Services: Acoustics, AV | Size: 174,000 sf | Cost: $46 million
Waveguide provided AV and acoustical consulting for more than 60 AV spaces ranging from tiered-auditorium and case study classrooms to small, flexible seminar rooms and distance-learning rooms at the new College of Business Administration’s new 174,000-square-foot, $46 million facility on the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus. Waveguide’s scope included a facility-wide interactive scheduling and way-finding system, more than 100 interactive locations, 35 all digital classrooms, 30 collaborative team spaces, seven broadcast quality distance-learning spaces, the Global Business Institute international videoconference center, a world-class Investment Learning Center and a centralized AV master control and production facility. Innovative results from this project include fully digital classroom technology systems; multi-source, multi-windowing single screen classroom projection systems; streaming multimedia classroom, on-demand and real-time content distribution systems; comprehensive and unified facility scheduling, and way-finding and asset management systems.