IE University marks the academic training of the future with AV integration from Avanzia

engineering Advance has shown, in the technical tour carried out for Digital AV, the ambitious AV integration project that has been executed in IE University, the first vertical university in Europe, in which entrepreneurship and technology flow in all its spaces.

The first high-rise university campus, IE University It is located in a skyscraper – the Torre IE– of 36 plants; smaller than its 'neighbors’ of the Cuatro Torres Business Area financial and business complex (CTBA) that make up the skyline from Madrid, on the Paseo de la Castellana.

Designed as a technological and sustainable space, the IE Tower that houses this campus vertical is divided into three areas: Hub, Singular Pods e THIS COMMUNITY, which in turn combine to offer a differential academic experience.

This innovative installation, of 181 m. tall, distributed in 36 plants on a total area of 50.000 m2, the first in Europe of its kind, currently hosts some 4.000 students (although it can go up to 6.000) of 140 countries.

Operational since last September, this private Spanish university, whose management company is the Business Institute, It has a varied and versatile set of spaces, optimized for various individual and joint functionalities, that can operate in physical format, hybrid and virtual.

Training and entrepreneurship

With innovation, training and entrepreneurship as you teach, IE University offers its students seventy classrooms, equipped with high-end technology to hybrid training (in person and remotely), in addition to multipurpose rooms that can be divided into two or three classrooms; work and study and debate, as well as a large auditorium, sports spaces and green areas.

A complex and ambitious AV consulting and technological integration project of four years of development carried out by the engineering Advance, who has been in charge of the integration of the classrooms, the auditorium, the two entrances to the building, council room, meetings, etc; in addition to carrying out technological maintenance of the installed equipment, what Digital AV has visited during the technical visit.

This is what he points out Enrique Martínez Allue, AV senior consultant / project manager de Avanzia: “The design and integration of this installation has been a great challenge for the company, highlighting its enormous technical capacity and human resources to execute a project of this magnitude in a record time of three months”.

Entrances to the IE Tower (one for Castellana and another for Monforte de Lemos) They are already advancing how the design, Digital learning and technology combine perfectly and show a differential academic environment.

Both lobbys They each have a 4K Led video wall from the firm Samsung, from 9.60×2,16 metros, with pixel pitch 2,5 mm y 1.200 brightness nits, where students and visitors are welcomed, in addition to showing information of interest and events, brand image and more.

Immersive and liquid learning’

With a flexible technological configuration, The equipment and technological integration of the spaces respond to the model of ‘liquid learning’ of the institution.

As Enrique Martínez assures, “The final result of the project has been a resounding success for Avanzia and a great step in the technological and AV vanguard for IE University. We live in a 'liquid' world’ and academic education and technology must also be 'liquid”.

Each of the seventy classrooms has two 98 monitors″ from the Samsung firm installed with supports Vogel’s, with a total of 140 teams, and another 65″ for the teacher, with wireless and virtual control system. a camera Panasonic 4K PTZ allows hybrid class monitoring for remote students.

The quality of audio is optimal thanks to the installation of the pendant-mount speaker system Bose FreeSpace FS2P and the array of microphones with technology Beamtrackin of Biamp.

The teacher also has a lectern designed by Avanzia, with a 24" touch screen″ of Wacom, in which the monitors are replicated, all controlled and managed with technology Crestron.

The equipment in the seventy workrooms consists of a 55-inch monitor″ from Samsung, with wireless presentation and virtual control systems.

For the eight multipurpose classrooms, it has been decided to install two 85" touch monitors.″ and six of 55″ for work groups, also from the Korean firm, each room microphone and virtual control.

In this innovative and technological academic environment, the so-called Classroom of the future, a modern space, open and dynamic (non-hybrid) so that students can make presentations, discuss,…

For this they have a Led screen with 4K resolution., of 5.88×1,62m, with pixel pitch 1,5 mm, from Samsung, the same as the one that has also been installed in the council or meeting room of the building, located in the plant 26.

dynamic spaces

Avanzia has also carried out the AV integration of the board and committee rooms, equipped with a Led screen from the aforementioned firm, with pixel pitch 1,5 mm and a size of 5.88×1,62 m; with video conferencing system, sound and ambient and wireless microphone equipment and virtual control.

The five offices and the twenty-five meeting rooms have a 55-inch monitor.″, with unified communications systems, wireless presentation and virtual control.

He signage system of the building has also been carried out by Avanzia, as well as the integration of the digital signage installed in the twenty-two elevator lobbies of the floors, composed of 43 monitors″ and content management software Admire.

Multipurpose auditorium

This entire innovative technological and integration project has the IE University auditorium as a reference, where the official inauguration took place with the presence of King Felipe VI, together with political and business authorities.

Of modern design and with capacity for six hundred people, The auditorium has a large LED screen with 4K resolution on its stage. (3.840×2.160p), with dimensions of 9.60×5,40m.

The screen is prepared for video conferencing with the main platforms on the market (Teams, Zoom), with Barco S3-4K processing. For this, a 4K robotic camera and three Panasonic PTZ cameras have been provided..

The sound system is made up of two line arrays JBL Professional, with subwoofers on stage and delay for the rear stand, that offers 20.000 W. All microphones are done on a Dante network, with sound control Allen & Heath.

The dynamic lighting of the auditorium, which can be customized depending on the event, It is controlled from a HedgeHog 4E table ETC.

The entire system is controlled from the auditorium control room with Crestron, and provides signal output for media, as well as the fiber connection with other spaces in the building.

The auditorium lobby, which is used as a multipurpose space for events and to see what happens in it, It has two 4K LED screens in vertical format from Samsung, as dynamic tables, con pixel pitch 2.0 and a luminosity of 1.000 nits.