04.07.16
Harris and St. Olaf College enjoy a long-term relationship as Harris has worked with the college for years to successfully complete numerous new construction and renovation projects.
The Kildahl Hall project consisted of a three-story bathroom addition on one end of an existing dormitory building and a complete gut and remodel of the building’s HVAC, piping and plumbing systems.
The remodel portion of the project took place in two phases each having to be ...
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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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The Sutter Health Eden Medical Center is a 130-bed, acute care hospital totaling 230,000 square feet. The new state-of-the-art next generation healthcare facility was built to exacting standards developed through an integrated planning process with the construction, design and patient care team that ensured alignment of clinical program elements, building and healthcare features and community goals.
Harris completed the project around existing hospital traffic and activities, while working to cause minimal disruption. During preconstruction, BIM/VDC along with ...
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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 ...
Read More 09.23.15
Citing their obsolete boilers and growing energy demands, 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, 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 partners relied on 3-D modeling to detect and ...
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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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