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Archive: 2022

10.06.22

Tucson Arizona Temple

In 2012, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced plans to build the first Temple in Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Arizona Temple will serve as a place of worship for the more than 30,000 active Latter-day Saints living in the Tucson area. The Tucson Arizona Temple will be the sixth temple built in Arizona. President Dieter Uchtodorf, the second counselor of the First Presidency of the Church, says the temple is for people who are members of ...Read More
10.05.22

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Visitor Quarters Building

Harris bid this project as a hard bid project and was able to secure the project through our experience in this type of construction. The new building is 164,200 square feet and includes 262 new guest rooms. It has guest laundries, business center, training rooms, and exercise rooms. Harris installed a complete chilled and heating water central plant that included over 4 miles on hydronic piping on the project along with vertical stacked four pipe fan coils and multiple dedicated ...Read More
10.04.22

Kearns Building

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. Read More
10.04.22

Hill AFB Fire Crash Rescue Building

The Hill Air Force Base located in northern Utah is the sixth largest employer in the state and home of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex which manages a wide range of aircrafts. The Hill AFB Fire Crash Rescue Facility supports the base’s flight line operations and is a critical life safety facility. Harris took a Design-Build role on the project, working closely with Colvin Engineering to design and install the plumbing, piping and HVAC systems in ...Read More
10.03.22

Confidential Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Facility Phase I

Harris was hired as the mechanical contractor for the Confidential Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Facility Phase I project. The manufacturing facility is being used to build a new electric sedan model. For the project, Harris provided the services of BIM, design and engineering, HVAC, plumbing and preconstruction services while subcontracting crane, insulation and rigging. The project had a delayed start with an already aggressive schedule. As a solution, Harris held meetings with the owner ...Read More
10.03.22

Madison Square Garden Sphere

Harris is once again involved in constructing the latest iconic location on the Las Vegas Strip. Once completed in 2023, MSG Sphere will be a state-of-the-art 20,000 seat concert and special event venue that will provide an amazing once-in-a-lifetime visual and auditory experience. The MSG Sphere will have 170,000 sq. ft. of interior ultra HD LED screens and all sound will be delivered by “beamforming” technology, instead of overhead hanging speakers, allowing all attendees to experience any event the exact same way ...Read More
10.03.22

Pepco Waterfront Substation

The Pepco Waterfront Substation project was a new substation installation for the Potomac Electric Power Company of Washington, D.C. It was a design-assist job with Coakley Williams Construction and their mechanical engineer, META Engineers. The building had to be designed to house and accommodate a new ABB turbine technology that Pepco was using to make power with a smaller footprint than their traditional power plants. The site in Southeast Washington, D.C. was selected because of its proximity ...Read More
10.03.22

Confidential Data Centers

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 ...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
10.03.22

SFSU Science Replacement Building

Harris Bay Area has teamed up with Harris Design Studio on a design-build project for San Francisco State University. The new science building project includes 126,000 GSF building which will provide students with classrooms, learning labs, research labs, etc. This target value design project will include integrated project delivery process, tools, and behaviors and is expected to achieve LEED Gold. Harris was given the schematic design documents and is currently working on the design documents and will be ...Read More