A chiller in a Atlanta building was usually set before the walls closed around it. Getting the old one out and the new one in means a route through a mechanical room, a basement, or a roof — and often a crane on a city street. We plan and rig HVAC equipment across the Atlanta metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Atlanta, GA and the surrounding metro. We rig chillers, boilers, cooling towers, air handlers, and rooftop units into and out of mechanical rooms, basements, penthouses, and roofs — sectioned where the opening demands it and set ready for the mechanical contractor. Our crews work across Atlanta and nearby Georgia metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
The machine is rarely the hard part of an HVAC replacement. The route is. A centrifugal chiller headed for a basement plant room, a boiler that only fits through a wall, a cooling tower that has to go up past occupied floors — the plan is set by doors, corridors, slab capacity, and crane reach long before it is set by the unit. In Atlanta, much of that work is in buildings that cannot shut down while it happens.
Badass Logistics walks both routes — the old unit's way out and the new unit's way in — and rigs them as one job. Refrigerant recovery, electrical disconnects, and piping stay with your licensed mechanical contractor; we sequence around them. Units are skated, jacked, or sectioned at factory joints where the builder allows it, and roof work runs as a planned crane lift. How to move a boiler or chiller →
Large HVAC plant in Atlanta is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — Emory Healthcare, Grady Memorial Hospital, and Piedmont Atlanta Hospital — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. Georgia Tech and Emory University run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Atlanta, GA runs on Southeast distribution & manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
Hartsfield-Jackson, the Downtown/Midtown/Buckhead tower stock, the Emory and Georgia Tech campuses and Georgia World Congress Center carry some of the largest HVAC plant in the Southeast. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Atlanta's plants are a mix of large clear-span postwar distribution warehouses along Fulton Industrial Boulevard and older brick industrial buildings near the historic rail corridors east of downtown, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Fulton Industrial Boulevard industrial corridor on the city's west side, the Norcross distribution and warehouse district in Gwinnett County, the Lockheed Martin aircraft assembly complex in Marietta, and the CSX Fairburn Intermodal Terminal district south of the airport.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Atlanta metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Atlanta metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Atlanta metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Atlanta metro.
Plenty of Atlanta jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-75, I-85, I-20 and I-95, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Data centers are the other big buyer of cooling plant in Atlanta. QTS Atlanta Metro campus and Switch Atlanta run chillers, CRAH units, and condensers that are replaced and added on the facility's schedule, not the weather's.
Every chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging job in Atlanta, GA is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Atlanta jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Atlanta crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Atlanta? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Atlanta, GA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Atlanta and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Marietta | Cobb County | 17 mi |
| Sandy Springs | Fulton County | 12 mi |
| Roswell | Fulton County | 19 mi |
| Alpharetta | Fulton County | 23 mi |
| Decatur | DeKalb County | 6 mi |
| McDonough | Henry County | 25 mi |
| Lawrenceville | Gwinnett County | 27 mi |
| Smyrna | Cobb County | 12 mi |
| Kennesaw | Cobb County | 23 mi |
| Stockbridge | Henry County | 17 mi |
| Duluth | Gwinnett County | 22 mi |
| Conyers | Rockdale County | 22 mi |
| South Fulton | Fulton County | 20 mi |
| Johns Creek | Fulton County | 22 mi |
| Brookhaven | DeKalb County | 8 mi |
| Stonecrest | DeKalb County | 15 mi |
| Dunwoody | DeKalb County | 14 mi |
| Peachtree Corners | Gwinnett County | 18 mi |
| Gainesville | Hall County | 50 mi |
| Milton | Fulton County | 27 mi |
| Newnan | Coweta County | 35 mi |
| Mableton | Cobb County | 12 mi |
| East Point | Fulton County | 6 mi |
| Peachtree City | Fayette County | 27 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Atlanta services or get a quote.
Most Atlanta jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Atlanta crew.
Atlanta industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Atlanta as one accountable job.
Atlanta machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Atlanta.
Atlanta CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Atlanta plants.
factory relocation in Atlanta →In Atlanta we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Atlanta.
The same Atlanta crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Atlanta: heavy lift rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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