Proposal · Sioux City Pilot · 341-Store Rollout

Built to keep Menards
online and out of the red.

A turnkey single-source partner for chain-wide RTU replacement, Niagara controls, and proactive maintenance — handled by one team across every store.

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Outcome 1
Lower the maintenance, energy, and emergency-repair line on every P&L.
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Outcome 2
Keep the cooling and heating online — every store, every day.
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The Plan

A three-step program that pays for itself.

Modernize the equipment. Wire it together with an open Niagara platform. Keep it healthy with proactive maintenance instead of reactive repair. That's the program. The rest is execution.

01

Modernize the equipment

Twelve 30-ton rooftop units per store, replaced with new high-efficiency units on the existing curbs — supplied by Menards through National Account. Removal, set, install, manufacturer-certified factory startup, and electrical hookup are all part of MTC's scope. Full warranty preserved.

Certified startup R-454B / 2026 code-ready Full warranty preserved
02

Wire it together with Niagara

Every RTU connects to a Niagara JACE controller. Every store reports to a single chain-wide dashboard — schedules, alarms, energy use, outside-air optimization, all in one place. Built on open BACnet and Modbus protocols, no proprietary firmware, no re-platforming when something needs to change later.

Niagara / Tridium Chain-wide dashboard BACnet · Modbus
03

Keep it healthy with proactive maintenance

Quarterly PM crews on a defined route. Niagara watches every RTU 24/7 and fires alarms when filters load up, motors drift out of spec, or compressors start misbehaving — so we dispatch before the equipment quits, not after.

Quarterly PM 24/7 fault detection Annual report card
The Differentiator

An open system — Menards owns it forever.

Niagara / Tridium runs on industry-standard hardware. Any Honeywell-certified controls contractor can program it. Any qualified local mechanical company can perform PM. Standard tools, standard protocols, no proprietary firmware. MTC builds the platform and stays as long as Menards wants us — but Menards is never locked in.

Outcome 1 · Lower spend

From $80K reactive to $35.8K planned.

Our planning estimate of your current yearly HVAC maintenance cost is $70,000–$89,000 per store — most of it spent putting out fires. With Niagara dispatching before failures and PM running on a defined schedule, the same store runs around $35,800.

Category Reactive Baseline MTC PM + Controls Annual Savings
Emergency / after-hours callouts$28,000$10,400$17,600
Compressor / motor failures$18,000$2,450$13,000
Energy waste (drift, schedule, no FDD)$22,000$15,400$6,600
Premature equipment replacement$12,000$2,450$7,000
Per store · per year$80,000$35,800$44,200
Program-wide annual savings (× 341 stores)$15.0M / year
Outcome 2 · Higher uptime

Catch failures weeks before they happen.

Wireless vibration sensors on every fan motor and compressor feed the Niagara dashboard. Bearing wear, rotor imbalance, and refrigerant drift all show up as slow trends — long before they become 2 AM emergency calls.

What gets watched

Fan motor bearings · belt tension · compressor vibration · condenser fan balance · refrigerant pressure and temperature · filter differential pressure · economizer damper position. Every reading lands on the same dashboard, every alarm goes to the same on-call rotation.

What changes for the chain

Repairs scheduled, not scrambled. Filters changed when they're loaded, not by calendar. No surprise outages on the hottest day of summer. Comfort protected for shoppers and staff. Every store reports its uptime, its repair $, and its energy use to corporate.

~$8M / year
Additional chain-wide savings from condition-based predictive maintenance — emergency callouts dropped from 6/yr to 2/yr per store, fewer catastrophic compressor failures, less wasted PM on equipment that doesn't need it. Combined with the operational savings above, total chain-wide impact lands in the $18–20M / year range.
The Pilot

Starting in Sioux City.

One store retrofit end to end. 12 months of baseline vs. post-upgrade data captured. The Niagara template locked in before the chain rollout begins.

Menards Sioux City — full site, Google Maps satellite
  • SiteMenards Sioux City · 5900 E Gordon Dr
  • Building~163,000 sq ft retail
  • Rooftop Units12 × 30-ton (~360 tons total cooling)
  • StagingOn-site lumber yard — no off-site warehouse needed
  • Outcome12 months of measured savings & uptime data

Per-store cost — MTC scope only

RTU equipment supplied by Menards via National Account. The numbers below cover MTC's installation, electrical, and Niagara controls scope only.

ScopeQtyUnitPer Store
RTU equipment (National Account, owner-supplied)12N/AOwner-supplied
Crane, rigging, demo & set12$2,450$29,400
Mechanical install labor12$6,500$78,000
Electrical disconnect / whip refresh12$2,800$33,600
Niagara controller + sensors + programming12$4,200$50,400
Site supervisor + JACE + dashboard + factory-certified startup & commissioning1 lot$44,000$44,000
Project management, mobilization, permits1 lot$22,000$22,000
MTC Installation & Controls — Per-Store Total$257,400
Rollout

Phased so the savings start before the bill grows.

Pilot first. Prove the platform with 12 months of measured data. Then scale out at a pace that fits Menards' capital plan — not at a pace that overruns it. Per-store cost drops in Phase 3 as the Niagara template, install crew, and supervisor build are amortized.

Phase 1 · Year 1
Sioux City Pilot
Full retrofit. 12 months of baseline vs. post-upgrade data. Niagara template locked.
Phase 2 · Year 1–2
Regional Wave
~30 stores in IA, NE, SD. Refine logistics and crew rotation patterns.
Phase 3 · Year 2–4
National Rollout
~80–100 stores per year. Crew + template fully amortized.
Phase 4 · Year 4–5
Completion + PM
Final stores complete. All 341 enrolled in chain-wide PM program.
Bottom Line

One partner. Lower spend. Higher uptime.

Built right at the pilot, then standardized across the chain. Measured savings, a shared dashboard, manufacturer-certified equipment, and an open platform Menards owns forever.

$257K
Per-store install + controls
$15M+ / yr
PM + energy savings
$8M / yr
Predictive maintenance savings

Next step: joint scoping call + Sioux City site walk

We'll bring the Niagara dashboard demo, the full RTU schedule, and a draft master agreement. Three weeks from a green light to mobilizing on the pilot.

Taylor Nees · MTC Mechanical · [email protected] · (712) 210-6280