DONALD M. PAYNE, SR., SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY
The Vision
The construction of the Donald M. Payne, Sr. School of Technology brought a new level in career technical education to Newark, New Jersey. Named for the late educator and congressman, the school offers students classes that serve as steppingstones to programs offered by local colleges and universities.
More than 1,100 students attend the school. Its three-story footprint is 320,000 square feet and holds 58 traditional classrooms and 30 larger spaces for specialized programs including the building trades. Students can choose from a wide variety of technical programs that include music production, cyber security, culinary arts, forensic sciences, green energy, and cosmetology.
The facility’s size required several rooftop air handling units to meet the ventilation needs. Wanting to maintain
a clean look for the rooftop, specifications called for using louver screens to hide the equipment from view. The contractor selected Airolite’s inverted blade louver screen, model ENCB609 to hide the equipment from view and offer an attractive appearance for people looking at the facility.
The Airolite Look…
The specifications called for using more than 1,500 linear feet of louver screens to hide the rooftop equipment in more than seven locations on the roof. Airolite’s model ENCB6096 with its horizontal and inverted blades and six-inch depth offered an ideal aesthetic look while ensuring people saw none of the equipment on the roof. Many sections of the louvers had varying height dimensions. The neighborhood around the school also posed a challenge to the setup and installation of the louvers. Fully-assembled louvers in shipment crates were too large to navigate the narrow streets and surrounding property. Contractors asked if the louvers could be delivered in a knocked down (unassembled) form on three separate shipments.
The staggered delivery schedule required coordination between Airolite and the contractors to ensure the louver screens were available when needed. Airolite coordinated the special crating, sequencing and labeling for a smooth and easy install. Since the screens were unassembled, the blades needed to be snapped in place on the louver “tree,” long brackets on which the blades are attached. This assembly required precise placement to maintain the continuous straight lines created by the louver blades. The contractor used a laser to ensure the lines of the louver blades were straight.
That Works
Airolite louver screen ENCB6096 is a versatile, horizontal and inverted blade louver screen that functions extremely well as a sight and security barrier. Its inverted blades help deflect sound upward and away from the surrounding neighborhood, keeping rooftop equipment noise to a minimum.
The completion of the Donald M. Payne, Sr. School of Technology was on time and under budget. Several factors contributed. Many cited Airolite’s ability to work with contractors and deliver the louver screen in the knockdown form. The well-marked, knockdown crating allowed for on-time delivery and easy assembly without overwhelming the assembly area because of narrow streets and limited space. Others mentioned the long spans of the screen. They remarked how it not only hid rooftop equipment but added to the sleek design of the building.
Smoke Vents- Kingspan
Give Your Building’s Occupants Safety + Natural Light
Kingspan Light + Air offers a full line of polycarbonate smoke vents for a wide variety of spaces. They’re dependable, built from corrosion resistant aluminum or galvanized steel, and offer numerous configuration options.
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Demountable Walls – Extanza 300- Moderco
Bring Light + Structure with Glass Partitions
Glass partitions are redefining interior space planning with clean lines, transparency and refined architectural impact. Ideal for offices, schools and modern interiors, they create division without visual clutter—delivering function without sacrificing aesthetics. Their sleek, minimalist style complements a range of design palettes from contemporary to industrial. Whether you’re designing collaborative workspaces or residential zones with intentional flow, glass partitions offer a flexible, elegant solution that elevates the environment.
Colby College
Sasaki collaborated closely with Kingspan, Hopkins, Arup, Consigli, and Total Wall to design, prototype, test and successfully install a custom QuadCore insulated panel connection system for the building envelope at Colby College’s Harold Alfond Recreation and Athletics Centre.
QuadCore is thin, lightweight and thermally efficient, which can lead to carbon savings in transport and building structures in certain applications.
The high-performance connection system captures the top and bottom of each insulated panel along the facade, which greatly reduced the number of envelope penetrations as well as the amount of secondary steel required for lateral support.
In fact, the use of QuadCore insulated panels at Colby College enabled the elimination of 22.7 tonnes of steel support girts. Utilisation of insulated panel’s inherent structural capacity coupled with the reduction in steel structure, significantly lowered the associated embodied carbon.
Mercedes Benz of Ontario
For its client Fletcher Jones, one of the most successful luxury auto dealers in the United States, Gensler used its multidisciplinary design approach to integrate branding and architecture into a memorable customer experience in Ontario, California.
The glass display case continues indoors. In the 100,000-square-foot Ontario dealership, Gensler senior associate Deeg Snyder encloses its double-height lobby from adjacent spaces without losing any daylight, views or functionality. An operable NanaWall SL45 Aluminum Framed Folding System provides a sense of openness, while presenting the latest cars in a museum-like setting.
Airolite
Airolite architectural equipment screens are custom designed to your specification to function as architectural accents or entire facades, sight or solar screens, and security barriers. They are fabricated from extruded aluminum, mechanically fastened, and finished-after-assemble to ensure the highest product quality and durability available.
| ENCB609
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Airolite equipment screen ENCB609 is a versatile, horizontal and inverted blade louver screen that functions well as a sight and security barrier and yields high free area.
Resources: Submittals, Specifications, Catalogs, Drawings, Warranty |
| ENCB6096
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Airolite equipment screen ENCB6096 is a versatile, horizontal and inverted blade equipment screen that functions well as a sight and security barrier and yields high free area.
Resources: Submittals, Specifications, Catalogs, Drawings, Warranty |
| ENCB6500
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Airolite equipment screen ENCB6500 is a versatile, horizontal and inverted blade equipment screen that functions well as a sight and security barrier and yields high free area.
Resources: Submittals, Specifications, Catalogs, Drawings, Warranty |
| SCB601
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rolite equipment screen SCB601 is a sightproof horizontal blade equipment screen that functions well as a sight and security barrier. The equipment screen is 100% sightproof when viewed from any orientation.
Resources: Submittals, Specifications, Catalogs, Drawings, Warranty |
| SV5375
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Airolite Louver Screen Type SV5375 is a versatile, inverted, vertical blade, 5.375 inch (136.5 mm) deep architectural louver screen designed for applications that require economical sight barriers. The vertical louver screen blade profile provides an effective visual screen when viewed from any angle.
Resources: Submittals, Specifications, Catalogs, Drawings, Warranty |
Moderco
The Moderco Vision series offers you:
- Manually-operated individual-panel glass movable partition.
- 35 mm [1 3/8″] nominal thickness. Up to 1220 mm [48″] width.
- Clear 12 mm [1/2″] tempered glass faces with polished vertical edges.
- Clear anodized aluminum horizontal mouldings with brush seals.
- Each panel fitted with a foot bolt to stabilize the partition.
- Clear anodized 6063-T6 alloy aluminum track.
- Each panel supported by two dual horizontal wheel carrier with nylon tires over hardened precision ground steel ball bearing wheels.
- Maximum height : 3658 mm [12’-0”].
There are optional features and accessories you can use to fit your project perfectly!
Visit the Moderco Vision web page. Download the Vision brochure.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL – ANSCHUTZ CANCER PAVILION
On February 2, 2004, the University of Colorado Hospital opened the beautiful new Anschutz Cancer Pavilion on the new Fitzsimons Campus located in Aurora, Colorado. Physicians, employees and patients participated in the design of the state-of- the-art $148.8 million hospital, helping the architects achieve a functional, efficient building with spectacular views of the nearby Rocky Mountains. An important sustainability goal was to maximize the use of natural daylight, while using energy efficient controls to turn-off light fixtures in corridors and exterior areas during bright daylight hours. The reliance on natural daylight resulted in the design team’s need to control glare and heat transmitted through glazing and window systems.
Lumen
The design choices that allowed Lumen Detroit to thrive and revitalize a faded downtown neighborhood, allowed the restaurant to stay open during much of the COVID-19 crisis. From its conception, the mission of the building was to be a part of a great public space, to be an architectural icon in the City and to encourage patrons to engage the surrounding area. Instrumental to achieving that goal was the ability to connect the building seamlessly to the park, and neighborhood that encompasses it, by opening the walls, a dramatic effect accomplished by two extensive NanaWall sliding glass wall systems. This choice has since proved to be prescient during the Covid-19 crisis.
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