by Liz Karson | Jul 26, 2024 | Automatic Barrier Gates, Electrical Contractors
ECI was recently called to a corporate headquarters in a northern suburb of Chicago. We furnished and installed new Magnetic® Parking Pro automatic barrier gates with LED lighted arms. These replaced some obsolete barrier gates with standard wood arms. Two gates at...
by Liz Karson | Jul 19, 2024 | Slide Gate Operators
Last year ECI was called to automate two slide gates in a southwest Chicago suburban location. We installed two HySecurity SlideSmart™ HD25 operators, shown at the far right and left in the image above, in a master/slave configuration. You can see the cut marks in the...
by Liz Karson | Jul 12, 2024 | Speed Gates
Four Boon Edam waist-level speed gates are shown above in a recent ECI installation at a Chicago area office location. Speed gates differ from traditional turnstiles in both design and functionality. Turnstiles typically have three rotating arms, or tripods, that...
by Liz Karson | Jul 5, 2024 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Late last year ECI installed six ELKA P3500 Barrier Gates for the Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest (IL) Hospital parking garage. Two gates were installed at three entry/exit locations, one of which is shown above and another below. To accommodate the low ceiling,...
by Liz Karson | Jun 28, 2024 | Slide Gate Operators
Last week I wrote that ECI recently furnished and installed a new slide gate operator for the Village of Rolling Meadows’ Public Works Department. We furnished and installed a Nice/HySecurity SlideSmart™ HD25 Slide Gate Operator. You can read the article at: “New...
by Liz Karson | Jun 21, 2024 | Slide Gate Operators
ECI recently furnished and installed a new slide gate operator at a second location for the Village of Rolling Meadows’ Public Works Department (pictured above). Here we used Nice/HySecurity’s SlideSmart™ HD25 Slide Gate Operator. The gate operator is the black...
by Liz Karson | Jun 14, 2024 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Last year ECI furnished and installed Nice/HySecurity barrier gates at an exclusive country club in a far northwest Chicago suburban location. Those gates were installed at the exit lanes. This year we added a turnkey installation of barrier gates to the entrances in...
by Liz Karson | Jun 7, 2024 | Guard Rail Systems
ECI was called to a Chicago north suburban location recently. Our task was to provide a system to protect the newly sided building. (See above image.) The siding was an upgrade to the building’s previous aesthetics (shown below). There were existing bollards that...
by Liz Karson | May 31, 2024 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Over the past two weeks I have written about an installation in Franklin Park, IL where we furnished and installed five folding Wallace PDXT Speed Gates. We also added Nice/HySecurity StrongArmPark DC automatic barrier gates at this location, one of which is pictured...
by Liz Karson | May 24, 2024 | Folding Barrier Gates
Last week I wrote about an installation in Franklin Park, IL where we furnished and installed a series of five folding Wallace PDXT Speed Gates. Three gates were installed at the main gate location and the other two at a secondary point. The image above shows two of...
