A chiller in a Columbus 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 Columbus metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Columbus, 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 Columbus 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 Columbus, 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 Columbus is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, and OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. Ohio State University and Battelle run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Columbus, OH runs on distribution & advanced manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
The Ohio State campus and Wexner Medical Center, the downtown state-office and bank towers, Nationwide Children's and John Glenn Columbus International Airport anchor the large HVAC plant. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Columbus's plants are large clear-span speculative distribution buildings with high dock-door counts near Rickenbacker alongside older lower-clearance manufacturing buildings closer to the urban core, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park south of the city, the Southeast industrial submarket along I-270 and US-33, and the Buckeye Yard rail-served industrial area.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Columbus metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Columbus metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Columbus metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Columbus metro.
Plenty of Columbus 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 Columbus. AWS New Albany/Hilliard/Dublin and Google New Albany 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 Columbus, 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 Columbus jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Columbus crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Columbus? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Columbus, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Columbus and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | Franklin County | 11 mi |
| Westerville | Franklin County | 12 mi |
| Grove City | Franklin County | 7 mi |
| Reynoldsburg | Franklin County | 10 mi |
| Hilliard | Franklin County | 10 mi |
| Gahanna | Franklin County | 8 mi |
| Groveport | Franklin County | 8 mi |
| Marysville | Union County | 27 mi |
| Lancaster | Fairfield County | 27 mi |
| Newark | Licking County | 32 mi |
| Springfield | Clark County | 43 mi |
| Delaware | Delaware County | 24 mi |
| Marion | Marion County | 44 mi |
| Upper Arlington | Franklin County | 4 mi |
| Chillicothe | Ross County | 43 mi |
| Pickerington | Fairfield County | 14 mi |
| Whitehall | Franklin County | 6 mi |
| Mount Vernon | Knox County | 40 mi |
| Pataskala | Licking County | 17 mi |
| Worthington | Franklin County | 9 mi |
| Washington Court House | Fayette County | 38 mi |
| Circleville | Pickaway County | 25 mi |
| Bexley | Franklin County | 3 mi |
| Bellefontaine | Logan County | 49 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Columbus 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 Columbus 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 Columbus crew.
Columbus riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Columbus as one accountable job.
Columbus machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Columbus.
Columbus CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Columbus plants.
plant relocation in Columbus →In Columbus 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 Columbus.
The same Columbus crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Columbus: 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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