We’re Experts in Your Industry
Anyone can be an expert in a single industry. Harder’s continuous commitment to expanding our capabilities means we are experts in a lot of industries—including yours.
Services
With complex construction projects, you need a partner that can do more than just execute; you need a partner that can optimize every phase of the process from design to construction, ensuring on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and uncompromising quality. That’s where we come in. Harder is your trusted, one-stop mechanical trade partner that is fully invested in the success of your project—delivering results that exceed expectations and safeguard your investment.
Our Market Expertise
Each industry has unique construction challenges. Our teams approach your project’s specialized challenges with proven processes developed specifically for you. We know that by prioritizing innovation and adapting to your needs, we will be a trusted long-term partner to help you achieve your boldest business goals.
Aerospace & Automotive
Using state-of-the-art safety, quality, and production processes, we partner with owners early in the design and bring our years of experience to your project.
Installing Complex Systems with Zero Impact
Our ability to self-perform steel erection, concrete installation, and process piping construction means you can be sure of start to finish constructability before the project begins. Today, the biggest names in aerospace and automotive rely on Harder to deliver consistent quality with zero impact on production or the environment.
Biopharmaceutical
From cGMP quality-control measures to ASME-BPE compliance, we adhere to the strictest of purity standards.
Validation and FDA Approval Begin with Quality Construction
Harder Mechanical specializes in the prefabrication and installation of all ultra clean piping and complete process system installations for the bio-pharmaceutical industry.
We provide the highest quality installation of all critical hygienic systems along with comprehensive documentation to ensure that owner and bio-pharmaceutical industry standards are met. Our craftspeople are experts at the specialized, sloped piping your projects require.
Chemical Manufacturing
When your big project has a lot of piping requirements, we bring the right expertise to the job.
Solutions Matched to Your Chemical Manufacturing
Every chemical has unique conveyance requirements. We know it is critical to match materials and equipment to the chemical. Our teams are versed in the fabrication and installation of all types of piping materials, including:
- FRP
- Stainless Steel
- Carbon Steel
- Exotic Alloys
- PVC & CPVC
- Teflon-Lined Steel
Commercial Buildings
We routinely tackle the biggest, most technically advanced and complex commercial projects.
Complete Solutions for Complex Projects
Harder Mechanical is a full service mechanical contractor, self-performing all the process piping, plumbing, and sheet metal work for Healthcare, Higher Education, Mission Critical, and other sophisticated commercial industries.
We can do it all: from boilers and chillers in operating hospitals to complete med gas systems, fuel oil systems and large central utility plants.
With in-house architectural sheet metal complementing our full array of sheet metal work and a 24-hour service department, we are able to serve our commercial clients around the clock.
Data Centers
When it’s time to build, scale, or retrofit your data center, nothing beats experience. We know every inch of your systems.
We Get Mission Critical
Your data center is the heart of your operation. It’s a complex place with a lot of moving parts. With our knowledge of the latest mission critical system technologies and our overall experience as a construction leader, Harder is a valuable contributor on any collaborative design-assist/construct team effort. We can help you deliver a reliable, profitable data center.
Our ability to self-perform both the piping and the sheet metal scopes on your data center project means we can optimize the full mechanical installation, generating savings in both cost and schedule. As both a piping contractor and sheet metal contractor, we are your comprehensive mechanical trade partner.
Food & Beverage
At Harder, we won’t let “How do I do this?” stop you from achieving your goals.
There is Always a Way
Are you a craft brewer with more demand than capacity? Does your specialty coffee company have more beans than roasters? Is your dairy facility in need of modernization? Our teams have helped clients upgrade their brewing & fermentation equipment, add a bottling line to their production facility, and expand their operations to meet growing customer demand. When you face tough challenges, trust the Harder Way to make your future plans happen.
Health Services
Trust us to manage safe, successful projects that won’t wake your patients.
Complete Solutions, Minimal Disruptions
As the medical industry continues to grow, patient care and innovation are at an all time high. We specialize in the new construction or retrofit of hospitals, medical office buildings, CUPs, and tenant improvements.
Harder’s healthcare team works closely with the owner, facility managers, and general contractors to meet even the most complex project challenges. By using off-site fabrication and careful work sequencing, we can minimize the impact to facility operations.
Higher Education
Trust us to manage safe, successful projects that won’t disturb your academic mission.
College Isn’t as Easy as it Looks
Colleges and universities are complex ecosystems, especially if they are located in heavily populated areas. Our higher education clients come back to Harder for capital improvement projects that take advantage of the latest technology and allow them to offer the best learning environments for their students.
Industrial Manufacturing
We build the complex systems that power manufacturing. From heavy machinery to precision optical devices, Harder focuses on your manufacturing process to build the right solution for you.
Our Process Supports Your Process
To stay competitive and grow, manufacturing needs to constantly refine process. Our clients call on us to build and improve equipment, so they can realize new capabilities and efficiencies. Our comprehensive services range from pipe fabrication and installation of all material conveying and robotic material handling equipment to the erection of all steel that supports the system installation.
Mining
Not every contractor can execute this challenging work. Experience is everything in your industry. Harder brings unparalleled experience and capability to conveying and crushing systems.
No One Builds Small Mines
This is a tough business unlike any other. You operate in massive, remote facilities in harsh conditions.
Your projects require speed, synchronization, and specialized skills. Combine those capabilities with our unprecedented commitment to safety, and you’ve got the Harder Way.
Oil Terminals
Make Harder your long-term partner for new facilities, new systems, retrofits, and expansion projects. Pump replacement, pipe and tank repair, installation of all launching and receiving equipment–we do it all.
When Not One Drop Can Touch the Ground
Harder understands the challenges faced by pipeline and terminal operators. There’s a lot on the line at all times. You must consider installation integrity, the facility’s profitability, and the safety of your people as well as the environment concerns. Harder has the specialized knowledge and expertise to deliver quality on all fronts.
Power Generation
This is what we do. These projects are massive and complicated. That’s why the major utilities rely on Harder for safe, quality construction and installation.
We Tackle the Tough Stuff
We specialize in power generation—the complex parts like turbine installs, centerline erection, and high-pressure pipeline construction. Nationally recognized as an industry leader, we leverage capabilities few others possess. Every aspect of construction demands precision execution, from materials handling to welding technique. That’s exactly what we deliver.
Pulp & Paper
Harder has been replacing and installing piping, metal, and process equipment at pulp and paper facilities for decades.
No Challenge is Too Big
This is a tough business, operating in massive, complex facilities on the thinnest of margins. Projects require speed, synchronization, and specialized skills. Harder combines those capabilities with an unprecedented commitment to safety.
When it’s time to upgrade, relocate, or build a new facility from scratch, choose Harder.
Refineries
No refinery job is too big or complex for Harder to deliver quality craftsmanship on budget, on schedule and safely.
Nationally Recognized for Safety, Quality, and Performance
This is a tough business, operating in massive, complex facilities on the thinnest of margins. Projects require speed, synchronization, and specialized skills. Harder combines those capabilities with an unprecedented commitment to safety.
When it’s time to upgrade, relocate, or build a new facility from scratch, choose Harder.
Renewable Energy
From renewable energy systems to new cleantech innovations, Harder serves our clients as they work to reduce their environmental impact.
Delivering Complex Renewable Energy Solutions
We specialize in converting renewable energies into power. These complex conversion systems demand the same safety and quality as traditional power plants. Whether you’re converting biomass, harnessing the power of wind or water, or capturing sunlight, Harder has the right experience to plan and execute your project.
Semiconductor
A cornerstone of our expertise for more than 30 years, the semiconductor industry continues to turn to Harder for their next project.
Meeting the Highest Industry Standards
We understand complex challenges faced in the semiconductor industry. That’s why so many industry leaders have partnered with Harder from the beginning.
Harder has been involved in almost every major Silicon Forest semiconductor project over the last thirty years. Our reputation and reach now spreads into emerging industry hubs across the country.
We respect the delicate nature of ultra-clean systems that power semiconductor manufacturing. That’s why our standard operating procedures incorporate the needs unique to each semiconductor project.
