10.03.22
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 ...
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Harris teamed up with Hensel Phelps for the plumbing a mechanical scope of the AME Polymers Lab (core and shell) and the AME Office building on the 2200 block of the laboratory. These two buildings were part of the first Applied Materials Engineering (AME) area plan put together by LLNL and NNSA to support stockpile stewardship.
Polymers lab consisted of a 13,000-square-foot, single story building with a complete mechanical and plumbing system with integrated ...
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Harris was hired as the mechanical contractor for the IAD85 Data Center ERUD Infill project being built by JE Richards Electric for a confidential cloud storage provider with campus’s across northern Virginia. This project was plan and spec to fit out two differed electric rooms and install sixteen differed AHU’s. The project was the largest ERUD infill project that had ever been attempted by the owner and was Harris’ first job on one of their campuses.
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Harris was selected by Big-D Construction as the mechanical and plumbing subcontractor for the new Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Westpointe Career and Technical Education Center. Located in Salt Lake City, this two-story, 121,000-square foot building is a new, state-of-the-art education facility that houses skills labs, classrooms, faculty offices and administrative support.
This facility will include all the training equipment and tools to help advance individuals in their careers in Advanced Composites, Diesel Systems Technology, Machining, Manufacturing, ...
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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 current project is a five-story, 140,000-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 ...
Read More 01.24.17
Harris worked as the prime contractor for Xcel Energy’s 5th Street Substation Transformer Cooling System Replacement project. The project involved demolishing the existing cooling system and installing an efficient, closed-loop system to service the new transformer.
Prior to the closed-loop system Harris installed, Xcel was drawing their cooling water from two deep wells. Xcel decided this system was not a sustainable use of groundwater and made plans to replace it.
Harris took special safety ...
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Harris installed a new afterburner for Gopher Resource’s Tampa facility. The scope included installation of a new afterburner, support structure, platforms, walkways and necessary piping and duct to make operational.
The new afterburner was installed in an operating lead recycling smelter plant. Harris personnel needed to safely perform their work in an environment filled with lead dust and with ambient temperatures of 131 degrees Fahrenheit. Safety was an important consideration in delivering a successful project in these ...
Read More 04.29.16
Harris was hired to take on the hydrogen compressor area in Area 4 of the Pine Bend Refinery’s new ultra-low sulfur diesel unit #29.
To accommodate the tight schedule, Harris made use of BIM modeling Flint Hills Resources provided. Harris moved two BIM/VDC drafters on-site to work with the completed model. Harris used this model to create work packages and kept productivity running at 96 percent throughout the job.
Harris installed 10,000 feet of process piping with ...
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Harris teamed with Von Roll Inc to provide sludge incineration at the largest of the eight sewage plants in the Metropolitan Council of Environmental Services (MCES) system. Von Roll Inc designed the incineration process. Harris helped procure the project, provided mechanical systems design and directed the construction coordination with other contractors.
The MCES project included the design, procurement and installation of three fluidized bed incinerator trains. Each train included the fluidized bed incinerator, primary and secondary heat ...
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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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