10.03.22
The Martin Bostetter Courthouse is a historic building located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. The project presented many challenges from design to completion. The project was completed one-hundred percent during the night hours. This alone made it difficult to manage but location was key. Harris had seven tractor trailers loaded with equipment parked in an area that was barely large enough for a passenger vehicle to pass. Noise was also an issue during the night hours.
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This project for the US Army Corp of Engineers consisted of design and construction of an existing barracks building. The building was converted into administrative space for a designated end user. The design and construction included demolition of all existing engineering systems. Demolition of the existing architectural systems included the roof, exterior doors, and windows. This project also included design and construction of completely new engineering systems to include site work, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, communication, and structural ...
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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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Harris was selected as the mechanical contractor for this renovation of the Benioff Oakland Children’s Hospital, largely based on our long and successful history of hospital construction in the Bay Area, as well as our ability to execute the plumbing, mechanical piping and HVAC dry components under a single contract. This 28,000-square-foot 2-story remodel and upgrade consists of a new 23 bed PICU unit supported by an on suite Pharmacy, Pharmacy Hood, PBX/Sta lab and morgue.
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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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The Bay Area Transit Hayward Station project was a service facility warehouse for BART and is located right next to the rail in Hayward, California. The project was a 135,000-square-foot building that included mostly warehouse space with some offices. The warehouse included under floor radiant piping to provide a comfort level for the client. Harris provided all of the plumbing, HVAC and ductwork on this project. The project was new construction which included plumbing underground all the ...
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The Atherton Town Center project is comprised of a new city hall, library, police ancillary and remodel of the old existing town hall. Harris provided complete mechanical and plumbing systems, including controls and balancing on all structures. The main buildings are tied together through a 17K+ lb. mechanical heat pump system with a 118-ton heating/cooling capacity and interlocking BAS controls.
The new City Hall building includes 3 air handing units, 4 mechanical pumps, VRF ...
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The Whidbey General Hospital Addition and Renovation project consisted of full mechanical scope for an addition and renovation to the existing facility. The addition consisted of 45 bed patient rooms, ICU rooms and labor and delivery rooms. The renovation included build out of pharmacy, lab and perioperative spaces. The HVAC systems included new penthouse air handlers feeding an VRF system.
The hospital’s domestic water supply source was an encased well and the water quality was poor. A ...
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The Whatcom Community College Student House Phase 1 is an 89,000-square-foot, 221 bed dormitory facility. Additionally, it includes administration offices, public rest rooms, laundry, a mechanical equipment room, kitchen and community rooms. The structure is wood framing with electric cove heat in the dormitories, VRF in the offices and packaged DX units for the community rooms.
Harris contributed by developing an early schematic design budget that yielded excellent value for the owner. We were able design to this budget ...
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