Integrated Facility Services (IFS) received the Outstanding Mechanical Installation Award from the Mechanical Contractors Association of Eastern Missouri for the project.

IFS replaced two large wooden cooling towers with two new metal cooling towers at the Louis K. Roos County Government Building, which houses St. Louis County’s government administration offices.  IFS’s work included demolition, structural steel fabrication, mechanical, electrical, insulation, hoisting and painting.

Because they were working in a busy business district over occupied space, including the offices of the St. Louis County Executive, IFS kept the chiller system operational at all times and completed all of the hoisting and setting of the new cooling towers on two separate Saturdays.

IFS precisely measured and custom-prefabricated structural steel framing with seismic rated spring vibration isolators, 10” to 16” large bore piping, fittings, valves, and tower pieces, all of which were lifted to the nine-story rooftop by crane. Central Avenue in downtown Clayton was temporarily closed on both crane days to accommodate the installation.