Located in an historic former bank building just a stone’s-throw from the White House in the US capital, MCAAD is a unique educational organization, dedicated to betterment of health, financial awareness, philanthropy and the key challenges facing the wider world.
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MCAAD were looking for a way to provide an exceptional immersive experience for visitors to explore stories in a memorable and compelling way, and so the idea of a real-life “holodeck” was proposed – a space that surrounds the guests with LED screens and audio on all sides. Whilst being a great technological storytelling tool, the concept also raised numerous engineering challenges, such as how to mount a room that’s completely clad in LED screen inside an historic space which had very tight weight and space restrictions, along with the need for robust entry and egress control for the public visitors who may need to rapidly leave the virtual world. TAIT were able to solve all of these challenges with our bespoke engineering and automation using TAIT Navigator
Working in collaboration with an array of other vendors we provided a bespoke aluminum and steel structure to support the LED tiles, and to operate the doors to the Holodeck integrated with many invisible safety features, such that the room would be safe in the event of power- failure or other emergency condition. The holodeck structure and control system was designed and constructed in our Haverhill factory before being integrated by our Lititz team alongside the other vendors on site in Washington.
