Working closely with the university's consultants and main building contractors BAM, IVC Media will bring together the traditional AV and IT world to provide an integrated solution which has the capacity to grow with the future requirements of the university's students and its business clients across the globe.
IVC Media will equip all the teaching rooms, boardrooms and theatres with a high-end AV system from interactive white boards, video projection right through to large screens and Crestron control system plus all audio, including PA system, induction loops and radio microphones.
"IVC senior team members come from backgrounds within telecoms, audio visual, broadcast and IT," says John Smith, managing director, IVC Media. "This means at a technical and business consultancy level we have been able to take the designs from the university's own consultant and working directly with the university's project management team, to realise some particularly interesting and innovative ideas for this prestigious project.
"This fascinating project also has some necessarily demanding timescales," continues Smith. "In order to ensure both elements of build and install are completed in the most efficient way possible, with support from the Business School, we actually have our development team building and testing the solution at a secure location near the construction site, on the campus.
"Being outside the confines of the actual construction site, means that University staff and students are welcomed by IVC to visit 'us at work', ask questions and take an interest in how their new AV systems are assembled. This also allows us to work more closely with the building contractors, to ensure a smooth installation within the six week window available."
The University of Exeter Business School is due to be completed this month and the first event to be held in the new building with be for the Chinese New Year celebrations in early February 2011.
(Jim Evans)
