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Spring Fertility, New York City

Spring Fertility in New York City is a world-first class fertility center that puts patient care first. With origins on the west coast, the Manhattan office is now a first of its kind on the east coast. Ajinkya Patil, CTS-I, DMC-D/E from Convergent Technologies Design Group, Inc. was the architect who designed low voltage systems and infrastructure as well as acoustics, noise, and vibration control designs for this project. 

We had the chance to ask Ajinkya, a few questions about the project; this is what he had to say:

Were there any important considerations when designing this project? 

“The project being an IVF center, had its unique challenges with a lot of Telecom and AV coordination required for the Medical equipment.

It was also a fast burn project where we went from kickoff to bid documents in the span of a couple of months.”

Are there any aspects of the project that you find exciting and would like to share?

“This was a developer-led project, so there were a lot of peer reviews/owner comments/developer comments, etc. 

The design coordination was really iterative and eventually led the client to get a great system as per their expectations. “

Do you place more emphasis on functional or aesthetic design?

“For any project, it needs to be a good balance of both. While the priority is always to make our design functionally as correct as possible, it needs to fit within the architectural setting of the space.

The effort we put in to ensure things don’t look out of place while still functioning as required is what makes our clients appreciate us. “

Was there a philosophy behind the creation of this project? 

“E4H is an important client for us. Even though this project was challenging, we were willing to go over and above to support our client.

This ensures we maintain a good relationship with them and opens doors for repeat follow-up business.”

 

Spring Fertility officially opened to the public in the fall of 2021.

For more information on Spring Fertility please visit https://springfertility.com/locations/newyorkcity/

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Anne Arundel Medical Center – Mental Health Specialty Hospital

[col3]Description
Convergent Technologies Design Group, Inc.
(CTDG) has been asked by Leach Wallace
Associates to provide Low Voltage systems
design services for the Mental Health
Specialty Hospital. The new building will
house both in-patient and outpatient mental
health services. The basement level will
include building support spaces, a new
kitchen and an ambulance entry for receiving
patients directly from an ED. The first floor
will house the lobby, a partial hospitalization
program and outpatient mental health offices
and therapy spaces. The second floor will
house a 16 bed inpatient unit. The third floor
will be shelled for future development. All
floors are the same footprint (16,500 GSF per
floor).[/col3]

[col3]LOCATION:
Annapolis, MD

ARCHITECT:
Leach Wallace Associates
York, PA

PROJECT SIZE:
66,000 GSF

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Upper Chesapeake Health – Cancer Center

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Location:
Bel Air, MD

Architect:
HKS, Inc.

MEP Engineer:
BR+A

Construction Cost:
$35.6 Million

Gross Square Footage:
111,000 square feet

 

The Cancer Center Addition to the Upper Chesapeake Health campus is a technology rich building designed to provide state of the art medical treatment. The building has also been designed to support current business, presentation, and collaborative technologies as well as plan for future developments in technology systems capabilities. CTDG provided design services for a comprehensive low voltage systems solution, including Audiovisual Systems, Nurse Call and Code Blue Intercom Systems, Public Address and Paging, Telecommunications Cable Systems & Distribution Rooms, Voice over Internet Protocol, Television Distribution, Public Safety and Cellular Distributed Antenna System, Access Control, Video Surveillance and office electronic equipment planning. The Audiovisual systems for the Cancer Center utilize the newest benchmark in design, allowing for seamless video teleconferencing, multimedia presentations, collaboration and demonstrations. All of the technology in the building has been specified to provide maximum future flexibility as well as integrate with the existing hospital systems.