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The College of New Jersey- New STEM Building Complex

[col3]This multi-phase project includes the addition and renovation of multiple buildings that make up the STEM Complex at The College of New Jersey. New construction includes the 70,629 gross square foot STEM Building and the 14,419 gross square foot Chemistry Addition. The STEM Building Complex will house Departments within the School of Engineering and the School of Science. CTDG is providing complete design services for Audiovisual, Telecommunications Cabling, Access Control and Video Surveillance Systems as well as Acoustics, Noise & Vibration Control Services. Specialized audiovisual systems will support instruction and collaboration in a variety of laboratories, classrooms, computer commons, conference rooms, collaborative and multipurpose spaces. Laboratories received smartboard technology that enables students to interact with course material. This project will be designed to meet LEED Silver standards but will not seek certification. CTDG is currently producing Construction Documents to specify the systems to be included in the project.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: EYP Architecture & Engineering
Location: Ewing Township, New Jersey
Construction Cost: $94.2 Million
Project Size: 85,048 GSF[/col3]

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Virginia Tech – Henderson Hall Renovation

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Architect:
Moseley Architects

Location:
Blacksburg, Virginia

Construction Cost:
$9 Million

Project Size:
49,000 gsf

LEED:
Gold

Description
The scope of this project includes complete design for all telecommunications and audiovisual infrastructure as it relates to the renovation of Henderson Hall, the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus. Space plans include: a 8,000 sq. ft. Black Box theater addition, theater support spaces, music practice rooms, graphics design labs/classrooms, conference rooms, and faculty offices. Specifications include details outlining procedures and methods of connecting to existing campus telecommunications networks. Project challenges include working within the existing building framework to provide state of the art telecommunications and audiovisual systems infrastructure. Project highlights include working with in-house Virginia Tech Communications Network Services in designing the telecommunications infrastructure for the new building including telecommunications room sizing, power requirements, environmental requirements, heat load design criteria, telecommunications room lighting and finishes, grounding and bonding for telecommunications equipment, and building entrance protection. The project has been successfully complete since 2009.

 

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Villanova University – School of Law

[col3]This scope of this project included assessment of a noise disturbance emanating from a nearby chiller plant, with disruptive tonal components. Research of local jurisdiction codes governing acceptable outside sound levels were researched for West Shore County to provide input for calculations determining possible barrier construction. Acoustical measurements were performed at the school to assess property line noise and close-in equipment noise emissions. Calculations were made to determine noise levels transmitted to the exterior due to use of the chiller unit. These noise levels were compared to ambient noise level and property line noise criteria stipulated by the local building authority. Recommendations to solve the noise disturbance were in the form of barrier construction details, sound absorption treatment on the building walls, and chiller silencing techniques such as duct attenuators and compressor caps. The project has been successful complete since March 2002.[/col3] 

[col3]Architect: SmithGroupJJR
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Project Budget:$75 Million
Project Size: 170,000 gsf

LEED: Gold

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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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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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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, Baltimore – Pharmacy Hall Addition

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Architects:

  • Richter Cornbrooks Gribble – Baltimore, MD
  • Ellenzweig – Cambridge, MA

Location:
Baltimore, Maryland

Construction Cost:
$67 Million

Gross Square Footage:
112,565 square feet

Leed:
Gold

Description
The scope of this project includes a $2.2 Million design to budget for technology systems. Convergent Technologies provided complete design services for telecommunications cabling systems with associated supporting infrastructure, audiovisual systems with associated supporting infrastructure, video surveillance and access control security systems and acoustics, noise & vibration control as it relates to the Renovation and Addition to Pharmacy Hall at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The seven story building includes: 200-seat Lecture Halls, 80-seat Lecture Hall, Distance Learning Classrooms, 40-seat and 76-seat Classrooms, Practice Labs, Patient Interaction Rooms, Dispensing Laboratories, Institutional Pharmacy with sterile preparations laboratory and Seminar Rooms. Educational technology systems include: clinical training management systems, healthcare observation & recording, digital audio/video capture with streaming capabilities to the Local Area Network (LAN), distance learning, audiovisual presentation, program/speech audio reinforcement and custom instructor’s stations. Project highlights include the design of common area video displays, and a presentation video display wall for the atrium space. Additional project responsibilities include recommendations for room shaping and finishes for all acoustically sensitive spaces within the buildings. The Pharmacy Hall Addition has been completed since August 2010.[/col3]

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Science & Technology Park at Johns Hopkins – The John G. Rangos, Sr. Building

[col3]The Forest City-East Baltimore Partnership is the master developer for phase I of the New East Baltimore Community which includes the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins. Anchored by Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, the new John G. Rangos, Sr. Building at 855 North Wolfe Street is the first of five planned life science/office buildings, which will provide more than 1 million square feet of lab and office space for life science research. The scope of this project included acoustics, noise and vibration control design services including interior noise control, exterior noise control, vibration control, electrical system noise control, supply/exhaust fan acoustical measurements, and chiller acoustical measurements for this commercial biotechnology building. Convergent Technologies developed acoustical criteria for HVAC equipment noise levels, sound isolation, floor slab vibration properties, as well as field testing chiller noise. Space plans include shared conference rooms on the first floor, laboratory and office space for the epigenetics, computational biology, chemical biology and molecular biology research clusters. Project highlights include achieving vibration control to 8,000 micro-inches per second and confirming compliance with Baltimore Zoning Ordinance ZG § 12. This project has been complete since April 2008.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: Elkus/Manfredi Architects and Gaudreau, Inc.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Project Size: 278,000 GSF
Construction Cost: $107 MILLION
LEED Certification: Gold Pending[/col3]

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Salisbury University – Teacher Education & Technology Complex

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Architect:
Ayers Saint Gross Architects

Departments:

  • Seidel School of Education and Professional Studies
  • Department of Information Technology
  • Integrated Media Center
  • Teaching Learning Network

Location:
Salisbury, Maryland

Construction Cost:
$58 MILLION

Gross Square Footage:
165,000 gross square feet

LEED Certification:
Silver

 

The scope of this project includes a $4 million dollar design to budget for educational technology systems to include: broadcast television production and recording, digital/analog audio recording, videoconferencing, audiovisual presentation and recording, and complete telecommunications cabling plant design with associated infrastructure. The types of spaces to receive audiovisual presentation systems include: television broadcast studios, multi-track audio recording studio, video demonstration studio, audio and video non-linear editing bays, multi-media art exhibit space, observation rooms, computer laboratories, small classrooms (30-seat, 44-seat), large classrooms (60-seat, 80-seat), lecture halls (120-seat), conference rooms, and collaborative group study type spaces. Scope of design work includes the complete specifications and project management for all audiovisual systems and telecommunications cabling systems, as well as, acoustics, noise and vibration control design for all acoustically sensitive spaces. Project challenges include the development and implementation of strict acoustical criteria for room layouts, shaping, and finishes, HVAC equipment noise levels, and proper sound isolation for the production spaces located on the third floor of the building. Project opportunities include the design of an integrated suite of media intensive spaces that support the educational objectives, the technical production requirements of the media arts program, and the entire university campus. Effective program verification and schematic design development with faculty and administration helped in presenting appropriate systemic cost models early in the design process. This project has been successfully complete since August 2008.