Modern Home equips Dohas Georgetown University
Published: MEA
QATAR: Modern Home has recently completed a 52-room A/V installation project.
The scope of work at the new Georgetown University in Doha’s Education City consisted of the supply, delivery, installation, programming, testing and commissioning of audiovisual systems for different locations across the university site. The project comprised 52 rooms with A/V installations, covering the 350-seat auditorium, 120-seat lecture hall, 50- and 30-seat classrooms, seminar rooms, conference rooms, study rooms, training facilities, common areas and a master control room.
Modern Home furnished all these areas with a full A/V solution ranging from video and projection, sound reinforcement, control and video conference systems. Each room had broadly similar equipment installed. In a typical seminar room, the company installed two Panasonic projectors with motorised projector lifts from Audipack, two motorised Da-lite screens, a Biamp processor, speakers from Bose, Sennheiser boundary and wireless mics, Audiotechnica ceiling mics, video switchers and scalers from Extron, a portable assistive listening system from Listentech, as well as a document camera from Wolfvision, four Precision HD cameras from Tandberg with videoconference codec, two 50-inch LCDs from Sony, and an AMX control system with wireless touch panel.
In addition to this, the lectern in each seminar and classroom has been equipped to enable the instructor to have full control of the system (including the dimming system and the blinds). This allows the instructor to run a presentation from a laptop or the networked PC inside the rack, or use the document camera to send the picture to one the LCDs, or even initiate a video-conference call using the control panel.
The auditorium has almost the same functionality, in addition to a complete translation system from beyerdynamic, a stationary assistive listening system, a 30,000 lumens HD projector from Christie, and Tannoy QFlex line array speakers.
All the A/V rooms are connected to the master control room via twisted pair transmitter and receiver which allows sending audio and video signals from each of the rooms to the master control, and receive back any signal which can be displayed on the projector or LCD.
The AMX controllers in each room are also connected to the network, and all communicate with the master control room which has been equipped with AMX’s Resource Management Suite for monitoring, scheduling and remote control. A Tandberg Management Suite management and scheduling software for video conferencing networks is also installed in the master control room.
Other brands were also used in this project such as Yamaha for analogue mixers and studio monitors, Furman power sequencers, Promethean active boards, Cloud Amplifiers, and Bose mixer-amplifiers.
Throughout the execution of this project, the Modern Home team sustained continuous contact with the consultant, KEO International Consultants, and the client representatives from the Qatar Foundation, making sure to have full coordination in order to implement all necessary requirements to meet the client’s needs.