IE University marks the academic background of the future with AV integration of Avanzia

Engineering Avanzia has shown, in the technical tour carried out for Digital AV, the ambitious AV integration project that it has executed in IE University, Europe's first vertical university, in which entrepreneurship and technology flow in all its spaces.

The first university campus in height, IE University It is located in a skyscraper – the IE Tower– of 36 plants; smaller than its 'neighbors'’ of the Cuatro Torres Business Area financial and business complex (CTBA) that make up the skyline of Madrid, on the Paseo de la Castellana.

Designed as a technological and sustainable space, the IE Tower that houses this Vertical Campus It is divided into three areas: Hub, Singular Pods and IEU Community, which in turn combine to offer a differential academic experience.

This innovative installation, of 181 m. height, distributed in 36 plants in a total area of 50.000 m2, the first of its kind in Europe, it currently houses about 4.000 Students (although it can reach up to 6.000) of 140 Countries.

Operational since last September, This Spanish private university, whose management company is the Instituto de Empresa, It has a varied and versatile set of spaces, Optimized for various individual and joint functionalities, that can operate in physical format, Hybrid and Virtual.

Training and entrepreneurship

With innovation, Training and entrepreneurship as you teach, IE University offers its students seventy classrooms, equipped with high-end technology for Hybrid Training (Face-to-face and remote), in addition to multipurpose rooms that can be divided into two or three classrooms; of work and study and debate, as well as a large auditorium, Sports spaces and green areas.

A complex and ambitious four-year development AV technology integration and consulting project carried out by the engineering company Avanzia, which has been in charge of the integration of the classrooms, The Auditorium, The two entrances to the building, Council Room, meetings, etc; in addition to carrying out the technological maintenance of the installed equipment, what Digital AV has toured during the technical visit.

This is what he points out Enrique Martínez Allue, AV-senior consultant / Avanzia project manager: “The design and integration of this facility has been a great challenge for the company, highlighting its enormous technical capacity and human resources to execute a project of this magnitude in a record time of three months”.

Tickets to the IE Tower (one by Castellana and the other by Monforte de Lemos) they are already advancing how the design, Digital learning and technology combine perfectly and show a differential academic environment.

Both Lobbies each one has a 4K Led video wall of the firm Samsung, from 9.60×2,16 metre, with pixel pitch 2,5 mm and 1.200 Brightness nitses, in which students and visitors are welcomed, in addition to showing information of interest and events, Brand image and more.

Immersive and 'liquid' learning’

With a flexible technology setup, The equipment and technological integration of the spaces respond to the model of 'Liquid learning’ of the institution.

As Enrique Martínez assures, “the final result of the project has been a resounding success for Avanzia and a great step forward in the technological and AV vanguard for IE University. We live in a 'liquid' world’ and academic education and technology must also be 'liquid'”.

Each of the seventy classrooms has two 98 monitors″ Samsung Signature Brackets installed with Vogel's, with a total of 140 Equipment, and another 65″ for the teacher, with wireless and virtual control system. A camera Panasonic PTZ 4K enables hybrid class tracking for remote learners.

The quality of audio is optimal thanks to the installation of the pendant-mount speaker system Bose FreeSpace FS2P and the array of microphones with technology Beamtrackin of Biamp.

The teacher also has a lectern designed by Avanzia, with a 24-inch touchscreen″ of Wacom, where monitors are replicated, all controlled and managed with the technology of Crestron.

The equipment of the seventy work classrooms is made up of a 55-inch monitor″ Samsung, with wireless presentation and virtual control systems.

For the eight multipurpose classrooms, the installation of two 85-inch touch monitors has been chosen.″ and six of 55″ for workgroups, also from the Korean firm, Each one of them, ambient microphones and virtual control.

In this innovative and technological academic environment, the so-called Classroom of the future, A modern space, Open and dynamic (Non-hybrid) so that students can make presentations, debate,…

For this they have a Led screen with 4K resolution, from 5.88×1,62m, with pixel pitch 1,5 mm, Samsung, as well as the one that has also been installed in the board room or meeting room of the building, located in the 26.

Dynamic spaces

Avanzia has also performed AV integration of the board and committee rooms, equipped with an Led screen of the aforementioned firm, with pixel pitch 1,5 mm and a size of 5.88×1,62 m; with videoconferencing system, Sound and ambient and wireless microphone equipment and virtual control.

The five offices and twenty-five meeting rooms have a 55-inch monitor.″, with unified communications systems, Wireless presentation and virtual control.

The Signage system of the building has also been carried out by Avanzia, as well as the integration of the Digital signage installed in the twenty-two elevator lobbies on the floors, composed of 43 monitors″ and content management software from Admires.

Multipurpose auditorium

This entire innovative technological and integration project has the IE University auditorium as a reference, where the official inauguration took place in the presence of King Felipe VI, together with political and business authorities.

Modern design and with capacity for six hundred people, the auditorium has a large Led screen with 4K resolution on its stage (3.840×2.160p), with dimensions of 9.60×5,40m.

The screen is prepared for videoconferencing with the main platforms on the market (Teams, Zoom), with Barco S3-4K processing. A Panasonic 4K robotic camera and three PTZ cameras have been arranged for this purpose..

The sound system is made up of two line arrays of JBL Professional, with subwoofers on stage and Delay for the rear stand, What it offers 20.000 W. All the microphones are done in the Dante network, with sound control Allen & Heath.

Dynamic auditorium lighting, that can be customized based on the event, is controlled from a HedgeHog 4E console ETC.

From the auditorium control room, the entire system is controlled with Crestron, and signal output for media is provided, as well as the fiber connection with other spaces in the building.

The auditorium lobby, which is used as a multipurpose space for events and to see what happens in it, it has two 4K Led screens in vertical format from Samsung, as dynamic tables, With pixel pitch 2.0 and a luminosity of 1.000 Nits.

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