June 20, 2008 — DENVER, COLORADO — The goal of any restaurant construction project is to find the company that provides quality work in a timely manner with the best bottom line. Massoud Farazandeh, general manager of Nationwide Fire Protection Corp., an affiliate of American Professional Services (APS-Hoods), is making that goal a reality for general contractors in Colorado.

Farazandeh owns a full-service restaurant fire protection business that installs, services, repairs and performs routine inspections and cleaning for hood and fire suppression systems. Farazandeh expanded the services of APS-Hoods to include installation of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems about seven years ago, but never advertised until this year, when more general contractors began requesting that he provide HVAC work.

The mechanical engineering field has many areas of expertise, such as water heaters, boilers, heating units, HVAC systems and hood exhaust fans, to name a few examples.

“Typically the HVAC contractors don’t have much knowledge about hood installation, but because it’s mechanical, they can figure it out,” Farazandeh said.

Although HVAC work has been a part of the services offered by APS-Hoods for years, Farazandeh didn’t promote it because other services were more popular.

When it became apparent that a lot of the restaurant owners and managers in the area were giving hood installation contracts to HVAC contractors, and more general contractors began asking Farazandeh to provide the HVAC work on restaurant projects, he honored the requests. That means that general contractors now have one company they can turn to that is proficient in both areas.

“It’s a lot less headache for general contractors to do business with fewer companies,” he said.

Besides being less of a hassle for contractors, using one company for all the air handling aspects of a project provides optimum air balancing, minimizes redundancy in set-up, streamlines permitting processes, requires less paperwork and lowers costs by five to 10 percent. Considering that these restaurant mechanical engineering projects can range from $50,000 to $500,000, that is significant savings, Farazandeh said.

Since a lot of preparations for hood systems overlap with HVAC preparations , when those are done in conjunction it keeps costs down . For example, significant money can be saved on equipment rentals when one contractor is doing all of the work. Renting cranes at $200 an hour and renting special ladders and scaffolding adds up, especially when several contractors are charging those fees to the general contractor or the client.

“Normally, when you rent a crane, you pay a minimum of two hours, regardless of whether the job takes 20 minutes,” Farazandeh said. “It makes sense to have one contractor do all the work that requires a crane than to have three contractors rent that piece of equipment separately.”

The permitting process also is cheaper when one contractor is pulling all of the permits.

“It’s a lot of little things that add up,” he said.

Reducing the number of contractors on a job also decreases the risk of air balancing issues. There is a chance when several contractors are involved in an air handling system that the air balancing won’t be correct.

“If one contractor doesn’t do the air balancing properly, that could affect the whole building,” Farazandeh said, “and finding the source of the problem could be difficult.

“Because we are one of the few companies who handles all aspects of air handling, we have the whole process in mind during installation,” he added. “We’ve had such success in hood installation and fire prevention that those services eclipsed what we offer in the area of HVAC installation and repairs, but we just want to let our customers know we do HVAC as well.”

Learn More
For more information about installing HVAC systems or other air handling services, contact APS-Hoods, (303) 639-9399, or visit the company’s Web site: www.aps-hoods.com.

About APS-Hoods
APS-Hoods is a full-service restaurant fire protection business that installs, services, repairs and performs routine inspections and cleaning for hood and fire suppression systems. Founded by Chief Executive Officer Massoud Farazandeh in 1989, APS-Hoods has grown into a national leader in hood cleaning and fire protection for restaurants and facilities. APS provides superior service, a quality guarantee and maintains a highly qualified and dependable staff. All crew members are professionally trained to comply with the National Fire Prevention Association Standards and state and local codes.

APS-Hoods is fully insured and bonded. They are licensed in the mechanical and electrical fields, as well as fire protection contracting. APH-Hoods is affiliated with the National Fire Protection Agency and the Colorado Division of Fire Safety Fire Suppression Program.

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