03.22.18
The University of Minnesota Physics and Nanotechnology Building houses 200 faculty, post-doctorate and graduate students, and visiting researchers. Harris was awarded the mechanical contract for this state-of-the-art facility and provided the HVAC, plumbing, piping, controls and fire protection. Harris worked with the construction team to complete this difficult lab-intensive project on-time and on budget.
Highlights of the new building include more than 43,000 square feet of highly flexible physics laboratories and laboratory support space. An additional 15,000 square feet has ...
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Harris provided design-build services to JE Dunn Construction to build a new five-story hotel in Woodbury, Minnesota. This 150-room hotel serves corporate clients and business travelers in the eastern suburbs including 3M, Anderson Windows and HealthEast. Hotel amenities included a full-service kitchen, restaurant, bar, exercise room, indoor pool, and meeting and event space.
Harris was contracted to provide the design, engineering, plumbing, HVAC and controls scope for the project. A heavy emphasis on preconstruction services allowed the ...
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Harris helped Novus Energy LLC design and build a mobile demonstration plant. The demonstration plant is a trailer-mounted, waste-to-energy conversion system which is fully integrated with its own automated control system. The system is a completely functional plant capable of converting high-solid organic materials to methane-rich bio-gas, organic fertilizer and clean water.
The demonstration plant has been used to showcase new technology and fine-tune the design configuration for full-scale plants. It has been operating since 2010 and has ...
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The Physician Assistant Program at Bethel University provides training to students seeking jobs to fill an important and growing new role within clinics and hospital systems. Bethel University was on a fast-track to create a learning space for their new program, which involved an upgrade an existing office space to a state-of-the-art hands-on lab and classroom that would include patient simulators. Driven by enrollment, the renovation had to be done in a relatively short space of time.
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Xcel Energy needed a new administration building near the site of its Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant. The building was designed to house more than 300 employees and save Xcel money on energy costs. Harris completed the HVAC, plumbing, piping and temperature controls for the new building.
As part of the contract, Harris installed a 100-foot long snowmelt system for the roof of the 79,930-square foot facility.
Working near a nuclear plant meant Harris employees needed ...
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In August 2008, Harris began a 275,000-square foot addition to the existing Minneapolis Children’s Hospital consisting of an eight-story vertical expansion, a new central plant and front entry along with extensive renovations.
Harris provided complete design-build engineering and installation of all mechanical, plumbing, medical gases and temperature control systems for this project. Manufacturing ductwork and piping was key to streamline the installation and meet an aggressive “fast-track” schedule.
The eight-story addition included an energy plant ...
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