Proposal

Narrative

The School of Urban & Regional Planning seeks to upgrade its Production Studio in Bldg. 44 with two floor outlet boxes to be installed in the center of the room.

The Production Studio is a small high-tech computer lab that contains six large 30" monitors, three digitizing monitors, and fast computers with 2Gb graphic cards. Our students have been creating 3-D models, city plans, and large custom maps with these computers. In the center of the room there are six tables clustered together where students hold training sessions, research conferences, and team discussions about their projects. These six tables already have pop up electrical/network outlet boxes on the work surface however there is no way to bring power or network connections to these tables without creating a tripping hazard with the use of cord covers or locking the room into one configuration by the use a dropdown utility pole.

So that students can plugin their laptops and tablets while working at or near the center cluster; and that we can experiment with creating a wireless teaching station at one end for software training, we are requesting the installation of two in-floor outlet boxes that will both provide power for the center tables and provide an open receptacle for network connections for the center tables at a future time.

Facilities

Two floor electrical/open network boxes to be installed in the center of the SURP Production studio in Bldg. 44, Room 285. This will allow the center 6 tables (which already have popup service outlets) to be powered so that students can sit two at a table and power their laptops and tablets.

Hardware Requirements

None other than the floor boxes and conduits.

Software Requirements

None.

Personnel Costs

None other than the vendor costs (see attachment).

Other Costs

$14,000 total project cost.

Timeline

During the first academic break after proposal approval.

Sustainability

Resource Matching

None.

Implementing Organization

Facilities Managerment