Client Goldsmith’s University of London | Date Dec 2016 |
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Goldsmith’s University of London upgrade their Lecture Theatres
Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university specialising in the arts, design, humanities and social sciences with 8,000 students. The University’s teaching quality has consistently won the highest ratings. In 2014 the Research Excellence Framework rated the university in the UK’s top 25 Universities for the quality of their research.
Project Brief
There was a standardisation of 6 area types including large performance spaces, teaching spaces, seminar rooms, meeting rooms and mobile solutions. The project was originally to be undertaken over 30 months on a room by room basis to
minimise disruption to teaching and learning.
Project details
StriveAV built a strong relationship with the University and understood the critical factor for the success of this project was minimising the impact and amount of time the rooms were out of action during the physical onsite installations. In view of this StriveAV worked closely with the rack build team to effectively enable us to ‘wheel in’ a completed room of kit: to this aim StriveAV effectively built, configured and programmed the majority of equipment offsite. This meant the various spaces could be installed in minimal time allowing the room to be free for student bookings.
Because of the success of the programed off-offsite build process, what was to be a 30-month roll out was able to be condensed into a 9-month project. This allowed more rooms to be upgraded in year 1 and the completion of the enhanced
learning environments to be implemented sooner.
Project Benefits
learning environment for their students. A key choice was the Sony laser projection solution adopted campus wide within their standard teaching rooms and large performance spaces. 47 rooms were equipped with the Sony FHZ-55/57 which are a high brightness, 4,100 lumens WUXGA laser light source projector.
“StriveAV is the best AV company that I have worked with – the success of our project is largely due to the excellent and flexible attitude of the StriveAV team and the quality of their work. We were asked to accelerate work that we had planned over 3 years to be completed in 12 months, which StriveAV has achieved by creating an off-site assembly line and minimising the work that has to be done on-site, meaning that each teaching room is out of use for an absolutely minimum period (often just 1 day).”