Metropolitan Industries Blog
Maintaining Building Water Systems While Unoccupied During COVID-19 Pandemic
A vacant State Street in downtown Chicago as people stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the world, many buildings and facilities are practically unoccupied, meaning their water usage has come to a screeching halt. As we all adjust to a new normal during this COVID-19 pandemic, it goes without saying that we as a [...]
MetroCloud SCADA Technology Transforms Local Villages’ Water Management Capabilities
MetroCloud has always been an exciting initiative for Metropolitan Industries. With over 60 years in the industry, we saw firsthand the types of challenges our customers faced with their SCADA systems and infrastructure. MetroCloud is meant to bring those sought after solutions directly to the customers, while also helping create efficiencies across the operations and [...]
Booster Pump System Design for Stratford Farms Comes to Fruition After Several Years in the Making
From the outside, it’s easy to look at new housing developments and not think twice about the planning involved. After all, by the time most people take notice of these new developments, groundbreaking has already taken place and houses are beginning to pop up. However, those of us working behind the scenes know there’s more [...]
New Water Heating System Technology Modernizes Historic High-Rise Hotel Building in Downtown Chicago
Water heating system for Hilton Chicago. Though we’re headquartered in Illinois, we work with customers across North America because water movement and management challenges are universal. However, the Chicagoland area will always be our home turf and we still get excited when we have the opportunity to work at a historic Chicago property. When that [...]
Metropolitan Industries President John Kochan Jr. Reflects on 2019 While Looking Forward Towards 2020
It is hard to believe 2019 has come to an end. 2019 was an exciting year for Metropolitan Industries. We have provided our expertise and support on several notable projects, one of which spans all the way back to 2005. We were a key partner to villages who wanted to improve their municipal water and [...]
Overcoming Unique Installation Challenges is No Match for Metropolitan’s Design-Savvy Engineers
Completion and start-up of the MetroMix Temperature Control System. Projects are rarely free from challenges. Sometimes it’s a unique design challenge, sometimes it’s an unknown variable that pops up along the way. Whatever the case, we always face these things head on and overcome them without any real fanfare. However, when something actually happens without [...]
Utilizing Air Gaps to Implement Recycled Water in Commercial Buildings
Air Gap Break Tank for the City of Durham, North Carolina For many years, the word “recycling” was most easily attached to things like old magazines, glass bottles, and aluminum cans, but today the term can be applied to much wider variety of resources, including water. Water recycling involves reusing treated wastewater for various applications [...]
Full Lift Station Upgrade in Romeoville, IL Satisfies Today’s Wastewater Demands, While Preparing for Future Growth
New Triplex Prefabricated wet well and valve vault replaced a 50 year old lift station. There are plenty of things that get better with age. Unfortunately, municipal wastewater systems, including lift stations, don’t tend to be one of them. Mechanical equipment in lift stations do wear over time, but also can be a contributing factor [...]
