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Fall 2007 Report If you would like more information on any of these projects or stories, please contact Jeff Wilde, Partner, at (212) 725-6800 or jwilde@smwinc.com. Technology
and Medicine Converge
Bringing Together Technology and People The Needs of Many Las Vegas in South Florida Phillip Johnson heads Dubai office Contributors to AGS 11 New service: Medical Equipment Planning Changing the Way We See Technology and Medicine Converge The Learning and Knowledge Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA Architect: NBBJ, San Francisco Medical equipment planning, IT, multimedia, building security, acoustics: Shen Milsom & Wilke, San Francisco Size: 120,000 square feet Completion: Mid-2010 (first phase) Challenge: The Stanford School of Medicine’s new Learning and Knowledge Center aims to transform the way medicine is taught and practiced by fully integrating technology.
Solution: The Learning and Knowledge Center is designed to encourage breakthroughs in information and imaging technologies. Working closely with NBBJ and Stanford’s IT department, Shen Milsom & Wilke is addressing the technology infrastructure requirements for the new Center. The objective is to integrate technology and make it easily available, work with medical technology vendors to evaluate system capabilities to ensure interoperability, and coordinate infrastructure requirements for the entire facility. Shen Milsom & Wilke is also planning and specifying medical equipment for the Learning and Knowledge Center’s Immersive Learning Center, a simulation space to give students hands-on clinical, procedural, cognitive, and interpersonal-skills training. Multimedia design will provide distance learning, video capture and playback capabilities for all classrooms and lecture spaces, recording and editing of standardized patient exercises, and easy-to-use controls for all technology. Bringing Together Technology and People Hong Kong Science Park, Phase II, Hong Kong
Architect: Leigh & Orange Architects, Hong Kong Multimedia, IT, acoustics: Shen Milsom & Wilke, Hong Kong Size: 1.25 million square feet Completion: Spring 2008 Challenge: Hong Kong Science Park is a multi-building campus designed for electronics, biotechnology, engineering, and information technology industry tenants. The facilities must also support technology start-ups. Solution: One of the key design objectives in high-tech facilities is to lower the cost and shorten the set-up time for tenants establishing operations. At Hong Kong Science Park, tenants may simply “plug and play,” thanks to the IT infrastructure designed by Shen Milsom & Wilke. Work began during master planning, when total connectivity among the buildings was engineered to allow multiple applications with diverse and redundant routing. This helps tenants avoid lost data and other disasters. To prepare the buildings to accommodate companies of all sizes and at various stages of development, Shen Milsom & Wilke designed a scalable backbone that offers bandwidth on demand everywhere. Special infrastructure was also provided to support the many telecommunications service providers in Hong Kong. http://http://www.smwinc.com/news/news_07fall.html Phase II consists of ten buildings, including two energy towers, two dedicated laboratory buildings, and six R&D office buildings with clean rooms, fault-tolerance power supply systems, and vibration-free laboratories--designed with help from Shen Milsom & Wilke’s acoustic consultants. These stable environments are essential for ultra-sensitive equipment. Phase II also includes an auditorium equipped with conference and meeting facilities. Shen Milsom & Wilke’s multimedia work in these included video conferencing capabilities, audio and video recording, and voice reinforcement for speakers. The Needs of Many Virginia Beach Convention Center, VA Architect: SOM, Chicago Multimedia, acoustics, IT: Shen Milsom & Wilke Size: 517,000 square feet Completion: September 2006 Challenge: Convention centers must support the technology needs of many different types of users—from neurosurgeons meeting to discuss scientific advances, to toy manufacturers showing their wares, and everything in between.
Solution: Water, wood, and natural light make the new Virginia Beach Convention Center bright and welcoming for all types of visitors. An expansion of the existing Pavilion Convention complex, the new center includes expanded exhibit hall space, pre-function areas, meeting rooms, conference areas, and a 31,000-square-foot ballroom. Technology is supported in all spaces, thanks to a robust IT infrastructure system for voice, data, multimedia, television distribution, wireless LAN, and building management. The network is easily expandable to provide greater connectivity for future needs, as well. This flexibility is essential in convention centers, which host groups with a wide range of needs. A central multimedia control room provides space for an operator who can oversee this technology “traffic.” There is also a central recording room where audio and video signals from any of the areas within the convention center may be recorded, edited, and copied for distribution. Good acoustic design is challenging in convention centers. The exhibit halls are usually large and noisy; the seminar rooms are next to each other, allowing sound from one presentation to leak into adjacent rooms. Shen Milsom & Wilke provided acoustic isolation for these areas and quieted mechanical systems. They also developed appropriate interior finishes to control reverberation and noise buildup in the exhibition hall, ballroom, and boardroom. Las Vegas in South Florida The Isle Casino & Racing at Pompano Park, Pompano Park, FL
Architect: Cope Linder Architects, Philadelphia; Interiors by Carey Jones Architects Ltd., Leeds, UK Owner: Isle of Capri Casinos Multimedia, acoustics: Shen Milsom & Wilke, New York City Size: 157,000 square feet Completion: May 2007 Challenge: Everyone knows casinos are supposed to be exciting spaces. Aside from colorful interiors and plenty of noise from the various gaming machines, how do you create the buzz? Solution: The Isle combines the existing Pompano Park Harness Track with a new adjacent casino. It holds a gaming arena with slot machines, a 34-table poker room, off-track betting facilities, four restaurants, and two bars. What really sets this casino apart is the high level of multimedia design, courtesy of Shen Milsom & Wilke. Signals emanating from a “master control suite” (otherwise known as a head-end room) run two 12-by-16-foot video walls in the sports bar. These might display the action at the harness track, a football game, or a movie. Digital signage throughout tells customers what’s to eat at the restaurants, where the gaming action is at, and other bits of knowledge. Meantime a computer-controlled background music and paging system features noise-sensing abilities so that it can adjust sound levels as needed. To keep things easy to operate, Shen Milsom & Wilke made all of the controls for these systems accessible by the facility operator from anywhere. Phillip Johnson heads Dubai office Phillip Johnson, senior associate, is now manager of Shen Milsom & Wilke’s Dubai office. The company has maintained an office in Dubai since late 2001 to serve clients throughout the Middle East.
Mr. Johnson’s role includes business development, project management, and establishing short- and long-term business strategies. He brings 20 years’ experience on many different types of projects, including international airports, high-rises, corporate headquarters, and government, educational, and healthcare facilities. The Dubai office has a staff of five, with capabilities in acoustic, information technology, multimedia, and security design. The office is actively recruiting to fuel further expansion. Contributors to AGS 11 Shen Milsom & Wilke contributed several sections to the 11th Edition of Architectural Graphic Standards, a compendium gathered by the American Institute of Architects and published by John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Our staff wrote sections on Security Systems Design (page 482), Telecommunications Systems (page 483-487), and Other Electrical Systems (page 487-489). Published in various editions since 1932, Architectural Graphic Standards is considered the “architect’s bible.” The 1,100-page tome is the first place to look when an architect is confronted with a question about building design. The new edition organizes content according to the Construction Specifications Institute’s UniFormat® classification system. It also weaves sustainable design concepts throughout and includes an entire chapter on healthy design. New Service: Medical Equipment Planning Information technology and medical equipment are increasingly aligned within medical facilities. Anticipating the convergence of these services, Shen Milsom & Wilke recently acquired Equipment Planners Inc. (EPI) to expand the services they are already offering to the healthcare sector. The two companies are already working together on several healthcare projects, including the recently opened Weill Greenberg Center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, designed by Polshek Partnership, New York City, with healthcare floors designed by Ballinger of Philadelphia; and The Learning and Knowledge Center at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, CA, designed by NBBJ, San Francisco. EPI brings 26 years of knowledge about projects ranging from small, single-department renovations to new construction of major medical institutions. Their consulting and design work helps clients save money by providing technology assessment studies; specialty planning; expert knowledge of current and emerging technology; innovative hospital planning concepts; equipment programming, budgeting and prioritization; and bid analysis. EPI sequences their work so that it coordinates with the design and construction phases of a project. Key to their success is the accurate and complete construction documents they generate. These reduce project change orders and improve scheduling. The company also provides comprehensive purchasing experience and impartial product recommendations. Changing the Way We See By Jay Pulaski Mr. Pulaski has more than 35 years experience in medical equipment planning and budgeting. He heads Shen Milsom & Wilke’s medical equipment discipline.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College Ophthalmology Center, New York City Architects: Polshek Partnership, New York City; Ballinger, Philadelphia Medical equipment planning, IT, multimedia, acoustics: Shen Milsom & Wilke, New York City Size: 11th and half of 12th floors in the 330,000-square-foot Weill Greenberg Center Completion: Spring 2008 Weill Cornell’s new Ophthalmology Center is a carefully orchestrated assembly of medical equipment, computers, infrastructure, lighting, furnishings, and finishes. Located in the hospital’s new Weill Greenberg Center, the center consolidates ophthalmic departments located in several different buildings. The new center is distinctly high-tech, including an excimer laser suite (the laser actually sculpts the cornea), an interventional procedure room, specialty diagnostic rooms for ophthalmic digital photography, and pathology mapping areas. There are also 25 refraction lanes—where an ophthalmologist places lenses in front of your eyes to test and diagnose your vision. The center also has conference areas and viewing spaces to oversee procedures. Gone are the days of looking at a printed eye chart. Now that chart, as well as other testing devices, is projected on a flat-panel video display while the doctor uses a remote control to change images. The display does double duty, providing instructional information or even entertainment to the patients while they await the doctor. Patient information is stored and transmitted in digital format. This includes photos of the cornea, retina, and other segments of the eye, and any video tests. Medical screening devices, such as refractometers, lensometers, and keratometers, are also digitally adapted and networked. In short, a physician may view all of a patient’s records on a computer, accessing whatever images and tests are performed without using lots of different reports and films. That physician may also share that information with other physicians and, since this is a teaching facility, students. Shen Milsom & Wilke’s responsibilities included programming all of the ophthalmic equipment requirements. This included space planning and equipment layout. The company also worked with the architects to help them understand the function of equipment and how to best optimize its functionality in a space, while juggling entrances, case work, plumbing requirements, lighting, and other factors in optimizing the layout. Proper functioning in the lanes, for example, required ordering and installing the various interface devices early. These were then carefully synchronized with the room lighting. As a result, when certain pieces of equipment are removed from their stand, light levels change automatically, according to presets. Shen Milsom & Wilke also specified monitors (medical images must be top quality), sound systems, and other multimedia equipment, and, just as important, created the IT infrastructure on which all of this information is transmitted. Weill Cornell’s ophthalmologists strive to offer their patients the most advanced and comprehensive eye care using the latest diagnostic procedures. Their new facility makes these goals easier. Shen Milsom & Wilke, is an international technology consulting practice founded in 1986. The company offers comprehensive services in the areas of multimedia, information technology, building security, and acoustics. The firm has a staff of more than 150 professionals and 11 offices worldwide. |
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