A chiller in a Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City and nearby Utah 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 Salt Lake City, 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 Salt Lake City is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — University of Utah Health, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, and Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. University of Utah and University of Utah Research Park run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
Salt Lake City, UT runs on mining & industrial, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
Downtown towers, the University of Utah and Intermountain hospital campuses, and the new Salt Lake City International Airport terminal carry large central plant. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, Salt Lake City's plants are a mix of older Union Pacific-era single-storey industrial buildings across the west-side rail districts alongside newer distribution buildings built around the inland port, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work concentrates in the Redwood Road Industrial District, the Beck Street Industrial District, the Union Pacific-developed Pioneer Business Park and Centennial Business Park on the west side, and the Salt Lake City intermodal terminal district tied to the Utah Inland Port.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the Salt Lake City metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the Salt Lake City metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the Salt Lake City metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs and pads across the Salt Lake City metro.
Plenty of Salt Lake City 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, I-80 and I-70, 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 Salt Lake City. NSA Utah Data Center, Bluffdale and Novva Data Centers West Jordan 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 Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Salt Lake City crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Salt Lake City? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Salt Lake City, UT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging throughout Salt Lake City and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| West Valley City | Salt Lake County | 8 mi |
| Sandy | Salt Lake County | 12 mi |
| Ogden | Weber County | 32 mi |
| Provo | Utah County | 38 mi |
| Orem | Utah County | 34 mi |
| West Jordan | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Layton | Davis County | 21 mi |
| Tooele | Tooele County | 27 mi |
| Lehi | Utah County | 26 mi |
| Clearfield | Davis County | 25 mi |
| South Jordan | Salt Lake County | 14 mi |
| Millcreek | Salt Lake County | 5 mi |
| Taylorsville | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Murray | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Draper | Salt Lake County | 16 mi |
| Bountiful | Davis County | 9 mi |
| Riverton | Salt Lake County | 17 mi |
| Pleasant Grove | Utah County | 29 mi |
| Roy | Weber County | 29 mi |
| Spanish Fork | Utah County | 46 mi |
| Kearns | Salt Lake County | 9 mi |
| Cottonwood Heights | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Midvale | Salt Lake County | 10 mi |
| Springville | Utah County | 44 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Salt Lake City services or get a quote.
Most Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City crew.
Salt Lake City riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Salt Lake City as one accountable job.
Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Salt Lake City plants.
plant relocation in Salt Lake City →In Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
The same Salt Lake City crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Salt Lake City: heavy lift rigging, transformer and generator 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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