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Reducing the Spread of Germs and Viruses with Germicidal Ultraviolet Lighting
/posts/guv-lighting-and-ugvi-solutions/As we move into “new normal” business operations in a COVID -19 world, there are a lot of questions and discussions on how we modify our buildings and buildings systems to minimize virus transmission and protect our building occupants. One item that is being discussed is Germicidal Ultraviolet Lighting (GUV), also referred to as …
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Leveraging Technology: Utility Gas Mapping Solutions in a Change Environment
/posts/gas-mapping/Introduction Utilities are jumping into technology and embracing a vision of mobile solutions that connect their systems of record, their people, and the work they do. Their goal is to provide more reliable service to their customers while also finding a solution that works safely around their electric and gas facilities. Imagine, if you will …
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Today’s parks require outside-the-box designs
/posts/outside-box-designs-for-parks/…space in today’s urban environments. As a result, people are looking at existing industrial spaces and reclaiming them for new and innovative park spaces. In the mid -to-late 1990s, the city of Chicago began converting an existing lakefront rail yard and public parking lot into a world-renowned 24.5-acre park. In 2004, Millennium Park opened …
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Smart Substations: Technological Advances in Substation Protection and Controls
/posts/smart-substations/…previous decade. Since then, there has been an evolution of technological advances in substation protection and controls with the introduction of some of the first generation microprocessor -based relays, along with Supervisory, Control, and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that had the ability to perform logic. This was just the beginning of the ‘Information Age’ …
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Navigating the New Title 14B Chicago Building Code
/posts/title-14b-building-code/It all began in 1875, a few years after the Great Chicago Fire, when the City of Chicago established its first Building Code. This code was created to minimize future fires and address the spread of diseases. While it served its purpose for several years, a large overhaul of the content took place in 1949. …
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Understanding the Chicago Building Rehabilitation Code (Title 14R) Compliance Methods
/posts/chicago-rehabilitation-code/…entails following the Building Code requirements for a new building. However, there may be times that this is logistically challenging or that a prescriptive solution is cost -prohibitive. The Work Area Compliance Method is a metered approach, where the requirements grow along with the scope. The requirements are generally only applied within the work …
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Marriott Marquis Chicago
/work/marriott-marquis-chicago/The Marriott Marquis Chicago is a new, 40 -story, 1,200-key hotel with more than 90,000 square feet of meeting space. Directly connected to McCormick Place, the hotel and meeting spaces provide a nearly infinite combination of flexible event spaces. Opening in mid-2017, the hotel features a signature lobby with a marketplace, fitness center, and …
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Niles Medical Office Building
/work/niles-medical-office-building/The Niles Medical Office Building is a new two -story, 32,000-square-foot prairie-style medical office building that houses three practices with a central waiting area, reception, exam rooms, ultrasound, radiology, offices, physician and nursing spaces, break rooms, and staff areas on the ground floor. A second-floor shell space was also included for future expansion needs. …
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Primera’s Marriott Marquis Project Celebrates Largest Chicago Hotel Opening in 2017
/posts/marriott-marquis-chicago/Primera is excited to announce the September opening of our 1,205 -key Marriott Marquis Chicago project, the largest hotel to open in Chicago this year, and the largest Marriott to open in North America in 2017. Primera was a proud member of the design/build project delivery team that brought this project to fruition. Primera …
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I-57 Interchange at Manhattan-Monee Road
/work/i-57-interchange-at-manhattan-monee-road/I-57 at Manhattan-Monee Road