Project: Hilton Metropole Hotel
Location: Edgware Road, London
Contractor: N.G. Bailey Project
Value: £450,000

 

Description of Project:

Design, manufacture & installation of audio-visual, voice evacuation, simultaneous translation, public address, background music and induction loop systems in two ballrooms each 1250m2, function rooms, meeting rooms and public areas. The company also supplied an extensive dimming system for the ballrooms and meeting rooms.

 

 

Technical Details:

The voice evacuation system employ’s Polaron’s unique ‘Intellect’ intelligent routing matrix. Each zone uses interleaved amplification, fully backed up with a float battery system. Computerised routing matrices have been employed to simplify room division control.

A flexible modular mixing system allows injection of production audio visual equipment into the amplification and video infrastructure from local wall and ceiling facility panels. The sound is delivered using a combination of ultra-high quality loudspeakers in the ballrooms and high efficiency loudspeakers for all public areas.

The custom-designed induction loop system for the hearing impaired is a particularly complex system. Its special loop topology uses phase quadrature to minimise interference between adjacent areas whilst providing superb evenness of coverage.

The dimming system uses Polaron’s ‘Lightlink’ range of products. Scene setting is provided either from wall mounted push button plates, LCD touch screens or a central PC. Diagnostics and reconfiguration can be carried out remotely from Polaron’s Headquarters via an ISDN link.

Design Features:

Power output of audio system greater than 7kW.
Simplified division control via 24 memory presets.
Fully monitored system integrated with fire detection system.
Custom designed facility panels incorporating audio, video and data.
The actual connected load at the dimmer racks is 231 KW , however, this has the capacity to be increased to a maximum of 1.2 MW for future expansion of the lighting system.