Projects

TierPoint, a data storage center, needed to increase capacity to cool down their servers in order to expand and meet a higher demand. The project required the installation of a 500-ton fluid cooler, the largest HVAC of its kind to be installed in North America. Our team served as general contractor, carefully coordinating every step that led to lifting this massive cooler to the roof with a 200-ton crane. We also self-performed the fluid cooler installation, as well as the fabrication and installation of piping.

The McCormick Place HQ Hotel & Event Center project included the addition of a 40-story hotel to the existing McCormick Place, with accompanying restaurant, bar, and food court. The hotel expansion, designed to help invigorate and drive more business into the neighborhood, was a large-scale project that required a workforce of more than 60 workers. Ortiz installed riser piping throughout the hotel, as well as heat pumps for each hotel room.

This multi-phase project, which included both new construction and renovation, was undertaken in an effort to expand and modernize The University of Chicago’s Laboratory Schools’ historic buildings to accommodate its growing student body. Ortiz Contracting was brought on board to install new HVAC Hot/cold water, steam, and compressed air piping systems, and to renovate existing HVAC ductwork and piping.