When is a Project a Success?
March 29, 2005
When is a project a success? When it is done? When you are paid? When you have not had call backs? When you were not sued?! For us, it is when the customer is happy. We have given them something
Digital Signage at Federated Department Stores
March 1, 2005
The recent deluge of trade magazine articles on digital signage makes it seem like every business, school, airport and government facility should immediately jump on the Digital Signage bandwagon, or be left behind. But digital signage is just another way
Why STC Doesn’t Tell You Everything
March 1, 2005
The sound isolating properties of wall and floor/ceiling assemblies are often presented using a single number rating system, the Sound Transmission Class (STC). The STC rating of a partition is determined by following an ASTM Standard which compares the sound
Projection Screens You Can Write On
January 1, 2005
In smaller conference rooms it seems like there is never enough room for the white board and the projection screen. One option is to use the white board as the projection surface. While a white board that can be projected
Video Conferencing in a Box!
January 1, 2005
It has started again! While watching the recent football playoff and bowl games the following commercial was aired: Two entrepreneurs are standing in an empty hanger wondering where the walls will go in their new office, when in walks a
“I Didn’t Know You Did That”
March 1, 2004
If we just had a nickel for every time we hear “I didn’t know you did that!”… Most recently, a very good client was sharing an elevator ride with us and mentioned he needed someone to do an audiovisual system
CSI’s MasterFormat™ 04 and its Impact on Our Work
March 1, 2004
The current status is that late in 2004 the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) will formally publish the new MasterFormat™ layout. Over the last few years the MasterFormat™ Task Team has been working on the first major update in 38 years.
Noise Criteria (NC) vs. Room Criteria (RC)
February 1, 2004
Quite often we are asked why does Thorburn Associates Inc. use Noise Criteria (NC) as opposed to Room Criteria (RC) during our mechanical system noise calculations. Both NC and RC are measures of mechanical system noise in a room. Noise
Acoustics and LEED / Sustainable Building
December 1, 2003
As many of you know, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. It emphasizes state of the art strategies for five broad categories: sustainable
New Advances in Video Conferencing Technology H.264
December 1, 2003
A new video conferencing standard, H.264, delivers twice the video quality currently experienced in video conferencing meetings. H.264 provides a far more efficient mechanism for compressing and decompressing motion video. This mechanism or algorithm requires significantly less bandwidth to transmit