Installation. Preventive maintenance. Emergency repair. Efficiency upgrades. AirPros designs, installs, and maintains air-cooled chillers from 20 tons to 500+ tons — serving manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, education, multifamily, and government facilities across Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile, Jasper, and the entire state of Alabama.
Trusted by Alabama facility managers, plant engineers, and property management teams.
Where We Work
Most chiller contractors in Alabama are either national brands with factory-authorized service centers in one or two cities, or local shops without the specialized training for large tonnage equipment. AirPros fills the gap — a certified independent contractor with the expertise to handle 20-ton package units through 500-ton central plants, serving the entire state with response times the nationals can't match and pricing they won't touch.
Our home market and regional base of operations. The University of Alabama, DCH Regional Medical Center, Mercedes-Benz manufacturing, and a growing commercial development corridor. Deep local relationships and fastest response times in the Tuscaloosa market.
Alabama's largest commercial market. UAB and the UAB Health System, Protective Life Tower, Regions Financial Center, Vulcan Materials, and dozens of mid-rise office buildings and healthcare facilities running large chiller plants. AirPros serves Birmingham commercial accounts with full installation, PM, and emergency response.
Explore Birmingham, AL chiller serviceAlabama's fastest-growing city and home to Redstone Arsenal, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and a rapidly expanding commercial real estate market. Defense contractors, aerospace facilities, and tech campuses — precision cooling requirements that demand a contractor who knows large-tonnage equipment.
Alabama's capital city with a significant government, healthcare, and hospitality chiller market. Baptist Health, Jackson Hospital, state government buildings, and a growing industrial corridor along the I-65 corridor. AirPros handles full chiller lifecycle support for Montgomery commercial accounts.
Alabama's port city and a major Gulf Coast commercial market. Shipbuilding, aerospace, petrochemical, and logistics facilities — plus healthcare and hospitality — drive demand for large-tonnage chiller plants. AirPros serves Mobile commercial accounts with installation, PM, and emergency response along the Gulf corridor.
Walker County's commercial and industrial hub — manufacturing facilities, healthcare, and municipal buildings with chiller plants that are often underserved by contractors based further out. AirPros provides Jasper and Walker County facilities with the same commercial chiller expertise available in larger markets.
For the right project, AirPros mobilizes anywhere in Alabama and across the Southeast. Large replacement projects, multi-site PM agreements, and emergency response for commercial accounts operating across state lines. Call 205.875.6094 to discuss your facility's location and scope.
What We Do
Chiller plants are the heart of large-facility cooling. A poorly maintained or incorrectly specified chiller costs facilities far more in energy waste and emergency repair than a properly managed plant under a professional service agreement. AirPros provides the full range of chiller services — so you have one contractor who knows your equipment from day one through the day it's replaced.
When you need this: New construction, capacity expansion, or a full plant redesign.
We work from concept through commissioning — equipment selection and sizing, piping and refrigerant circuit design, rigging coordination, electrical and controls integration, and full system startup. Like-for-like replacements through complete plant redesigns. We specify equipment across all major manufacturers — Carrier, Trane, York, Daikin, Multistack — and match the right equipment to your load profile, budget, and facility constraints. Every installation includes a written commissioning report and operator training before we hand off the plant.
When you need this: Any facility running an air-cooled chiller — without exception.
Chiller PM is not optional maintenance — it is the foundation of plant reliability. AirPros chiller PM agreements are structured around quarterly or semi-annual visits that include refrigerant pressure and superheat/subcooling checks, electrical component inspection and torque verification, condenser coil cleaning and fin straightening, oil and filter analysis, controls and safety device verification, vibration analysis, and a detailed written log after every visit. We tailor visit frequency to your tonnage, runtime hours, and risk tolerance. Maintenance agreement customers receive priority dispatch on emergency calls — always.
When you need this: Any time your chiller goes down — day, night, weekend, or holiday.
A failed chiller in an Alabama summer can take a facility offline within hours. AirPros provides 24/7 emergency dispatch for commercial accounts — compressor faults, refrigerant leaks, controls failures, condenser fan motor failures, and economizer issues. We carry critical parts inventory for all major brands and maintain relationships with regional distributors for components that aren't on the truck. When you call our emergency line, you reach a chiller technician — not a dispatcher reading from a script.
When you need this: Aging controls, BMS integration projects, or remote monitoring requirements.
Modern controls retrofits dramatically improve chiller efficiency and give facility managers visibility they've never had into plant performance. We handle BACnet and Modbus integration, tie-in to existing building management systems, remote monitoring configuration, setpoint optimization, and demand limiting controls. If your chiller is still running on original 1990s controls, a controls retrofit is typically one of the fastest-payback projects in your mechanical plant.
When you need this: Rising energy costs, aging equipment, or a sustainability mandate.
We establish a baseline kW/ton measurement for your chiller plant, identify the gap between current performance and manufacturer-rated efficiency, and present a prioritized list of improvements with hard payback calculations. Common findings include condenser coil fouling reducing capacity, refrigerant charge drift, condenser fan staging inefficiencies, and leaving water temperature setpoints that haven't been touched in years. Many Alabama facilities are running chillers at 20-35% above their optimal energy consumption without knowing it.
When you need this: Chillers without variable-frequency drives on compressors or condenser fans.
Variable-frequency drives on condenser fan motors are one of the highest-ROI upgrades available for air-cooled chiller plants — often paying back in 18 to 36 months through energy savings alone. We also handle compressor VFD retrofits where applicable, refrigerant optimization for systems using phased-out refrigerants, and condenser coil replacement for units with severe fouling or physical damage. Every upgrade project includes pre- and post-installation performance benchmarking.
“Large-tonnage air-cooled chiller plants are our specialty — installed, maintained, and repaired across Alabama.”
What Makes This Different
The HVAC industry has a chiller problem. Because chiller work is intermittent and requires specialized training, many contractors who accept chiller service calls are doing so with technicians who lack the experience for the equipment in front of them. The result is misdiagnosis, unnecessary part replacement, refrigerant overcharging, and — at worst — compressor damage that turns a $4,000 repair into a $40,000 disaster.
AirPros doesn't dabble in chillers between residential service calls. Our commercial division treats chiller work as a core competency — with the training, tooling, and documentation practices to match. We carry refrigerant recovery and recharge equipment sized for large-tonnage systems, maintain calibrated instruments for electrical and refrigerant circuit analysis, and document every visit with the detail that facility managers and plant engineers actually need.
When you hire a chiller contractor, you're not just buying a service call — you're trusting them with a capital asset that might represent $300,000 to $1,000,000 in replacement value. That's worth asking hard questions about who's doing the work and what they actually know.
Carrier AquaForce, Trane RTAC, York YLAA, Daikin Magnitude, Multistack, McQuay, Liebert, Climacheck, and all other major air-cooled scroll, screw, and reciprocating chiller platforms. We service equipment from 20 tons through 500+ tons across single-circuit and multi-circuit configurations.
R-410A, R-134a, R-407C, R-22 (service only, no new installations), R-513A, R-454B, and other low-GWP next-generation refrigerants being introduced in new equipment. EPA Section 608 Universal certification. Proper recovery, reclaim, and recharge procedures — documented every time.
Every PM visit and service call produces a written report: refrigerant circuit readings, electrical measurements, observed conditions, work performed, and recommended follow-up items. Not a checkbox form — a document your facility team can trend over time and your ownership can reference during due diligence or capital planning.
Direct distributor relationships with Carrier, Trane, York, and Daikin. Regional parts inventory access for compressors, condenser fan motors, controls boards, and refrigerant circuit components. When a critical part is needed on an emergency basis, our distribution network is the difference between a 4-hour repair and a 4-day facility shutdown.
Who We Serve
Air-cooled chillers serve facilities where centralized cooling is mission-critical — not a convenience. AirPros has experience across Alabama's key chiller-dependent sectors and understands that each industry has different tolerance for downtime, different documentation requirements, and different procurement processes.
Hospitals, surgery centers, and medical office buildings cannot tolerate chiller downtime during patient care hours. We understand healthcare facility operating constraints — infection control protocols, 24/7 access requirements, and the documentation standards that hospital facilities teams require from every contractor on-site.
Alabama's automotive and manufacturing corridor — Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Honda, and their supplier networks — runs process cooling systems that demand uptime. We work with plant engineers and maintenance teams who speak technical language and expect contractors who do the same.
University and college campuses run central chiller plants that may serve dozens of buildings from a single plant. The University of Alabama, Auburn, UAB, Alabama A&M, and other institutions have unique procurement and compliance requirements. We're experienced with the bid process and documentation standards for educational institutions.
Hotels, convention facilities, and mixed-use developments depend on guest comfort for revenue. A chiller failure during a peak summer weekend is a direct revenue event. AirPros prioritizes hospitality accounts in emergency dispatch and builds PM schedules around occupancy patterns and peak season demands.
State and municipal buildings across Alabama — courthouses, administrative facilities, correctional institutions — run chiller plants with demanding compliance and documentation requirements. We're familiar with government procurement processes and the reporting standards that public facilities require.
Office buildings, retail centers, and mixed-use developments managed by commercial real estate firms need a chiller contractor who communicates clearly, invoices cleanly, and integrates with property management workflows. Portfolio agreements available for management companies with multiple Alabama properties.
In the Field
When our crew walks onto a rooftop or into a mechanical room, they carry the right tooling, the right parts access, and the experience to diagnose before swapping components. No refrigerant overcharges, no guesswork compressor replacements, no callbacks for the same fault two weeks later.
Why AirPros
Chiller work is unforgiving. The wrong contractor turns a manageable repair into a capital replacement. Here's what separates AirPros from the field.
We don't take chiller calls between residential tune-ups. Our commercial division treats chiller installation, maintenance, and repair as a core business — with the training, tooling, and field experience that only comes from doing this work consistently. Our technicians have seen the failure modes, know the common misdiagnoses, and understand the difference between a refrigerant circuit problem and a controls problem before they open a panel.
Factory-authorized service from Carrier or Trane sounds impressive — until you need emergency service and they can't get a technician on-site until Tuesday. As an independent contractor, AirPros isn't bound by geographic service territory restrictions or corporate dispatch protocols. We mobilize when you need us, not when the schedule allows.
Logs, trend data, and written reports after every visit — in a format your facility team can actually use. We document refrigerant readings, electrical measurements, and observed conditions at every visit so you build a performance history on your equipment over time. That documentation is material during capital planning, ownership transition, and insurance or warranty claims.
We approach every chiller plant as a long-term relationship, not a one-time service call. That means we flag developing issues before they become failures, give you honest replacement recommendations when a plant is approaching end-of-life, and help you build the capital planning case your ownership needs to approve major equipment investments.
Know Your Equipment
An air-cooled chiller uses ambient air — drawn across condenser coils by large fans — to reject the heat removed from a building's chilled water loop. Unlike water-cooled chillers, they don't require a cooling tower or condenser water system, which makes them the dominant chiller type for commercial buildings in Alabama's size range. The refrigerant circuit compresses refrigerant gas, condenses it to liquid across the air-cooled condenser, expands it through a valve, and evaporates it across the evaporator to absorb heat from the chilled water loop. That chilled water then circulates to air handling units throughout the building.
Air-cooled chillers reject heat to outdoor air — which means their efficiency and capacity are directly tied to ambient temperature. In Alabama, where design days regularly reach 95°F to 100°F with high humidity, chillers operate at or near their rated capacity limit for extended periods during summer. This sustained high-load operation accelerates condenser coil fouling, accelerates compressor wear, and creates the conditions where deferred maintenance has the fastest consequences. A chiller that's running at 98% of rated capacity on a 97°F Birmingham afternoon has zero margin for a dirty condenser coil or a refrigerant charge that's 5% low.
Most commercial air-cooled chillers in Alabama facilities fall into two categories: scroll compressor units (typically 20 to 150 tons) and screw compressor units (typically 100 to 500+ tons). Scroll chillers use multiple hermetic scroll compressors that can be staged for part-load efficiency — common in mid-size office buildings, medical offices, and smaller hospitality properties. Screw chillers use one or more semi-hermetic rotary screw compressors and are found in large office buildings, hospitals, universities, and industrial facilities. The service approach, diagnostic methodology, and failure modes differ significantly between these two types — which is why it matters that your service contractor understands both.
The replace-versus-repair decision for an air-cooled chiller is one of the most consequential capital decisions a facility manager makes. The general framework: if your chiller is over 15 years old and facing a repair that exceeds 30-40% of replacement cost, replacement is usually the better financial decision — particularly if the existing equipment uses R-22 refrigerant (no longer manufactured) or runs significantly above current efficiency standards. If the chiller is under 12 years old, well-maintained, and facing a component repair, repair is almost always the right call. AirPros will give you the honest analysis — with replacement cost estimates, energy savings projections, and rebate opportunities — before you make the decision.
A chiller PM visit is not a filter change and a visual inspection. A proper PM on a commercial air-cooled chiller includes: refrigerant circuit analysis (suction pressure, discharge pressure, superheat, subcooling, approach temperatures), electrical inspection (amperage at each compressor and fan motor, contactor condition, capacitor testing, control board inspection), condenser coil inspection and cleaning (coil surface fouling is the single most common efficiency robber on Alabama chillers), safety device verification (high pressure cutout, low pressure cutout, motor overloads), oil system inspection on screw chillers (oil level, oil filter condition, oil heater operation), controls verification (setpoints, alarms, trending data review), and a complete written log documenting all readings and observed conditions.
FAQ
Don't see what you need? Call 205.875.6094 — we're happy to talk through your specific situation.
We service air-cooled chillers from 20-ton package units through 500+ ton multi-circuit central plants. We work on all major manufacturers — Carrier, Trane, York, Daikin, Multistack, McQuay, and others — across scroll, screw, and reciprocating compressor platforms.
Yes. AirPros serves commercial facilities throughout the Birmingham metro — including UAB and UAB Health System facilities, downtown Birmingham office buildings, Shelby County industrial, and healthcare facilities across Jefferson County. Call 205.875.6094 to discuss your Birmingham facility's chiller service needs.
Yes. We serve Huntsville commercial and industrial accounts — including defense contractor facilities, aerospace campus cooling plants, and the rapidly expanding commercial real estate market in Madison County. Huntsville's precision-dependent facilities are exactly the environment where our documentation and technical standards matter most.
Yes. AirPros serves Montgomery commercial accounts including healthcare facilities, state government buildings, hospitality, and industrial properties along the I-65 corridor. Call 205.875.6094 to schedule a site visit for your Montgomery facility.
Yes. Walker County facilities — manufacturing, healthcare, municipal — are often underserved by contractors based further out. AirPros covers Jasper and surrounding Walker County from our Tuscaloosa base with the same response capability we provide in any market.
Yes. Our chiller PM agreements are the foundation of what we offer — quarterly or semi-annual visits with refrigerant circuit analysis, electrical inspection, condenser coil cleaning, controls verification, and a detailed written log. PM agreement customers receive priority dispatch on emergency calls. Call to discuss your facility's tonnage and service requirements.
Yes — 24/7 for commercial accounts. A failed chiller in an Alabama summer can shut down a facility within hours. We carry critical parts inventory for all major brands and maintain distributor relationships for components that aren't on the truck. Call 205.875.6094 for emergency dispatch.
Yes. We've handled chiller replacements from like-for-like swap-outs to complete plant redesigns. We coordinate equipment selection, rigging, piping, controls integration, commissioning, and operator training. Call us early in the planning process — replacement projects go better when the contractor is involved before the purchase order is issued.
Often yes. Condenser coil cleaning, refrigerant charge optimization, VFD installation on condenser fans, and controls upgrades can each produce meaningful efficiency improvements on older equipment. We start with a baseline kW/ton audit to quantify current performance before recommending any upgrades.
All major manufacturers — Carrier AquaForce series, Trane RTAC/CGAM series, York YLAA/YVAA series, Daikin Magnitude and AGZ series, Multistack modular chillers, McQuay, and Liebert precision cooling systems. If your equipment isn't listed, call — we've likely worked on it.
Our primary focus is air-cooled chillers. For water-cooled chiller needs, call 205.875.6094 and we'll discuss your specific situation and whether we're the right fit for your plant.
R-410A, R-134a, R-407C, R-22 (service and recovery only — R-22 is no longer manufactured), R-513A, R-454B, and other low-GWP refrigerants being introduced in current-generation equipment. All technicians hold EPA Section 608 Universal certification.
A like-for-like chiller replacement on a prepared site typically takes one to three days for equipment up to 200 tons, depending on rigging complexity, piping scope, and controls integration. Larger plant redesigns or projects with significant piping work take longer. We provide a realistic project timeline as part of the proposal process — not a number pulled from thin air.
Every visit — PM or service call — produces a written report documenting refrigerant readings, electrical measurements, observed conditions, work performed, and recommended follow-up. We don't do verbal-only summaries. Your facility team should have a trend-able record of your chiller's performance over time. We make sure you do.
Yes. Portfolio agreements across multiple Alabama properties — single contract, consolidated billing, volume pricing. Particularly useful for commercial real estate management companies with chiller-equipped properties in multiple Alabama markets. Call 205.875.6094 to discuss your portfolio.
Service Territory
AirPros is based in Tuscaloosa with commercial reach across Alabama and into the surrounding Southeast. For chiller installation, planned maintenance, and emergency repair — here's where we work:
Serving facilities from 20 tons to 500+ tons across all major Alabama markets.
Large replacement projects and multi-site PM agreements — call 205.875.6094 to discuss your facility's location and scope.
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Tell us about your plant — capacity, age, current service situation, and what you'd like to improve. We respond the same business day. For emergency chiller service, call 205.875.6094 directly — don't wait for a form response.
