A chiller in a Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles and nearby California 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 Los Angeles, 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 Los Angeles is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA Health Ronald Reagan Medical Center, and Keck Medicine of USC — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. UCLA and University of Southern California run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Plenty of Los Angeles, CA work — ports & industry — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same chiller and HVAC rigging crews through these CA and regional markets:
Downtown and Century City office towers, LAX terminals, and dense hospital and university campuses (Cedars-Sinai, UCLA, USC) carry large central chiller plants. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Los Angeles's plants are older multi-tenant industrial buildings in Vernon and Commerce with tight column spacing, low dock heights and narrow street access built long before modern trailer traffic, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Vernon industrial district south of downtown, the City of Industry business park in the San Gabriel Valley, the Alameda Corridor rail belt through Commerce and Carson, and the harbor-area industrial district near the ports.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Los Angeles metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Los Angeles metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Los Angeles metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Los Angeles metro.
Plenty of Los Angeles jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-5, I-10, I-15 and I-80, 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 Los Angeles. One Wilshire carrier hotel and CoreSite Los Angeles campus 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 Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Los Angeles crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Los Angeles? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Los Angeles, CA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Los Angeles and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Long Beach | Los Angeles County | 20 mi |
| Anaheim | Orange County | 24 mi |
| Santa Ana | Orange County | 30 mi |
| Glendale | Los Angeles County | 6 mi |
| Pasadena | Los Angeles County | 9 mi |
| Torrance | Los Angeles County | 16 mi |
| Pomona | Los Angeles County | 28 mi |
| Ontario | San Bernardino County | 34 mi |
| Carson | Los Angeles County | 15 mi |
| City of Industry | — | — |
| Santa Fe Springs | Los Angeles County | 12 mi |
| Vernon | Los Angeles County | 3 mi |
| Riverside | Riverside County | 49 mi |
| Irvine | Orange County | 36 mi |
| Fontana | San Bernardino County | 46 mi |
| Huntington Beach | Orange County | 31 mi |
| Santa Clarita | Los Angeles County | 29 mi |
| Garden Grove | Orange County | 26 mi |
| Rancho Cucamonga | San Bernardino County | 37 mi |
| Corona | Riverside County | 41 mi |
| Lancaster | Los Angeles County | 45 mi |
| Palmdale | Los Angeles County | 37 mi |
| Valencia | Los Angeles County | 34 mi |
| Orange | Orange County | 29 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Los Angeles services, Chiller & HVAC Rigging across California or get a quote.
We run chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in metros across California — pick the nearest crew:
Most Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles crew.
rigging contractors in Los Angeles →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Los Angeles as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Los Angeles →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Los Angeles.
machine tool movers in Los Angeles →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Los Angeles plants.
Los Angeles plant relocation →In Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles.
The same Los Angeles crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Los Angeles: 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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