A chiller in a Nashville 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 Nashville metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Nashville, TN 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 Nashville and nearby Tennessee 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 Nashville, 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 Nashville is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — Vanderbilt University Medical Center, HCA TriStar Centennial Medical Center, and Ascension Saint Thomas — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Nashville, TN runs on auto-supplier & industrial machinery, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
The Vanderbilt and HCA hospital campuses, the fast-growing downtown and Gulch towers, Music City Center and Nashville International carry the large HVAC plant. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Nashville's plants are dominated by large clear-span assembly and distribution buildings built from the 1980s onward, exemplified by the Nissan plant's multi-million-square-foot single-storey footprint, with little of the tight multi-storey mill stock found in older manufacturing cities, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Nissan assembly corridor along I-24 through La Vergne and Smyrna, the Elm Hill Pike industrial cluster near Nashville International Airport, the MetroCenter industrial park north of downtown, and the Antioch industrial corridor south of the city.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Nashville metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Nashville metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Nashville metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Nashville metro.
Plenty of Nashville jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75, 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 Nashville. Flexential Nashville and RadiusDC Nashville I 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 Nashville, TN 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 Nashville jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Nashville crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Nashville? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Nashville, TN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Nashville and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Murfreesboro | Rutherford County | 31 mi |
| Franklin | Williamson County | 17 mi |
| Hendersonville | Sumner County | 13 mi |
| Smyrna | Rutherford County | 20 mi |
| Brentwood | Williamson County | 9 mi |
| Gallatin | Sumner County | 24 mi |
| Lebanon | Wilson County | 28 mi |
| La Vergne | Rutherford County | 15 mi |
| Mount Juliet | Wilson County | 15 mi |
| Spring Hill | Maury County | 30 mi |
| Clarksville | Montgomery County | 41 mi |
| Hermitage | Davidson County | 9 mi |
| Columbia | Maury County | 41 mi |
| Goodlettsville | Davidson County | 12 mi |
| Springfield | Robertson County | 24 mi |
| Dickson | Dickson County | 34 mi |
| Portland | Sumner County | 32 mi |
| Lewisburg | Marshall County | 50 mi |
| White House | Sumner County | 22 mi |
| Christiana | Rutherford County | 38 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Nashville services, Chiller & HVAC Rigging across Tennessee or get a quote.
We run chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in metros across Tennessee — pick the nearest crew:
Most Nashville 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 Nashville crew.
rigging contractors in Nashville →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Nashville as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Nashville →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Nashville.
machine tool movers in Nashville →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Nashville plants.
Nashville plant relocation →In Nashville 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 Nashville.
The same Nashville crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Nashville: heavy lift rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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