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SUNY Oswego – Penfield Library Renovation Programming

[col3]The Penfield Library had received some critical maintenance and preservation upgrades over the past 40 years, but was in need of substantial critical maintenance items as well as some plant adaptation. Programmatically, this library of the future will increasingly be called upon to partner with faculty, staff and students in the analysis, evaluation, and communication of information and knowledge. New modes of course delivery, expanded use of distance education, more fluid boundaries between disciplines, and a greater diversity among the students on our residential campus will all have a great effect on the function of the library. These changes will spur physical and virtual adaptations in Penfield Library allowing it to play an increasingly important role supporting the learning-centered mission of SUNY Oswego. The study looked into a minimum of three (3) design solutions, or “facility development alternatives” to develop alternate approaches to upgrading facilities for Penfield Library. These solutions explored adaptive reuse of the existing facility. CTDG’s scope of work for this project involves a program study providing telecommunications cabling systems and audiovisual systems design services for the SUNY at Oswego (SUNY) Penfield Library Program Study to be located in Oswego, New York. CTDG conducted a review of existing conditions survey and SUNY standards for the audiovisual and telecommunications cable systems. The project continued with communication with the facility’s design team, identifying the general locations and quantities throughout the project in which audiovisual and telecommunications cable components would be located and should be housed. Important to design team considerations were locations such as audiovisual equipment rooms, ceiling heights, control rooms, and raised floor areas requiring tight coordination.[/col3]

 

[col3]Architect: Sasaki ArchitectsLocation: Oswego, New York
Project Size: 160,0720 gsf

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Rockefeller University – Welch Library Renovations

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Architect:
Kilment Halsband Architects

MEP Engineer:
BR+A Consulting Engineers

Contractor:
Turner Construction Company

Location:
New York, New York

Project Size:
40,000 GSF

Project Budget:
$50 MILLION

LEED:
Gold

Description:
Part of the north campus revitalization project, a five year construction effort, the Welch Hall refurbishment project links the north and south parts of the campus together with a twenty-first century library and state-of-the-art meeting rooms. The historic nature of the five-story, 1929 Beaux Arts building required that certain elements were preserved while incorporating modern technology requirements. Centerpiece to the project is a historically accurate renovation to the second floor reading room which now houses public computers, coffee lounge and periodicals. The North Room (also known as the Audubon Room) now provides meeting room space. Below this, the A&B levels now house stacks, study areas and meeting rooms, in addition to dedicated spaces for first year graduate students. Scope for this project included complete design services for Telecommunications Cabling Systems and supporting infrastructure. Construction Manager at Risk Delivery Method, LEED Gold Certified, the building re-opened in April of 2013.

 

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Morrisville State College – Student Activity Center Renovations

[col3]The Morrisville State College Student Activity Center building was built in 1971 to house a pool, theater, gymnasium and food services. The scope of this project was to provide telecommunications cabling infrastructure for voice/data/RF video outlets, and access control/video surveillance infrastructure design services for the SUNY at Morrisville State College (MSC) Student Activity Center (SAC) Renovations to be located in Morrisville, New York. CTDG was also asked to include optional design services for audiovisual systems with associated supporting infrastructure, room acoustics, interior sound isolation, and HVAC noise control. Design services were aimed at to renovating selected portions of the Student Activity Center (SAC) including: gymnasiums, fitness areas, locker spaces, lobby, and upgrades to building infrastructure systems. The project also included the infilling of an existing swimming pool to create a new fitness area. The renovation followed previous improvements to the theater and a campus eatery. Due to the ongoing occupation of the building, the construction is phased, and scheduled for completion Summer 2012.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: Sasaki Architects
Location: Morrisville, New York
Project Budget: $10 Million
Project Size: 96,000 gsf[/col3]

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Ithaca College – School of Business

Radio, TV, and Recording Studios: Johns Hopkins University MICA, Renovation – Systems by CTDG
Radio, TV, and Recording Studios: Johns Hopkins University MICA, Renovation – Systems by CTDG
Radio, TV, and Recording Studios: Johns Hopkins University MICA, Renovation – Systems by CTDG
Radio, TV, and Recording Studios: Johns Hopkins University MICA, Renovation – Systems by CTDG
Radio, TV, and Recording Studios: Johns Hopkins University MICA, Renovation – Systems by CTDG
Radio, TV, and Recording Studios: Johns Hopkins University MICA, Renovation – Systems by CTDG

 

[col3]The Dorothy D. and Roy H. Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise allows students to experience opportunities to work and learn together in environments similar to the professional environments they will one day occupy. U-shaped seating areas, numerous collaborative breakout rooms and small conference spaces facilitate such learning. Such an environment invites collaboration in every nook. The scope of this project included a $300,000 design to budget for educational technology systems to include: audiovisual presentation and recording, distance learning, speech reinforcement, dual data/video projection systems, along with custom instructor’s stations and associated infrastructure. The types of spaces to receive educational technology systems include: 120-seat Classrooms, 60-seat Classrooms, Trading Room, Breakout Rooms, Conference Rooms, General Classrooms, and Moot Board Room. Other project responsibilities include room acoustics and mechanical systems noise and vibration control for all acoustically sensitive spaces. Project scope included complete system overview descriptions and detailed per space cost estimating for all educational technology systems. Project challenges included the need to design infrastructure with flexibility to support currently designed systems, as well as, future anticipated growth of technology systems. This project has been successfully completed since 2008.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Location: Ithaca, New York
Construction Cost: $14 Million
Project Size: 40,000 gsf

LEED: Silver[/col3]

 

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Buffalo State College – Technology Building

[col3]The new technology building at Buffalo State College will provide new research spaces and computer labs for the technology and computer information systems departments. Programs within the technology department include Electrical Engineering Technology, Fashion & Textile Technology, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering Technology, and Technology Education. Convergent Technologies provided complete design services for audiovisual systems, telecommunications cabling systems and acoustics, noise & vibration control. Spaces to receive educational technology systems include 36- and 60-seat SMART Classrooms, two (2) Shared Network Labs, Computer Science Labs, two (2) administrative conference rooms, General CAD/CAM/Design Lab, Shared General Electrical Engineering Technology Lab, Shared Control and Machines Lab, Thermal Science/Textile Analysis, Shared Technology Project Shop, Mechanics Project Shop, Materials Analysis & Science Lab, Quality Control Computer Lab, Illustration/Safety Classroom, two (2) Instructional Computer Labs, Multimedia Lab & Control Room, two (2) Apparel Construction Labs, Apparel Design/Pre-Production Lab, 24-seat Sub-dividable SMART Classroom, and Knit Lab. The multimedia studio is intended for use by students to do small productions, recording of interviews and distance learning. The system will include the capability for a three camera shoot or one camera may be used at a time for students to do individual small productions. Project responsibilities include complete specifications for all audiovisual/multimedia and RF video cabling systems, calculation of power and heat load information for projection/control room, recommendations for acoustical room shaping and finishes and construction administration project management through systems testing and acceptance. Construction is scheduled to begin September 2010 and complete in June 2013.[/col3]

 

[col3]Architect: The S/L/A/M CollaborativeLocation: Buffalo, New  York
Construction Cost: $40.3 Million
Project Size: 100,000 gsf

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Nevada System of Higher Education Health Sciences System – Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas

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Architect:
SmithGroupJJR

Location:
Las Vegas, Nevada

Construction Cost:
$9 Million

Project Size:
31,500 gsf

The scope of this Nevada System of Higher Education Health Sciences System project included complete design services for audiovisual presentation systems, telecommunications cabling systems (voice, data, RF Video), and acoustics, noise & vibration control as it related to the renovation of UNLV’s Building B, Biomedical Research Building. This project was a joint venture between the University of Nevada School of Medicine, the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Nursing and Nevada State College School of Nursing. Space plans include upgrades to the following areas: Clinical Skills Labs, Patient Simulator Labs, 25-seat Distance Learning Classroom, 25-seat Seminar Room, 80-seat Computer Classroom, Debriefing Rooms and lab support spaces. Educational technology systems include: clinical training management systems, healthcare observation, digital audio/video capture with streaming capabilities, distance learning, audiovisual presentation, program/speech audio reinforcement and custom instructor’s stations. Project highlights include incorporating medical education technologies into simulation ER and hospital settings. Project responsibilities included complete specifications for all audiovisual/multimedia and RF video cabling systems, calculation of power and heat load information for projection/control room, recommendations for acoustical room shaping and finishes and construction administration project management through systems testing and acceptance. Project challenges included space plan layouts for patient simulator labs and practice Labs that will share a centralized control room for patients and control room operators. This project opened in December 2009.

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University of Central Missouri – James C. Kirkpatrick Library & Technology Center

[col3]The scope of this project consisted of a $1.5 million dollar design to budget for educational technology systems to include: digital audiovisual production recording, distance learning, and audiovisual presentation and recording, along with the supporting inside/outside cable plant with associated infrastructure. The types of spaces to receive audiovisual presentation systems: typical classrooms (40-seat), sub-dividable classrooms (140-seat), audio/video edit suites, conference rooms and collaborative group study type spaces. A pair of rooms dedicated to distance learning/videoconferencing is also featured in the project scope. A live broadcast quality production recording studio was designed, inclusive of an audio record/edit suite, audio origination room, and a master control/production console with associated mix position. Scope of design work included the specifications and project management for all telecommunications cabling for voice, data and RF video signals into the new building. Specification details were provided outlining procedures and methods of connecting to existing campus telecommunications networks. The project was a three-year, multi-phase design project. The building has been successfully complete since May 1999.[/col3]

 

[col3]Architect: Hastings & Chivetta Architects
Location: Warrensburg, Missouri
Construction Cost: $29 MILLION
Gross Square Footage: 120,000 gross square feet

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Oakland University – Human Health Building

Oakland University’s new Human Health Building will bring the Schools of Nursing and Health Sciences under one roof to foster multidisciplinary collaboration. The scope of this project includes a $1.1 Million design to budget for educational technology systems. Convergent Technologies is providing audiovisual systems design services for simulation systems and multimedia presentation systems. The five-story building will feature an Interactive Media Center, Public Health Clinic and Distance Learning capabilities. Spaces to receive audiovisual systems include 200-seat Auditorium, General Classrooms, Seminar Room, Distance Learning Education Center, Conference Rooms, Teaching Labs, Simulation Labs, Collaborative Group Spaces, Control Rooms, Debriefing Rooms, and Common Area/Lobby Displays. Teaching spaces throughout the building include labs for Musculoskeletal, Metabolic, Exercise Science, Nurses Patient Care Practice, Nursing Basic Health Assessment, Therapeutic Exercise Intervention, Wellness, Neurological Rehabilitation, Occupational Safety & Health Robotics and Protection, and Industrial Hygiene. Specified educational technology systems: healthcare observation & recording, digital audio/video capture with streaming capabilities to the Local Area Network (LAN), distance learning, digital annotation, audiovisual presentation, program/speech audio reinforcement and custom instructor’s stations. Project opportunities include creating state-of-the-art medical simulation, instructional and collaborative spaces and integrating digital media and streaming presentation technologies into the architectural fabric of the building. This project is currently in the design phase with completion scheduled for 2012.

 

Architect: SmithGroup

Departments:

  • Physical Therapy
  • Safety Management
  • Occupational Safety & Health
  • Wellness
  • Health Promotion & Injury Prevention
  • Medical Laboratory Sciences
  • Applied Health Sciences
  • Health Sciences
  • Exercise Sciences
  • Nursing

Location: Rochester, Michigan
Construction Cost: $62 Million

Gross Square Footage: 160,000 gross square feet

LEED: Platinum

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University of MD, College Park – Knight Hall College of Journalism

[col3]The scope of this project includes complete design services for Knight Hall, the new home for the College of Journalism on the College Park campus. Convergent Technologies provided building programming review and verification, cost estimating, project management and complete design services for telecommunications cabling systems (voice/data/RF video) with associated supporting infrastructure, audiovisual systems infrastructure and acoustics, noise & vibration control. Knight Hall will replace the original journalism building, and be located on a new mall planned for University expansion to the West. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism has outgrown the current building with various programs spread across more than ten (10) buildings on campus. The new three-story building will be the first green building owned and operated by the University of Maryland, College Park. Knight Hall will bring all of the journalism academic and professional programs together in one building. Space plans include: a two-story Great Hall; the Richard Eaton Broadcast Theater; the Edith Kinney Gaylord Journalism Library & Resource Center; a multi-media news bubble lab; the Baltimore Sun News Lab; four (4) 18-seat news/media teaching labs; three (3) seminar rooms; two (2) 30-seat classrooms; an Executive Board Room; formal and informal meeting spaces; faculty offices; and student services spaces including a Dean’s suite and the academic advising office. The third floor of the building will be dedicated to professional training centers including the J-Lab: Institute for Interactive Journalism; the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism; National Association of Black Journalists; American Journalism Review; Journalism Center on Children and Families; and the American Association for Sunday and Feature Editors. This project was a three-year design and construction effort and was successfully completed in November 2009.[/col3]

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Architect: Grimm + Parker Architects

Location: College Park, Maryland

Construction Cost: $28.5 Million

Gross Square Footage: 59,700 square feet

LEED:
LEED NC 2.2 Gold

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University of MD, Biopark – Robert H. Smith School of Business

[col3]The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business project involves relocating the Smith School from the current location at the UMB School of Nursing to a new 14,127 square foot space in the BioPark #2 Building located at the University of Maryland’s BioPark campus. The new space will include technology-equipped classrooms, team break-out rooms, staff offices, a conference room, a computer lab and library in addition to a lounge area. The scope of this project includes complete design services for telecommunications cabling systems with infrastructure, audiovisual systems with infrastructure, room acoustics, interior sound isolation and HVAC noise control. Acoustical considerations addressed issues presented by the existing HVAC equipment. Construction was completed in fall 2009.[/col3]

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Architect: Gaudreau, Inc.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Construction Cost: $2 Million
Gross Square Footage: 14,127 square feet

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