{"id":2689,"date":"2019-08-23T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/?post_type=project&p=2689"},"modified":"2023-05-31T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T15:01:38","slug":"new-readiness-center-and-army-aviation-support-facility","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/project\/new-readiness-center-and-army-aviation-support-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"New Readiness Center and Army Aviation Support Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
IMEG provided engineering design and services for a new Army Aviation Support Facility and Readiness Center at the Greater Kankakee Airport. The $64.6 million facility consists of a 73,000-sf readiness center and 112,000-sf Army aviation support facility, supporting three units of the National Guard: the 935th, B016 and Medivac.<\/p>\n
Engineers provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology engineering, as well as construction administration services. IMEG worked with the architect, Bailey Edward, and the owner to design the 185,200-sf, two-story facility\u00a0 \u2013 which is among the largest projects undertaken by the Illinois National Guard. The aviation support building houses a helicopter maintenance hangar, cold storage hangar, shops, flight facilities, a fuel distribution system and state-of-the-art fire suppression systems. The readiness center includes classrooms, offices, ground equipment maintenance, a weapons simulator and flight simulators, vaults and a medical clinic. The hangar space was designed to accommodate the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, a weapons simulator training space, and task-loaded combat simulated flight environments.<\/p>\n
More than 200 traditional Army National Guard Soldiers were moved from the Chicago Midway Armory to the new Kankakee facility, as well as ten UH-60 Black Hawks. The building and systems design meets the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection requirements and is LEED Silver certified.<\/p>\n
Awards:<\/strong> IMEG provided engineering design and services for a new Army Aviation Support Facility and Readiness Center at the Greater Kankakee Airport. The $64.6 million facility consists of a 73,000-sf readiness center and 112,000-sf Army aviation support facility, supporting three units of the National Guard: the 935th, B016 and Medivac. Engineers provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2690,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"project_category":[106],"project_market":[37,42,362],"project_service":[66,15,63,65,62,64,33],"project_region":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nENR Midwest 2018 Best Project, Government\/Public Buildings
\nENR 2018 Best of the Best Projects, Government\/Public Buildings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"