Municipal
Unit 4 School District Transportation Building
Champaign, Illinois
This $3.8 million project broke ground in September 2016 with the demolition of the former structures. Features of the new transportation facility will include offices, conference rooms, a training room and common areas for transportation, food service, and graphic services staff members. In addition, the facility will include a bus wash area and four maintenance bays to increase the department's ability to service the District's fleet. GHR provided complete mechanical, electrical, plumbing & fire protection services for this project.
Champaign County Courthouse Security System Upgrade
Urbana, Illinois
Project included upgrades to the Courthouses detention caliber door locking system, commercial door access control system, and video surveillance system. All IP cameras, IP camera wiring, intercoms, card readers and card reader wiring was replaced with new and integrated into a fully new, PLC-based detention caliber control and monitoring system. This effort required a thorough survey of the entire County Courthouse's existing door access control system as the existing system was antiquated and no system drawings were available.
Harry R. Hanley Building
Springfield, Illinois
GHR provided MEP-FP design and construction administration services for various improvements at the Hanley Administration Building. One part of this project includes upgrading IDOT’s antiquated auditorium into a modern-day conference center. GHR has been tasked with providing all required electrical infrastructure for the new AV systems; designing a flexible power system; developing an energy efficient and flexible lighting system to facilitate the space programming; re-designing the HVAC serving this space to eliminates noise and thermal comfort issues; and coming up with creative solutions to the current space’s plumbing issues. In addition, GHR is also designing a variable refrigerant flow heating and air conditioning system to replace the buildings defunct perimeter heating/cooling system. The lack of this existing system has caused the building’s VAV systems to work in overdrive and is causing premature failure of existing systems. Lastly, GHR is working with Baily Edward to upgrade the building’s 50 year old toilet facilities: this include all new fire alarm devices, lighting, plumbing to new plumbing fixtures and re-distribution of the existing ventilation and exhaust.