A chiller in a Louisville 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 Louisville metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Louisville, KY 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 Louisville and nearby Kentucky 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 Louisville, 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 Louisville is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — UofL Health, Norton Healthcare, and Baptist Health Louisville — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. University of Louisville runs central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Louisville, KY runs on Ohio Valley logistics & manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
UPS Worldport at Louisville Muhammad Ali International, GE Appliance Park, the downtown medical center and riverfront towers carry the large mechanical plant. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Louisville's plants are large single-storey chemical processing plants with tank farms in Rubbertown alongside older multi-storey industrial buildings in the Park Hill corridor with narrower floor plates, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Rubbertown chemical manufacturing district along the Ohio River in west Louisville, the Park Hill industrial corridor near the city center, and the Jefferson Riverport International industrial park near the airport.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Louisville metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Louisville metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Louisville metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Louisville metro.
Plenty of Louisville jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-65, I-64, I-75 and I-71, 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 Louisville. Flexential Louisville and Data Canopy Louisville 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 Louisville, KY 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 Louisville jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Louisville crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Louisville? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Louisville, KY and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Louisville and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffersonville, IN | Clark County | 2 mi |
| New Albany, IN | Floyd County | 4 mi |
| Shepherdsville | Bullitt County | 19 mi |
| Shively | Jefferson County | 5 mi |
| Jeffersontown | Jefferson County | 11 mi |
| Clarksville, IN | Clark County | 3 mi |
| Elizabethtown | Hardin County | 39 mi |
| Bardstown | Nelson County | 35 mi |
| Frankfort | Franklin County | 48 mi |
| Valley Station | Jefferson County | 12 mi |
| Radcliff | Hardin County | 30 mi |
| Newburg | Jefferson County | 9 mi |
| Seymour, IN | Jackson County | 49 mi |
| Fern Creek | Jefferson County | 11 mi |
| Saint Matthews | Jefferson County | 6 mi |
| Okolona | Jefferson County | 9 mi |
| Shelbyville | Shelby County | 29 mi |
| Highview | Jefferson County | 11 mi |
| Mount Washington | Bullitt County | 18 mi |
| North Madison, IN | Jefferson County | 41 mi |
| Madison, IN | Jefferson County | 39 mi |
| Lyndon | Jefferson County | 9 mi |
| Lawrenceburg | Anderson County | 49 mi |
| Fort Knox | Hardin County | 27 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Louisville services or get a quote.
Most Louisville 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 Louisville crew.
rigging contractors in Louisville →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Louisville as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Louisville →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Louisville.
machine tool movers in Louisville →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Louisville plants.
Louisville plant relocation →In Louisville 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 Louisville.
The same Louisville crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Louisville: heavy lift rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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