Horn Engineering

One of our more unique engineering projects, complete with solar and wind generation. Architect: SOL Harris/Day of North Canton, OH.

This is the Geauga Park District's Observatory Park, located in Montville Township in one of the few areas left in Ohio not affected by light pollution. The 1,110-acre park features a planetarium and an observatory and a mile-long planetary trail that shows the scale of the solar system and provides interesting info about each of the planets. It also features life-sized corner stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza to give you some idea of the size of the structure...I've outlined the footprint on this photo in yellow. Check out https://www.geaugaparkdistrict.org/parks/observatorypark.shtml for more info.

SHELBY, OH - A landmark in this small Ohio community a few miles north of Mansfield is the former Shelby Mutual Insurance national headquarters building, now owned by North Central State College and operated as the James W. Kehoe Center for Advanced Learning. This major academic facility serves students as classrooms, meeting spaces, laboratories and auditoriums.

SOL Harris/Day Architects of North Canton, OH, was engaged to design a first-class Conference Center in an 8,000 SF area on the third floor, providing theatre/classroom seating for 450 and banquet seating for 300. The three-room divisible area was created to operate as a single large space or three individual rooms.

Horn Engineering worked closely with the architects and interior designers at SOL Harris/Day to develop fully functional lighting and audio/visual systems for every conceivable use of the space. LED downlights, compact fluorescent close-to-ceiling chandeliers, wall sconces, and fluorescent louvered troffers provide every conceivable lighting scene that might be required by the various functions possible in the center. All lighting modes are fully dimmable and controlled by a low voltage nLight lighting control system which is also integrated into the A/V control system.

The three conference rooms all have separate audio/visual systems controlled by an overall A/V master capable of operating the room systems in any one, two or three room configuration. SoundCom worked closely with Horn Engineering and SOL Harris/Day to provide systems compatible with NCSC standards and flexible for the various room orientations.