/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Architectural / By Jeff Wooten
Emergency
Solutions Installing widespread signage for a new medical facility.
H
ow do you make a hospital with over ninety-three years of history into something more up-to-date and “with the times?” The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, New Jersey answered this question with a new, artfully designed hospital (along with other medical facilities) on its 171-acre property. The complex boasts sustainable materials, increased energy efficiency, an improved transportation infrastructure, and indigenous landscaping. It also features a variety of exterior signage that perfectly reflects the new construction’s commitment to health, environment, and identity: a building-mounted logo, main campus identity signs, and post-and-panel wayfinding signage. AGS (www.agsinfo.com) of Exton, Pennsylvania won the bid to fabricate and install these signs after first being contacted by officials from the hospital (already an existing AGS client) to assist in the structural design of the “P” logo that was to be mounted on the exterior facade of the main hospital. They were a logical choice, since the company’s understanding of materials, fabrication methods, typography, code requirements, and building construction makes them experts in implementing a signage program. “Our company started out fifty-one years ago in engraving, donor recognition, and primarily interior work and then progressing to more design + build, standard products, and partnering with other designers and architects for custom manufacturing,” says AGS President Neil Jacobson, who has been with the business since 1978. The company currently has fifty employees and does mainly environmental graphic design (EGD) projects—working typically
signshop.com
July 2013 // Sign Builder Illustrated
35