Electrosonic's submission for Systems Company of the Year was based on the work achieved by its UK Solutions Business, which is a silver level CAVSP qualified company. Electrosonic Solutions divides its activities into a series of inter-connected teams covering sales consultancy, project engineering and management, systems assembly and test, installation, programming and development.
As Service Company of the Year, the turnover of the Electrosonic UK Service Business showed a 43% year-on-year turnover uplift. It employs seventy people covering both corporate/leisure and command & control environments, and its geographical remit has been extended to a new service base in Edinburgh. No outsourcing contracts have been lost since Electrosonic started doing outsource work, and it now has staff working on 20 sites.
Electrosonic was awarded Business Installation of the Year for its work at Barclays HQ. The company worked with Mark Johnson Consultants on the new building which includes two 100-seat conference rooms, six videoconference suites, five reception and breakout areas, 25 meeting rooms with fixed AV equipment, 321 client meeting and training rooms, 105 meeting rooms served by 33 sets of mobile equipment and a boardroom. There is also a broadcast media room and a 16-channel TV distribution system with the capacity to handle 1,280 end points and four channels of video over IP.
Finally, Electrosonic won the awards for Consumer Installation of the Year for its work at The Churchill Museum. The Museum opened in March 2005 after a 12 month installation contract period. The overall AV system in the museum includes over seventy exhibits showing documentary footage or interactive presentations and Electrosonic had to design and manage a museum-wide control system.
(Jim Evans)
