Hurrairah bin Sohail explores how Yale-NUS and Arup approached the task of designing and deploying state-of-the-art, future proof AV systems for a unique college.
Yale-NUS, an autonomous liberal arts college established as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, recently drafted Arup for acoustic, theatre and AV consultancy.
Tan Suan Wee, senior consultant at Arup, begins: “Arup was contacted in late 2010 regarding the Yale-NUS project. The scope entailed the campus wide AV systems for academic spaces and a separate package for the theatre systems in the performing arts facilities. “Arup provided all design services for the project. Quantum Automation was the main ELV contractor and coordinated the AV installation as well as integration with the buildings management system and facilities booking system as part of the overall ELV setup.â€
From the beginning of the project the brief was clear.Tan explains: "Yale-NUS was looking at the next step in learning technology.They were asking fundamental questions of where the future of learning technologies in the educational sector is going to lead to, both for the academics and the students. Our design brief in turn put forth a set of requirements that re? ected this.â€
With the brief and scope of the project set, Arup and Yale-NUS began the process of selecting the technology and systems that would be deployed. “A lot of the systems were chosen on the functionality that the Yale-NUS planners wanted,†says Tan. “There was a long selection process where we went through various learning technologies available on the market with Yale-NUS. Then we narrowed the list down based on the requirements, cost effectiveness and needs of the college."
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