Color Art Technology - Safety National Headquarters Expansion

SAFETY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS EXPANSION

Safety National, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a leading specialty insurance provider. Color Art has enjoyed a long-term relationship with Safety National, providing furniture and technology services for many years.

In 2019, Safety National sought to expand its headquarters facility. To prepare for the project, Color Art reviewed potential technologies at Infocomm, the leading audiovisual solutions conference in the country. With Microsoft Teams selected as the collaboration platform, Color Art Technology developed standards for Safety National’s conference rooms and designed systems around Crestron-based hardware due to the scalability and support available.

Included in the Safety National expansion project were updates to conference room technology in the existing building. Outdated conferencing systems featured projectors and screens. The new solutions offer wall-mounted LED displays and Crestron Teams Mercury systems for 17 conference rooms. Due to the success of this upgrade, eight Safety National branch offices across the country installed similar systems. Color Art partnered with EDGE, formerly USAV, audiovisual firms to deliver and install the new technology.

The new building expansion features an auditorium, catering area and learning center. Crestron-based Teams Unified Communications systems are featured in multiple conference rooms across three floors, including both stand-alone and divisible rooms.

The technology crown jewel of the project is a 320-seat learning center able to function as two distinct spaces. This auditorium includes two 194” LED video walls as well as a 3’ x 3’ LCD video wall directly outside the center for meeting overflow. Meeting content can be streamed to the adjacent café, providing Safety National flexible functionality for employee meetings.

Color Art Technology also supplied Crestron XIO licensing to manage Safety National’s Crestron-based spaces within their helpdesk, used in conjunction with ServiceNow. Additional projects are currently underway to enhance functionality within the Learning Center as well as additional conference rooms.

PROJECT DETAILS

St. Louis, Missouri

Project Value: $32,000,000

Technology Project Value: $1,500,000

Completion: 2021

Size: 145,000 SF

ARCHITECT: ACI Boland