12.18.15
Harris provided both plumbing and HVAC services for the Park Nicollet Women’s Center at Methodist Hospital located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. The design-build project included a 30,000-square foot build-out on the fifth floor of the existing hospital. Work included the installation of a new 35,000 cubic feet per minute custom air handling unit installed in the penthouse above.
Harris took several steps to ensure construction did not disrupt the hospital’s day-to-day operations. Plumbing work on ...
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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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Harris construction and controls teams collaborated on this state-of-the-art inpatient pharmacy conveniently located on the first floor of the hospital. The pharmacy relocation project was a complete design-build effort aiming to transform an existing hospital space into a new inpatient pharmacy that satisfied the needs of the Minneapolis Children’s Hospital.
The goal of the design and subsequent construction was to provide the hospital with a fail-safe, stand-alone mechanical system for three new clean rooms. To make ...
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Qteros is a biofuel startup that produces ethanol from various biomass feedstocks. The cellulosic ethanol fermentation pilot plant can produce about 1,000 gallons of ethanol from biomass sources such as wood chips and fibrous plant residues. Harris furnished equipment, design engineering and installation services, working closely with Qteros to integrate used owner furnished equipment and new equipment to build the pilot plant. Harris developed the process engineering and controls to match Qteros’ technology requirements. The project was closely documented to ...
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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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Building 10
When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) needed to upgrade its central chilled water system, it turned to its longtime partner Harris for vital infrastructure work with a minimum of service disruption to NIH’s critical scientists and medical professionals.
Building 14
Structural steel and catwalks were carefully set in place for mechanical room hookups from the central plant. Hundreds of feet of chilled water mains, steam and steam condensate up to 14 inches in diameter ...
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Washington National Cathedral was first air conditioned in the mid-1970s by Harris who installed large air handlers to bring in air from the outside and recycle air from the interior. However, the Cathedral did not have the resources at the time to add the pipes and chiller to cool the vast interior. In 2000, several donors stepped forward donating the necessary funds needed to complete the job, and Harris was once again called on to provide all mechanical services.
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Historically, Washington Hospital Center supplied the Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) its chilled water needs. Because of the planned expansion of the Washington Hospital Center, CNMC had to build its own facility within a tight timeframe.
CNMC turned to Harris, a long time preferred mechanical contractor, to serve as the prime contractor for the entire project. A new building structure was built adjacent to the glass facade of the building and the emergency room vehicle ramp.
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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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