Commercial

Design Build-Value Engineering

Allow H.C Blake Company’s professional, experienced staff to design-build and value engineer your next project. H.C. Blake’s vast knowledge of mechanical & piping systems allow owners and developers, etc., to tap into its resources for the most economical building system that fits both your needs and your budget. H.C Blake Company’s experienced staff works with mechanical P.E.s to combine exceptional engineering design with practical and cost-efficient knowledge.

License Qualifications and Certifications

H.C. Blake Company’s licenses, qualification and certification consist of but not limited to:

• Small Business Certified
• Alabama and Tennessee
• Board of heating and air conditioning contractors
• Associated Builders and Contractors of North Alabama Member
• State of AL and TN certified master plumber/gas fitter
• AHSE MEMBER
• Medical Gas Certified
• National Member of the ABC Mechanical Construction Board
• Past President of the State Of Alabama HVAC board
• Design Build jobs
• Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Services
• Troubleshooting
• Fast Track Design Build
• Design and Installation by Professional Engineer drawings, permitting City Inspection
• Team Coordinator for Difficult Installation

What Types of Facilities Does H.C Blake Work At?

The qualified experienced staff at H.C Blake can design, build, and service all of your plumbing, HVAC, and electrical needs at the smallest of apartments to the largest of industrial plants, at H.C Blake no job is too big or too small.

Examples of the facilities H.C Blake works at:

• Hospitals
• Doctors Offices
• Dental Offices
• Veterinarian Offices
• Clean Rooms
• Industrial Plants
• Government Facilities
• Redstone Arsenal
• Multi Story Office Complex
• Industrial Air Craft Hangers
• And Much, Much More

Commercial Plumbing Services

• Commercial Drain Cleaning
• Water Heaters
• Water Storage Tanks
• Water Line Repair And Replacement
• Backflow Prevention
• Pressure Reducing Valves
• Kitchen Installation Commercial
• Industrial Sewer Piping
• Chilled Water Piping
• Steam And Condensate Piping
• Air, Oxygen, Acetylene Piping
• Gas Piping
• Medical Gas Piping
• Video Sewer Inspections
• Grease Traps
• Saw Cut And Installation Of Below Slab Piping
• Air compressor design and installation
• Pumps

Commercial HVAC Services

• HVAC Trouble Shooting
• HVAC repairs, upgrades and replacement
• Package roof top units up to 250 tons
• Ventilation
• Exhaust
• Cooling towers
• Chillers
• Tube Heater
• Infrared heaters
• Electric heaters
• Humidification
• Dehumidification
• Geo Thermal
• Controls
• Test and Balance
• Air Problems
• Air flow Problems
• Boilers
• Gas Vents
• Heppa filters
• Sheet metal Fabrication
• Duct Work
• Range Hoods
• Vent Hoods
• Specialty Exhaust
• Spiral Duct
• Zoning
• Galvanized and stainless steel sheet metal

Electrical

• Fan Installation
• Exhaust Fan Installation
• Electrical Upgrades
• Hi-tech Troubleshooting
• Specialty Receptacles
• Track and Accent Lighting
• Circuit Breaker Replacement
• Ballast and Bulb Replacement
• Landscape Lighting
• Bath Lighting
• Kitchen Lighting
• Recessed Lighting
• Motion Sensors
• Wiring Upgrades
• Transfer Switches
• Dedicated Circuits
• Ceiling Fan Installation

Med Gas Piping

Complete Medical Gas Service, from design to certification

• Meet with your staff and determine scope of project.
• Work with qualified mechanical engineers experienced in medical gas design.
• Arrange for permits and general contractor.
• Field supervise medical gas installing contractor to assure code compliance
• Coordinate shutdown, if necessary, with hospital staff.
• Inspect and certify final project.

We have over 20 years of Hospital, Dental and Specialtiy Medical  Experience that we can put to use to avoid unnecessary costs and delays.

• compressed air
  • compressed air – medical and surgical
  • compressed air – high pressure instrument
  • compressed air – laboratory
  • compressed air – dental
• Vacuum
  • vacuum – surgical/medical
  • vacuum – waste anesthesia gas disposal (WAGD)
  • vacuum – laboratory
  • vacuum – dental
• Outlets
• Tanks
• oxygen
• nitrous oxide
• carbon dioxide
• nitrogen
• Design
• Certified
• Remove, Replace, Install and rework
• Trouble Shoot

Call the experts at H.C Blake today to have any of your medical gas piping needs handled with the professional care in concern you deserve!
Cooling Tower

Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature.

An HVAC cooling tower is a subcategory rejecting heat from a chiller. Water-cooled chillers are normally more energy efficient than air-cooled chillers due to heat rejection to tower water at or near wet-bulb temperatures. Air-cooled chillers must reject heat at the dry-bulb temperature, and thus have a lower average reverse-Carnot cycle effectiveness. Large office buildings, hospitals, and schools typically use one or more cooling towers as part of their air conditioning systems. Generally, industrial cooling towers are much larger than HVAC towers.
Chiller

A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid via a vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle. A vapor-compression water chiller comprises the 4 major components of the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle (compressor, evaporator, condenser, and some form of metering device). These machines can implement a variety of refrigerants. Adsorption chillers use municipal water as the refrigerant and benign silica gel as the desiccant. Absorption chillers utilize water as the refrigerant and rely on the strong affinity between the water and a lithium bromide solution to achieve a refrigeration effect. Most often, pure water is chilled, but this water may also contain a percentage of glycol and/or corrosion inhibitors; other fluids such as thin oils can be chilled as well.

Clean rooms

A cleanroom is an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. More accurately, a cleanroom has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by the number of particles per cubic meter at a specified particle size. To give perspective, the ambient air outside in a typical urban environment contains 35,000,000 particles per cubic meter, 0.5 μm and larger in diameter, corresponding to an ISO 9 cleanroom.
Geothermal Heat Pumps

A geothermal heat pump or ground source heat pump (GSHP) is a central heating and/or cooling system that pumps heat to or from the ground. It uses the earth as a heat source (in the winter) or a heat sink (in the summer). This design takes advantage of the moderate temperatures in the ground to boost efficiency and reduce the operational costs of heating and cooling systems, and may be combined with solar heating to form a geosolar system with even greater efficiency. Geothermal heat pumps are also known by a variety of other names, including geoexchange, earth-coupled; earth energy or water-source heat pumps. The engineering and scientific communities prefer the terms “geoexchange” or “ground source heat pumps” because geothermal power traditionally refers to heat originating from deep in the Earth’s mantle. Ground source heat pumps harvest a combination of geothermal power and heat from the sun when heating, but work against these heat sources when used for air conditioning.

Like a refrigerator or air conditioner, these systems use a heat pump to force the transfer of heat. Heat pumps can transfer heat from a cool space to a warm space, against the natural direction of flow, or they can enhance the natural flow of heat from a warm area to a cool one. The core of the heat pump is a loop of refrigerant pumped through a vapor-compression refrigeration cycle that moves heat. Heat pumps are always more efficient at heating than pure electric heaters, even when extracting heat from cold winter air. But unlike an air-source heat pump, which transfers heat to or from the outside air, a ground source heat pump exchanges heat with the ground. This is much more energy-efficient because underground temperatures are more stable than air temperatures through the year. Seasonal variations drop off with depth and disappear below seven meters due to thermal inertia. Like a cave, the shallow ground temperature is warmer than the air above during the winter and cooler than the air in the summer. A ground source heat pump extracts ground heat in the winter (for heating) and transfers heat back into the ground in the summer (for cooling). Some systems are designed to operate in one mode only, heating or cooling, depending on climate.