The new £10.9 million purpose-built college was designed by architects Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole and offers a dedicated education and training facility for its volunteer lifeboat crews. The five-storey building includes seminar and training rooms, a 120-seat auditorium, restaurant, kitchen, bar and fitness suite, together with accommodation comprising of 60 residential rooms with en-suite bath/shower and associated external parking and landscaping.
Millbank/Ampekko, designed, supplied, and assisted in commissioning a series of hearing loop systems for the building, installed by Dodd Group M+E Contractors and main contractor Dean and Dyball Construction. The Main Auditorium has been configured to operate as two independent conferencing areas if required. The systems are driven by two Millbank's Talisman DL5 dynamic induction loop amplifiers, which are designed and manufactured to the highest specifications for Millbank's Macclesfield HQ. This product offers specifiers more flexibility to design dynamic loops, free from radio frequency interference.
The Millbank Talisman amplifier incorporates switch-selectable options to match the exact requirements of the listener or installer. Its switched frequency curve provides frequency compensation for hearing impaired individuals, whilst the response potentiometer allows the full range of frequencies to be controlled, again to suit the recipient or building characteristics.
Millbank's loop systems are ideal for normal hearing loop applications but can also be used for diverse applications such as museum narration or secret paging in a shopping mall environment. Millbank also supplied and commissioned Signet loop systems for five meeting or conference rooms, which also have additional auxiliary inputs, this enables the systems to be integrated if required to provide a full AV presentation.
(Lee Baldock)
