A chiller in a Reno 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 Reno metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Reno, NV 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 Reno and nearby Nevada 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 Reno, 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 Reno is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — Renown Regional Medical Center and Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. University of Nevada, Reno and Desert Research Institute run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Reno, NV runs on distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
Downtown Reno casino-resorts like the Eldorado, Silver Legacy and Peppermill, the Renown campus, UNR and Reno-Tahoe International Airport carry large central plants. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Reno's plants are large-format, tilt-up distribution and manufacturing buildings concentrated in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center rather than an older urban industrial core, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in Storey County east of Reno and Union Pacific's Sparks Yard classification and intermodal district.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Reno metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Reno metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Reno metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Reno metro.
Plenty of Reno jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down 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 Reno. Switch Citadel Campus (Tahoe Reno Industrial Center) and Apple Reno data center 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 Reno, NV 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 Reno jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Reno crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Reno? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Reno, NV and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Reno and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Sparks | Washoe County | 3 mi |
| Carson City | Carson City County | 25 mi |
| Fernley | Lyon County | 30 mi |
| Sun Valley | Washoe County | 5 mi |
| Spanish Springs | Washoe County | 10 mi |
| Fallon | Churchill County | 55 mi |
| Dayton | Lyon County | 23 mi |
| Gardnerville | Douglas County | 41 mi |
| Cold Springs | Washoe County | 14 mi |
| South Lake Tahoe, CA | El Dorado County | 42 mi |
| Truckee, CA | Nevada County | 24 mi |
| Gardnerville Ranchos | Douglas County | 45 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Reno services, Chiller & HVAC Rigging across Nevada or get a quote.
We run chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in metros across Nevada — pick the nearest crew:
Most Reno 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 Reno crew.
rigging contractors in Reno →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Reno as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Reno →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Reno.
machine tool movers in Reno →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Reno plants.
Reno plant relocation →In Reno 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 Reno.
The same Reno crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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