“We had so many steps in this project, large and small, that had to be followed in exactly the right order,” says David Burns, who served as project manager. “They were steps that involved not just our team, but suppliers, partners, the property owners – everybody. Their input was needed, so we asked and listened.”

Step one was to cut a good-sized hole in an exterior wall to get equipment in and out of the central energy plant space. And before any boilers were going anywhere, we had to install a new deaerator tank, as the existing one was aging. “The tank was in a place you couldn’t get to easily, so that had to go in first,” Burns says.

To get the boilers to a size that fit the space, we contacted the manufacturer, Cleaver Brooks. They worked out a way to modify some of the height and width to take off a few inches here and there. “We knew there were certain things they could do inside the factory to play with it a little bit,” Burns says, “so we started there.”

Then we sent all three boilers to our partners at T&D Rigging to trim them down further. They took off the outer casing and removed the gas train and other accessories – all to get them down to a size small enough to be maneuvered into place.