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Audiovisual Components for the College of Law
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Scope: Tampa Bay is home to Florida’s first law school, the Stetson University College of Law. The school was recently ranked No. 1 for trial advocacy by U.S. News & World Report, and to further strengthen its educational opportunities, the college opened a brand new Law Center facility in which The Whitlock Group installed the latest in audiovisual, video-conferencing, production, editing suite and network integration solutions.
The new building features six classrooms, a courtroom, a larger classroom that can be split into two rooms separated by an air wall, a second floor seminar room, two third-floor classrooms and a conference room. The hallmark of the new facility is the school’s William Reece Smith, Jr. Courtroom, a dual-use facility that serves as a classroom as well as a working courtroom for the state’s 2nd District Court of Appeals. Within this space, carefully positioned projector and plasma displays allow evidence, documents and courtroom proceedings to be visually available to everyone in attendance. Cameras strategically installed throughout the room also allow for all hearings to be videotaped for public record.
Equipment used in this integration included Sony cameras, Da-Lite screens, Shure microphones, JBL speakers, Extron interfacing, Polycom codecs, Sharp projectors, Sony plasmas and Crown amplifiers. All of the A/V components throughout the facility can be easily controlled by various Crestron touchpanels that The Whitlock Group programmed to specifically meet the needs of the Law School. During mock trials, the audio and video can be routed via a demodulated signal on to the CATV system so anyone with authorization can view what’s happening in the courtroom from a TV or computer. The completed facility is a state-of-the-art teaching environment that also serves as a hands-on working Law Facility.
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