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TVideo Power Comes to University Locker Room
ASKED WITH CREATING picture to fit the screen.
A unique atmosphere in the Uni- The J+P platform is engineered to pro- versity of Memphis Tigers’ locker vide complete scalability, so expanding the
room at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Sta- dium in order to wow recruits and pump up players before games, Miestro Home In- tegration relied on Just Add Power’s (J+P) Ultra HD over IP video distribution system to cost-effectively and reliably distribute video content to a variety of video walls and large displays.
The university’s new installation enables seamless switching between
any resolution HDMI source as well as uncompressed lossless multichannel audio formats, including Dolby Atmos support. Video wall functionality is built-in for displays installed in portrait and flipped configurations as well as image push, pull, and pop features. An integrated scaler
on the receiver automatically adjusts the
system with an additional screen or source is as simple as adding another receiver or transmitter. This was an important feature for the university, as the locker room also features 105 standalone displays—one above each locker—in addition to three additional touchscreens. With an eye on future expansion, the standalone locker displays and touchscreens have been pre- wired for inclusion in the J+P system.
“In college football, winning requires elite talent and it’s no secret that many schools will go to extraordinary lengths each year to get it,” says Taft Stricklin, sales team manager at J+P. “This installation showcases that AV technology can be used to differentiate a football program from the pack and wow recruits, while highlighting
A renovation of the Tigers’ locker room at the University of Memphis included the installation of a system that offers cost-effective, reliable video distribution to video walls and large displays.
the important role that reliable and flexible video distribution plays in creating these environments.”
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TLiving Wall Graces University Atrium
HE JACK AND MARY with two separate LiveWall structures
De Witt Center for Science and with shared infrastructure. They were as- Technology at Cornerstone sembled so that from most vantage points
University in Grand Rapids, MI, features a 374-square-foot green wall installed with the LiveWall Indoor Living Wall System. The $15.5-million facility is a three-story, 29,500-square-foot academic building that provides a new home for the university’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs. The Center, opened in December 2018, includes seven labs, group study areas for collaborative learning, and faculty offices.
“The idea of a green wall came up during early brainstorming on design goals and approaches to constructing a building the reflects and incorporates natural elements of God’s creation,” says Bob Sack, vice presi- dent, advancement, Cornerstone University.
The Center’s living wall was installed
in the atrium the living wall appears to be one continuous wall that spans the second and third floors.
The living wall aids in providing pas- sive biofilitration within the building.
The LiveWall structural components were installed on steel studs anchored with stan- dard fill plates two feet in front of a metal screen that covers the building’s main cold-air return. As indoor air returns to the HVAC system, the living material of the plants and growing medium filters the air and biologically degrades air pollutants.
“The engineering and flexibility of LiveWall made it the right choice for the project,” says John Haadsma, commercial landscape manager, Katerberg VerHage Inc. “Simple, minimal modifications to
The atrium of the Jack and Mary De Witt Center for Science and Technology at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, MI, features a thriving living wall.
standard parts and installation techniques turned it into a passive bioflitration system without the expense of more complex and costly systems specially designed for this purpose.” CPM
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