{"id":1724,"date":"2014-02-05T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainproductions.com\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2017-01-26T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:04:29","slug":"behind-the-scenes-verizons-power-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/behind-the-scenes-verizons-power-house\/","title":{"rendered":"[EVENT RECAP] Behind the Scenes: Verizon&#8217;s Power House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Game just keeps getting bigger each year. With the latest technology, interactive experiences and hi-definition coverage, the Super Bowl hype spans much farther than just game day. Mountain Productions contributed many services and structures to the event, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/mountainproductions.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/pictures-video-the-fox-sports-times-square-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Sports temporary studio in Times Square<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mountainproductions.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/behind-the-scenes-under-armours-house-of-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Under Armour\u2019s House of Innovation<\/a>, and the <strong>Verizon Power House at Bryant Park<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has visited Bryant Park has most likely seen the iconic Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain. Mountain Productions was challenged with engineering a substructure that would completely conceal the fountain and support the video screen center structure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1727\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1727 \" title=\"The Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain at Bryant Park\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bryant-park-fountain.jpg\" alt=\"The Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain at Bryant Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mountain Productions engineer Matt Griffith and project lead Tim Evans conducted a thorough site survey of the entire fountain to kick off the project. The survey determined if there were any obstructions that would need to be accounted for. Once complete, Mountain\u2019s engineering department was able to accurately draw and engineer the location of the decks, as well as supply leg loadings to the Bryant Park engineers for approval. \u00a0Steel plates sitting on neoprene rubber pads were used under each leg to support the weight, and the octagon shaped base fit perfectly over the fountain <em>(so perfectly that you could forget it was even there!)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1734\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1734 \" src=\"http:\/\/mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0352_edit-590x391.jpg\" alt=\"The Verizon Power House\" width=\"590\" height=\"391\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Verizon Power House<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The result was an interactive and immersive fan experience, allowing visitors \u201cto virtually \u2018Suit Up\u2019 in their favorite NFL team uniform, learn more about the NFL Mobile app, try out LTE Multicast\u2026\u201d and much more (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/news\/article\/2014\/01\/verizon-power-house-super-bowl-xlviii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Source: verizonwireless.com \u2013 Read full article here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1735\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1735\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1735\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0356_edit-590x392.jpg\" alt=\"Another view of the Verizon Power House\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of the Verizon Power House<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%5BEVENT%20RECAP%5D%20Behind%20the%20Scenes%3A%20Verizon%27s%20Power%20House\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Game just keeps getting bigger each year. With the latest technology, interactive experiences and hi-definition coverage, the Super Bowl hype spans much farther than just game day. Mountain Productions contributed many services and structures to the event, including the Fox Sports temporary studio in Times Square, Under Armour\u2019s House of Innovation, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%5BEVENT%20RECAP%5D%20Behind%20the%20Scenes%3A%20Verizon%27s%20Power%20House\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}