BOWDOIN, MAINE
Overview
Founded in 1794, Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine. Their mission is to help students develop social and leadership abilities through a rigorous education designed to challenge students’ creative thinking.
Connectivity Point (CPDI) has partnered with Bowdoin College for more than 15 years, installing miles of low-voltage cabling, security systems, and audio/visual (AV) equipment across its campus:
Art Storage Building: Designed and installed a comprehensive cabling network alongside a fully integrated security system—combining intrusion detection, surveillance cameras, and access control to protect the college’s valuable art assets.
Schiller Coastal Studies Center: Installed a cabling network at this Orr’s Island facility for marine, estuarine, and terrestrial research and teaching, seamlessly connecting the Dry Lab, Living and Learning Center, Marine Lab, Sailing Center, and housing facilities.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art: As the primary security vendor for this facility housing priceless artwork, CPDI installed—and continues to service—the building’s access control, intrusion detection, and surveillance camera systems.
Data Network Cabling
Bowdoin College required a modern data network retrofit in Pickard Theater to support new IP-based AV equipment. Housed within Memorial Hall—a historic, Gothic-style granite and stained glass structure built in 1885 to honor Bowdoin’s Civil War veterans—the project required careful execution around historical architecture.
To transition the theater from legacy AV cabling to a modern IP-based system, CPDI:
• Removed outdated cabling from existing conduit paths and added new conduits where necessary.
• Installed Cat 6 data lines throughout the facility.
• Erected a new IDF cabinet.
• Ran backbone cabling to connect the existing BDF network to the new wall-mounted cabinet servers.
Traditional AV infrastructure is rapidly shifting toward IP-based cabling. CPDI continues to assist Bowdoin and other higher-education institutions as modern AV upgrades drive the need for high-performance network cabling.
Looking Ahead
CPDI’s upcoming work on the Bowdoin campus includes installing the cabling, access control, and security cameras for two new state-of-the-art facilities: Barry Mills Hall (home to two academic departments, a 60-seat cinema, four flex classrooms, twelve offices, huddle spaces, and 300-person event space) and The John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies (the new home for the renowned Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum).
