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Outstanding Design Award!

Our project. Howard Community College, Howard Hall and the Academic Commons, with Marshall Craft Associates has been awarded for its Outstanding Design in the American School & University November/December 2021 edition.

The client for this project was Howard Community College (HCC) and construction was completed in July 2019. The total cost for this project was $36,371,290 and it was 107,200 sq. ft.

This project restored two of HCC’s oldest buildings and they are now able to serve the HCC community for decades to come.

Convergent Technologies provided Telecommunications Cabling Systems with Infrastructure, Audiovisual Systems with Infrastructure, Access Control/Video Surveillance Systems with Infrastructure and Acoustics, Noise & Vibration Control Design Services for this project.

More information at this link: https://lnkd.in/dcfsgk8q

 

Outdoor Audiovisual System Solutions at Eastern Carolina University

Convergent Technologies Design Group has completed the design of an outdoor sound system in the open quad area of the new Eastern Carolina University Student Union campus.

The new, 214,000 square foot Student Union is the largest construction project on the main campus since the Science and Technology Building opened in 2001. It will house the Dowdy Student Store, five dining options, student government and trustee office spaces, meeting rooms, a theater and a large ballroom. The facility also features a five level, 724 space parking deck and a new 6,500 square foot regional energy plant.

At the center of the new campus is a large outdoor quadrangle with a 42-foot wide all-weather video screen. Bill Holaday, Principal of Convergent Technologies Design Group, explained, “We were part of the architectural team that designed the entire building, including all of the interior and exterior audiovisual systems.

Read the full article HERE!

ENR MidAtlantic 2021 Best Manufacturing Project

Convergent Technologies Design Group, Inc. (CTDG) provided an acoustical review of the National Institute of Health (NIH) TIL Cell Processing Modular Facility to ensure that the project meets the NIH Design Requirements Manual (DRM) requirements. This facility is approximately 6,000 square feet. The structure has three levels: a bottom floor that follows the existing site slope, containing gas piping including chemical supplies to the facility, a first floor comprising the 10 prefabricated modules, and a mechanical floor above. This project won the ENR MidAtlantic Best Manufacturing Project. The award we are so very proud of is below along with a link for more information.

https://www.dpr.com/projects/national-institutes-of-health-t30-cell-processing-facility

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Project Spotlight: The State University of New York at Canton Dana Hall

Dana Hall is the State University of New York (SUNY) at Canton’s home of the new Center for Criminal Justice, Intelligence and Cybersecurity. The Dana Hall will be an area for SUNY students to learn and explore their majors in Cybersecurity, Criminal Justice, and Intelligence. SUNY at Canton teamed up with Convergent Technologies Design Group (CTDG) as CTDG provided Acoustics, Noise & Vibration Control Design Services for the required spaces. These spaces are design to facilitate advanced learning. Convergent Technologies Design Group designed the following spaces; laboratory spaces set up next to Investigation areas, classrooms designed to show students how to process evidence, expansive faculty offices, and a student lounge area. This project was 39,000 SF and had a $10,000,000 budget.

Below are photos of the classroom and office spaces CTDG designed.

SUNY Canton, Convergent Technologies Design Group, Inc., Mach Architecture

$394 Million University of Virginia Hospital Expansion featured in Architectural Record

Convergent Technologies recently worked with Perkins + Will on the University of Virginia Hospital Expansion Project. This technological advanced project was featured in July’s Architectural Record. You can read the full article below:

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14700-hospital-expansion-at-the-university-of-virginia-by-perkins-and-will

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The University Health System is a nationally renowned academic medical center that provides specialty care services ranging from wellness programs and routine checkups to the most technologically advanced care. The hub of the Medical Center is a hospital with over 500 beds in operation and a State-designated Level 1 trauma center. This project involved the expansion of the Emergency Department to accommodate an existing and growing demand for emergency care. The department will include an intensive care/intermediate care unit, intake & public support areas, mental health services, treatment/exam rooms, trauma rooms, radiology rooms, nurse stations, conference room and support areas. The Expansion also included a six (6) floor patient bed tower with acute, step down and ICU units. CTDG was responsible for the design of the low voltage systems, to include telecommunications cabling systems, audiovisual systems, paging/background music systems, nurse call and video surveillance/ electronic access control systems.

CTDG’s Design at Rockefeller University Makes the Cover of Sound & Communication

Convergent Technologies was approached by Rafael Vininoly Architects to assist in a project for Rockefeller University to design the infrastructure of the River Campus consisting of a New Laboratory
Building, Interactive Conference Center, Health & Wellness Building, and a Community Dining Pavilion. The Laboratory building extends three-and-a-half city blocks and accommodated about 26 labs and 440 scientists. Convergent consultation resulted in state of the art audiovisual systems and helped establish new technology standards on campus.

Click on the link below to read the entire Sound & Communication Article:

https://www.soundandcommunications.com/may-2020-digital-edition/

Anne Arundel County New Mental Healthy Facility

Convergent Technologies Design Group partnered with Leach Wallace to design a state of the art new mental health facility in Anne Arundel County. Convergent provided low voltage systems design services, including audiovisual systems, patient monitoring, access control security system, video surveillance system and telecommunications structured cable systems.
The new building houses both in-patient and outpatient mental health services. The basement level includes building support spaces, a new kitchen and an ambulance entry for receiving patients directly from an emergency department. The first floor houses the lobby, a partial hospitalization program and outpatient mental health offices and therapy spaces. The second floor houses a 16 bed inpatient unit. The third floor is shelled for future development. The new facility totals 66,000 GSF and opened for patients in March of 2020.

Read the full article below:

Annapolis opens mental health facility, serving up to 900 patients a year

John Hopkins Hospital System Opens Howard County Hospital Addition

Convergent provided the John Hopkins Hospital System telecommunications cabling systems with associated supporting infrastructure for voice/data/RF video outlets, audiovisual system electronics with associated supporting infrastructure, access control/video surveillance systems, design services for the two story addition. The hospital was originally constructed in 1973, this $48 Million addition is the first major expansion to the original building. The goal was to increase space for the inpatient psychiatric unit and patient observation unit. The addition opened at the end of January 2020.

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John’s Hopkins Hospital Opens New Howard County Hospital Addition

$37M Virginia Western STEM Building New Open

CTDG provided AV, Telecom and Security System design services for Virginia Western Community College STEM Building located in Roanoke, Virginia. The space supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, and quantitative programs of integrated research and teaching for students enrolled at the university. The overall design intent for the AV, Telecom and Security systems was to provide VWCC with cutting edge multimedia systems to enhance educational instruction and collaboration within the STEM Building.

 

Read more about it here:

https://virginiawestern.edu/news/2019/08/virginia-western-opens-new-stem-building/

 

UMCP Volleyball Locker Room Wins ABC Excellence in Construction Award

Jeffrey Brown Contracting, which was contracted out by the University of Maryland for their work on the Volleyball Locker Room and Team Suite won the Associate Builders and Contractors “Excellence in Construction” award, for their work on the Volleyball Locker Room and Team Suite.

The scope of work by JBC, which partnered with Ammon Heisler Sachs architects for the project included the design and renovation of a new player lounge complete with a kitchen, bathroom, shower room, locker room, and vestibule entrance from the volleyball court.

CTDG designed audiovisual systems with infrastructure for this project.

Read the full article HERE!