A chiller in a Cleveland 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 Cleveland metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Cleveland, OH 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 Cleveland and nearby Ohio 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 Cleveland, 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 Cleveland is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and MetroHealth — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. Case Western Reserve University and NASA Glenn Research Center run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Cleveland, OH runs on steel, automotive & heavy manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
The Cleveland Clinic main campus and University Circle institutions, downtown towers like Key Tower, JACK Cleveland Casino and Cleveland Hopkins airport carry the heavy central plant. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Cleveland's plants are century-old multi-storey brick mill buildings with tight column spacing in the Flats alongside newer clear-span steel plants further from the river, both constrained by narrow valley access roads and rail-adjacent loading, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Cuyahoga Valley industrial flats along the river, the Warehouse District near the Lake Erie waterfront, the Midtown Cleveland industrial corridor along Euclid Avenue, and the Brooklyn/Steelyard industrial area south of downtown.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Cleveland metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Cleveland metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Cleveland metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Cleveland metro.
Plenty of Cleveland jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-70, I-71, I-75 and I-90, 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 Cleveland. H5 Data Centers Cleveland and Expedient Cleveland 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 Cleveland, OH 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 Cleveland jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Cleveland crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Cleveland? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Cleveland, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Cleveland and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Parma | Cuyahoga County | 7 mi |
| Akron | Summit County | 30 mi |
| Lorain | Lorain County | 25 mi |
| Elyria | Lorain County | 23 mi |
| Euclid | Cuyahoga County | 11 mi |
| Mentor | Lake County | 22 mi |
| Strongsville | Cuyahoga County | 15 mi |
| Lakewood | Cuyahoga County | 6 mi |
| Solon | Cuyahoga County | 15 mi |
| Canton | Stark County | 51 mi |
| Cuyahoga Falls | Summit County | 28 mi |
| Cleveland Heights | Cuyahoga County | 7 mi |
| Warren | Trumbull County | 49 mi |
| Stow | Summit County | 27 mi |
| Brunswick | Medina County | 20 mi |
| Collinwood | Cuyahoga County | 8 mi |
| North Ridgeville | Lorain County | 18 mi |
| Westlake | Cuyahoga County | 12 mi |
| Massillon | Stark County | 49 mi |
| North Olmsted | Cuyahoga County | 13 mi |
| North Royalton | Cuyahoga County | 13 mi |
| Kent | Portage County | 30 mi |
| Garfield Heights | Cuyahoga County | 7 mi |
| Shaker Heights | Cuyahoga County | 8 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Cleveland services, Chiller & HVAC Rigging across Ohio or get a quote.
We run chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in metros across Ohio — pick the nearest crew:
Most Cleveland 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 Cleveland crew.
Cleveland industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Cleveland as one accountable job.
Cleveland 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 Cleveland.
Cleveland CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Cleveland plants.
factory relocation in Cleveland →In Cleveland 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 Cleveland.
The same Cleveland crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Cleveland: heavy lift rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and printing press moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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