Northern Virginia Community College – Harry J. Parrish Hall – Academic Building

Convergent Technologies Design Group is providing complete design services for audiovisual systems and telecommunications cabling systems infrastructure, as well as acoustics, noise and vibration control for the new Academic Building on NVCC’s Manassas campus. The new facility will be dedicated to Harry J. Parrish. Harry J. Parrish was a public servant, beginning his career in 1951 as a member of the Manassas Town Council then serving as Mayor for 18 years and finally serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates until 2006, whose vision and advocacy of education and NVCC lead to the formation of the Manassas campus during his mayoral years. Space plans for the new building include twelve (12) computer-based laboratories, fourteen (14) lecture rooms, four (4) biology labs, a combined electronics and engineering lab, an art studio and faculty/staff offices. The building will also include a new 2,500 square foot Barnes & Noble bookstore. As a certified LEED Silver facility, the building is designed according to environmentally sound standards including efficient heating and cooling, low-flow plumbing fixtures, recycled and regionally manufactured materials and rain gardens for storm management. Project responsibilities include complete project management through construction and occupancy for all specified audiovisual and telecommunications cabling systems infrastructure. Additional responsibilities include the review of building criteria as they apply to acoustics, noise and vibration for all acoustically sensitive spaces, the development of acoustical criteria for HVAC equipment noise levels and sound isolation, and recommendations for room layout, shaping and acoustical finishes. This project is scheduled for completion in 2011 to be ready for the fall 2011 semester.

 

Architect: Moseley Architects
Location: Manassas, Virginia
Construction Cost: $23.3 Million
Project Size: 60,000 gsf

Norfolk State University – Robinson Technology Building Renovation

The scope of this project included complete design services for educational technology systems to include: telecommunications cabling systems (voice/data/RF video) with associated supporting infrastructure and audiovisual & multimedia, audiovisual presentation, speech reinforcement, and custom instructor’s stations as it pertains to the phase II renovation of the William Robinson Technology Building. Space plans include: distance learning center, auditorium, computer labs, collaborative study spaces, faculty offices, conference rooms, and the Dean’s Suite. The building also houses specialized classrooms/labs, including Micro Computer Labs, an AutoCad Lab and a Cisco Networking Lab. Specified systems include hallway plasma displays, audiovisual presentation systems, classroom with distance learning capabilities, and telecommunications cabling distribution rooms. Scope of design work includes the basis for design, design development, specifications and project management for all telecommunications cabling, and audiovisual & multimedia systems infrastructure to be integrated into the building. Project responsibilities include working within Virginia’s BCOM Standards and Design Guidelines. High performance design strategies were incorporated into the renovation project using standards, principals and practices promoted by the U.S. Green Building Council. This was a multi-phase renovation project and has been successfully complete since fall 2006.

 

Architect: Moseley Architects
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Construction Cost: $9.25 Million
Project Size: 78,251 gsf

Newport News Shipbuilding – Apprenticeship School

Established in 1919, Newport News Apprenticeship Shipbuilding School is a four-year vocational school that trains students for careers in the shipbuilding industry. The school’s parent company is Huntington Ingalls Industries and its division Newport News Shipbuilding, the nation’s sole builder of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, the world’s largest warships. More than two-thirds of the schools’ graduates go on to work at the shipyard. The school and its 750-plus students are being moved from the Newport News shipyard to a new campus under construction in a four-block area in downtown Newport News. For its new facility, the school asked Convergent Technologies to provide design services for audiovisual systems with supporting infrastructure for the four-story building, including construction documents, costs estimates, and bidding review. Convergent will finish the project with construction administration of the installed systems. Spaces receiving design services include sixteen regular classrooms, two distance-learning classrooms, a computer lab, gymnasium, two conference rooms, multipurpose rooms, and offices. Construction on the new school and campus complex began in May 2012; completion is expected in the third quarter of 2013.

Architect: Rancom Wildman Architects, PLC
Location: Newport News, Virginia
Project Size: 80,000 GSF
Construction Cost: $72 MILLION

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Medicorp Health System — Stafford Hospital

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Architect:
Ellerbe Becket

Location:
Stafford, Virginia

Project Size:
 225,000 GSF

Construction Cost:
$110 MILLION

 

The new Stafford campus of the MediCorp Health System is home to a 100-bed acute care hospital including a medical/surgical unit, intensive care unit, labor and delivery unit, full- service emergency department, imaging center, and medical office space. The project included a $2,000,000 dollar design to budget for technology systems to include telecommunications (voice/data) cabling systems, cable antenna (CATV) television system, closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems, telemedicine (portable/fixed) systems, and audiovisual presentation systems. Specifications included a universal patching approach for voice and data station cabling to accommodate Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), an IP addressable CCTV system monitored over the hospital’s Local Area Network (LAN), and interface wiring for CATV control in the patient rooms through the nurse’s call system. The types of spaces that received audiovisual presentation systems include: an auditorium and associated control room, conference rooms, and boardrooms with telemedicine capabilities. Various common areas throughout the facility also received video displays, background music, and voice paging systems. Additional responsibilities included the development of acoustical criteria for isolation of the building structure due to the structure-borne vibration, HVAC equipment noise control, space adjacencies and sound isolation, as well as interior room acoustics for various spaces throughout the facility. The project was successfully completed in 2009.

UPDATE: In 2010, Medicorp Health System changed it’s name to Mary Washington Healthcare.

 

Magnet Housing – Acoustics, Noise & Vibration Control Design Consulting

Conceived to address Fairfax County’s workforce needs and to assist residents in achieving economic self-sufficiency, the Magnet Housing Program provides short-term, affordable housing to local residents who are enrolled in an employer-sponsored training program and who will likely succeed if given some additional supports, such as affordable housing. The basis for the program is very similar to the Magnet School concept where students are enrolled based on interest and ability. Convergent Technologies provided acoustical analysis for a 30-unit residence and Training Center. Responsibilities included analyzing the noise impact of the adjacent roads to the South and the East as they pertained to the building envelope. Acoustical experts examined the site conditions and performed acoustical measurements to determine traffic noise levels during daytime hours. The expected maximum interior noise levels were then calculated for the residential units facing the road using both the traffic noise levels and the calculated Composite Sound Transmission Class (CSTC) rating, and recommendations made to mitigate excessive disturbance.


Architect: Grimm + Parker Architects
Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Project Budget: $5 Million
Project Size: 25,000 gsf

Longwood University – Stevens Hall

The scope of this project includes complete design services for telecommunications cabling systems with associated supporting infrastructure for voice, data, and RF Video, and audiovisual systems with associated supporting infrastructure. Scope of work also includes a feasibility/programming phase for audiovisual systems. Stevens Hall is home to the University’s Nursing program and the new Medical Training Laboratories. Building plans include nursing skills labs such as a fundamentals lab, a health assessment lab, patient exam rooms, a patient simulator lab, and a home care lab as well as student areas, classrooms, offices, seminar rooms and conference rooms. Specified systems include infrastructure for custom instructor’s stations, audio reinforcement systems, multimedia presentation systems, and local area networking. Project responsibilities include specifications for audiovisual simulation and recording systems.  Additional design responsibilities include the review of building criteria as they apply to acoustics, noise and vibration control, the development of acoustical criteria for HVAC equipment noise levels and sound isolation. This project was completed Fall of 2010.

 

Architect: Richter Cornbrooks Gribble Architects (RCG)
Location: Farmville, Virginia
Construction Cost: $650,000
Project Size: 3,500 gsf

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Longwood University – Bedford Hall Renovation & Expansion

[col3]The scope of this Longwood University project includes complete design services for the following technology systems: telecommunications cabling infrastructure for voice, data, and RF Video, and audiovisual presentation systems infrastructure. Bedford Hall is home to the university’s studio and visual arts programs including graphic design, art education, photography, painting, crafts, art history and drawing. Space plans include renovating approximately 26,000 gross square feet of existing classrooms, laboratories, shops, studios, galleries and offices. The three-story 49,000 square foot addition will also include space plans for additional classrooms, laboratories, shops, studios, galleries and offices. Specified systems include infrastructure for custom instructor’s stations, audio reinforcement systems, multimedia presentation systems, and local area networking. Specifications also include details outlining procedures and methods of connecting to existing campus telecommunications networks. Additional design responsibilities include the review of building criteria as they apply to acoustics, noise and vibration, the development of acoustical criteria for HVAC equipment noise levels and sound isolation, and recommendations for room layout, shaping, and acoustical finishes. Project deliverables captured a complete system infrastructure programming narrative for all educational technology systems. This project is currently in the Construction Documents phase with estimated completion expected in time for Spring 2012 occupancy.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: Moseley Architects; HGA Architects & Engineers
Location: Farmville, Virginia
Construction Cost: $27 Million
Project Size: 74,862 gsf[/col3]

James Madison University – CISAT Dining Hall

Convergent Technologies provided telecommunications cabling and audiovisual systems infrastructure, sound isolation, and interior room acoustics design services for the new Dining Hall. Design standards were ordered to meet all of the latest codes, ordinances, and practices required by food service guidelines. Initial estimate suggest planned seating capacity of 750 occupants, providing approximately 45,000 gross square feet of programmed areas and utility spaces. This building will house a new kitchen, scullery, servery, indoor and outside seating facilities, associated offices and administrative areas, loading dock and storage facilities, public restrooms, staff locker and shower facilities, and custodial and utility spaces. The large, open indoor dining space will feature windows on three sides to let the maximum amount of daylight into the space. This project has been completed since May 2009.

 

Architect: Moseley Architects
Location: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Construction Cost: $18.8 Million
Project Size: 45,000 gsf

J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College – Burnette Hall Renovation

The scope for the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College included the renovation of existing classroom and faculty office space as well as providing new entries for the Burnette Hall academic building. Convergent Technologies was asked to design audiovisual presentation systems and recording, program/speech audio reinforcement, custom instructor’s stations, telecommunications cabling (voice, data, RF Video), as well as network, wireless, and telephony electronics. The main equipment room and all telecommunications rooms will be equipped with racks and necessary hardware for installing, routing and terminating the cables. These systems were incorporated to provide state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory spaces to meet the technology needs of current and future students. Other project responsibilities included room acoustics/systems noise and vibration control for all classroom spaces throughout the renovated facility and video surveillance/swipe card access.

 

Architect: MMM Design Group
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Project Size: 114,719 gsf

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Goodwin House – Health/Wellness Center, Independent Living Tower, Tower Renovation

[col3]The scope of this project includes the renovation of the existing Goodwin House Residence Tower and the design of a new Health and Wellness Center and new Individual Living Tower. Technology systems planned for the project include: telecommunications cabling (voice, data, RF Video), nurse call systems, patient wandering systems, CATV distribution, Local Area Network (LAN), Private Branch Exchange (PBX), and Wi-Fi electronics, audiovisual presentation, program/speech audio reinforcement along with the associated supporting infrastructure. The types of spaces to receive technology systems include: Fitness/Aerobics Rooms, Pool, Chapel, Theater, Media Room, Training Classrooms, Board Room/Conference Rooms, as well as nurse call/patient wandering systems for the entire complex. Dining and common areas will also receive both background music and visual paging systems. Complete specifications and project management for all audiovisual and telecommunications cabling for voice, data and RF video signals into the new building from existing distribution points are included in the scope of design work. A telephone usage traffic study made it possible save on recurring costs by reducing the number of incoming telephone lines as they were oversized for the existing system. Specifications include details outlining procedures and methods of connecting to existing telecommunications networks. Additional responsibilities include the review of building criteria as they apply to acoustics, noise and vibration control for all acoustically sensitive spaces. Project scope includes complete programming narrative system overview descriptions and detailed per space cost estimating for all educational technology systems. Project challenges include wide ranging specialty communication systems and sensitivity to proper room acoustics for aging residents. This project has been successfully complete since April 2010.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: Dorsky Hodgson & Partners; Advanced Project Management
Location: Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia
Construction Cost: $82 Million
Project Size: 300,000 gsf[/col3]