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EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this eight (8) Story High-Rise. 61 E. Banks is an ultra-luxury boutique rental residence designed by award-winning architect Booth Hansen. The residences at 61 Banks Street offer (58) unparalleled rental living with Lake Michigan views topped by a lake-facing outdoor terrace.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this 12-Story Office Building. 210 N. Carpenter from developer Sterling Bay as a “vendor village” for firms following McDonald’s corporate HQ to the West Loop. Designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, 210 N. Carpenter will feature ground floor retail, rooftop amenities for office workers, and on-site parking for 41 cars and 80 bikes.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this new 20-Story, 438,184 SF High-Rise Office Building located in the West Loop. Bristling with amenities, 625 W Adams has 2,500 SF of ground floor retail, parking for 400 vehicles, wellness center, yoga room and a corporate auditorium.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this new 7-Story High-Rise. Rising 101 feet, the project includes 135,000 square feet of office, 12,000 square feet of retail space and a 45-car parking garage. Tenant amenities include an indoor lounge, wellness center, bike room, and two outdoor terraces.
A (2) node EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection Network serves this new twin, 14-story apartment tower complex known as Alta Grand Central at the southwest corner of Wells and Harrison streets. The glassy South Loop project will deliver 346 rental units and ground-floor retail space.
A 2 node EST3X Mass Notification and Fire Alarm System serves this new, 3-story Middle School with Hi-Powered UL1480 listed speakers serving the contest gym complete with an emergency storm shelter. The 140,000 SF school was completed in 2019 for a total construction cost of $53.3 million.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this new 12-story hotel containing 175 guest rooms, two levels of office space, indoor valet parking, ground-floor retail, a rooftop terrace, and restaurant.
Dubai, Saint Lucia, Rivera Maya, San Francisco and New York can all claim the vibrant, luxury boutique hotel known as Viceroy. Chicago is now home to this one-of-a-kind, visually distinctive lifestyle experience all secured by an IP Video Network from Genetec and an EST-3 Life Safety System from Edwards. Over 100 IP cameras from Axis Communications, Inc and Hanwha Security keep watch while nearly 500 voice evacuation signaling speaker stand by on the ready to notify occupants and staff of an evacuation event in this 18 story Gold Coast tower. Viceroy Hotel has 180 guestrooms, restaurant, rooftop cocktail lounge, rooftop pool and event space.
Hilton Hotels group moved their flagship brand hotel, Conrad in 2016 and Esscoe was part of this move to a new 20-story location on East Erie Street. Esscoe furnished an enterprise level video network system utilizing over 50 IP cameras from Arecont and Axis Communications, Inc. running on an enterprise class server with archivers and RAID storage for long term video retention.
Admiral “Mike” Boorda Hall is a seven-story 310,000 square foot complex which now houses hundreds of Naval recruit trainees on all floors of the complex. It is one of the facilities at Naval Station Great Lakes classified as a high-rise structure by height. The Unaccompanied Housing Division at Naval Station Great Lakes who operates this facility has long relied on Esscoe to provide and maintain their life safety and surveillance systems at many of their bachelor’s enlisted quarters (BEQ’s). When their largest facility needed to be converted to house recruit trainees, they again turned to Esscoe to help them with the selection, design and installation of a communications system that would serve the expanded population to be housed in their largest residence complex.
Elements Identified in this engagement were:
The staff at Boorda Hall has the need to be able to provide public paging throughout the entire complex, as well as individually by floor now as the new resident trainees are often grouped by their cohort or technical training discipline. The system needed to be capable of providing an intelligible message to a single floor, as well as any combination of floors, including all-call in the stairwells and public common areas. In addition, the ability to play pre-recorded messages such as Reveille and Morning Colors based upon a time of day schedule was also identified in discussions with the Navy. Any high-rise facility which is deemed a berthing facility is also needs a communications system which can deliver messages that can not only be heard, but understood as well in the case of an emergency, requiring a Mass Notification system.
Intelligibility, system redundancy and survivability are key requirements in any DoD Mass Notification System. Esscoe’s extensive experience in designing and commissioning Mass Notification Systems was put to good use in providing a Paging System that met the immediate requirements at hand but could also be used to provide supervised audio distribution of emergency messages and could be interfaced with an existing non-voice evacuation fire alarm system. Ease of use and minimal training requirements were key factors in the system selection as the staff frequently rotates through to other assignments outside of Great Lakes.
For the solution, Esscoe chose the Praesideo solution from BOSCH Security Systems. BOSCH is installed on nearly 85 percent of the world’s passenger and cruise ships for effective, scalable and reliable communications to their occupants. Boorda Hall is not very different from a large Naval or Passenger Vessel and the solution married nicely with speech quality and supervised wiring for constant system readiness monitoring and redundancy. In discussions with Dave Sebastian of BOSCH Security Systems, he had the following key points to offer about the installation at Boorda Hall: “One of the things discussed with the customer was the concept of expandability throughout their campus. Praesideo is designed to be highly scalable.” It was discussed with the client a potential need for additional speakers to be contained within berthing rooms at some point in the future. The system is straightforward to configure and re-configure, either locally or remotely, facilitating a quick response to changes. With the Praesideo Logging software, logging information of multiple systems can be accessed for remote monitoring and diagnostics. “Maybe the biggest benefit to a partnership with Esscoe is their approach to design and their ability to provide the capability to remotely monitor and diagnose the systems they implement” Sebastian noted. The Praesideo open platform can communicate with third-party systems and peripherals, like building management, fire alarm and passenger information systems. “Esscoe has, on behalf of their client, designed a system that is forward thinking, positioned to be a key element of a campus wide Mass Notification System capable of collaborating with a vast array of other technologies”, according to Sebastian.
Video Surveillance and Access Control systems serve as important elements of a partnership with the Chicago Zoological Society’s world renowned leadership in Animal Care and Animal Husbandry. Esscoe has been the trusted provider for service, maintenance and new installation upgrades since 2007 for the Chicago Zoological Society’s premier asset, maintaining the control of access to critical Zoo facilities and surveillance of critical animal habitat and birthing facilities. Esscoe handled the migration from GE Security’s Diamond II platform to UTC Facility Commander.
Today, this campus access control network is kept up to date through regular Software Support Agreements and licensure requirements for additional new facility construction including the Zoo’s most recent project, the Mary Ann MacLean Conservation Leadership Center. Video Management System upgrades from analog to network camera video storage have been accomplished using a VMS solution from Milestone Systems.
The U.S. Navy has taken measures to harden its facilities in order to enhance force protection and physical security at various remote facilities throughout the U.S. Esscoe’s primary teaming partner was awarded a Design-Build contract to provide electronic and physical security measures to counter these threats and enhance the level of force protection at the NOSC in Louisville, Kentucky in accordance with UFC (Unified Facilities Criteria) 4-10-01 DoD Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings.
Project Highlights:
Esscoe provided the system design and equipment of a new UFC 4-021-01 compliant combination Fire Alarm and Mass Notification system for the Camp Porter project.
Scope of services included self-performing all audio modeling & fire alarm system design in-house utilizing EASE and AlarmCAD to provide the new system to meet the 2008 edition of the UFC 4-021-001 code as it pertains to the unique Navy Intelligibility and MNS requirements.
The project includes the design and construction of three recruit barracks; a visitor center; a simulated arms marksmanship trainer; gate entry facilities; an 850-car parking structure.
For nearly 100 years, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 134 and the Electrical Contractors’ Association of the City of Chicago have shared a mutual interest in providing the electrical industry with a highly skilled workforce. This commitment to excellence in electrical construction was furthered in 2014 with the addition of eleven (11) network camera installation learning centers to their Building Automation System Lab.
Esscoe furnished the system design, equipment, software solution and helped develop technical training content for the IBEW to provide learning centers which demonstrate analog camera wiring installation, retrofit from analog to IP cameras, and full POE (power-over-ethernet) network camera installation.
Journeyman Electricians can further develop their skill and experience in retrofitting and re-purposing of existing CCTV wiring alongside advanced CCTV installation methods. Esscoe partners with the Electrical work force in ensuring that System Integrators and Electrical Contractors will be ready for the technologies of today and the future.
Esscoe furnished a Class A, (3) Node EST3 Voice Evacuation Fire Alarm System covering Casino Gaming Floors, Restaurants and the 5 Story Parking Structure.
Installation and commissioning of a new multi-city campus Network Camera System with Video Surveillance Storage. Both campuses are networked together for management and viewing from a single location. NLU’s Chicago campus on Michigan Avenue occupies five floors of the historic Peoples Gas Building with over 50 IP cameras installed.
The newly renovated NLU Wheeling Campus is a 3 story facility which includes classrooms, conference rooms, computer labs, student lounges and the university library research collection with over 30 IP cameras installed. This system is part of NLU’s vision to provide flexibility in access to quality education in multiple campus locations. Esscoe partners with NLU to help them manage this flexible access from a central location.
Esscoe furnished the equipment and design services for a UFC 3-600-01 compliant Voice Evacuation Fire Alarm system. The multi-level building houses a simulated Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the USS TRAYER.
Three-fifths the size of the real ship it is based on, the 300-foot-long vessel floats in a 5-foot-deep seawater and diesel fuel-scented moat filled with 100,000 gallons. 352 recruits go through the training facility at a time. What they experience are lifelike recreations of 12 shipboard events, including emergency crisis management scenarios.
Media Coverage: http://youtu.be/jibm7kyIGcM
Esscoe provided Professional Engineering/Design, Installation and Maintenance services for an (8) Node, Class A, EST3 Voice Evacuation Fire Alarm System for the new 5-Story, 259 private bed replacement hospital with an ICU and Cardiac Rehabilitation Center.
Esscoe was selected to furnish and commission the one-way voice evacuation fire signaling and detection system for the new 360,000 square-foot, 128-bed facility that is scheduled to open in the summer of 2016. This Level 2 Trauma Center serves the surrounding communities of McHenry County and features an EST 3 voice network with defend-in-place survivability and smoke management control.
Integrated enterprise level Access Control, IP CCTV and Visitor Management solutions to encompass the new North American Headquarters in Wisconsin and many geographically dispersed Distribution Centers and Field Sales Offices across the United States, Mexico and Canada.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this eight (8) Story High-Rise. 61 E. Banks is an ultra-luxury boutique rental residence designed by award-winning architect Booth Hansen. The residences at 61 Banks Street offer (58) unparalleled rental living with Lake Michigan views topped by a lake-facing outdoor terrace.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this 12-Story Office Building. 210 N. Carpenter from developer Sterling Bay as a “vendor village” for firms following McDonald’s corporate HQ to the West Loop. Designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, 210 N. Carpenter will feature ground floor retail, rooftop amenities for office workers, and on-site parking for 41 cars and 80 bikes.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this new 20-Story, 438,184 SF High-Rise Office Building located in the West Loop. Bristling with amenities, 625 W Adams has 2,500 SF of ground floor retail, parking for 400 vehicles, wellness center, yoga room and a corporate auditorium.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this new 7-Story High-Rise. Rising 101 feet, the project includes 135,000 square feet of office, 12,000 square feet of retail space and a 45-car parking garage. Tenant amenities include an indoor lounge, wellness center, bike room, and two outdoor terraces.
A (2) node EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection Network serves this new twin, 14-story apartment tower complex known as Alta Grand Central at the southwest corner of Wells and Harrison streets. The glassy South Loop project will deliver 346 rental units and ground-floor retail space.
A 2 node EST3X Mass Notification and Fire Alarm System serves this new, 3-story Middle School with Hi-Powered UL1480 listed speakers serving the contest gym complete with an emergency storm shelter. The 140,000 SF school was completed in 2019 for a total construction cost of $53.3 million.
EST3 One-Way Voice/Two-Way Communication Fire Alarm Detection System serves this new 12-story hotel containing 175 guest rooms, two levels of office space, indoor valet parking, ground-floor retail, a rooftop terrace, and restaurant.
Esscoe helps make water parks “Great”, Again. Back in 2008 Esscoe furnished and commissioned a three (3) node EST3 Fire Alarm System for this 414 room entertainment hotel, then known as Key Lime Cove. Now in 2018, we’ve helped the new owner of this property, Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. re-purpose its first Illinois Property as Great Wolf Lodge.
Leveraging the new Owner’s existing investment, Esscoe was able to re-use the entire existing EST3 Life Safety System including the Voice Evacuation signaling system to meet the building codes of today while incorporating new equipment for the expanded 80,000 square-foot indoor water park, including 11 water slides, 7 pools, a twin vortex water slide and a lazy floating river and all of the new individual dining restaurants within the waterpark complex.
Ten years is a long time span in the world of electronic systems, but the Edwards Systems commitment to forward compatibility made utilizing the existing system with today’s addressable detection and control equipment possible.
Dubai, Saint Lucia, Rivera Maya, San Francisco and New York can all claim the vibrant, luxury boutique hotel known as Viceroy. Chicago is now home to this one-of-a-kind, visually distinctive lifestyle experience all secured by an IP Video Network from Genetec and an EST-3 Life Safety System from Edwards. Over 100 IP cameras from Axis Communications, Inc and Hanwha Security keep watch while nearly 500 voice evacuation signaling speaker stand by on the ready to notify occupants and staff of an evacuation event in this 18 story Gold Coast tower. Viceroy Hotel has 180 guestrooms, restaurant, rooftop cocktail lounge, rooftop pool and event space.
Hilton Hotels group moved their flagship brand hotel, Conrad in 2016 and Esscoe was part of this move to a new 20-story location on East Erie Street. Esscoe furnished an enterprise level video network system utilizing over 50 IP cameras from Arecont and Axis Communications, Inc. running on an enterprise class server with archivers and RAID storage for long term video retention.
The U.S. Navy has taken measures to harden its facilities in order to enhance force protection and physical security at various remote facilities throughout the U.S. Esscoe’s primary teaming partner was awarded a Design-Build contract to provide electronic and physical security measures to counter these threats and enhance the level of force protection at the NOSC in Louisville, Kentucky in accordance with UFC (Unified Facilities Criteria) 4-10-01 DoD Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings.
Project Highlights:
Admiral “Mike” Boorda Hall is a seven-story 310,000 square foot complex which now houses hundreds of Naval recruit trainees on all floors of the complex. It is one of the facilities at Naval Station Great Lakes classified as a high-rise structure by height. The Unaccompanied Housing Division at Naval Station Great Lakes who operates this facility has long relied on Esscoe to provide and maintain their life safety and surveillance systems at many of their bachelor’s enlisted quarters (BEQ’s). When their largest facility needed to be converted to house recruit trainees, they again turned to Esscoe to help them with the selection, design and installation of a communications system that would serve the expanded population to be housed in their largest residence complex.
Elements Identified in this engagement were:
The staff at Boorda Hall has the need to be able to provide public paging throughout the entire complex, as well as individually by floor now as the new resident trainees are often grouped by their cohort or technical training discipline. The system needed to be capable of providing an intelligible message to a single floor, as well as any combination of floors, including all-call in the stairwells and public common areas. In addition, the ability to play pre-recorded messages such as Reveille and Morning Colors based upon a time of day schedule was also identified in discussions with the Navy. Any high-rise facility which is deemed a berthing facility is also needs a communications system which can deliver messages that can not only be heard, but understood as well in the case of an emergency, requiring a Mass Notification system.
Intelligibility, system redundancy and survivability are key requirements in any DoD Mass Notification System. Esscoe’s extensive experience in designing and commissioning Mass Notification Systems was put to good use in providing a Paging System that met the immediate requirements at hand but could also be used to provide supervised audio distribution of emergency messages and could be interfaced with an existing non-voice evacuation fire alarm system. Ease of use and minimal training requirements were key factors in the system selection as the staff frequently rotates through to other assignments outside of Great Lakes.
For the solution, Esscoe chose the Praesideo solution from BOSCH Security Systems. BOSCH is installed on nearly 85 percent of the world’s passenger and cruise ships for effective, scalable and reliable communications to their occupants. Boorda Hall is not very different from a large Naval or Passenger Vessel and the solution married nicely with speech quality and supervised wiring for constant system readiness monitoring and redundancy. In discussions with Dave Sebastian of BOSCH Security Systems, he had the following key points to offer about the installation at Boorda Hall: “One of the things discussed with the customer was the concept of expandability throughout their campus. Praesideo is designed to be highly scalable.” It was discussed with the client a potential need for additional speakers to be contained within berthing rooms at some point in the future. The system is straightforward to configure and re-configure, either locally or remotely, facilitating a quick response to changes. With the Praesideo Logging software, logging information of multiple systems can be accessed for remote monitoring and diagnostics. “Maybe the biggest benefit to a partnership with Esscoe is their approach to design and their ability to provide the capability to remotely monitor and diagnose the systems they implement” Sebastian noted. The Praesideo open platform can communicate with third-party systems and peripherals, like building management, fire alarm and passenger information systems. “Esscoe has, on behalf of their client, designed a system that is forward thinking, positioned to be a key element of a campus wide Mass Notification System capable of collaborating with a vast array of other technologies”, according to Sebastian.
For nearly 100 years, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 134 and the Electrical Contractors’ Association of the City of Chicago have shared a mutual interest in providing the electrical industry with a highly skilled workforce. This commitment to excellence in electrical construction was furthered in 2014 with the addition of eleven (11) network camera installation learning centers to their Building Automation System Lab.
Esscoe furnished the system design, equipment, software solution and helped develop technical training content for the IBEW to provide learning centers which demonstrate analog camera wiring installation, retrofit from analog to IP cameras, and full POE (power-over-ethernet) network camera installation.
Journeyman Electricians can further develop their skill and experience in retrofitting and re-purposing of existing CCTV wiring alongside advanced CCTV installation methods. Esscoe partners with the Electrical work force in ensuring that System Integrators and Electrical Contractors will be ready for the technologies of today and the future.
Video Surveillance and Access Control systems serve as important elements of a partnership with the Chicago Zoological Society’s world renowned leadership in Animal Care and Animal Husbandry. Esscoe has been the trusted provider for service, maintenance and new installation upgrades since 2007 for the Chicago Zoological Society’s premier asset, maintaining the control of access to critical Zoo facilities and surveillance of critical animal habitat and birthing facilities.
Today, this campus access control network is kept up to date through regular Software Support Agreements and licensure requirements for additional new facility construction including the Zoo’s most recent project, the Mary Ann MacLean Conservation Leadership Center. Video Management System upgrades from analog to network camera video storage have been accomplished using a VMS solution from Milestone Systems.
Installation and commissioning of a new multi-city campus Network Camera System with Video Surveillance Storage. Both campuses are networked together for management and viewing from a single location. NLU’s Chicago campus on Michigan Avenue occupies five floors of the historic Peoples Gas Building with over 50 IP cameras installed.
The newly renovated NLU Wheeling Campus is a 3 story facility which includes classrooms, conference rooms, computer labs, student lounges and the university library research collection with over 30 IP cameras installed. This system is part of NLU’s vision to provide flexibility in access to quality education in multiple campus locations. Esscoe partners with NLU to help them manage this flexible access from a central location.
Esscoe provided Professional Engineering/Design, Installation and Maintenance services for an (8) Node, Class A, EST3 Voice Evacuation Fire Alarm System for the new 5-Story, 259 private bed replacement hospital with an ICU and Cardiac Rehabilitation Center.
Esscoe provided the system design and equipment of a new UFC 4-021-01 compliant combination Fire Alarm and Mass Notification system for the Camp Porter project.
Scope of services included self-performing all audio modeling & fire alarm system design in-house utilizing EASE and AlarmCAD to provide the new system to meet the 2008 edition of the UFC 4-021-001 code as it pertains to the unique Navy Intelligibility and MNS requirements.
The project includes the design and construction of three recruit barracks; a visitor center; a simulated arms marksmanship trainer; gate entry facilities; an 850-car parking structure.
Integrated enterprise level Access Control, IP CCTV and Visitor Management solutions to encompass the new North American Headquarters in Wisconsin and many geographically dispersed Distribution Centers and Field Sales Offices across the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Esscoe furnished a Class A, (3) Node EST3 Voice Evacuation Fire Alarm System covering Casino Gaming Floors, Restaurants and the 5 Story Parking Structure.
Esscoe furnished the equipment and design services for a UFC 3-600-01 compliant Voice Evacuation Fire Alarm system. The multi-level building houses a simulated Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the USS TRAYER.
Three-fifths the size of the real ship it is based on, the 300-foot-long vessel floats in a 5-foot-deep seawater and diesel fuel-scented moat filled with 100,000 gallons. 352 recruits go through the training facility at a time. What they experience are lifelike recreations of 12 shipboard events, including emergency crisis management scenarios.
Media Coverage: http://youtu.be/jibm7kyIGcM
Esscoe designed, furnished and commissioned a one and two-way voice evacuation signaling fire alarm and detection system for this ten (10) story high-rise GSA asset housing the Federal Courthouse and the United States Coast Guard Arctic Command Center. Esscoe provided professional fire protection engineering services, addressable EST 3 voice networking fire alarm equipment and computerized fire command center workstation to bring this 330,000 square foot facility in to compliance with the latest GSA P-100 Public Building Standards for voice-evacuation signaling, fire alarm detection and control.
Esscoe was selected to furnish and commission the one-way voice evacuation fire signaling and detection system for the new 360,000 square-foot, 128-bed facility that is scheduled to open in the summer of 2016. This Level 2 Trauma Center serves the surrounding communities of McHenry County and features an EST 3 voice network with defend-in-place survivability and smoke management control.
Esscoe provided a UFC 4-021-01 compliant interior fire alarm and mass notification system for the U.S. Navy’s Jet Propulsion Turbine School. This included all fire protection engineering, design and construction oversight for an acoustically challenging environment equipped with jet propulsion turbines to train Navy personnel in maintaining naval warships. We employed an intelligible voice evacuation notification appliance network with LED text-message signs.
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