Service & Maintenance Projects

3M water treatment facility

3M Advanced Water Treatment Facility

Charged with expanding M Health Fairview’s NICU at St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood, Knutson Construction called on Collins to provide electrical services for the project. The level III NICU received a comprehensive redesign and upgrade that increased the number of patient beds by 50 percent.

M Health Fairview: St. John’s NICU

In an effort to provide housing for its first-year students, the University of St. Thomas invested in Tommie North Hall, a five-story, 210,000-square-foot residence hall on the north end of its campus. To oversee the project, the University hired Opus Design Build L.L.C., who in turn engaged Collins as its full-service electrical partner.

Tommie North Hall

For more than 30 years, Collins has installed and maintained the heat-producing electrodes on the glass-melting kiln that 3M relies on for the production of small, glass bubbles.

3M: Glass Melter

For more than three decades, Collins has worked with 3M engineers to build the complex manufacturing equipment needed to produce the multinational corporation’s products.

3M: Fabrication Services Support

In 2019, the University of St. Thomas set out to build the 5-story Tommie East Hall. To manage the project, the University engaged Ryan Companies, who in turn hired Collins as its design-build electrical partner.

Tommie East Hall

In 2019, the University of St. Thomas was ready to build the Iversen Center for Faith, a multi-use, 25,000-square-foot expansion to its Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas. To oversee this largely underground expansion, the University engaged Opus Design Build L.L.C. In turn, Opus hired Collins as its full-service electrical partner.

Iversen Center for Faith

Great River Energy had been preparing for a major upgrade to its high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) system and turned to Collins to subcontract.

Great River Energy: HVDC Upgrade

CET - Xcel Generator Replacement 2

Xcel Energy: Generator Replacement

Collins served as the electrical contractor on the project, which won the 2017 Excellence Award in the Industrial and Office Buildings category from the Design-Build Institute of America Upper Midwest Region.

Xcel Energy: Corporate Headquarters

3M: A Collins Partner Since 1985

3M: A Collins Partner Since 1985

Since 1994, Collins has provided maintenance service at all nuclear and non-nuclear Xcel power production facilities as well as all other non-power production facilities in Minnesota.

Xcel Energy: Prairie Island Maintenance