Baltimore City Public School System – Digital Harbor High School

The scope of this project included a $6,000,000 dollar design to budget for technology systems to include: digital television production, non-linear video editing, videoconferencing/distance learning, audiovisual presentation and recording, building audio & video paging systems along with a new cable antenna television headend with associated infrastructure and source components. The types of spaces to receive audiovisual systems included: television studio/control room spaces, video editing classrooms, multimedia classrooms, and two 80-seat distance learning lecture halls. A live digital broadcast quality production/recording studio was designed, inclusive of an audio record/edit suite, audio origination rooms, 80 seats of video editing, and a master control/production console with producer’s row. The success of the television studio suite is in its flexibility. It serves not only as a broadcast quality television facility, but also as an instructional environment exposing students to industry standards. Design work included the programming, design documentation preparation, and construction administration of the technology systems implementation for this four-phase project. Project challenges included the management of three separate audiovisual systems contractors, as well as, overseeing multiple bid package sets to conform to complex construction phasing. Project design highlights included the specification of a baseband audio/video cabling system connecting all classrooms to enable events in a particular space to be easily distributed to one or all remaining classrooms. The project was a multi-phase masterplan and design project with continuous occupancy of the building. The project has been successfully complete since January 2005.