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Rendering of the Time Inc. refurbishment
project.
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With recent acquisitions of other media companies, Time Inc. embarked
upon a Rolling Refurbishment Program to create a state-of-the-art
office facility to support this increased productivity. The original
award for the building systems design was back in December of 2001,
with our lighting design and audiovisual services being added on
shortly thereafter. After successful project coordination of these
integrated services during the first two phases, we were again
awarded the lighting and audiovisual design along with our building
design consulting. The scope of project for Phase III consists
of four floors totaling almost 100,000 sq. ft. with an anticipated
completion date of June 2004.
Syska Hennessy Group Technology was retained to design an integrated
and comprehensive information technology system and infrastructure,
paging, video distribution and audiovisual system that will be
flexible, scalable and reliable. The IT infrastructure will be
standards based, structured and vendor-independent, accommodating
current and anticipated communication technologies and systems.
Syska's
services include engineering and consulting services
involving the design, installation, and construction
of the IT systems (voice and data, including paging and video
distribution) and infrastructure. This includes a design that
will support the use of a single IDF on each of the tower floors.
These IDF’s, on floors 8 – 46,
will support half the floor it resides on and half the
floor below, redundant power and backbone fiber for each
IDF to ensure reliability, an intelligent patching system capable
of self-discovering and then monitoring every device
connected to the network, correlating it with the physical layer
infrastructure documentation to indicate the exact location and
full-circuit trace, a design that will support the deployment
of voice over IP and wireless LAN, a paging system that can be
re-used when the floors are renovated as part of the rolling
refurbishment.
Syska's services also included
the engineering and consulting services involving the design,
installation, and construction of the audiovisual systems for the
rolling refurbishment project. They include, fitting out a large
conference room on each floor with basic audiovisual capabilities
to support the display and presentation of video and computer based
materials such as Power Point presentations, CATV, VCRs and DVDs.
These rooms will include audio
conferencing with infrastructure to support videoconferencing
in the future and the design of a feature wall in each lobby
to be powered by a ceiling mounted projector and a screen built
into the wall.
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