Projects
Commercial jobs you can see from the street
Most HVAC work is out of sight. These jobs are not. A crane, a load on the hook, a crew in hi-vis on a downtown roof: this is the register of commercial work ACT has put its name to around Yakima, one chapter per project, with the photos from that job and no other.
The register
Public buildings first
Josh Johnson came up working on large systems before he and Lindsey started ACT in 2011, and the commercial side of the shop still shows it. The City Jail, the City Building, the Downtown YMCA and the Juvenile Detention Center are all Yakima buildings you pass without thinking about the air inside them.
We list only what we can show. Where a job has photos in our files, they are below. Where it does not, the name goes in the short list further down, and nothing else gets added. If you manage a building of your own, the commercial HVAC page covers what we install and service, and VRF systems covers the Mitsubishi CITY MULTI work.
Chapter 1
Yakima City Jail
This is the job behind the crane photos on our home page. A cooling tower section is lifted over the downtown roofline on the hook and set on the roof, with a crew in ACT hi-vis guiding it in.
The photos show the whole sequence: the boom and the load against the skyline, the cooling tower on the roof with the crew small beside it, and two hard-hatted techs standing on the finished deck. A separate frame shows the rooftop units on the blue-sided building.
Chapter 2
Yakima City Building
The ACT pickups are lined up in the lot before the crane moves. That is how a lift day starts: trucks first, then the hook.
A brick building with a crane working over it is a job where the prep matters as much as the pick. The people working inside should not have to think about it.
Chapter 3
Downtown YMCA
A crane on the street beside the building and an ACT pickup parked at the curb. The YMCA is on our community list too, so this one is a neighbour as well as a job.
The square frame is a rooftop unit up top. It is the part of the building nobody sees from the street, and it is what keeps the air inside moving.
Chapter 4
Yakima Juvenile Detention Center
A drone view straight down on the roof: the units sit in rows across a large flat roof, which is how a building this size is cooled and heated. Nothing about it is meant to be noticed from the ground.
Rooftop equipment on a building like this is service work for years after the install, which is why our maintenance plans exist.
Also on the register
Two more commercial names
- Pacific Northwest UniversityCommercial HVAC
- Starbucks, 40th AveCommercial HVAC
No photos for these two, so no more than the name.
Residential
Residential Zoning System Install
The same crew that sets a unit on a downtown roof also runs the duct through your trusses. Zoning lets each part of a house hold its own temperature. See furnaces and air conditioning.
Homes
The same trucks, at a front door
Between the crane days, most of what ACT does is a house: a new build under framing, a hillside custom home, a Victorian with two vans out front. The trucks are the same ones and so is the number.
New construction is its own service, covered on the new construction page.
Restaurants and retail shells
We have also worked restaurant and retail spaces: exposed spiral duct over a finished ceiling, and a stainless kitchen hood in its finished state. Those are the two frames we are showing.
Have a building that needs a plan?
Call the office Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. Emergency HVAC service runs 24 hours. We also cover Yakima, Ellensburg and the Tri-Cities.