HORBURN ASSOCIATES ACOUSTICAL, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIGHTING DESIGN Qualifications Acoustical, Technology, and Lighting Thorburn Associates (TA) specializes in the design and consulting of acoustics, technology, and lighting systems. We are involved with multiple market sectors which help to facilitate cross pollination of solutions between markets. With experience on over 2600 projects, one of TA’s strengths is our ability to provide an integrated solution for these technical aspects of the design. TA is a Woman‐owned Small Business Enterprise (WSBE) with offices located throughout the U.S. to serve your needs. Acoustical design combines art and science to modify noise to achieve a desired auditory environment. TA creates acoustical environments tailored to the occupants of each space. We combine our expertise with extensive laboratory and electronic testing equipment to meet the unique sound ACOUSTICAL sensitivities of each project. Room Acoustics – Sound Isolation – Mechanical Noise – Vibration Isolation – Environmental Noise Technology systems design is an ever‐growing industry bolstered by the constant demand for multimedia communications. TA works with our clients to develop the system that will best meet their needs while planning for and understanding maintenance, upgrade, and expansion needs. TECHNOLOGY Audiovisual Systems – Telepresence – Sound Masking/Paging – Structured Cabling – Security We specialize in illumination design, a term that describes aspects much broader than the standard overhead electric lighting system; illumination also includes direct natural light, indirect natural light, indirect artificial light and reflected light, as well as the control of LIGHTING all light sources. As solution providers, TA enhances an environment through innovative yet practical lighting schemes. Lighting Design – Fixture Layout – Specifications – Control Systems – Daylighting SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES ORLANDO CHARLOTTE RALEIGH‐DURHAM HORBURN ASSOCIATES 1.800.383.8490 ACOUSTICAL, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIGHTING DESIGN JUSTASK@TA‐INC.COM SPANISH BAY RESORT Pebble Beach, CA The Inn at Spanish Bay is a 270 room luxury hotel located just 1,000 feet from the Pacific Ocean along Seventeen Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, CA. The standard guest room is over 550 square feet with a fireplace and outdoor decks or patios. Facilities include The Links at Spanish Bay (an 18‐hole championship golf course) and a convention complex with associated dining facilities and retail spaces. Built along a natural ridge line, the Inn appears to hug the sand dunes and wind among the trees. Finish materials used to help the Inn blend into its natural environment include earth‐toned clay roof tiles, copper chimney caps and facias, and sand‐colored stucco. The Links, located between the Inn and the ocean, was designed to complement and provide an alternate golfing location to the Pebble Beach Course. The Pebble Beach Company, which developed the resort, was concerned with mechanical noise control and the acoustical design issues of individual guest rooms, meeting rooms, and conference facilities. Their goal was to achieve a high level of sound isolation with very quiet background sound levels. To accomplish this, the guest room walls and ceilings received special acoustical treatments such as resilient channels, multiple layers of gypsum board, and gypcrete topping slabs. This high level of acoustical detailing made every issue critical. Door gaskets and perimeter caulk were used to seal the walls airtight and all outlet boxes, pipe, and duct penetrations were scrutinized. Mechanical noise was reduced by insulating all plumbing shafts and caulking all pipe penetrations. Construction administration was critical to the success of this project. Monthly site visits were implemented to ensure that construction document details were followed. These site visits indicated that initial plumbing noise control requirements were not being met. Additional mock up tests were made of the guest rooms' mechanical ventilation system to ensure that the environment would meet the acoustical criteria established during the design phase. Other acoustical issues addressed during construction included the fan coil units and the chilled water system. SAN FRANCISCOLOS ANGELES ORLANDOCHARLOTTE RALEIGH‐DURHAM HORBURN ASSOCIATES 1.800.383.8490 ACOUSTICAL, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIGHTING DESIGN JUSTASK@TA‐INC.COM Harveys Resort Hotel Casino South Lake Tahoe, NV Harveys Resort Hotel/ Casino is located on the pristine shores of America’s largest alpine lake and features 740 deluxe rooms and suites, six restaurants, gaming tables, sports book, slot machines, plus a full-service health club, pool and spa, convention center, cabaret theatre, wedding chapel and arcade. Thorburn Associates was retained for multiple projects including the system design for the Sports book/Lounge area, development of an audio system master plan and design of background audio and paging systems. The master plan and design included a review of the existing system, detailed requirements for the new audio system, described the audio control system, and made recommendations for the most cost effective sequencing. The control system provides the ability to schedule marketing announcements on a regular basis as well as insert live announcements as needed. The background audio system includes remote monitoring of audio levels and automatically increases the volume of the background audio above the ambient audio levels to help insure that music and announcements can be heard above the overall crowd noise. The Hotel/Casino remained open and operational throughout all phases of the project. SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES ORLANDO CHARLOTTE RALEIGH-DURHAM HORBURN ASSOCIATES 1.800.383.8490 ACOUSTICAL, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIGHTING DESIGN [email protected] ANA HOTEL San Francisco, CA Rooted in the very heart of San Francisco's popular financial convention and shopping triangle, ANA Hotel San Francisco faces the Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Garden, and is only two blocks from the fashionable Union Square shopping. ANA Hotel San Francisco rises 36 stories and features 667 luxuriously appointed guest rooms including 26 suites, all with panoramic city views from expansive floor‐to‐ceiling windows. Thorburn Associates, Inc. provided audiovisual system design and construction administration during an upgrade of the divisible ballrooms and conference rooms. The ballroom can be divided into three rooms and has provisions for five separate head table locations and different loudspeaker zones. The room combining system allows for the linking of rooms, muting head table loudspeakers, setting the appropriate audio signal delay, and linking volume control with visual feedback, when the rooms are combined. The combinable conference rooms have provisions for three separate head table locations, three different loudspeaker zones each with individual delay, equalization and room combining switching to distribute the sound around these rooms in one of five different room groupings and head table locations. The individual meeting rooms have stand‐alone sound systems. A small sound reinforcement system is located in the first floor Piano Bar/Restaurant. Four microphone jacks are located on the “stage”. The CD player, mixer and power amplifier are located behind the bar back and below the TV. In addition, every room that has a speech and / or audio program reproduction has a hearing assistance system. SAN FRANCISCOLOS ANGELES ORLANDOCHARLOTTE RALEIGH‐DURHAM HORBURN ASSOCIATES 1.800.383.8490 ACOUSTICAL, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIGHTING DESIGN JUSTASK@TA‐INC.COM VILLAGES GOLF AND COUTRY CLUB San Jose, CA Set along a sunny hillside, The Villages is an active senior citizen community whose central attraction is its golf course and adjacent country club. This is a place for the residents to gather, dine together, spend some time at the pro shop, attend a banquet, or just relax in the central plaza area. The clubhouse is also used for community information meetings, parties, musical concerts, theater performances, dances, holiday festivities, and worship services. The club building is a one story structure covering 14,400 square feet. It houses a bar/lounge area, divisible meeting and dining rooms, a grille, and a kitchen. The architect, Kenneth Rodrigues & Partners, Inc., stressed the importance of acoustical treatments and sound isolation as a consideration for the guests of the clubhouse. Low background noise levels were essential to aid in speech intelligibility within the facility. To meet the criteria necessary, rooftop HVAC units and associated ductwork were isolated to prevent transmission of mechanical noise. Sound isolation constructions for walls and ceilings around the kitchen were also important to suppress the busy noises of a crew preparing meals. Walls and floors which would reverberate from the drop of a dish or scrape of a chair had to treated with suitable materials to prevent hearing aid wearers from suffering from the clatter. The audiovisual system for this clubhouse contains a radio frequency hearing assistance system, multiple audio inputs, portable and ceiling‐mounted projection equipment, distributed ceiling‐mounted loudspeakers, video monitors, paging capabilities, an audio control system which is simple to operate, and provisions for the future installation of a cable broadcast system. SAN FRANCISCOLOS ANGELES ORLANDOCHARLOTTE RALEIGH‐DURHAM HORBURN ASSOCIATES 1.800.383.8490 ACOUSTICAL,