Cultural

Project Profile: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA

Project: Security Systems, Telecommunications/Data, and A/V Design Consultant

Client: PAFA

Construction Cost: $30 million

Scope of Work: Professional Systems Engineering, LLC served as security, data/telecommunications, and A/V design consultant on the $30 million renovation/expansion for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). PSE also updated security for the existing historic Furness Building and provided the design and construction administration for the new security systems, telecom / data infrastructure and hardware, and A/V presentation rooms for expanding into the 190,000 square-foot, 11-story, historic Federal Building adjacent to the historic Frank Furness property.

• Telephone, IDF, MDF planning
• Data network/ architecture
• Video conferencing infrastructure
• WAN/LAN connection
• CAT 5E and fiber optics distribution
• Switches and hubs
• CCTV

• Telephone PBX
• Telephone system
• Computer network servers/design
• Network software
• Power-over-ethernet wireless connectivity
  

• CCTV
• "Track lighting"
  camera integration
• Digital video network
• Intercom
• Integrated systems
• Card access
• Photo ID
• Master control security design

• Acoustics/sound
• Video presentation
• Monitors and displays
• Computer presentation
• Room configuration
• Remote controls