Army National Guard Readiness Center and Army Aviation Support Facility
Kankakee, Ill.
Best Project
Owner:伊利诺伊州军事事务部
General Contractor:George Sollitt Construction Co.
Lead Design Firm:Bailey Edward
Structural Engineer:汉森专业服务
MEP Engineer:IMEG Corp.
LEED银，伊利诺伊州坎卡基市的6460万美元的陆军国民警卫队准备中心和陆军航空支持设施是两个航空营的所在地，也是从芝加哥转移的MEDEVAC部队。它是超过185,000平方英尺的，它是伊利诺伊州国民警卫队开展的最大项目之一。18luck官网它拥有200多名士兵，40名全职员工和10架UH-60 Blackhawk直升机。
In homage to the vehicle under its roof, the building’s footprint is designed like the rotor of a Blackhawk, with a central communal gathering space in the middle and the three units spreading out from the center. The main facade combines art and science with a design patterned off a soldier’s camouflage uniform.
The 112,150-sq-ft AASF takes up a little more than half the area of the complex, but it needs to be big in order to hold maintenance hangars, shops, flight facilities, fuel distribution and a cold storage hangar.
73,050平方英尺的准备中心设有设施的行政方面，教室，会议室，医疗诊所，武器模拟器和飞行模拟器。
Baily Edward’s exterior design comprises glass and polycarbonate panels to reduce energy consumption and is meant to boost morale by incorporating more daylight and exterior views wherever possible.
The old facility was located at Chicago’s Midway Armory, 60 miles from the new AASF, and no longer met the space and training requirements of the units.
“We held the (design) charrette at the old building at Midway,” says Kevin Magnuson, project manager for MEP engineer IMEG Corp. “Compared to the new facility, it was literally like night and day. The old building was almost Cold War-era. It was very dark and had old steam pipes exposed. With the new facility, there are lots of clerestory windows so that when you walk through you’re exposed to plenty of daylight.”
Because of soil conditions, 4 ft of rock was brought in to build up a foundation. Magnuson says the project team’s long history of working together helped on such a big project.
“Often a project gets to a point — we call it the seventh inning stretch — where everybody is driving each other crazy,” Magnuson says. “This had the potential for a lot of things to go wrong, but it went as smooth as can be.”
