St. Patrick’s Cathedral – AV and Acoustic Design

The scope of this project includes audiovisual systems and acoustics, noise & vibration control design services for St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick, located in the heart of downtown El Paso, is the mother of the Diocese of El Paso, and seats about 800 people. Convergent Technologies was asked to conduct a preliminary needs analysis and conditions assessment of existing Room Acoustics and Audiovisual systems and infrastructure, and develop a Conceptual Design/Programming report outlining desired technology systems.  The completion date for this project is to be determined.


Architect: GA Architecture
Location: El Paso, Texas

Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District – On-Call Acoustical and Audio Visual Engineering Services

The Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District provides educational opportunities for grades K-12. With an enrollment of over 17,000 students, the district includes fourteen elementary, five middle and three high school campuses. Additional facilities include an alternative discipline center, career and technology center and a development center for pre-kindergarten students. This agreement was awarded in February of 2012. Anticipated projects are currently pending funding.

Location: Fort Worth, Texas

Providence College – Humanities Building

The Ruane Center for the Humanities is envisioned to be Providence College’s signature academic building on campus, the embodiment of its commitment to liberal arts education as the college nears its 100th anniversary. The project scope for this 55,000-square-foot, three-story Humanities building encompasses audiovisual systems with infrastructure –including coordination of telecommunications cabling systems as it relates to audiovisual systems – and acoustics, noise and vibration control.  The spaces receiving audiovisual and acoustical design services include two lecture rooms, seating 120 and 150, respectively; twelve seminar rooms; three conference rooms; a 60-seat TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) classroom; a 50-seat classroom with future distance-learning capabilities; and a multipurpose great room.  Construction began on the Ruane Center in June 2012. Completion is scheduled for September 2013.

University of Puerto Rico – Molecular Sciences Building

The scope of this project includes complete design for all telecommunications cabling systems, video surveillance security systems, and access control systems as it relates to this new state of the art research facility for the Molecular Sciences. Space plans include: rooms dedicated to Mass Spectrometry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), imaging and tissue culture, research lab space, meeting rooms, and faculty offices. Scope of services included telecommunications room sizing, power requirements, environmental requirements, heat load design criteria, telecommunications room lighting and finishes, grounding and bonding for telecommunications equipment, as well as video surveillance security camera, access control, and intercom placement. Design responsibilities included cost estimating and technical specifications for all of the aforementioned systems. Project highlights feature creating a new campus standard for the telecommunications cabling systems, video surveillance security systems, and access control systems. The project is currently in the Construction Administration phase.


Architect: RMJM; BR+A
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Construction Cost: $45 Million
Project Size: 152,000 gsf

University of Puerto Rico – Comprehensive Cancer Center

Convergent Technologies Design Group, Inc. (CTDG) was engaged by BR+A to provide audiovisual, telecommunications, and security Design Services for the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new outpatient tower will have 96 adult beds including 25 pediatric beds, 9 operating rooms, radiation oncology suite, Diagnostic Imaging facility, nuclear medicine, breast cancer, infusion therapy, and a bone barrow transplant suite. The new hospital will offer clinical trials and provide cancer treatment it is the first of its kind in the Caribbean. The 12 story medical facility is scheduled to open in April, 2016.

Architect: BR+A
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Project Size: 280,000 GSF
Project Budget: + $100 MILLION

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West Shore School District – Washington Heights Elementary School Building

[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: Hayes Large Architects
Location: Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania
Construction Cost: $6 Million
Project Size: 35,000 gsf[/col3]

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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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Villanova University – Driscoll Hall College of Nursing

Architect:
Richter Cornbrooks Gribble Architects (RCG)

Location:
Villanova, Pennsylvania

Construction Cost:
$32 Million

Project Size:
75,500 gsf

The scope of this project includes complete design services for audiovisual systems and acoustics, noise and vibration control as it relates to a new School of Nursing at Villanova University. Space plans include: 200-seat Lecture Hall, 200-seat Auditorium, Distance Learning Classrooms, General Classrooms, Practice Labs, Patient Exam Rooms, Patient Simulation Labs, Boardroom/Conference Rooms, and Seminar Rooms. Educational technology systems: clinical training management systems, healthcare observation and recording, digital audio/video capture with streaming capabilities to the VU Local Area Network (LAN), distance learning, audiovisual presentation, program/speech audio reinforcement and custom instructor’s stations. Project highlights feature the design of a swipe card automated clinical training management system to allow instant data retrieval of users and exams, collaborative case study development, event scheduling, real-time examination scoring, simulator event and drug log capture, and session debriefing. Design challenges include space plan layouts for patient simulator labs and practice Labs that will share a centralized control room for patients and control room operators. The project was a two year design and construction process and has been successfully complete since July 2008.

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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine -The Roberts Proton Facility at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine

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Architect:
RMJM

MEP Engineer:
Bard, Rao + Athanas

Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Construction Cost:
$55 Million

Project Size:
55,000 gsf

Description
Project responsibilities for the University of Pennsylvania Proton Facility is to provide telecommunications cabling systems and associated infrastructure for voice, data, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), Cable Antenna Television (CATV), access control and intercommunications systems. The design for this state of the art radiation treatment facility was implemented in not only the four underground gantry areas which hold the 90 ton machines used to deliver the radiation treatment, but also in the surrounding control rooms and nurse and technician stations. Access control systems were designed such that access was accomplished using a proximity card reader and electrified lock set with authorizations controlled via a central database. Networked surveillance systems were implemented in the entrance of treatment rooms, hallways and common areas which could be monitored from either a central computer room via CCTV or through IP-based access to the Network Video Recorder. Intercommunication systems are designed to allow two-way audio communication from sub-stations located in the gantry areas and technician control rooms, back to a master station located in the main control room. Construction of the Proton Facility has been complete since 2009.

 

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Temple University – Alter Hall (Fox School of Business)

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Property:
Temple University – Alter Hall
Architect:
Michael Graves Architects; Burt Hill
Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Construction Cost:
$79 Million
Project Size:
217,000 gsf

Convergent Technologies is providing all acoustics, noise & vibration control consulting for this new high profile seven-story School of Business at Temple University. Project challenges include the early identification and communication of acoustical criteria to the owner and design team in order to identify cost impacts and effects of acoustical design on the building envelope. Responsibilities also include the development of acoustical criteria for room adjacencies, HVAC equipment noise levels, sound isolation, and room acoustical and floor slab vibration properties for all acoustically sensitive spaces throughout the facility. Space plans for acoustical consideration and recommendation include: conference rooms, seminar rooms, breakout rooms, student commons, teaching/research labs, business simulation lab, financial trading room, case study rooms, lecture halls (150-seat), Auditorium (300-400 seat), distance learning rooms, tiered & flat classrooms (50-seat), and common areas throughout the new building. The application of past experience with business school pedagogy was useful in planning acoustical criteria for the new building. Knowledge of specific audiovisual systems specified in state of the art business schools across the country aided in prescribing solutions for noise critical environments. Alter Hall opened for use in April 2009.