Search Results For: MegaPress
October 25, 2021
Conquering the Mountain: How Viega Helped a Plumber Succeed in the Biggest Job of His Career
Two things stood between Mike Purkey and the biggest job of his plumbing career: climbing a mountain and getting the work done before the snow started to fly. The job was at Camp Oljato, a Scouts BSA facility located at 7,200 feet elevation in California’s western Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Creek Fire had burned through […]
September 21, 2021
Tight spaces, quick timelines no problem for Wyoming plumber
Aspen Mountain Plumbing CEO Lance Ball was called to a job requiring some creative solutions. He was tasked with taking out an old boiler with a holding tank from the private residence, but there was no prebuilt manifold. Plus, he was faced with a number of tight spaces in which to do the work. The […]
August 20, 2021
Pressing saves time and money on tricky hospital job
The biggest project Jordan Haugtvedt has worked on lately ended up getting a big helping hand, thanks to Viega ProPress and MegaPress technology. Haugtvedt has been with Q&Z Heating and Plumbing in Grand Forks, North Dakota, for nine years and currently holds the position of journeyman/foreman. When the local hospital came calling, asking not only […]
July 22, 2021
Smart Connect saves contractor headaches
The proverb reads “haste makes waste.” When you’re in a hurry, precautions have a tendency to take a back seat and costly mistakes can happen. Matthew Fleming, vice president of All-Star Plumbing in Manasquan, New Jersey, had a recent project in a strip mall. Compliments of Covid-19 and all the pitfalls it created, it ended […]
July 20, 2021
MegaPressG helps save zoo animals
When you’ve got exotic critters that require additional heat to mimic their natural home, it’s a race against the clock when the gas line is shut down because of a leak. That was the nature of an urgent call Frank Bonetti Plumbing received: The Oakland Zoo in California had a leak and needed help – […]
May 18, 2021
CRW Mechanical goes big with MegaPressG
Time savings, cleanliness, ease of installation – there were many advantages to CRW Mechanical’s use of Viega MegaPressG recently on a large project in Virginia. The crew was brought in to work on an existing shopping center in Herndon, Virginia. The complex included 19 gas meters that had previously been installed inside a parking garage, […]
March 10, 2021
Contractor nets huge time savings by pressing
Who wouldn’t want to save nearly 500 man-hours on a project? That’s what CSM Mechanical did on a job for the City of Dearborn in Michigan – thanks to Viega’s MegaPressG fittings. By reworking plans to make the natural gas piping distribution system 4” or smaller on the police and courts buildings, and by choosing […]
February 8, 2021
High-rise project easier, faster with MegaPress
Time is always of the essence on a construction project. And when it’s a big one, time savings really add up. That’s exactly what Pitt Meadows Plumbing in British Columbia, Canada, is enjoying, thanks to using Viega MegaPressG fittings, up to 4” in size, on a project that includes four towers – 56, 48, 37 […]
February 8, 2021
Contractor dumps threader, picks up MegaPressG
Here’s yet another example of Viega saving a contractor time – this one on a rooftop near Toronto. Nick Cisternino, of owner-operated Principle Air Systems, installed three packaged heating/cooling units on an existing commercial building in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. The units required about 350 feet of 2” gas pipe from the on-ground meter, up the […]
December 16, 2020
Groundbreaking research
The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui, Hawaii, uses the largest mirror of any solar telescope in the world. Thanks to its 13-foot-wide mirror, it collects seven times more sunlight than any other solar telescope, producing the clearest, highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun. Not surprisingly, a solar telescope of […]
November 30, 2020
Retrofit in active warehouse possible with MegaPressG
While forklifts were cruising the aisles of a warehouse in Grantsville, Maryland, a crew from BYCO Enterprises had to carefully retrofit that same space with 1,340 feet of gas line. MegaPressG fittings were the perfect solution to meet the challenge. The warehouse was already stocked and operational, so the small BYCO crew had to navigate […]
October 30, 2020
Unique Viega tables act as visual catalog for fittings
A couple of pieces of furniture in the Lehman Pipe and Supply offices in Florida qualify as truly unique. They’re custom-made “Viega tables,” created from a large variety of Viega fittings. A MegaPress Stainless table is stationed at the Pompano Beach location, and a ProPress Copper table is on display in the Miami office. Both […]
September 25, 2020
Brewpub breathes new life into historic site
A century ago, the building was a factory that produced munitions for the U.S. military through the end of World War II. Dilapidated and in shambles for years, the entire Peters Cartridge Company in Kings Mills, Ohio, has now been through a massive overhaul and is an up-and-coming development. The Superfund site – abandoned and […]
September 25, 2020
Viega gets housing unit back in service quickly
What do you do when the gas line serving multifamily housing is compromised and shut down on a Friday afternoon? You reach for Viega, of course. Air & Water Mechanical Services was called in for some speedy help in the Phoenix area. Approximately 100 feet of pipe needed to be replaced, so the gas line […]
August 20, 2020
School improvements made easy with MegaPress
Students at Central Elementary School in Longmont, Colorado, just might find it a little easier to concentrate, now that an outdated pump system has been replaced. The entire three-story school would vibrate when the aging boiler system (located in the basement) was running, which caused a lot of distraction. Everest Mechanical replaced the pump system, […]
August 20, 2020
Distributor uses Viega in own facility
When the premium wholesale plumbing supplier decided to build a large training and distribution center in Phoenix, not only did they choose to stock Viega products, but to show them off in their own plumbing and piping as well. The 35,000-square-foot building was recently completed for use with customer training. “The Workbench” gives tradespeople the […]
August 20, 2020
Simplifying a downtown restoration
When you take an old space and make it new, there are inherent challenges to it. And that’s exactly what happened with a restoration project in downtown Buda, Texas. Tight spaces to work in meant Viega products were a perfect partner. In the downtown space, old and unused factories have slowly been getting facelifts. Developers […]
July 15, 2020
Laundromat project finished faster with Viega
For Robert Gonzalez, MegaPress products have proved to be something that keeps his small company competitive in today’s market. And while he initially saw some potential benefits to using MegaPress and ProPress, once he put Viega to work he started to realize how much more efficient his crew could be. Now it’s a solution he […]
June 15, 2020
Aging Building Gets Overhaul with Viega Products
Where there is one success with a product, there are often more to come – and that’s exactly what happened in Brooklyn after Viega fittings made a multi-building project simpler. When crews with KSK Mechanical overhauled a large steam-line system in a multi-building apartment complex in Brooklyn, the engineers and managers were so impressed that […]
June 15, 2020
More Time, Less Mess with Viega
When a crew in Maine needed to renovate the heating system in an elementary school, they were up against two challenges – time and cleanliness. Travis Wheeler and his workers from Mechanical Services in Augusta, Maine, took on the project to redo the system in Manchester Elementary School. They picked Viega MegaPress and ProPress products […]
June 15, 2020
Tight Timelines Met with MegaPress Stainless
In a century-old manufacturing plant, things have been done the same way for a long, long time. But when crews had to completely rebuild a blast furnace and had just nine weeks to finish the project, traditional methods had to go out the window. The large steel-manufacturing plant needed to put in about 3,000 feet […]
May 1, 2020
CONTRACTOR SOLD ON VIEGA THANKS TO SPEED, REDUCED MANPOWER NEEDS
“I’ll never go back to threading pipe if I don’t have to!” That’s what Preston Turk, Project Manager for LD Mechanical in Montrose, Colorado, said after using Viega MegaPress on a recent job. LD Mechanical was brought in to work on a MUD (Mixed Use Development) project in the mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. With […]
May 1, 2020
BRANCH CONNECTORS GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO TEE FITTINGS
Saving time, reducing the steps for installation, and making things simpler on everyone – that’s what a crew from Guy’s Mechanical Systems discovered the Viega MegaPress Press-In Branch Connector can do for a project. Out of Rochester, Pennsylvania, the group has been working on a 20-story high-rise in downtown Pittsburgh. Renovating the aged building – […]
April 1, 2020
BEAN PROCESSING FACILITY INSTALLS FIRST LARGE-DIAMETER MEGAPRESSG FITTINGS
Imagine threading or welding 4″ carbon steel pipes, 40 feet in the air. Sounds difficult, time-consuming and potentially dangerous. All those pitfalls were avoided when a crew in Michigan used Viega MegaPressG fittings to pipe a new bean-roasting facility. The result was clean, attractive piping, a quick turnaround on project time, plus happy workers and […]
November 1, 2019
ONE-OF-A-KIND TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Get hands-on experience plus education in the classroom, and tie it all together with a trip through the visually stunning Interactive Learning Center at Viega’s new Colorado Seminar Center. Viega opened its second seminar center earlier this year after the first location in New Hampshire has found great success since opening its doors in 2006. […]
July 1, 2019
DOWN THE LINE: SHOPPING MALL RE-PIPED WITH MEGAPRESSG
Nearly five miles of pipe. That’s what a crew from Limbach Inc. was tasked with replacing – a total of 24,500 feet of old carbon steel gas pipe. On the roof of a large shopping complex in Philadelphia. With as little inconvenience to the tenants as possible. And without using any hot work on the […]
July 1, 2019
VIEGA PRESSES NEW MICROBREWERY INTO SERVICE
It’s not just a brewery. Source Brewing is a destination, a place to enjoy a craft brew in a scenic location. And while you’re there, look overhead – you’ll see some Viega products adding to the décor. Source Brewing is a new destination-style microbrewery, and owner Philip Petracca uses locally sourced ingredients, the reason for […]
July 1, 2019
ACIDIC CONDITIONS NO MATCH FOR MEGAPRESSG
Thousands of MegaPressG fittings will ensure that tens of thousands of animals at a hog farm in Milford, Utah, stay warm. Plus, the fittings will reduce the need for maintenance at the site. Barry Barnes, Superintendent for Rollins Construction, has overseen the huge project of building a group of new hog-raising barns. There are 26 […]
March 1, 2019
CHANGES ON OLD PIPING SYSTEM A SNAP WITH MEGAPRESS
MegaPress fittings saved the day for Holbrook Service in Colorado Springs, Colorado. When their crew was called to a bank in the city for work on an aging hot-and-chilled-water system, Janson Fish and Russell Piano, with Holbrook, ultimately chose Viega for the repairs. They found tight quarters in the basement of the bank, with carbon […]
March 1, 2019
VIEGA FITTINGS VITAL FOR QUICK BOILER REPAIR
When meeting a crucial deadline, many contractors know that using Viega products will get the job done well and without worries of missing a target date. It’s why Moe Saavedra, General Manager of Devix Heating and Cooling in West Allis, Wisconsin, called on Viega ProPress and MegaPress fittings for a boiler-repiping project. In September, when […]
March 1, 2019
Viega Propress, Megapress, Radiant, Snowmelt, Flushing—We’ve Got It All.
The beauty of constructing your own building is using your own products, and that’s exactly what Viega LLC just finished doing with the efforts of Braconier Plumbing and Heating Co. The new Colorado Seminar Center will open in April and is next door to the company’s new permanent headquarters building that opened for business on […]
November 1, 2018
WHY THREAD WHEN YOU CAN PRESS?
A crew from Pinnacle Plumbing began threading the carbon steel pipe needed for gas lines in a 96-unit townhouse complex; but shortly after, they switched to Viega MegaPressG. The rest of the project – which includes more than 30 buildings, some of them mixed use – was completed with Viega. “After getting into the project, […]
November 1, 2018
VIEGA SOLUTIONS PERFECT FOR TIGHT QUARTERS
When you combine an aging building, extremely hot conditions, tight work spaces and a need for quick tie-in, Viega systems are the perfect answer to retrofit needs. That’s what contractors working on St. Joseph Villa in Salt Lake City, Utah, discovered. Rich Lobrovich and Chad Hustad, Project Managers for First Service Mechanical, used ProPress and […]
November 1, 2018
VIEGA MAKES DAILY CLEANING EASY
Word-of-mouth recommendation. That’s the essence of why Viega products were used in a meat-processing facility in Pennsylvania. Godshall’s, a premium meat and turkey product company, had soldered and sweated fittings in an older building, and when plumber Karl Keath presented Viega fittings to company heads, they were intrigued. But it was when they visited another […]
November 1, 2018
MEGAPRESS MAKES PROJECT CHANGES EASY
After 1,500 feet or more of carbon steel pipe had already been run for a project, there was a last-minute change in plans and two additions were made. With any other pipe joining solution, that would have thrown off construction by a few days, but thanks to Viega’s MegaPress System, the delay was minimal. The […]
July 1, 2018
Up Close and Personal
There’s nothing quite like seeing your first ProPress fitting be made and watching the technology at work. For some customers or distributors, the Viega Roadshow provides that experience – and it gets their attention. The Viega Roadshow, the company’s traveling demonstration truck, is making its way from region to region throughout the country. Having the […]
July 1, 2018
OLD BUILDING, NEW REPAIR METHOD
A repair project estimated to take all day long was finished within two hours through the use of MegaPress XL and the MegaPress XL PressBooster. Roberts Environmental Control outside of Chicago received a call about a leak in a Michigan Avenue building originally constructed in 1901. The building had a leak in a steam line, […]
July 1, 2018
KEEP THE HOT WATER FLOWING
When it’s 8:30 p.m. and your water heater quits working, no doubt you’d love to have hot water for a shower the next morning. But with traditional installation, the likelihood of that happening after-hours is slim. However, Eric Silva can make it happen and it’s thanks to Viega ProPress and MegaPress products. In recent years, […]
July 1, 2018
SIMPLIFYING THE BUILD
Amazing speed. That’s what Anytime Mechanical owner James Music loves most about Viega products, and why his appreciation of the company’s products continues to grow. “I’ve been introducing Viega to a lot of friends and telling them how awesome it is in regards to speed,” he said. “When we first started running gas pipe, it […]
July 1, 2018
MEGAPRESS STAINLESS: THE SOLUTION FOR A CORROSIVE CHEMICAL
When using a chemical that can eat through some substances, you need a pipefitting solution that will stand the test of time. It’s why Mike’s Mechanical in Lewiston, Idaho, used MegaPress Stainless fittings for chemical lines in a manufacturing process. The customer has a high-tech facility where proprietary systems manufacture the company’s circuit boards. The […]
July 1, 2018
Big Project, Big Time and Cost Savings
When the owner of a new vehicle dealership in southern Texas was looking for additional cost savings on his new build, Viega products came up as a compelling solution. TDIndustries Project Manager Robert Huron suggested Viega as a key tool to reduce labor costs, which he said can make up as much as 70 percent […]
March 1, 2018
INDIVIDUAL GAS METERS CONNECTED WITH MEGAPRESSG
In an apartment complex in Johnson City, New York, each residence is fitted with its own individual gas meter, and the roughly 10,000 feet of gas pipe used is connected by hundreds of Viega MegaPressG fittings. When the contractor Piccirilli, Slavik and Vincent Plumbing and Heating, Inc. (PS&V), started on the project, the firm looked […]