After 25 years in the mechanical construction business, Fresh Meadow Mechanical Corp. is ready for an epic project—and it got one in managing all HVAC work at Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus in upper Manhattan. The 17-acre expansion, estimated at over $6 billion, is the Ivy League university’s largest in more than a century and will open in stages through 2030.
HVAC has been a core specialty for the 120-person contractor based in Fresh Meadows, N.Y., which also is skilled in electrical, energy conservation, chilling and rail and rigging. The scale of the university project included work for the firm in the construction of a new central energy plant in addition to work on the new Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, part of the 450,000-sq-ft Jerome L. Greene Science Center.