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Harris was selected by Cushman & Wakefield NorthMarq to upgrade the building automation system. The RBC Plaza had an existing Honeywell XL Plus system with an integrated fire alarm. The upgrades required the mechanical BAS to be separated from the fire alarm system in the 40-story skyscraper in downtown Minneapolis.
Once the BAS and Fire Alarm systems were split, Harris was able to take control of all mechanical equipment in the penthouse and lower mechanical rooms as ...
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Harris installed KMC Controls in the Bielenberg Sports Center Field House to control the TRAK heat pump system. We installed 170 temperature sensors throughout the field house and the outdoor pleasure rink to control the TRAK system and the building temperature. Nine of the sensors are in the manmade pond by the heat exchangers and in the piping to dissipate the heat in the summer. This keeps the water loop cool, this technique will help make the TRAK ...
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For the River Towers HVAC Revitalization and Remediation project, Harris was the general contractor with multiple subcontractors direct with the owner. The project was design-build with mechanical, electrical, structural and architectural scope of work. The project consisted of condos with (2) towers, one 30 stories and the other 18 stories. There were also boilers, snowmelt, pool heating, plumbing heating and a 200-foot lattice flue structure up through the center of the building. This was an HVAC retrofit project that also ...
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The Ridgeview Medical Center Surgery Remodel project was awarded to Harris as a design-build project. Harris provided the ductwork, design and engineering, HVAC, medical gas piping plumbing and test and balance for the project. We added new radiant panels above the patient beds along with a new headwall layout. The remodel was approximately 6,000 square feet and consisted of 23 beds.
This project was completed in ...
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Once Harris completed construction of the new Park Nicollet clinic and ramp, it was time to get started on remodeling the existing clinic. The existing clinic is roughly 80,000 square feet and is to remain open during construction.
Knutson Construction worked with the owner and put together a multi-phased schedule. Each phase would cover a certain area of the clinic while the surrounding areas remained open to patients. Multiple phases on a building of ...
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The Park Nicollet Specialty Center and Parking Ramp project is a new 86,000 square-foot clinic in Burnsville, Minnesota. The project consisted of building both a new three-story clinic and specialty care center, as well as a three-level parking garage. The clinic will include a same-day surgery center, urgent care center and medical and surgical specialty care.
Harris provided the ductwork, design and engineering, HVAC, mechanical piping, medical gas piping, plumbing and preconstruction services. A ...
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Harris worked with Standby Systems Inc to fabricate 13 skids for a General Electric propane vapor system to be installed in the country of Ghana, Africa. The skids, which were shipped internationally, contained piping, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, structural frames and supports for the metering and vaporization of the propane.
Framing and piping for the skids were constructed from 304 stainless steel, which quality specifications were required to meet the pressure equipment directive (PED) of ...
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The customer required a conveyor system to transport product from the discharge of a freezer system over to a new case packer. The conveyor system also needed as much accumulation time built into is as possible. The customer wanted this system to be able to be used for up to 16 package sizes and rates. The Harris conveyor design group used our experience from many other accumulation systems to design a conveyor system that was dual lane with over 500 total ...
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Harris was responsible for design and installation of a dual spiral accumulation system. The customer was hand palletizing cases of product creating a space issue and a bottle neck in the packaging area. The customer wanted to automate and minimize the footprint of this process to create valuable space to be used for growth. This customer had worked with Harris previously, purchasing our vertical sanitary conveyors and chose to work with our company again because of our ...
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This project was a custom designed conveyor system to handle meat patties and also the same meat patties after they are put into the package for retail sale. The unpackaged product conveyors use modular belting with Harris sanitary conveyor frame design. These conveyors transport the raw product from a freezer tunnel over to a hand loading station to go into an automatic shrink wrapper. The packaged product conveyors transport the wrapped product from the shrink wrapper to ...
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