Good project management ensures that a project's goals closely align with strategic business goals. The leadership, vision, mentoring and motivation provided through the role brings out the best in a team. Project managers work on a project from pre-planning until completion. They support all phases of a project to ensure standards, budget, deadlines, communications and relationships are maintained. They juggle a lot of responsibilities for projects, but with their leadership, projects are successfully completed!
Read More La Paz Regional Hospital’s new, 9,158 square foot surgical addition provides two surgical suites for major operations and two procedure suites for minor operations. The building was designed to create an open yet efficient work space, allowing patients to flow smoothly between areas while maximizing the number of people using the facility.
Harris Mechanical Southwest provided the complete plumbing and medical systems for the addition. The project required multiple shutdowns of the existing hospital’s facilities in ...
Read More Tell us about your background. How did you get your start in the construction/service/BAS business? I actually attended a vocational high school and was an installer my junior and senior year. After, I was a service technician for several years. Then, in my twenties I decided to go back to school for engineering. I have always worked ...
Read More Tell us about your background. How did you get your start in construction/service/BAS? What drew you to the industry? I grew up in the construction industry. I started out as a Dispatcher at Harris in Rochester after completing my degree in retail merchandise. In those 20+ years I have held several positions within Harris including, Business System, ...
Read More (ST. PAUL, Minn.) – Harris, a leading national mechanical contractor, today announced its Phoenix, Arizona regional office has been named to Phoenix Business Journal’s List of Largest Phoenix-Area Mechanical Contractors, ranking among the top 25. The list is ranked by 2021 local (Maricopa and Pinal counties) gross sales. Other information points included the number of local employees, specialty services, top local executive, year founded locally and a partial list of recent construction projects. Harris’ ...
Read More 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 Harris was contracted by a dairy powder processor to design, fabricate and install a conveyor system to take drink powder from a bulk hopper and elevate it to the scale of a bagger for packaging. The vertical conveyor transports the powder up at a 45-degree angle to a height of 14 feet into a hopper with a divert. The product is then diverted onto two flat belt conveyors that then transport the product to the hoppers of scale where the ...
Read More The Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) is a LEED Silver certified laboratory dedicated to finding alternative fuels. Harris was contracted to provide the HVAC ductwork and piping for a new 40,000-square foot facility.
The SERC project had limited lay-down area which required just-in-time delivery on all materials and equipment. Additionally, the street along the north side of the project had to remain open for traffic at all times. The lack of space was a major challenge for ...
Read More Honor based solely on employee feedback; reflects commitment to building destination workplace (St. Paul, Minn., April 11, 2022) – For the third year in a row, Harris’ regional office in Las Vegas has been named to the list of 2022 Nevada Top Workplaces. Out of hundreds of entries, only 55 Nevada workplaces qualified for the list. The Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Business ...
Read More The customer needed a conveyor system for individually wrapped small frozen products. The product comes from two wrappers in 8 lanes at 300 pieces per minute on each wrapper. The conveyor system requirements are to take the 8 lanes wide down to 1 lane wide, then convey the single lane around to custom fabricated hand pack stations. Harris custom designed these 3-4 worker hand pack stations to bring the product in at a higher elevation with the empty cases directly below ...
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