Sharlen worked with George Sollitt Construction on this project, which included an existing school renovation to be completed during the summer break. We installed new electrical service, new HVAC, new lighting in classrooms, new lighting controls in classrooms, new voice/data wiring, fiber optic cabling, and concentrator enclosures.
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Chicago Public Schools (Various Locations)
Sharlen does a number of projects with CPS each year. Our work ranges from general maintenance and service calls to full electrical service replacements, complete school renovations, full air conditioner installs, light replacements, and generator installs. We work with various contractors and directly for CPS as well.
Rush Copley
This project included the creation of an expanded emergency department that would function as two separate patient areas, resulting in a bright, warm environment and a strong ER gateway, visible from the adjacent roads. It defines smaller, intimate spaces within the lobby for family privacy and interaction. The curved-glass exterior wall provides abundant daylight. The project included a new 12,500-volt feeder to the boiler house for an additional chiller for the added cooling loads associated with the new addition. The electrical portions of the project included a renovation of the imaging systems to update for new technology. We provided new electrical work for the new X-ray rooms, CT scanners, and MRI rooms.
Christ Hospital
Sharlen worked with Leopardo Construction for this project, which included ICU, OR, and auditorium additions: a new addition to an existing building, new 4160 electrical service, lighting and controls, fire alarm system, nurse call system, lighting, power, grounding in ICU rooms, lighting, power, and grounding in operating rooms.
St. James Hospital
Complete demolition and renovation of a 40-bed patient unit, while not disrupting the hospital surrounding construction area. The project included new switchgear, lighting, lighting controls, nurse call system, fire alarm system, power, and AHUs. Sharlen also installed power and control conduit system for new MRI, interventional radiology, and CT rooms. A complete upgrade of the fire alarm system throughout the entire hospital was performed as well. Sharlen renoved the surgery wing, including power, lighting, tele/data, isolation panels, patient grounding, and power and lighting controls for surgical booms. We also added power for new chillers. The parking lot lighting was redone, including new pole bases, light poles, and directional boring under existing parking lot. Sharlen completed a 2-story addition, including 1 new medium-voltage switchboard, 2 new services, 1 new 1500 KW generator, a brand new ER, 2 new cardiac cath labs, 10 new cardiac intensive care patient rooms, and 60 single patient rooms.
Mercy Hospital Boiler House
This project included laundry storage room renovations, bathroom renovations, and running power for a new sign. Sharlen demolished the existing boiler room and furnished and installed new feeders, controls, and lighting for the new boiler room.
Loyola Medical Center
Sharlen has completed work and is working on various of projects at Loyola Hospital. Sharlen has experience in working throughout the hospital including CT rooms, OR rooms, ICUs, LDRs, linear accelerators, X-ray rooms, UPS replacements, CT scans, Hematology, etc. We work directly for Loyola and various contractors.
ICU: The full renovation of the ICU was completed in 2015 with Walsh Construction.
Labor Delivery Recovery: A full renovation of the LDR will be completed in the winter of 2016 in collaboration with Walsh Construction.
OR Rooms 7, 8, 11, and 12: Full renovations of operating rooms, worked with Johanson Construction.
Palos Hospital
Palos Hospital Generator Upgrade/Cath Lab: New Cardiac Cath Lab. Installed 2 new 1500KW generators and synchronous switchgear. Reworked all existing critical, life safety, and equipment feeds to new generators. Decommissioned old generator and old generator feeders.
Palos Parking Structure 3: Installed power, lighting, and fire alarm systems for new parking garage. Also installed temporary power for central plant project.
Palos Central Plant: Installed new medium-voltage switchgear and a new medium-voltage loop around the hospital’s campus. Also added a new voice and data loop around entire campus (directional bored) and added 4 new substations with closed transition main/tie/main. Reworked distribution of entire hospital to new switchgear and also provided 131 scheduled shut downs to rework old feeds. Demoed 6 old distribution switchboards and installed 2 more 1500 KW medium voltage generators with synchronous switchgear for the new central plant. Added power, lighting, and fire alarm for new central plant. Installed medium-voltage infrastructure for new 7-story hospital pavilion.
Residential & Hospitality
Electrical contracting projects for multi-tenant residences & hotels
From multi-tenant residential new construction to hotel renovations, Sharlen Electric handles everything electrical, including wiring, fire alarm and security systems, network cabling, generators, CCTV, lighting and controls, and much more. Click below for our residential & hospitality portfolio.
Industrial
A range of experience as industrial electrical contractors in Chicago
Serving as an experienced industrial electrical contractor in Chicago, Sharlen Electric has completed a variety of projects for industrial clients, from wiring to arc flash studies, energy audits, lighting retrofits, and beyond. For descriptions from some of our featured industrial projects, please click below.