Charles Darwin University · Darwin
AV across seven levels
at CDU Danala.
Charles Darwin University’s Danala campus brings teaching, specialist training, and public cultural spaces together in Darwin’s CBD. AV Projects delivered campus-wide audiovisual systems across seven levels, from teaching and meeting rooms to galleries and public displays. The work combined room-system design development with installation and staged commissioning, coordinated with the builder, consultant team, and CDU’s AV and ICT teams.
Design and coordination
Resolve the room systems
with the building works.
Design development included coordination of AV-related data services and electrical infrastructure. Rack power requirements and high-load display systems needed to be addressed alongside the room layouts and equipment locations.
Enclosed AV cabinetry incorporated ventilation, and ceiling microphone arrays were included in conferencing-enabled rooms. Staff meeting rooms gained bring-your-own-meeting capability, allowing people to use a meeting platform from their own device.
These details connected the teaching and meeting requirements with the infrastructure being installed by other trades. Coordination continued through construction so the AV installation and testing could follow the building’s staged delivery.
Teaching and public spaces
Different room types.
A campus-wide installation.
The completed spaces include a 240-seat interactive theatre, two divisible festival learning spaces, and teaching rooms with capacities ranging from 20 to 60 seats. Computer and cyber security laboratories, a moot court, and seminar rooms added further room types to the installation.
Meeting rooms and online meeting rooms supported staff collaboration. Beyond the teaching areas, the AV scope extended to galleries, exhibition spaces, public circulation areas, digital signage, and the main outdoor public LED display.
Crestron DM NVX formed the AV-over-IP system across the campus. Displays, ceiling microphone arrays, loudspeakers, amplifiers, control interfaces, and AV racks were installed to serve the different spaces.
Commissioning
Test the systems
and the infrastructure behind them.
During commissioning, AV Projects worked with CDU’s AV and ICT teams on technical issues affecting the room systems. This included testing custom web-based interfaces for touch panels and room booking panels.
That testing identified a way to complete the interface deployment without replacing the panel hardware. AV Projects also assisted with AV-over-IP configuration and network integrity testing across the endpoints.
Checking the network alongside the AV equipment helped distinguish infrastructure issues from device faults during end-to-end testing. The work supported commissioning across a mix of teaching, meeting, and public spaces within the same precinct.
The systems connecting teaching and public spaces across CDU Danala
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