A chiller in a Dallas 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 Dallas metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Dallas, TX 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 Dallas and nearby Texas 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 Dallas, 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 Dallas is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — UT Southwestern Medical Center, Baylor University Medical Center, and Parkland Memorial Hospital — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. UT Southwestern and University of Texas at Dallas run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Plenty of Dallas, TX work — manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same chiller and HVAC rigging crews through these TX and regional markets:
DFW Airport, the downtown and Uptown office towers, the Southwestern Medical District and the Las Colinas corporate campuses carry the large chiller plant. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Dallas's plants are large single-storey clear-span distribution and light-assembly buildings concentrated around Alliance and the Great Southwest District, built for dock-high trailer loading rather than heavy floor loads, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Great Southwest Industrial District spanning Arlington and Grand Prairie, the Alliance Logistics District anchored by BNSF's Alliance intermodal terminal in north Fort Worth, and the DFW Airport logistics corridor.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Dallas metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Dallas metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Dallas metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Dallas metro.
Plenty of Dallas jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45, 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 Dallas. QTS Irving and Equinix Dallas Infomart 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 Dallas, TX 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 Dallas jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Dallas crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Dallas? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Dallas, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Dallas and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | Tarrant County | 30 mi |
| Arlington | Tarrant County | 18 mi |
| Irving | Dallas County | 9 mi |
| Garland | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Grand Prairie | Dallas County | 11 mi |
| Mesquite | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Carrollton | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Richardson | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Denton | Denton County | 35 mi |
| Frisco | Collin County | 25 mi |
| Grapevine | Tarrant County | 19 mi |
| Plano | Collin County | 18 mi |
| McKinney | Collin County | 31 mi |
| Lewisville | Denton County | 21 mi |
| Allen | Collin County | 24 mi |
| Flower Mound | Denton County | 23 mi |
| North Richland Hills | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Celina | Collin County | 37 mi |
| Mansfield | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Rowlett | Dallas County | 16 mi |
| Euless | Tarrant County | 16 mi |
| DeSoto | Dallas County | 14 mi |
| The Trails of Frisco | Collin County | 26 mi |
| Bedford | Tarrant County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Dallas services, Chiller & HVAC Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most Dallas 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 Dallas crew.
Dallas riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Dallas as one accountable job.
Dallas 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 Dallas.
Dallas CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Dallas plants.
plant relocation in Dallas →In Dallas 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 Dallas.
The same Dallas crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Dallas: 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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