Wedding DJ at Environmental Air Systems in High Point, NC

The Space

Environmental Air Systems is a full-service mechanical contractor and custom HVAC equipment manufacturer headquartered at 250 Swathmore Ave in High Point, offering mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contracting alongside HVAC design and building automation. The company acquired this 245,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility in October 2017, and it now houses EAS Construction, EAS Manufacturing, Envirotrol, and Starr Electric Company under one roof, consolidating what had previously been five separate locations across the Triad.

This is a working corporate headquarters, not a venue built for private events, so a gathering held here takes place inside real office and manufacturing space rather than a room designed around a wedding or reception. The building’s scale, 245,000 square feet, gives it the floor area to host a sizeable private function, even though that was never its intended use.

Capacity & Layout

More than 300 employees relocated to the Swathmore Ave facility when EAS moved its operations there, and the company has grown steadily since: it joined Comfort Systems USA, a national mechanical, electrical, and plumbing firm with more than 48 operating companies in 169 locations, in 2011, and added Starr Electric Company, an electrical services firm dating to 1928, in 2020.

A facility built to run four interconnected businesses under one roof, construction, manufacturing, building controls, and electrical services, has office, meeting, and open floor space well beyond what a small company would need, which is part of why it can accommodate a private event without disrupting daily operations elsewhere in the building.

Amenities

EAS itself is a manufacturer and mechanical contractor, so it does not offer catering, bar service, or event furniture as part of the building. Anyone hosting a private gathering here brings in every piece of that separately, the same way a company event at any corporate headquarters gets planned, from tables and linens to a caterer to a sound system for the DJ.

What the space does bring is more than 70 years of company history behind it: EAS was founded in 1953 by James R. Bullock and Edward Humble as a small mechanical HVAC company, and grew through the textile industry boom of the 1960s and 1970s into designing and manufacturing custom air handling units, an expansion that established the EAS name. The company is now recognized as a leader in custom air handling units for the biopharmaceutical, food, and general industries, and serves data centers and other mission-critical facilities alongside pharmaceutical and healthcare clients.

Location & Getting There

The facility sits at 250 Swathmore Ave in High Point, a central Triad location that consolidated operations from five separate area sites when EAS acquired the building in 2017. That central positioning makes it a reasonably easy destination for guests coming from across the Triad, whether they are driving in from Greensboro, Winston-Salem, or High Point itself, even though the company’s own project work reaches clients across the United States.

For a DJ working a private event inside a corporate facility like this, the practical job is running sound in whatever open floor space the company sets aside for the evening, office or manufacturing space rather than a room engineered for music, which means paying closer attention to speaker placement and coverage than a purpose-built ballroom would require.