LEED: Platinum
This new 19,725-square-foot fire house is being constructed on the city-owned property at 3901 S. Wabash Ave. It will be a modified Prototype B engine company with a Hazmat Unit and include the following components: a large apparatus bay to house multiple emergency vehicles, full kitchen, locker rooms, toilet facilities, sleeping quarters, officers’ quarters, physical training room, meeting room, education room, EMS Field Division South offices, a 150-foot communication tower, and parking for approximately 30 vehicles.
Awards:
- Friends of the Chicago River 2013 Silver Ribbon
- 2013 Engineering News Record Midwest Award of Merit
Social Media:
- Follow this project on Twitter @PBCChi #E16
- More Pictures on Flickr
53 East Pershing Road
Ward 3: Grand Boulevard
CONTRACT INFORMATION
Architect of Record:
InterActive Design, Inc.
Contract:
General Contractors:
F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Associates, LLC
Contract:
- Pay Application #1 (8/25/11)
- Pay Application #2 (10/12/11)
- Pay Application #3 (10/26/11)
- Pay Application #4 (12/8/11)
- Pay Application #5 (12/13/11)
- Pay Application #6 (2/3/12)
- Pay Application #7 (2/24/12)
- Pay Application #8 (4/4/12)
- Pay Application #9 (5/2/12)
- Pay Application #10 (6/11/12)
- Pay Application #11 (7/17/12)
- Pay Application #12 (8/8/12)
- Pay Application #13 (8/14/12)
- Pay Application #14 (10/19/12)
- Pay Application #15 (1/16/13)
- Pay Application #16 (2/28/13)
- Pay Application #17 (8/16/31)
- Pay Application #18 (8/21/13)
- Pay Application #19 (11/8/13)
- Pay Application #20 (3/20/14)
- Pay Application #21 (1/8/15) Final
PROJECT DOCUMENTS
PRESS RELEASES
- Public Building Commission Wins Engineering News Record Award of Merit for Firehouse Project
- Chicago Fire Department and Public Building Commission Celebrate Opening of the New Engine Company 16
- Public Building Commission Announces Q1 2012 Results
- PBC Announces Three School Construction Contracts, Approves Robust Agenda