At ADTECH Systems, we take special pride in our ability to design and engineer custom sound and video systems.
Since no two projects are ever exactly alike, the audio visual engineering process can be very different from one to the next. It’s important to have highly experienced and knowledgeable people in charge of your project.
Let’s take a look at two systems ADTECH’s AV engineering staff has completed recently, to illustrate what you might expect when you work with us.
ADTECH Systems became involved in this project during the winter of 2009/2010. In a series of meetings over several months, we helped instructors and staff of the UMASS pathology department plan a new collaborative classroom to be used in their resident physician program.
In many ways this was like any design/build project, but the needs analysis was much more involved and the finished system, designed to support very dynamic teaching methods, was complex.
The new classroom, completed during the summer of 2010, is divisible into three sections with movable walls and can be used in sections or together as a single room with a combined audio and video system.
Each section has its own lectern with built-in Macintosh and Windows computers, a document camera, microphone and control screen, and each has tables for six student workgroups with additional PC inputs. There are two projectors and six LCD monitors in each section. Students can view various types of instructional material on their own monitor or use the appropriate monitors or projectors to present to a section of the classroom or to the entire classroom. Three digital matrix switchers, acting together and controlled by Crestron touchpanels on each lectern, make it easy to send any source to any combination of projectors and monitors in the room. All components are high definition and all signal paths purely digital.
Once we had worked out all of the requirements of the system, our AV engineering people went to work on detailed schematics and installation drawings. Our buying group purchased the necessary equipment and software, our programmers began writing code and our fabrication department assembled the lecterns and equipment racks. Our installation group began pulling cable at the job site and, once the carpenters, electricians and painters were finished, they installed the lecterns, racks, speakers and displays. The final step was training the Medical Center’s professors on the use of the new systems and their IT staff on how to support it. As is our practice, we provided full documentation, as-built drawings and user manuals.
For the last several years, ADTECH Systems has worked with CVS Caremark, its owners’ rep, Keough Construction, and its audio-visual consultant, Nicholas Browse & Associates, to complete audio visual systems in a number of different buildings.
For this new facility, we engineered and installed AV systems in 35 different areas, ranging from a high-end video conferencing room to conference rooms, training rooms and a multi-purpose cafeteria/staff meeting room. There’s also a building-wide digital signage system that includes a nine-cube video wall in the cafeteria.
Our approach at CVS Caremark has been very different from the one we used at UMASS.
In this case, Nicholas Browse & Associates handled all of the needs analysis, developing a 63-page design specification. They chose ADTECH Systems as the AV integrator from a very limited number of qualified bidders, as this was an extremely high end job, requiring very precise and detailed work with very high performance standards. We set to work on the engineering documents, creating cable pull schematics, audio flows, video flows and other necessary drawings. In the meantime, we ordered the necessary components and began the task of programming the control systems and audio processors.
Since this was a union construction site, we completed the installation in partnership with Rossi Electric of Cranston, Rhode Island, with whom we have a long-term relationship. Our engineers supervised the Rossi technicians, and we handled all of the off-site fabrication, testing, commissioning and user training. We also provided full documentation, as-built drawings and user manuals.
No matter what type of audio visual system you need, ADTECH Systems has the expertise and experience to help.
Please contact us to put us to work on your next project.
