PROJECTS
Government/ Defense Contractors
Lockheed Martin
Project:
General Description:
The
The Team Members’
Conference Room has identical Video-Teleconferencing and Presentation
capabilities via a smaller dual projection screen. In addition to the other single screen conference
rooms, there are numerous flat plasma displays mounted throughout the
facility. Wireless computer remotes
and touch panels allow a presenter to control and display any computer,
flight simulator, or video located anywhere in the facility.
Lockheed Martin
6560 Rock Spring Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20817
Project: Center for Leadership Excellence
General
Description: The Lockheed Martin Center for Leadership Excellence
is the national teaching center used to train Lockheed Martin employees.
Nelson White Systems, Inc. designed and installed the audiovisual presentation
and public display systems for the CLE. The facilities are located
on two different floors and consist of four large multipurpose classrooms,
five breakout rooms, a large lounge area, and an auditorium, which can
be divided into two spacious multipurpose training rooms.
All of
the rooms utilize wireless touch panels to control the audiovisual equipment,
the lights, and the window shades. Presentation sources include
a computer located in the instructors’ lectern (credenza), a VHS deck,
a DVD player, Cable TV, a digital whiteboard, a digital document camera,
and computer input jacks at every table.
Two
of the classrooms and the auditorium have video-teleconferencing capabilities.
Presentations may be videotaped using the front and rear room cameras.
In addition to large screen projection, each of the classrooms, which
are video-teleconferencing capable, have a 50-inch plasma screen at
the front of the room to allow simultaneous display of multiple images
or to be used during a video-teleconference as the second monitor.
Additionally, each room has an LCD monitor mounted to the rear of the
room, which may be used by the presenter as a “confidence” or preview
monitor.
The lounge
area has a large screen projection system, which may be used for information
display or it may be used for formal presentations if no other space
is available. Plasma displays are located on the first and second
floor lobbies. There are an additional three plasma screens located
throughout the main lounge area. These 50-inch monitors can display
a feed from various sources including DVD, VHS, Cable TV, several PCs,
and two channels of AXIS TV. AXIS TV is an automated, networked
scheduling and information server, used to distribute information to
all meeting attendees and to post event and room schedules.
The audiovisual
systems have the ability to distribute audio and video from various
sources to any or all of the displays in the facility. Additionally,
audio and camera video images from the auditorium or from the two video-conferencing
classrooms may be routed to any display located anywhere in the facility
and may be used as an overflow system for Lockheed’s “All-Hands” meetings.
Northrop Grumman
1745-A West Nursery
Road
Linthicum, Maryland 21090
Project: Various Conference and Training Rooms
General Description:
Nelson White Systems, Inc. has been working with Northrop Grumman for
over ten years. Throughout the Northrop Grumman campus, NWS has
installed numerous multimedia conference rooms, several specialty rooms
including video-teleconferencing suites, an executive conference room,
and the Project Demo Presentation Room for East Coast Operations.
NWS also provides emergency service and support for all of the Northrop
facilities.
Corporate/Professional
Central Atlantic
Toyota
6710 Bay Meadow Drive
Glen Burnie, Maryland 21060
Project: Five Service Training Rooms
General Description:
Nelson White Systems, Inc. responded to the needs of Central Atlantic
Toyota by integrating cutting-edge interactive whiteboard technology
in four classrooms and one diagnostic center. Two fixed projectors
provide extra large displays giving each presentation more impact on
larger audiences. Three portable projectors with built-in document
cameras were selected for the remaining rooms to give trainers the ability
to collaborate and to display otherwise hard-to-show 3-D objects, tools,
parts, and diagnostic equipment. To address the issue of control, NWS
integrated interactive touch screens in each room. These user-friendly
and very intuitive touch screen displays make it easy for each trainer
to control, to setup, and to use the various functions and features
of the rooms.
Upper Chesapeake
Health System 500 Upper Chesapeake Drive
Bel Air, Maryland
21014
Project: Chesapeake Room
General Description: The Chesapeake Room is a high-tech
multimedia system with a custom designed lectern, an ultra high-resolution
LCD projector, a camera recording system, and an audiovisual matrix
system with over twenty inputs and twelve outputs. All sources are designed
to be able to be routed throughout the hospital-wide video-on-demand
system. NWS installed a VTC (Video-Teleconferencing) System.
Harbor
Hospital Center
3001 South Hanover Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21225
Project: Life
Resource Center Auditorium
Project: Baum
Auditorium & Video Teleconference Center
General Description: All rooms are multimedia presentation
rooms with recessed LCD projectors, custom designed audiovisual lecterns,
AMX Touch Panel controlling a VHS deck, satellite feed, a document camera,
a medical microscope, operating room feed, video recording, video and
telephone conferencing, the lighting, and a slide projector. Nelson
White Systems, Inc. won a Presentations Magazine award for this
project.
Education – K-12
Digital
Harbor High School
School #416
1100 Covington Street
Baltimore, Maryland
21230
Project: Digital
High School
General Description: Every classroom is set up to be a computer
lab and laptops will soon be available to all students. The instructors’
workstations are a universal design, so teachers who move from classroom
to classroom always see the same interface. Each classroom has
a 12-inch AMX video touch panel mounted on the workstation podium, giving
teachers easy access to a variety of multimedia equipment; an LCD projector,
a DVD player, a document camera, a VCR and/or Cable TV. An Altinex
pop-up makes it easy to plug in a laptop or any other audiovisual source
they might bring. Teachers can even access media sources in other
classrooms or make their own room’s resources available to the rest
of the school via a broadband feature in the LAN.
A tiered lecture hall provides a home for Digital
Harbor’s Distance Learning Program. It includes a projector and
four ceiling-mounted plasma screens. A dividable classroom with
a room-combining audio system gives the school greater flexibility to
schedule classes or public meetings. All of the technology comes
together in a control room from which the AV staff can support teachers
via the AMX Netlinx system. The control room is not just used
for maintenance and monitoring, but also as a Cable TV head end, as
a control room for a tiered lecture hall, and as a source for school-wide
resources. Equipment racks hold much of the same technology that
can be found in the classroom, as well as space for a digital video
server, which is to be installed in Fall 2003.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools
2644 Riva Road
Annapolis, Maryland
21401
Harford County Public Schools
PO Box 456
Forest Hill, Maryland
21050
Charles County Public Schools
JP Ryan Elementary School
12140 Vivian Adams
Drive
Waldorf, Maryland 20601
Projects: Multiple Smart Classrooms with Multimedia
Projectors
General Description: Nelson White Systems, Inc. provides audiovisual
equipment and installations for many of the area’s county school systems.
Many jobs include the installation of a ceiling mounted projector and
screen, a wall or ceiling mounted television and VCR. NWS works
closely with the various departments of education to coordinate scheduling
so as not to disrupt classes.
Higher Education
Loyola College in Maryland
4501
North Charles Street Baltimore,
Maryland 21210
Projects: Maryland Hall and Columbia
Campus
The success of the
initial rooms we designed in the early 90’s has driven an ever-increasing
demand for this type of room on the Loyola campus. The design of new
rooms is constantly tweak as we get feedback from the end user and newer
technology from the manufactures.
The latest Version of the Loyola “Technology classrooms”
consists of a custom instructors lectern, 1 or 2 LCD Data Projectors,
Crestron wireless remote control of all AV equipment including the computer,
VCR, DVD, Cable TV, Digital Document Camera, room lights, and sound
systems. The larger lecture halls have a color touch panel and
video Camera for recording. All classrooms have remote web control
systems, which allow technical support and audiovisual control from
a remote location.
Anne
Arundel Community College
101
College Parkway
Arnold, Maryland 21012
Projects: Technology Classrooms and Smart Classrooms
General
Description: Designed and installed “Technology Classrooms” consisting
of a ceiling mounted LCD Projector and custom designed lecterns containing
a VHS deck, a DVD player, a digital document camera, laptop inputs and
a dedicated PC. All AV Equipment is controlled via an AMX touch
panel located on the instructor’s lectern.
Baltimore
City Community College 600 East Lombard Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Project: Multipurpose Training Room
General Description: The training room is designed to
be a multipurpose room, which can be set up in various configurations.
The audiovisual equipment consists of a ceiling mounted LCD projector
that is recessed in a ceiling bulkhead, a 4-zone ceiling speaker system
with automatic mixing and feedback reduction, numerous microphones (both
hardwired and wireless) with floor and desk stands, and a lectern microphone.
A matrix switcher allows any source to be displayed via the LCD projector
or to be sent to a wall jack for display via a portable LCD projector
using an Inline TSP150 Cat 5 Cable system. The sources include
computer inputs, VCR, DVD and several spare inputs for future expansion,
for example, the addition of a digital document camera. Control
of this equipment is accomplished through an AMX mini-touch color
panel with at least three plug-in locations around the room.
Rental
Ehrlich for Maryland
LaSalle Road Towson, MD 21286
Project: Gubernatorial Fundraiser with President George W. Bush
as the guest speaker
In Congressman Ehrlich's
campaign for Governor, President Bush attended a fundraiser on his behalf
at the Hyatt Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD. The NWS Rental Division
was responsible for meeting with the President's advance team and planning
and designing both the most effective layout of the room and providing
the equipment necessary to accomplish the task. The advance team
had very strict guidelines as far as the location of the gear, lines
of sight, and equipment operation.
NWS was responsible
for providing, setting up, and operating the audio and visual gear that
would be needed. The gear included lighting instruments, plasma
screens, multiple speakers in different rooms, an audio rack, wireless
microphones, digital switching, pipe and drape, and over 1.5 miles of
cable, just to name a few.
The show required approximately
ten NWS technicians; including rental personnel, engineers, management
and the assigned lighting assistant; over twelve hours to set-up.
An additional six hours was needed to fine-tune the production.
The actual show lasted four hours and the breakdown took ten people
eight hours.
MANSEF
P.O. Box 6815 Towson, MD 21285Project: Annual Training / Convention
Each fall the Maryland Association of Non-Public Special Education Facilities holds its annual conference at the Baltimore Convention Center. For several years now, NWS has been the provider of all of the audiovisual requirements for this conference. The majority of the equipment utilized for this event is standard classroom and educational gear such as overheads, screens, sound reinforcement, and LCD and PowerPoint presentations. The challenge to running this show is balancing audiovisual gear in approximately 30 rooms simultaneously. NWS technicians have only one to two hours in which to set up all thirty rooms in the morning. Four technicians remain onsite for the duration (10 hours) of the conference to provide technical support to the presenters and to assure that the equipment is operating correctly and to assist presenters in anyway possible to make their presentations run smoothly.