Specifiers’ Solutions

Ecofibre’s Hemp Black/eco6 is a hemp biochar recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Negative Emission Technology (NET).

NEW CARBON NEGATIVE SOLUTION

HEMP BLACK IS THE NEW BLACK

Hemp Black/eco6 is a patented direct replacement for petroleum-based carbon black (the black pigment used in virtually everything from tires to shoes, fabrics to cosmetics, inks and personal electronics).

The carbon footprint of billions of products can be reduced by simply replacing carbon black with a Hemp Black alternative.

Ecofibre www.ecofibre.com

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WALL COVERING

This wall covering is a custom print design by Versa Designed Surfaces with Ecofibre’s Hemp Black/eco6 product. Versa’s anti-scratch, stain resistant and highly cleanable protection lends durability to vinyl and PVC-free wall covering surfaces.

Versa Designed Surfaces versadesignedsurfaces.com

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FLOORING

EPD- and HPD-verified Mannington Commercial Masland Contract with Ecofibre’s eco6 Hemp Black include Top Shelf Excel and Unparalleled and Frost and Form Plank Rich nylon modular carpet tiles.

Mannington Commercial manningtoncommercial.com

LIGHTING

This Seem 4 Grid Ceiling is a narrow 4-in. aperture slot LED luminaire that integrates with this grid ceiling for a clean aesthetic. The linear LED boards deliver seamless lines of light without pixels or shadows.

Focal Point www.focalpointlights.com

LIGHTING

Around the periphery, the Sculpt linear lighting system kits gave the architects the freedom to design their own rectangular fixtures.

Axis Lighting www.axislighting.com

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CEILING SYSTEM

USG’s Halcyon acoustical ceiling panels incorporate a fiberglass substrate lending mold and mildew resistance. Ideal for open-plan offices, the panels are impact and scratch resistant, and the panels offer high NRC values, a high light reflective finish and a 30-year warranty.

USG www.usg.com

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Headquarters Comes Alive at Night

Robust exterior RGBW luminaire and control system add a little personality to the façade.

CHALLENGE

For more than 20 years, the Belgium company Aventi has specialized in heating, air conditioning, and ventilation services for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. When the company decided to build its new two-story headquarters in the heart of the Antwerp Kempen, at a highly traveled location, utilizing dynamic light to ensure high visibility of the building throughout the evening hours was a top design objective.

In order to flood the building with dramatic light, the project lighting specifier, Bert Heuvinck, owner of Sellux, was looking for a small full RGBW fixture with high output. Heuvinck specifically wanted a fixture that matched the architectural styling of the building and was capable of providing a 10 × 60 degree beam that would light up the entire building, including the exterior’s large vertical slats next to the windows.

“The lighting had to be sufficiently powerful that we could still make the visual impact the client was looking for but could [also] reduce costs by limiting the number of fixtures by working asymmetrically,” Heuvinck explains. “Next, the fixtures had to be very dynamic to allow several very different lighting schemes. Because of the outdoor application and the infamous local weather, we needed a high-quality, durable solution, that could stand the test of time.”

The high-power outdoor linear LED fixture, the Dyna Graze HO Exterior, paired with a wired digital network turns the building façade into a dynamic light performance.

PRODUCT IN USE Dyna Gaze HO Exterior

ART AFTER DARK When the sun goes down, exterior lighting transforms Aventi Beerse Belgium’s new headquarters into an art installation.

SOLUTION

After consulting with David van Nieuwenborg and Pascal Van Sloun, technical lighting experts from Acclaim Lighting, Heuvinck specified 84 Acclaim Dyna Graze HO Exterior fixtures. These LED fixtures provide up to 693 lm/linear foot in RGBW. Their robust IP66 housing, multi-voltage switching power supply, and glare shield for outdoor linear grazing made them ideal.

LIGHTING CONTROLS

The fixtures are supported by Acclaim’s AL Net 8 Pro universal DMX system, an eight universe Ethernet to DMX interface that converts Artnet to DMX. When using the DMX-1000 protocol and the X-Software package, the unit can run up to 1800 DMX channels per universe, making it an ideal for video display lighting. The system enables up to 32 lighting shows to be created, assigned, and updated by configuring AL-Net-8 Configure Software on a PC platform.

Complementing the lighting system is the XMT-350, a powerful DMX/RDM measurement and test tool. It allows for RDM addressing and monitoring of the Dyna Graze HO Exterior with RDM capability.

INSTALLATION

The lighting system was installed by Neopaul Signs, which created a custom-mounting bracket to hold two fixtures per slat with one facing up and one facing down. The fixtures were mounted alternately on two different horizontal lines. The end result is a dramatic, highly visible solution. “To see the square building come alive after sunset and turn into an almost organic cube is truly magical,” says Heuvinck.

PROJECT SPECS

Aventi Headquarters, Beerse, Belgium

PRODUCT SPECS:

Dyna Gaze HO Exterior; AL Net 8 Pro universal DMX system

Acclaim Lighting www.acclaimlighting.com

Head over Heels in Louvers at Rose Hill

New York City residential high-rise is a quintessential New York building with attitude.

The 45-story residential high-rise building named Rose Hill stands tall and thin between its neighbors in Manhattan’s hopping NoMad neighborhood—short for North of Madison Square Park. Owned by The Rockefeller Group—which also owns Rockefeller Center and other historic and iconic architectural treasures in the city—one of the goals for the 230,285-sq.- ft. project was to stay true to ownership’s traditional style and create another prominent Gotham gem, subtly wrapped in modern niceties.

CHALLENGE

The architecture and design team preferred that Rose Hill’s modern mechanical components be completely out of sight, even to the expert eye, but accomplishing this wouldn’t be easy. Several obstacles needed to be overcome. For one, this part of midtown Manhattan regularly bustles with activity, yet the design required louvers to be installed near Rose Hill’s entry level entrance for occupants. Further, the building had neighboring buildings on both sides, and this also limited the potential placement options for the louvers. Further still, the structure’s abundance of high ceilings with tall windows served to maximize the surrounding views, but they curtailed the available options for the louvers’ placement—as did the design team’s appetite for a façade with an array of intricate design details.

SOLUTION

Very tall high-rises frequently dedicate designated floors for housing the building’s requisite mechanical spaces. Rose Hill modeled this idea and the building contains one such floor at the top and one at the bottom. This arrangement facilitates circular airflow, which works to keep the building and those therein healthier. The team at CetraRuddy Architecture opted to use mechanical louvers by Construction Specialties (CS) to camouflage these spaces. At street level, Perform PL-5700 louvers equipped with a perforated panel and decorative chevron grilles to match the theme of the building were installed. The Alumatex Tweed louvers were used at the top, toward the center of the structure, and alongside the standard RSV5700 vertical louvers.

The Construction Specialties products are perfectly placed within the glass and metal façade and combine with Rose Hill’s other elements, stylish patterns, and expansive windows to achieve an exterior that is classically Gotham but with a modern touch—right in line with the classic architectural style of the Rockefeller brand.

GOLDEN TEXTURE The top of building near the crown uses RSV-5700 vertical louvers (below) and intermittent panels of Alumatex Tweed (top).

The architecture and design team preferred that Rose Hill’s modern mechanical components be completely out of sight, even to the expert eye.

Rose Hill - Residential High-Rise East 29th Street, NoMad neighborhood, Manhattan, NYC

Design Team: CetraRuddy Architecture, New York City

PRODUCT SPECS:

PL-5700 with perforated face panels and decorative chevron grille panels; RSV-5700 vertical louvers, Alumatex Tweed

Construction Specialties www.c-sgroup.com

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PROJECT SPECS

CLASSIC GOTHAM Louvers deliver geometric accents and intricate details on the exterior that support the target Gotham aesthetic.

Photos courtesy: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center SUPERSIZED ER The new three-story Sylvan Adams Emergency Hospital combines with the existing ER at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center to become the world’s largest ER at 86,000 sq. ft.

PROJECT SPECS

Sylvan Adams Emergency Hospital, Ichilov Hospital Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center Tel Aviv, Israel

Design Team: Sharon Architects; Rani Ziss Architects

Introducing the World’s Largest ER

A unique shape and a cutting-edge approach to admissions and triage helps hospital staff realize efficiencies, even in this facility’s incredibly large footprint.

Now carrying the title of the world’s largest ER, Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center, also known as Ichilov Hospital, is an 86,000-sq.-ft., 100-bed emergency hospital that has been designed to process patients quickly and efficiently, and swiftly expand capacity, if the need arises.

One aspect of the project that contributes to its efficiency is its unique shape. Sharon Architects, in collaboration with Rani Ziss Architects, designed a unique three-story building in the shape of a ship. “Working within a challenging site configuration and as a continuation of the existing ER, we arrived at this shape, which was then modeled to optimize performance,” explains Arad Sharon, partner, Sharon Architects, Tel Aviv.

By vertically stacking the space, which is very unique for an ER, the architects were able to capture efficiencies in the compact layout. This shortens doctor and patient walking distances and allows accessibility to the imaging equipment and specialty services in one centralized location.

The ground floor houses triage and trauma; the second level places 30 offices and clinics along the windows with imaging equipment stations at the core; and the third level is a 32-bed short-term hospitalization wing. Wherever patients are headed, their check-in process has been designed to run smoothly, an important feature in a hospital that serves roughly one million people in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

When patients arrive to the hospital, they can register at a traditional reception desk or a digital check-in kiosk, where their face and any relevant documents will be scanned and incorporated into their medical file. Patients then move to a self-triage station, where they check their own vital signs, and a medical professional is alerted if there is an immediate problem. They can also download an app on their smartphone that will deliver real-time updates on their status. A team of five navigational robots help to guide patients to another department or help people find restrooms or a phone charging station.

Another noteworthy feature of the ER is its ability to double in capacity in the event of a mass casualty. As such, each cubicle has the space and supply unit outlets to flex to two beds, if need be.

Incidentally, the Ichilov site also contains the infrastructure inside the parking lot to support a 700-bed wartime hospital. “We have received much interest in this and many overseas visitors have come to see how we designed this space,” relates Sharon.

Named in honor of the Canadian-Israeli philanthropist who donated approximately $28 million toward the $200 million project, Sylvan Adams told Times of Israel, “Israel is already a leader on the world stage in

SLIDING DOORS This automatic sliding glass door features and adjustable opening and closing speed and comes in 700m to 1m 300mm door leaf widths.

Doortec www.doortec.en.alibaba.com

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FLOORING TILES Suitable for medium- to high-traffic environments, the EXTREME line from the Portugal-based Margres Ceramic Tiles is made from full body porcelain stoneware. For the ER flooring, the architects selected low gray.

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FURNITURE The Loft from Pitaro is a fabric and faux leather modular sofa suitable for waiting areas and public spaces. The configurable seating can be curved or designed in a line. For the Sylvan Adams Emergency Room waiting areas, the architects selected gray, green and orange seating.

Pitaro www.pitaro.co.il

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medicine, with Israeli scientists and doctors bringing us some of the most important research, innovations and care solutions. So it’s befitting that Israel should be a trailblazer when it comes to the provision of emergency care, and I’m proud this new facility will lead by example.”

To support the new building connected to the existing ER, this required quite a bit of structural adaption to the existing building. “70% of the new structure’s walls had to be brought down to the foundation through the existing underground parking lot while keeping all the existing columns,” explains Sharon Architects Partner Sharon Gur-Ze’ev.

Another issue was convincing the planning department in Israel’s Ministry of Health to allow some of the ground-floor space to remain outside of the bomb shelter for the sake of daylighting and views. The result is a bright, spacious lobby area with high ceilings, comfortable seating, plants, and a café.

BLINDS Blinds between the glass from Orshade were installed for solar control throughout the building façade. A magnetic mechanism supports tilt-and-lift manual opening and closing of the blinds by building occupants.

Orshade www.orshade.com

ER TECHNOLOGY

SELF CHECK-IN ER Patients can checkin, print out an ID bracelet and be led by a navigation robot to their next station. Patients can also download an app to receive real-time reports about their status, carry out checks and deliver responses.

SELF-DISPENSE ID Used to create and selfdispense ID bracelets from ER patients, this touch-activated POSBANK from Dangot Computers features an Intel Celeron J1900 QuadCorepProcessor and a 15-in. LED LCD display.

Dangot Computers www.dangot.com

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SELF DIAGNOSTIC To speed up the check-in process, patients can take their own vitals with this self-diagnostic machine.