees can now get to work right away. They will also have a brighter and safer work environment with the LED lighting, which has been proven to increase morale and productivity.
Milestone shop during the lighting upgrade. The rectangular fixtures are new LED, round fixtures are old metal halide.The difference in light quality is easy to see.
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors. To learn more about Huston, please visit us www.hustonelectric.com
Referance: http://www.milestonelp.com/about-milestone.htm
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27th Annual Huston Electric Golf Outing!
It’s almost time for the 27th Annual Huston Electric Golf Outing! On Saturday, August 27th, we will be playing to benefit two deserving local charities, Food Finders Food Bank and the YMCA.
Founded in 1981, Food Finders has donated over 7 million pounds of food annually to Tippecanoe and 15 surrounding counties. While that’s pretty impressive, they actually do even more to help the community. For low-income Lafayette residents, the JP Lisack Community Food Pantry serves as an easily accessible emergency resource. The Food Finders Food Bank Food Resource & Education Center offers nutrition classes, SNAP assistance, and referral services to other social-service organizations. By teaching families about budgeting, meal preparation, cooking, and nutrition, Food Finders aims to help them become more independent.
The Lafayette Family YMCA believes everyone should have access to a healthy lifestyle, regardless of age, ability, or income level. With two locations, they have been an important part of the Lafayette community since 1889. Through their youth programs, children can get much needed exercise and make new friends in a safe environment. Parents work out worry-free thanks to the included childcare program, and young adults develop leadership skills and form relationships with their peers in teen programs. All of this is done with a focus on their core values: caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.
Last year’s Huston Golf Outing was a big success, and we think this year will be even better! Join us at Coyote Crossing Golf Course on Saturday, August 27th for a fun game of golf, lunch, and a great cause.
To learn more about our charities, visit http://www.food-finders.org/ and http://www.lafayettefamilyymca.org/.
For more information on the Huston Electric 27th Annual Golf Outing, call us at 765-474-6115.
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New High Resolution Audio Brings Powerful High Quality Sound Back To Music!
Do you remember carrying around that 8-pound binder you had filled with all of those shiny little round things called CDs? The audio quality was fantastic on all the new music and even Steve Miller Band’s greatest hits sounded amazing remastered. And then came along this little device called the Ipod. And we said, “You mean I can take all my Weezer, Nirvana, and Pink Floyd CDs and put them in my hip pocket? Count me in.
” All of that convenience and portability was great but…there was a catch; the compression of bit rate and bit depth. Without getting into a lot of technical jargon, what that means is all of that uncompressed data on a CD had to be smashed to a smaller size for transportation and storage on an Ipod or MP3 player. And the result? Lower sound quality. Most of us now accept the quality of our stored music as “normal”. Most millennials don’t even have any idea what else they can compare it to. The CD format to them is like an 8 track to my generation. And this generation has moved into the world of music streaming. Music is now stored in a cloud server and played on demand through the network on your computer or mobile device through various streaming services. But yet again all of streamed data requires compression…until now. Our recent advancements in computer processing, networking bandwidths and speed have made lossless audio accessible outside the realm of the CD format. The music and audio industry have gotten behind a new standardization called High-res or high resolution audio. With High-res audio we will have the ability to steam or download music in as good or better than CD quality audio. New high-res audio players will be able to play and stream the new format. How can I access this new technology? Well, Control4, the nation’s leader in Home Control systems, has included high res audio access in each of their new line of EA controllers. Native apps like Tidal and Deezer are accessible to stream to your stereo or whole house audio system for the best audio format EVER HEARD. Per usual, Control4 has set the trend in the technology curve. And let’s not forget that each these controllers can add video control, lighting control, HVAC control and much more…. Check out these entertainment solutions for more information. Huston is a proud installer and supplier of all Control4 Home Control products. Paired with our line of Paradigm pro-audio speakers and amplifiers, you will not only hear the difference, you will feel it. Nate Cushman – Custom Electronics Integrator – Huston Technology
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, smart boards, lighting retrofits, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors. Huston Electric has four locations including Lafayette, Kokomo and Westfield, IN. To learn more about Huston’s products and services, please visit www.hustonelectric.com
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HUSTON RELIGHTS OMNI FORGE
Onmi Forge’s old-fashioned 440 watt high pressure sodium lights kept their plant dull and yellowed, so they reached out to Huston Electric for a lighting upgrade. Inefficient lighting inflates energy costs and can have a negative impact on employee safety and morale. Huston Electric recommended switching their lighting over to LED, which can cut energy costs in half, and can improve morale, safety and the overall workspace atmosphere.
To accommodate Omni Forge’s production schedule, the Huston Electric crew worked second shift, reducing any employee safety issues or down time. They got to work right away, first removing all 75 of the 440 watt fixtures and disposing of them in an environmentally safe way. Huston Electric then furnished and installed 75 brand-new 183 watt, energy efficient LED Lithonia light fixtures in the nonproduction 277 volt area.
Image credit: Lithonia Website { http://www.lithonia.com/commercial/jhbl.html#.V3qgm_krLIU}
Once the work was completed to Omni Forge’s satisfaction, Huston Electric was happy to provide, file and track the Nipsco rebate application as an added courtesy. Many local utilities offer a cash incentive to upgrade to LED lighting, email [email protected] for more local incentive details.
The result of this LED upgrade was nothing short of dramatic. The biggest and most immediate difference happened the moment the new LED lights were switched on.
What had been a dull, yellowed work area was transformed into a brighter, whiter, and cleaner looking environment. LED fixtures emit a clearer and brighter light, improving visibility, safety, and morale for employees working near the 2,500 degree furnaces.
“Studies suggest that whilst lighting alone is unlikely to have a strong effect on performance, it is one of several factors that combine to create healthy work environments that in turn help promote employee engagement, well-being and productivity. (Konstantinou)”**
In addition, long lasting LED bulbs are more rugged and durable, eliminating the need for maintenance or replacements. Customers who switch to LED lighting also save, on average, up to 50% on energy bills. Huston Electric offers a 1 year labor warranty and 5 year parts warranty on their LED lighting jobs, to ensure the transition will be worry-free for our clients.
Huston Inc. was founded in 1939 and has divisions specializing in electrical contracting and service, home and business automation, smart boards, lighting retrofits, telecommunications, visual communications and signage, generators and compressors. Huston Electric has four locations including Lafayette, Kokomo and Westfield, IN. To learn more about Huston’s products and services, please visit www.hustonelectric.com.
**Block quote, source: http://www.cassknowledge.com/sites/default/files/article-attachments/lighting-work-performance-cass.pdf
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