Haverford College – Stokes Hall Renovation and Addition

The scope of this project includes a $100,000.00 design to budget for audiovisual & multimedia systems to include: stereo program and monaural speech audio, audiovisual presentation and recording, along with 35mm slide and remote control. The primary space to receive audiovisual & multimedia systems is the main 200-seat Lecture Hall. Project responsibilities include: complete specifications for all audiovisual/ multimedia and RF video cabling systems, design of custom instructor’s station, layout of infrastructure, power and heat load information for projection/ control room, project management through bidding & negotiations, concluding with construction administration project management through systems testing and acceptance. Convergent Technologies became involved in the design development phase of the project. Systems that were specified for the main lecture hall include a combined speech/program audio reinforcement system that compliments a high-light output projection system featuring side-by-side 35mm slide and LCD data/ video. Design meetings included discussions with both design team project managers and the owner’s technical representatives to establish and verify existing standards and budget for the to be specified technology components, as well as, detailed discussions on infrastructure placement and custom teaching station designs. The project has been successfully complete since 2002.


Architect: Ayers Saint Gross Architects
Location: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Construction Cost: $4.9 Million
Project Size: 24,000 gsf

Gettysburg College – New “Attic” Multi-Purpose Building

Convergent Technologies provided all room acoustics, noise and vibration control consulting for this new building. Design schedule included involvement in design development, construction documents preparation, and bidding document review. Responsibilities included review of building criteria as they apply to acoustics, noise and vibration for all open spaces throughout the building. Convergent Technologies developed acoustical criteria for HVAC equipment noise levels, sound isolation, room acoustical finishes, and floor slab vibration properties throughout the facility. Space plan included a student recreational space equipped with a high-output audio-reinforcement system to support live and DJ playback events. Design challenges included the specification of adequate room finishes to properly treat the open areas that are involved with the aforementioned audio system. The project has been successfully complete since July 2001.


Architect: Studio D’Arch Architects
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Construction Cost: $1.3 Million
Project Size: 20,000 gsf

Elizabethtown College – Zug Hall Feasibility Study

Zug Hall is home to the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College. Convergent Technologies was asked to conduct a feasibility study relating to room acoustics for the orchestra practice room as well as sound isolation for the music areas on the lower level of Zug Hall. The feasibility study included a conditions assessment of the existing facility and conducting a meeting/interview with the faculty in order to determine the programmatic room acoustic needs of the orchestra practice room as well as the perceived intrusion of the music areas into non-music areas and provide a viable plan of action to develop an enhanced acoustic environment. Deliverables associated with this project include narrative reports outlining the room acoustic deficiencies for the Orchestra Practice Room, general recommendations for necessary acoustic modifications to the Orchestra Practice Room, sound isolation deficiencies and general recommendations for necessary isolation modifications for the music areas on the lower level. This project has been successfully completed since 2008.


Architect: Marshall Craft Architects
Location: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Elizabethtown College – Fine Arts Building – Rehearsal Room 204

Zug Hall is the center of the Fine Arts Programs of Elizabethtown College. It houses multiple practice studios, an art gallery, offices, and rehearsal rooms. The scope of this project included an acoustical analysis of Rehearsal Room 204. Elizabethtown College asked Convergent Technologies to provide acoustics, noise & vibration control design services including a narrative outlining findings, results and recommendations. This project was completed in 2010.

Location: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Project Size: 2,108 GSF

Elizabethtown College – 300-Seat Auditorium

Convergent Technologies provided several acoustical analysis and design services for the renovation of the Gibble Auditorium at Elizabethtown College, located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.  The existing HVAC systems, along with proposed modifications, were analyzed for acoustical impact on the auditorium.  In addition, architectural documentation including structural details, floor plan layouts, and finish specifications were reviewed in detail as part of an interior acoustical analysis.  Recommendations based on these analyses were made in a narrative report delivered in January of 2012.  Included in this report was a complete design for a suspended, acoustically reflective cloud system intended to acoustically reinforce spoken and musical presentations within the space. Detailed basis-of-design and placement recommendations were made regarding the distribution of both reflective and absorptive wall paneling.  Additional recommendations were made regarding modifications to the proposed HVAC system, to ensure that the acoustical qualities of the Gibble Auditorium were optimized for the proposed uses.


Architect: Marshall Craft Associates
Location: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Systems Value: $45,000

Bucks County Community College – New Gateway Center

The scope of this project included complete design services for audiovisual (AV) & multimedia systems to include: video projection, audiovisual recording, videoconferencing, and program/speech audio reinforcement. The New Gateway Center at Bucks County Community College serves as one of the primary campus entrances and houses a testing center, Business & Industry Training Rooms, Computer Labs, Science & Technology Lab, and a Teleconference / Television Center. The primary spaces to receive technology systems were the Television Center/Control Room, five (5) Multimedia Labs & Resource Rooms, Sub-dividable Lab spaces and Digital Editing Suites. Project responsibilities included: complete specifications for all audiovisual/multimedia and RF video cabling systems and project management through bidding & negotiations concluding with construction administration project management through systems testing and acceptance. The design scope commenced with a schematic design phase that included the development of preliminary design cost estimates for the to be specified AV systems. This project has been successfully complete since November 1999.


Architect: P.W. Moss & Associates
Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania
Construction Cost: $18 Million

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Department of Veterans Affairs Roseburg Healthcare System – Mental Health Seismic Replacement, Phase I & II

Emergency Operations and Public Safety: Anne Arundel County, Maryland – Theater and Emergency Ops Center – Systems by CTDG
Emergency Operations and Public Safety: Anne Arundel County, Maryland – Theater and Emergency Ops Center – Systems by CTDG

[col3]The New Mental Health SARRTP (Substance abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program) Relocation project will complete design of Phase II for the Mental Health Renovations. The new, 19,600gsf building will accommodate 22 beds. The MH Seismic Replacement Project involves a new replacement building for Building 2. Convergent Technologies provided design expertise for  audiovisual systems design and supporting infrastructure, acoustics, noise & vibration control, telecommunications systems design and supporting infrastructure and security systems design. Additionally, Convergent Technologies worked to integrate nurse call and code blue intercom systems and developed criteria for publc address and paging along with inter/intra departmental intercoms. This project is currently in the design phase with construction anticipated to begin in 2012.[/col3]


[col3]Architect: Tina Ely Architect; Oh Planning + Design
Location: Roseburg, Oregon
Project Budget: $8 Million
Project Size: 80,500 gsf[/col3]

Kent State University – On Call Tele/Data Designer

Kent State University operates an eight-campus system throughout Northeast Ohio, among the largest regional systems in the country, and serves more than 22,000 graduate and undergraduate students from across the country. Convergent Technologies was among the consultants selected for as needed Tele/Data Design and Consulting Services. Under this contract CTDG is on-call for specialty design services for any tele/data discipline, to review or create a Program of Requirements, various studies, prototype building design, preparation of bidding and construction documents, pre-design investigations, and/or quality assurance testing during construction. The scope of this contract is a three-year term with design fees not to exceed $250,000.00 over the three-year period; each individual assignment can range from $25,000.00 – $75,000.00 per project. To be awarded this contract Convergent Technologies had to exhibit extensive prior design, project management and construction administration experience in higher education and similarly complex settings. CTDG will be considered eligible for award of projects for the period covering July 2009 –  June 2012.

University of Buffalo – Kapoor (formerly Acheson) Hall Rehabilitation

The scope of this project includes complete design services for audiovisual presentation systems, and acoustics, noise & vibration control as it relates to the rehabilitation of Kapoor Hall (formerly Acheson). Space plans include: 280-seat and 180-seat Tiered Lecture Halls, Subdividable Classrooms, Practice Exam Rooms, Conference Rooms, an Executive Boardroom, a Pharmaceutical Care Lab, 75-person Teaching Labs, Computer Labs and General Classrooms. Educational technology systems include: digital annotation technologies, digital audio/video capture with broadcasting capabilities for the Internet or podcasts, distance learning, dual image audiovisual presentation displays, program/speech audio reinforcement and custom instructor’s stations with talk-back loudspeaker. Design considerations include flexible and future-proofed infrastructure, emersion technology, interconnectivity between lecture halls, classrooms and a conference room, proper lighting considerations for videoconferencing displays, distance learning capabilities for various spaces, the recommendations of assessment software to facilitate exam monitoring, and wall infrastructure versus floor infrastructure design for the conference rooms. 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. This project is scheduled to be complete in the summer of 2011.


Architect: The S/L/A/M Collaborative
Location: Buffalo, New York
Construction Cost: $44 Million
Project Size: 155,000 gsf

University at Albany (SUNY) – Lecture Center

The Lecture Center B-03, located on the Podium in the Lecture Center Concourse of the University at Albany main campus, renovation plan consisted of converting an existing 50-year old tiered lecture hall to a smart, ADA compliant, three room lecture center inclusive of two 49-seat classrooms and one 64-seat classroom. Scope of work included the design of audiovisual systems with associated supporting infrastructure as they relate to the renovation project. The renovated facility will be used for lecture style instructional teaching and learning. Specified educational technology systems include audiovisual presentation and recording, speech reinforcement, custom smartinstructo’s lecterns, multimedia systems, and abilities to present video based or computer generated presentations via dual and single data/video projection systems. The lecture spaces were designed to create interconnectivity between one another via a master control allowing for a scalable level of room to room participation. Project responsibilities include design considerations for technology infrastructures to support future teaching equipment, methods and electronics. This project is currently under construction.


Architect: Dembling & Dembling Architects, P.C.
Location: Albany, New York
Project Estimate: $850,000
Project Size: 3,517 gsf