Equipment produced by a North East company is helping to ensure the safety of one of the UKs top visitor attractions, the Tate Britain Art Gallery in London.
The gallery, through its facilities managers SPIE Matthew Hall, faced the challenge of replacing its ageing voice alarm system and one of the key benefits of using Current Thinking’s state-of-the-art products was that it could be installed with the minimum of disruption to the fabric of the historic building.
Attracting over one a half million visitors a year, the gallery, at Milbank in London, has joined the list of major building across the world using products from Sunderland-based Current Thinking, recognised as an international leader in the development of voice alarm systems, fire safety telephones and induction loop products for people with hearing problems.
Explained Current Thinking Managing Director Anthony Smith “What appealed to the gallery-and to the installers VA Systems-was that our equipment enabled the use of the existing speaker installations at the same time as enabling the upgrading of the overall system to meet the latest regulations without having to re-cable the entire site.
“Minimising disruption on a project of this scale-and in a building visited by so many people-is obviously of benefit to everyone concerned, including the gallery and the installers.”
Added Mick Walsh of VA Systems, sub-contractors for Spector Lumenex “It was an easy decision to choose Current Thinking’s technology. Not only did the compatibility of their equipment mean that the project virtually became ‘plug and play’ but their voice alarm rack systems are installed with an ease not achievable with other manufacturers’ products.
“Current Thinking’s flexible approach to projects and its willingness of ‘individualise’ equipment makes the work of an installer so much easier.”
Tate Britain joins a long list of major buildings in the UK and abroad where Current Thinking safety and audio products are in use-including the multi-million pound redevelopment of the Wimbledon tennis complex, rail stations on both the East and West coast routes, as well as the new St Pancras International terminal for the Channel Tunnel–and many of the huge construction projects in Dubai including over 50 of its tallest towers and the undersea Jumeria Road Tunnel linking the mainland to the impressive Palm development of the world’s three largest artificial islands.
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