Industries & deployments

Crews on Virginia’s toughest MPP scopes.

From mixed-use towers to process plants and hospital expansions, here’s how T&H crews deploy and what they deliver.

Commercial construction
Industrial & manufacturing
Hospitals & institutional
Modular & prefab

Featured crew deployments

Three jobs, three industries, one standard.

Client names are kept private. Scope, timeline and results are shared with each contractor’s permission.

Tradesman finishing a bank of copper risers on a block wall

Scott’s Addition, Richmond

Commercial construction

Mixed-use tower: mechanical & plumbing build-out

Client: Mechanical subcontractor to a regional GC
Scope: HVAC installers, sheet metal crews and journeyman plumbers
Timeline: 14 months · peak crew of 72

Result

Peak crew mobilized in 9 days, with zero lost-time incidents.

Pipefitters and welders fabricating large steel pipe in a prefab shop

Petersburg

Industrial manufacturing plant

Process piping expansion on a fixed shutdown window

Client: Industrial mechanical contractor
Scope: 38 pipefitters, 12 certified stainless welders, 2 welding foremen
Timeline: 7 months · two shifts

Result

1,900+ welds with a 98.7% first-pass X-ray acceptance rate.

Gas outlet panel with regulators fed from a copper oxygen line

West End, Henrico

Hospital & institutional

Hospital tower expansion: mechanical & med-gas piping

Client: Mechanical contractor on a healthcare project
Scope: HVAC installers, pipefitters and ASSE 6010 medical gas brazers
Timeline: 11 months · scaled from 18 to 64 workers

Result

Mechanical rough-in finished 2 weeks ahead of the floor-by-floor schedule.

Project environments

Where our crews work.

Prefabricated building panel lifted into place by a crane — Prefabricated panel set by crane on a modular build

Cranes lifting large pipe spools onto an industrial pipe rack — Pipe spools lifted onto an industrial rack

Rooftop mechanical units with copper piping runs on roof supports — Rooftop units and copper piping runs

Installer on a scissor lift working among insulated mechanical piping — Insulated mains in an overhead pipe rack

Brazed copper elbow and reducer held in a pipe vise — Brazed copper fittings, ready to install

Laboratory with wall gas panels, bench electrical raceways and piping below — Lab fit-out: gas panels and bench services

Trade qualification standards

What every trade must prove before deployment.

HVAC / mechanical equipment installer

EPA 608 Universal certification
3+ years of commercial installs
Equipment-setting practical check

Sheet metal & ductwork

Reads SMACNA-based shop drawings
Duct layout and hanger test
Aerial lift trained

Journeyman plumber

Journeyman license verified
Underground, rough-in and trim experience
Grade and offset layout check

Pipefitter

Fit-up test from an isometric
Rigging and signaling basics
Hydrostatic and pneumatic testing

Certified pipe welder

Bend test to ASME IX / AWS D1.1
Carbon steel and stainless (GTAW/SMAW)
Hot work permit training

Copper brazer

Brazing test on copper joints
ASSE 6010 for healthcare med-gas
Nitrogen purge procedure

Reviews

Straight from the jobsite.

4.9

Average from 40+ contractor reviews

“We needed 38 pipefitters and two welding foremen for a plant expansion on two weeks’ notice. T&H had the first 20 on site in four days, every one with current OSHA cards and their own hand tools.”

Mark D.

Project Manager, mechanical contractor · Petersburg

Piping Workforce · August 2026

“Their plumbers know commercial underground and rough-in, not just service calls. Herber walks the floors, checks layout and catches problems before our inspector ever sees them.”

Angela R.

Superintendent, general contractor · Short Pump

Plumbing Workforce · June 2026

“We scaled from 12 to 64 HVAC and sheet metal installers on a hospital tower without losing schedule. Bilingual supervision made our safety talks land with the whole crew.”

Jason T.

Operations Director, HVAC contractor · Henrico

Mechanical Workforce · March 2026

“Lidia had our new crew’s onboarding paperwork done in one afternoon, in both languages. The fastest clean start we’ve had with any staffing firm.”

Derek W.

Safety Manager, industrial contractor · Ashland

Mixed crew · January 2026

“Nine-month placement: four journeyman plumbers and a lead. Zero no-shows, and the one replacement we needed was on site the next morning.”

Karen B.

Project Executive, plumbing contractor · Midlothian

Plumbing Workforce · October 2025

From our crews

“They called me back the same day, tested my rough-in on a real layout and had me on a commercial job the next week. Good crews, fair pay.”

José P.

Journeyman plumber, T&H crew member · Mechanicsville

Plumbing Workforce · September 2026

Your project could be the next deployment.

Commercial, industrial or institutional: tell us the scope and we’ll match the crew.

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