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Archive: 2022

10.12.22

Ridgeview Medical Center Surgery Remodel

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 ...Read More
10.11.22

Park Nicollet Burnsville Existing Clinic Remodel

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 ...Read More
10.11.22

Park Nicollet Regional Specialty Center

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 ...Read More
10.10.22

Abbott Emergency Department Renovation

Harris was hired by JE Dunn Construction for a complete mechanical and plumbing upgrade for the 48,000-square foot emergency department remodel project at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. This project included a new heating water system and upgraded built-in-place custom air handling unit. The existing dual duct was changed out to a new VAV system with return valves and pressure monitoring and control. An upgraded control system and graphics package was also included for the remodeled emergency department and ...Read More
10.03.22

UCSF Benioff Oakland Children’s Hospital

Harris was selected as the mechanical contractor for this renovation of the Benioff Oakland Children’s Hospital, largely based on our long and successful history of hospital construction in the Bay Area, as well as our ability to execute the plumbing, mechanical piping and HVAC dry components under a single contract. This 28,000-square-foot 2-story remodel and upgrade consists of a new 23 bed PICU unit supported by an on suite Pharmacy, Pharmacy Hood, PBX/Sta lab and morgue.Read More
10.03.22

Stanford Hospital Clinical Lab Replacement

Stanford Clinical Lab was comprised of four initial phases. The initial phase consisted of a rehabilitation work in preparation for the more robust rehabilitation in phases 2 and 4. These larger phases involved craning in a temporary air handling unit which would provide airflow into adjacent spaces while we stripped down and completely rebuilt the Clinical Lab space. The phase 2 workspace was also located directly below active operation rooms that would not allow for noise and vibration to occur ...Read More
09.30.22

La Clinica Expansion

Harris was hired as the mechanical contractor to renovate an historic building located in downtown Vallejo for the La Clinica project. The exterior of the building was preserved while the interior was demolished. The facility serves as a dental clinic for the community. Harris’ scope was plumbing only on this project which included the domestic waters, sanitary, storm drainage (including subsurface drainage within the building) and medical gases. At the dental chairs, our ...Read More
09.30.22

Whidbey General Hospital Addition + Renovation

The Whidbey General Hospital Addition and Renovation project consisted of full mechanical scope for an addition and renovation to the existing facility. The addition consisted of 45 bed patient rooms, ICU rooms and labor and delivery rooms. The renovation included build out of pharmacy, lab and perioperative spaces. The HVAC systems included new penthouse air handlers feeding an VRF system. The hospital’s domestic water supply source was an encased well and the water quality was poor. A ...Read More
09.30.22

Building 101 Mental Health + Research Building

The Building 101 Mental Health and Research Building project scope included all plumbing, medical gases and mechanical work associated with the 203,000 square-foot new building. Harris also installed a central plant upgrade and new utilities in an existing tunnel, all while not impacting the main hospital. The new multi-story building incorporates 68,000 square feet of space for mental health services with 111,000 square feet dedicated to research and 20,000 square feet for administrative support. The VA Mental Hospital is built with the ...Read More
10.13.20

Epic Data Center

The new data center, previously owned by a private client, is currently owned by Epic. Epic is a privately held healthcare software company. The data center is a 62,000 square foot two-story building that was designed to support the client’s campuses in Rochester, Scottsdale and Jacksonville. The project consisted of 3-300-ton chillers, 2 hot water boilers, 2 steam boilers, 4 chilled water pumps, 4 heating water pumps, 2-15,000-gallon fuel oil tanks, fuel oil pumps, humidifiers, plumbing piping, HVAC piping, fuel oil ...Read More