by Liz Karson | Jun 3, 2021 | High Security Fencing
Last month I introduced you to some extensive work we recently did at the Chicago Harbor Locks. My story was entitled “Crash Rated Fencing and Sliding Gate | Chicago Locks Part 1”. It focused on a portion of the K12 fencing and person gate adjacent to the waterway....
by Liz Karson | May 6, 2021 | High Security Fencing
Helping secure the Chicago Harbor Locks area is a project ECI was involved with for a considerable period of time. This was the result of the extensive scope of work that was involved. The goal was to provide high-security protection to prevent using vehicles (perhaps...
by Liz Karson | Jan 14, 2020 | Automatic Barrier Gates
I have written about barrier gate equipment safety and inspections many times on this site. Safety concerns apply equally to individual residences and gated residential communities as well as business, public and governmental agencies. I found this video by...
by Liz Karson | Sep 13, 2019 | Slide Gate Operators
ECI was called to a storage facility on Chicago’s near west side. The customer wanted to motorize an existing sliding gate. The image above shows the long slide gate which had been manually operated prior. We installed HySecurity’s SlideSmart DC® HD (heavy...
by Liz Karson | May 29, 2018 | Perimeter Security Vehicle Protection
Previously I have written about gate security applications and protecting the entrapment zones three times. The most recent article focused on perimeter barrier gates. Before that I wrote on double swing gate systems and the first blog article centered on single swing...