Having exhausted its capacity and in need of technology upgrades, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the Orthopaedic Learning Center sought to create an environment that would foster the future of orthopedics. The new, state-of-the-art facility is now home to several orthopedic organizations and many healthcare professionals who come from all across the world to learn and work with the latest in orthopedic techniques.
The building contains a cutting-edge, 52,000 SF Orthopaedic Learning Center featuring a highly flexible and divisible Bio Skills Lab equipped to support orthopedic surgical demos. The room houses 24 individual workstations each with its own surgical-scope cart and display tied into the audiovisual system. The display can be switched to show video content such as presentations, local feed from an arthroscope, or video from any of the other workstations.
Each half of the lab has a large edge-matched projection system, technology-enabled lecterns, and eight large flat panel displays located on the. The sound system in the lab supports program audio and speech reinforcement through a ceiling speaker system. A section of the large lab has a demonstration area where surgeries are captured, recorded, and rebroadcast in high definition to the entire lab and/or any of the three auditoriums.
The three auditoriums located in the Orthopaedic Learning Center function as lecture-style classrooms that can be divided or left as one 180-seat space. Two of the spaces are outfitted with dual projection systems, and one contains a single. When acting as one large auditorium, all three projection systems can act in tandem.
