10.11.22
The Minneapolis Bus Garage Project consists of a 350,000-square-foot bus garage to support a fleet of new buses for the City of Minneapolis. This includes a 3-bay fueling station, 2 bus washing bays, 24 maintenance bays, parking for 220 busses, underground employee parking and 3 floors of office space.
During preconstruction, Harris worked with the EOR to value engineer the mechanical system to substitute single package simultaneous water to water heat pumps to provide the building’s ...
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Harris was awarded the mechanical and plumbing scopes for the second WeWork office space located on the Innovation Pointe campus. Harris’ outstanding performance and quality on previous WeWork projects was a key factor in securing this project. As a member of the design team for the Innovation Pointe Building Two Core & Shell project, Harris was able to provide design assistance for the WeWork design to help with integrating the new tenant space into the existing building systems. This ...
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Harris was awarded the Malouf Mezzanine Expansion design-build project for Malouf Fine Linens. The scope of the project included turning warehouse space into a two-level mezzanine office/retail/photo area for the client. Malouf came to Harris, with the help of Big D Construction, with a design concept they wanted to execute, including a new VRF system to suit their needs for the cooler climate of their location.
Harris designed an HVAC and plumbing system that included 4...
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The Kearns Building project was a complete remodel of the plumbing, chilled, heating and HVAC systems in the Kearns Building, built in 1911.
The remodel of the Kearns Building was done in 2 phases. First, the plumbing was removed from floors 2-10 on the west side, keeping the east side restrooms in operation. Phase 1 also consisted of removing the existing chilled water system and associated equipment and installing new duct work on the west wings and future restrooms.
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Miracle Mile Shops is a 1.2-mile-long shopping mall on the Las Vegas Strip. It consists of 170 stores, 15 restaurants and live entertainment venues. Miracle Mile Shops decided to add their own Central Plant due to energy rates from a Centralized Utility Plant (Westgate) that they are currently attached to. They added (3) 1,000-ton York YMC2 Chillers as well as (3) B&G Chilled and Condenser Pumps and (3) Marley Cooling towers, along with a piping system to serve their (3) main Energy Transfer ...
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For over 30 years, Harris has been the HVAC contractor of choice for Verizon Communications, a large communications and data provider based out of Basking Ridge, NJ. We received our master subcontractor agreement with Verizon in 1990. In preparation for the rollout of the nationwide 5G wireless network, Verizon has made tremendous investments to update their existing data centers to facilitate the new servers needed to implement this new technology. They own over 600 switching sites and data centers in the DMV ...
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Harris has been serving one of the world’s largest cloud storage providers for several years and has become a trusted partner for their critical data center campuses in northern Virginia and Ohio. All projects for this owner are evaporative cooling designs and are on average 250,000 square feet each. The projects utilize industrial water evaporative coolers and hot aisle containment to cool the equipment. Power rooms are also cooled using evaporative CRAH units and exhaust fans. Battery rooms and ...
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Harris teamed up with Hensel Phelps for the plumbing a mechanical scope of the AME Polymers Lab (core and shell) and the AME Office building on the 2200 block of the laboratory. These two buildings were part of the first Applied Materials Engineering (AME) area plan put together by LLNL and NNSA to support stockpile stewardship.
Polymers lab consisted of a 13,000-square-foot, single story building with a complete mechanical and plumbing system with integrated ...
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The Whatcom Community College Student House Phase 1 is an 89,000-square-foot, 221 bed dormitory facility. Additionally, it includes administration offices, public rest rooms, laundry, a mechanical equipment room, kitchen and community rooms. The structure is wood framing with electric cove heat in the dormitories, VRF in the offices and packaged DX units for the community rooms.
Harris contributed by developing an early schematic design budget that yielded excellent value for the owner. We were able design to this budget ...
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Harris worked as the mechanical contractor on the Xcel 414 Critical Infrastructure Upgrades project. The work consisted of replacing existing pipe, duct and equipment to upgrade the existing HVAC systems.
The building’s activities had to be maintained during construction. Harris provided temporary systems to allow normal work to continue while permanent systems were demoed and reinstalled. Harris also had to coordinate multiple shutdowns with the owner and other trades. This building has critical data centers that could ...
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