Daley College, City Colleges of Chicago

Daley College’s new 57,000-square-foot engineering center needed its electrical service and power first, because the fire alarm, the security systems, the AV and the network all run on it.

Our IBEW Local 134 electricians did all of the building’s power, from the utility vault and the underground work to the 2,000-amp switchgear and the distribution and branch panels. They wired the drives and starters for the rooftop units and a standby generator with an automatic transfer switch, so the building switches over to the generator if the utility power goes out, and then put in the light fixtures, inside the building and across the site.

We installed the fire alarm, the security systems, the AV and the network as well, and because these systems run on the structured cabling, the fiber backbone and the network data connections, we put those in too.

We placed the power, the cable paths and the systems together in a building model first (that’s called BIM coordination), so that our crews knew where everything went before they started.

• Utility vault
• Switchgear and panels
• Standby generator
• Lighting
• Fire alarm
• Security systems
• AV
• Cabling, fiber and network

Every system in the center runs on power we installed, so the college has one company to call about all of it.

• 57,000square feet in the new engineering center
• 2,000amps of switchgear, put in by our IBEW Local 134 electricians