10.12.22
Citing their obsolete boilers and growing demand for electricity and power, the University of Minnesota turned to Harris for help with the installation of a state-of-the-art combined heat and power plant for their Minneapolis campus.
Due to zoning and permitting constraints, the new turbine generator, heat recovery system and modern mechanical systems had to fit in the historic Old Main Heating Plant. To head off space issues and potential clashes, Harris and its ...
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Harris was the general contractor responsible for the systems improvements at the Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota. The sewage and waste disposal project required the replacement of several large pieces of equipment which included the primary heat exchangers, boiler economizers and evaporators and ID fan motors. Harris also installed new overfire air systems and a hot media extraction system.
The original design for the HMES system did not account for ...
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Harris worked with Standby Systems Inc to fabricate 13 skids for a General Electric propane vapor system to be installed in the country of Ghana, Africa. The skids, which were shipped internationally, contained piping, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, structural frames and supports for the metering and vaporization of the propane.
Framing and piping for the skids were constructed from 304 stainless steel, which quality specifications were required to meet the pressure equipment directive (PED) of ...
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Harris has had a long and successful history of working on the St. Olaf College campus. Our design team worked with the College and the other design partners to provide the best options and meet St. Olaf’s long-standing commitment to match or exceed the quality and aesthetics of their existing buildings.
Harris was committed to a strong buy-out process, performing a second and third buy-out comparison after design completion to ensure the ...
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Harris was hired on the Arizona State University Health Solutions Innovation Center to perform the installation of mechanical piping, HVAC and process piping systems. The new 150,000-square-foot, three-story, ground-up facility will serve students in ASU’s nursing program as they learn to treat patients using a whole health model encompassing mind, body and spirit. The facility features specific clinical skills labs with simulation exam and operating rooms. It includes space for a future MRI build-out, dry and ...
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Harris was selected by Layton Construction and Argent Group as the design-builder for the mechanical and plumbing work on the new, Innovation Pointe development. This development consists of a 40-acre master plan with 600,000-square feet of development.
The Innovation Pointe 2 project was a five-story, 141,000-square-foot office building with supporting parking structure. It was designed with the needs of today’s businesses in mind, with leading edge technology and high-end finishes.
With the modern progressive architecture ...
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The Williams International – Blue Phoenix Ogden Addition project was a new manufacturing plant for Williams International in Ogden, Utah. This was a fast-paced project where the mechanical and plumbing design was happening while the shell of the building was going up. From design initiation to completion, the total duration was 8 months. This included the design of a highly efficient process cooling system that incorporated four fluid coolers, four air handlers, and three water cooled chillers. This project ...
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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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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 ...
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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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