ARCS Foundation Phoenix members visited the facility of Varitec Solutions and Climatec Building Technology Group (BTG) on January 9, 2017. The facility is a large, functioning office and showcase of the technologies being utilized to construct sustainable energy efficient buildings that meet today's sophisticated requirements in industries such as health care, data centers, semiconductor, higher education, research facilities, performing art centers and professional sports facitilites.  Demonstration areas include 24/7 Axcess Monitoring of buildings around the world, Direct Digital Control (DDC) systems training center, a Variable Refrigerant Volume (VRV) training and demo available in the world today, an Operating Room (OR) with state of the art HVAC technology for infectious disease control, OR telemetry monitoring and the latest in surgical lighting and visualization tools. Several Varitec and Climatec employees discussed these systems and technologies.