The school's large and attractive new facility serves 700 students and includes classrooms equipped with the latest technology, a gymnasium and fitness centre, a cafeteria and multipurpose room along with a theatrical auditorium.
Jorge Guillén of Guillén Technology Consultants provided building technology, AV, audio systems and safety and security consulting services for the new school. The building's many different spaces presented Guillén with numerous challenges in his audio system designs. The school's goals included intelligible voice paging and high-quality sound reinforcement throughout. However, acoustics varied considerably from room to room and several areas had high ceilings and hard, reflective walls, floors and ceilings.
Guillén chose Community loudspeaker systems to help him overcome these acoustic challenges and meet the school's goals. He used Community R Series loudspeakers in the gymnasium and multipurpose rooms and D Series loudspeakers in the multipurpose room, cafeteria, fitness centre and library. He designed the auditorium sound system with I Series IHP-1566 loudspeakers, i215S subwoofers and MX41E-94B floor monitors.
Guillén designed electronics systems to fit the needs of each room. He used Rane amplifiers, mixers and system processors, Samson wired and wireless microphones and Listen Technologies assistive listening systems. For the auditorium, he included a PreSonus digital mixer and a Telex theatrical intercom.
The systems were installed and commissioned in time for the school's opening and Guillén says the Community loudspeakers helped him achieve consistently high-quality sound throughout the building's many different spaces.
(Jim Evans)
