AV & lighting renewal University

Website:

http://www.gymliestal.ch/

Construction costs CHF:

570,000 (in three stages)

Client:

University of Basel

Architect:

Schröer Sell Architects, Basel

Our mission:

Partial services 31 – 53 (in accordance with SIA 108 (2014)) Preliminary project with cost estimate, construction project with cost estimate, invitation to tender, tender analyses with contract award application, implementation planning, specialist site management, commissioning, acceptance, rectification of defects and inspection documents.

Project details:

Built in 1939, the Kollegienhaus is one of the most representative buildings of the University of Basel and, after years of operation, showed the limits of audiovisual media technology from the last refurbishment to the current state of the art. Under the direction of the commissioned media planner, the AV media technology, including the necessary high-voltage and low-current installations in the two listed Regenz and faculty rooms as well as in the 7 lecture theatres in the Petersplatz wing of the building, was renovated in a first stage in addition to smaller rooms. A second stage comprised 2 further lecture theatres as well as 2 classrooms and 13 seminar and study rooms in the Petersgraben wing. A further stage involved replacing the lighting in the 13 seminar and study rooms with DALI-controlled LED lights. The top priority for all three stages was the unwavering adherence to daily schedules during the lecture-free periods.

Teaching education and research

The handling of light and the required media is important in these buildings. Visual tasks and energy consumption are just as much a focus as sophisticated concepts for work connections, technical equipment and special requirements.