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THE BIOWALL IN SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND

The BioWall is an outdoor public space in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland for public enlightenment and entertainment. Avitecture designed, furnished, installed and now supports this unique, sliding, state-of-the-art, 16¹ x 9¹, HD video display. Offering a platform to educators, artists, students, scientists, and the community, the BioWall exists through the generosity of United Therapeutics Corporation, which specializes in manufacturing medicines to treat the rare disease pulmonary arterial hypertension. The BioWall operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

AVITECTURE'S EXPERTISE MAKES A SUCCESS OF HUGE SKYLIGHT INSTALLATION

The new addition to Calvert High School in Prince Frederick, Md., celebrates the sun, inviting daylight into virtually every corner of its multi-use media center. The addition features huge skylights that are 31 to 41 ft above the floor, more than 35 ft long, and pitched at a 16-deg angle. The skylights span 17,000 sq ft.

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Lutron "meet-in-the-middle" skylight shades produce dramatic effects and help the school make the most of the daylight in the space while overcoming design challenges. The shading system was custom designed to fit into the skylight assembly and offers five preset configurations that can be quickly recalled at the touch of a button, allowing the right amount of daylight into the space for any situation or activity.

"The shades open and close silently, and move in total unison. It's awe-inspiring. The area is large and dramatic, and when the shades move, you completely change the experience of the space," said Ran Ilkovitch, SEI Design Group, Albany, N.Y.

One of greatest benefits of the school's new shades comes in the form of energy savings. The skylight shades allow for varying openness levels to control heat and reduce operating costs. In the closed position the shades increase space flexibility, enabling the space to be used as a media center and projection facility at any time during the day.

By using thermal imaging, installer Avitecture Inc., Sterling, Va., estimated that closing the skylight shades in the summer will reduce heat gain by 10% to 30% and subsequently reduce air conditioning costs. Alternately, by opening the shades in colder months, the school can take advantage of the thermal heat gain to reduce heating costs.

BOB THORNTON JOINS AVITECTURE

Sterling, VA - April 3, 2013 - Bob Thornton has joined Avitecture, Inc. as a sales consultant. Thornton is an AV-IT industry veteran, with more than three decades of success in corporate and government AV and IT solutions.

"We are delighted that Bob has joined us," said Bruce Pittman, Avitecture's vice president of sales and marketing, "because he brings wealth of experience and knowledge in commercial AV and IT. Bob strengthens Avitecture's high-performance team of solution providers."

About Avitecture®

Avitecture, Inc. is an employee-owned company, founded in 1979 as AVWashington, of solution architects, engineers, programmers, installation technicians, project managers, service and support team, sales consultants, and administrative personnel. As an AV-IT solutions provider, Avitecture provides AV services, products, and support for IT: audiovisual, video, integration, technology, electronics,
collaboration,teleconferencing, unified communications, responsiveness, excellence.

Avitecture designs, builds, installs, and supports integrated systems for facilities. By integrating A-V, videoconferencing, lighting, structured cabling, and digital signage, Avitecture delivers high-value, low-risk
systems to enable clients to do their jobs successfully.

Avitecture's clients include the United States Government, Fortune 500 companies, universities, museums, houses of worship, and associations, which are among the thousands of entities and enterprises the company has
served. Thousands of their conference rooms, operation centers, classrooms, briefing and display systems, auditoriums, and exhibits have Avitecture systems.

HERB LEE JOINS AVITECTURE

Sterling, VA - August 1, 2012 - Herb Lee has joined Avitecture, Inc. as a sales consultant. Lee is an AV industry veteran, with more than three decades of success in corporate and government AV and professional video solutions.

"We are honored that Herb is now on our team," said Bruce Pittman, Avitecture¹s vice president of sales and marketing. "He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in commercial AV and video. With Herb on board, Avitecture adds a proven, respected and strong resource to its growing team of solution providers."

About Avitecture®
Avitecture, Inc. is an employee-owned company, founded in 1979 as AVWashington, of solution architects, engineers, programmers, installation technicians, project managers, service and support team, sales consultants, and administrative personnel. As an AV-IT solutions provider, Avitecture provides AV services, products, and support for IT: audiovisual, video, integration, technology, electronics, collaboration, teleconferencing, unified communications, responsiveness, excellence. Avitecture designs, builds, installs, and supports integrated systems for facilities. By integrating audiovisual,  videoconferencing, lighting, structured cabling, and digital signage. Avitecture delivers systems to enable clients to communicate, to share information, to lower energy costs, and to improve their organization¹s productivity. Avitecture¹s clients include the United States Government, Fortune 500 Companies, universities, museums, houses of worship, and associations, which are among the thousands of entities and enterprises the company has served. Thousands of their conference rooms, operation centers, classrooms, briefing and display systems, auditoriums, and exhibits have
Avitecture systems. For more information, visit www.avitecture.com.

AVITECTURE AND THINKLOGICAL PARTNER TO DELIVER FIBER-BASED KVM AND VIDEO EXTENSION AND ROUTING SOLUTIONS

Sterling, Va. -- Avitecture, a leading solutions provider for integrated AV-IT solutions and support, announced today that it has partnered with Thinklogical to deliver Thinklogical’s market-leading fiber-based KVM and video extension and routing solutions to Avitecture customers.

As more and more organizations and businesses depend on zero latency transmission of mission critical content, fiber-optic solutions provide the fastest, most secure and efficient means of transporting data between multiple points. With the highest bandwidth in the industry, Thinklogical’s KVM and video extension and routing solutions are designed to perform to the highest standards of security, throughput and reliability and can be found within the most complex and sensitive government and commercial installations in the world. Thinklogical’s video and KVM extender line of products utilize sophisticated patent-pending fiber-based technology to deliver pristine video quality, with desktop peripherals and network extension over distances up to 40 km.

The Thinklogical product portfolio spans a wide range of solutions from KVM routing and extension systems, to image processing and conversion products, to secure console server management, and camera extension products. Through this partnership, Avitecture professionals will be trained and certified to sell, install, configure and support Thinklogical products.

“Thinklogical builds excellent products and provides an uncompromising level of support to Avitecture.” said Bruce Pittman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Avitecture. “When we need the world’s highest bandwidth and fully accredited video and KVM switching, we turn to Thinklogical.” Visit their website at www.thinklogical.com

About Avitecture
®Avitecture, an employee-owned company, is a leading integrator of audiovisual systems, videoconferencing, and digital signage for government, corporations, associations, universities, museums, and houses of worship.
 

CISCO STICKS WITH AVITECTURE

August 2012

Avitecture, Inc. has been officially renewed as a Cisco ATP Cisco TelePresence Video Express Partner in USA.

Avitecture, Inc. has again met the resource requirements for the ATP Cisco TelePresence Video Express program and has demonstrated its qualifications to sell, install, and support customers with ATP Cisco TelePresence Video Express products and solutions in USA.

COMMERCIAL INTEGRATOR MAGAZINE COMPLIMENTS AVITECTURE

Commercial Integrator, August 2012

Avitecture is one of those integrators that has been around forever — 40 years, to be precise — and is structured such that it will always be around. One might expect a fourdecade-old integration firm to struggle with AV/IT convergence, but Avitecture reports that 25 percent of its projects in 2011 include IT solutions. One might expect that with its close proximity to Washington, D.C., the firm would rely on the government market, but its projects are well distributed through nine vertical markets. Painting Avitecture as “solid” probably doesn’t pay proper respect to its impressive portfolio of high-profile installations, but it probably makes some of those projects possible.

AVITECTURE NAMES JASON NICHOLS AS CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Sterling, VA - February 22, 2012 - Avitecture, Inc. announced today that Jason Nichols is the company's new Chief Technology Officer and vice president. Nichols had been Avitecture¹s Director of Service and Support and has been with company for 13 years.

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AVITECTURE LINE CARD

Avitecture has built relationships with more than 200 equipment manufacturers and hold the highest creditworthiness in our class. Below is a list of applicable manufacturer and repair certifications that Avitecture currently holds.

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ON VIRGINIA'S CROOKED ROAD, MOUNTAIN MUSIC LIGHTS THE WAY

New York Times, May 20, 2011
By Sara Wildman


IT starts with a well-worn fiddle, held in equally well-worn hands above a tapping black cowboy boot. Then in comes the banjo, plucked with steel finger picks, followed by the autoharp, the mandolin, the percussive beat of an upright bass. Another banjo grabs the melody, and suddenly the room is bursting with knee-slapping, country-porch music. A man in a crisp checked shirt gets up and starts to dance, bouncing out a complicated bumbumBAM bumbumBAM with his feet, moving as smoothly as a Martha Graham dancer, hitting the floor on the downbeat.
 

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SEAPORT-ENHANCED

Contract ID Number: N00178-11-D6461
Contract Period of Performance: June 28, 2011 – April 4, 2019