Q: What industries does DePue Mechanical serve?A: DePue's core industrial markets include food and beverage, chemical and process, manufacturing and industrial facilities, power generation, water and wastewater, and oil, gas and refining. We also perform qualifying work for commercial buildings, municipal facilities, education, institutional and healthcare facilities, pharmaceutical and specialty process environments, renewable and biofuel operations, research facilities, laboratories, data centers, and other technically demanding facility types.
Q: Where does DePue Mechanical perform this work?A: DePue's primary market is Northern Illinois and the Greater Chicago area. Project fit depends on the facility, mechanical scope, schedule, labor requirements, and overall delivery needs.
Q: Does DePue work inside operating plants and facilities?A: Yes. A significant portion of DePue's work takes place inside operating industrial facilities where production, treatment processes, building occupants, or other facility operations continue around the project. Planning can include field verification, production coordination, temporary conditions, access and material staging, shutdown windows, tie-in sequencing, prefabrication, testing, and return-to-service requirements.
Q: Does DePue handle shutdown, outage, and turnaround work?A: Yes. DePue plans and executes schedule-critical mechanical work during shutdowns, outages, and turnarounds, including piping modifications, equipment work, mechanical repairs, tie-ins, code welding, fabrication, and related construction scopes. Pre-outage planning focuses on verifying conditions, defining tie-in points, staging materials and equipment, coordinating trades, and identifying testing and startup requirements before the shutdown clock begins.
Q: Can DePue serve as the Prime General Contractor for a facility project?A: Yes. For mechanically led multi-trade capital projects, DePue can serve as Prime General Contractor and design-build partner. Depending on the project, DePue can support scope development, ROM budgeting, engineering coordination, procurement, scheduling, subcontractor management, permitting, safety, construction, commissioning coordination, closeout, and turnover while self-performing critical mechanical scopes. Learn more about our
Prime General Contracting services.
Q: What mechanical work does DePue self-perform?A: DePue self-performs industrial and process piping, utility piping, pipe fabrication, HVAC, sheet metal and ductwork, boiler and code welding, equipment setting, rigging, structural steel fabrication, and structural steel erection. Other scopes may be self-performed or managed through qualified specialty subcontractors depending on the project.
Q: Does DePue work in regulated industrial facilities?A: Yes. DePue has extensive experience working in PSM and other regulated industrial environments. Depending on the facility, project requirements may also include GMP practices, FDA or USDA requirements, ASME/code requirements, site-specific safety procedures, work permits, documentation, and subcontractor safety controls.
Q: Can DePue work around active production or treatment operations?A: Yes. DePue regularly plans mechanical construction around active production, treatment systems, occupied facilities, and other ongoing operations. The construction plan can account for access restrictions, sanitation requirements, existing utilities, equipment movement, temporary systems, phased work, shutdown windows, and critical tie-ins so the project can be completed with as little unnecessary disruption as practical.
Q: Does DePue provide maintenance and emergency mechanical service for these industries?A: Yes. In addition to capital projects and mechanical construction, DePue provides preventive and corrective maintenance as well as 24/7 emergency mechanical repair for qualifying industrial and commercial facilities. This allows facility teams to use DePue for planned improvements, ongoing mechanical support, and urgent system failures.
Q: Does DePue provide design-build and preconstruction support?A: Yes. DePue can become involved before a project is fully designed to assist with site walks, scope development, ROM budgeting, constructability review, BIM/VDC coordination, fabrication planning, scheduling, and engineering coordination. For design-build projects, DePue can also contract and manage the appropriate engineering consultants as part of the project team.
Q: What if our facility or industry is not listed on this page?A: The industries listed on this page represent DePue's core and additional markets, but they are not intended to exclude facilities with specialized mechanical needs. Project fit is evaluated based on the mechanical systems involved, facility conditions, geography, schedule, operating requirements, and overall project scope. If your facility does not fit neatly into one of the categories above,
contact DePue Mechanical and describe what you are planning.
