Green Install: A True Test of Green AV

One AV integrator learns that green AV design isn't all about the AV systems themselves.

If you installed AV systems in a group's new headquarters and those headquarters subsequently received a Platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, does it mean those AV systems were green? What if the group whose headquarters you worked on actually was the U.S. Green Building Council?

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Cable TV to Every Restaurant Booth
Indy's Buffalo Wings & Rings has TVs hanging everywhere, but it also wanted diners to be able to tune into their favorite sports on personal displays.
AV Amenities in a Chicago High-Rise
Chicago's 225 West Wacker Drive needed something to keep current tenants and lure new ones. It decided on an amenities floor with conferencing, workout facilities, and video to the exercise equipment.
Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter
Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.

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Most Popular Installations

Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter
Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.
AV-Enhanced Teaching Guides Facility Project
A new facility on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado beckons students to explore the synergy among technology, society, media and the arts.
Connected Care
The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of...

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Spotlight Awards

2010 Spotlight Award Winners Announced
PRO AV and ARCHITECT magazines, published by Hanley Wood LLC, and InfoComm International, the leading nonprofit association serving the professional AV communications industry worldwide, announced 16 winners of the third annual PRO AV Spotlight Awards program.
PRO AV, InfoComm Partner on Spotlight Awards
PRO AV, the leading magazine and website serving the commercial audio/video industry; InfoComm International, the trade association representing the commercial AV industry and producer of InfoComm, the world's largest audiovisual tradeshow; and ARCHITECT magazine, serving 60,000 commercial and...
2009 PRO AV Spotlight Awards
Meet the 15 winners of the second annual PRO AV Spotlight Awards, projects that vary in complexity, scope, and budget, but share common traits, like the latest AV technology and successful coordination among AV integrator, consultant, architect, end user.

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Guides to Doing Business

A Capella Means Sound AV

At 53 stories, the halo-topped 225 South Sixth stands out from the Minneapolis skyline. Then landlord Hines, an international real estate firm, hoped the recent addition of a 5,400-square-foot executive conference facility would make it stand out in a different way.
How the Business Downturn Sparked a Rise in Executive Conference Facilities

Executive conference facilities are showing up at hotels, corporations, colleges, and even large churches. Many are built as standalone destinations dedicated to hosting meetings; others are extensions of an organization's campus. All can help groups cut travel costs, realize new revenue streams...
Angels in the Outskirts: Telemedicine in Action

Known as the Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and Learning System (ANGELS), the program employs conferencing technology to virtually transport a medical specialist to wherever the mother and child live and allow the doctor to perform many of the same examinations they would in person.

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Corporate and Retail

AV Amenities in a Chicago High-Rise

Chicago's 225 West Wacker Drive needed something to keep current tenants and lure new ones. It decided on an amenities floor with conferencing, workout facilities, and video to the exercise equipment.
Audio Excellence at The Recording Academy

The Grammy Awards celebrate the best in music excellence, so it only makes sense that the event's producers would invest in top-notch audio technology for their new Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters.
Office Depot HQ Gets an AV Makeover

When Office Depot called on architecture firm HOK to design its new global headquarters in BocaRaton, Fla., collaboration was a priority. From the low-height cubicle walls to the open layouts of glass and windows, the company wanted everything, including upscale amenities and all the installed AV...

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Education and Government

Audio Network Anchors Community College Install

Musicians have long abided by the maxim "less is more"–the fewer notes it takes to get your idea across, the more elegant the outcome. For...
Sign Waves

At Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a university for the deaf and hard of hearing, advanced AV technology isn't just an important...
2009 Best Education AV Project (Under $250K)

You can't tell from this picture, but the third-floor eye lab at the Illinois College of Optometry is actually shaped like an eye. Within...

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Entertainment and Museums

Projectors Light Up the Carter Library

On the world stage, the United States President projects America's image. So it's fitting that projectors are at the heart of a major...
Audio Excellence at The Recording Academy

The Grammy Awards celebrate the best in music excellence, so it only makes sense that the event's producers would invest in top-notch audio...
Making of a Denver Museum's New Science Exhibit

In the sci-fi thriller Fantastic Voyage, a medical team is shrunk in size to be injected into a scientist's brain to save his life. It may...

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Health Care Installs

Connected Care
The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of...

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Hospitality and Restaurants

Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter
Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.
2009 Best Hospitality/Casino AV Project
Before Veneklasen Associates designed the upgrades to Mohegan Sun's Casino of the Wind in Connecticut, techs had to hoof it among six amplifier rooms to troubleshoot problems. So from the project's beginning, it was decided head-end equipment would be upgraded to the latest MediaMatrix NION DSP...
Hotel Arizona: AV in a Tightly Controlled Project
When Starwood began building one of its W Hotels, a boutique line of high-end getaways, in downtown Scottsdale, Ariz., the company didn't have to look far for an AV integrator. After months of AV design drafts and construction delays, a team from bearby CCS Presentation Systems began installation...

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Houses of Worship Installs

2009 Best House of Worship AV Project (Under $250K)
The 1,500-seat sanctuary of the Cathedral of Christ the Light is the centerpiece of the Diocese of Oakland, Calif.’s Cathedral Center. It’s an architectural landmark and an acoustical challenge.
2009 Best House of Worship AV Project
Eastlake was a true collaboration between integrator and architect. Within guidelines, the team at Southern California Sound Image helped direct the building's interior geometry and finishes to meet the project's acoustical and AV performance goals.
Seeing the (Bright) Light
It could be argued that everyone who slings a projector is trying to present an inspirational message, but few can make that claim like the increasing number of large, modern houses of worship increasingly adopting bright, large-scale projection technology.

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Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter
Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.
Audio Excellence at The Recording Academy
The Grammy Awards celebrate the best in music excellence, so it only makes sense that the event's producers would invest in top-notch audio technology for their new Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters.
No Place Like Home: A Resi Install
The 31,000-square-foot Monarch Resort Club at Trilogy, a community by Shea Homes, is the centerpiece for residents of this exclusive 1,200-home development along the coast of central California. Once inside, the high-end interior design by Design Lines of Greenwood Village, Colo., and the discrete...

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Plains & Mountains Installs

Making of a Denver Museum's New Science Exhibit
In the sci-fi thriller Fantastic Voyage, a medical team is shrunk in size to be injected into a scientist's brain to save his life. It may have been a little like that working on the systems integration for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Expedition Health exhibition, which required a lot...
At the Intersection of Green and AV
St. Louis -based architecture firm Arcturis was moving into new digs. Its 30,000-square-foot headquarters were to be a showcase both for meeting room design and sustainable technology. With help from integrator Conference Technologies, the new AV and control systems maximize the effectiveness of...
2009 Judges' Award: College Basketball Experience
The College Basketball Experience in Kansas City, Mo., is certainly immersive. As you enter, you hear a pre-game pep talk. Full-motion video and fan noise swirl when you walk through the tunnel. Then suddenly you're in the middle of it all, shooting free throws against the backdrop of a hostile...

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Upper Midwest Installs

AV Amenities in a Chicago High-Rise
Chicago's 225 West Wacker Drive needed something to keep current tenants and lure new ones. It decided on an amenities floor with conferencing, workout facilities, and video to the exercise equipment.
Audio Network Anchors Community College Install
Musicians have long abided by the maxim "less is more"–the fewer notes it takes to get your idea across, the more elegant the outcome. For the technology systems design and integration at the Center for Creative Arts at Cuyahoga Community College's Metro Campus in downtown Cleveland, that adage...
A Capella Means Sound AV
At 53 stories, the halo-topped 225 South Sixth stands out from the Minneapolis skyline. Then landlord Hines, an international real estate firm, hoped the recent addition of a 5,400-square-foot executive conference facility would make it stand out in a different way.

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Southeast Installs

Projectors Light Up the Carter Library
On the world stage, the United States President projects America's image. So it's fitting that projectors are at the heart of a major renovation of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta.
Office Depot HQ Gets an AV Makeover
When Office Depot called on architecture firm HOK to design its new global headquarters in BocaRaton, Fla., collaboration was a priority. From the low-height cubicle walls to the open layouts of glass and windows, the company wanted everything, including upscale amenities and all the installed AV...
2009 Best Health Care AV Project
Imagine you're a child going in for an MRI or CT scan. It can be a scary experience. At Miami's Baptist Country Walk Pediatric MRI Center, the modest, creative AV system design puts young minds at ease.

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Mid-Atlantic Installs

SAP Americas Headquarters Expansion
If, in this era of declining print subscriptions, executives at the Harvard Business Review want proof that their articles have a direct impact on business, they need look no further than the SAP Americas Headquarters Expansion.
Spatial Audio: Sound in Space
Last year, New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development put the finishing touches on a $6.5 million, 7,500-square-foot addition–the new James L. Dolan Recording and Teaching complex at the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.
Connected Care
The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is truly a unique venue with a big mission: to change the way the health care industry conducts business by harnessing technology. To do so, the CCM has a roster of big names from the AV and IT worlds on its side, including founding partners University of...

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Northeast Installs

2009 Best Hospitality/Casino AV Project
Before Veneklasen Associates designed the upgrades to Mohegan Sun's Casino of the Wind in Connecticut, techs had to hoof it among six amplifier rooms to troubleshoot problems. So from the project's beginning, it was decided head-end equipment would be upgraded to the latest MediaMatrix NION DSP...
2009 Judges' Award: Harvard Decision Science Laboratory
Now here's a different kind of integration project. Premier Network Solutions was tasked with integrating AV with a human physiological monitoring system from Mindware Technologies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The latter wanted to study how human emotional and physical responses to...
Historic High Tech
MUCH LIKE THE REST of Boston's downtown area, the John Adams Courthouse (the former Old Suffolk County Courthouse) is an historic building that has seen the world evolve into today's modern technological society. To keep pace with the times, the Adams Courthouse underwent a massive renovation and...

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