Grange Hotels is London's leading independent luxury hotel group. Rob Goodings, director of technical services, has already confirmed that Shuttlesound and Electro-Voice will supply the next development in the company's busy roll-out programme, the Grange Tower Hotel, adjacent to the Tower of London.
"I am delighted with the results at the Grange St Paul's," says Goodings. "I like to surround myself with professionals and, from the top down, Shuttlesound give me that - serious expertise while keeping a mindful eye on the budget. The equipment is brilliant, accompanied by a flexible business attitude that is all about getting the job done."
From the hotel's planning stages in summer 2008, Rob Goodings worked closely with Shuttlesound's David Howe, and installation contractor John Smith of Kingdom Services, who coordinated the entire project. "This gave us an excellent design opportunity," commented Howe. "John Smith and I had an open brief to specify a complete integrated solution, installing a Cobranet-enabled digital audio network infrastructure that penetrated through every area of the hotel, from the sub-ground level conference rooms right up to the rooftop terrace."
Howe, Smith and Goodings based their design on the EV NetMax digital audio system controller, 10 units of which manage the amplifiers and loudspeaker units spread throughout ten floors of the hotel. "By choosing NetMax, Grange has acquired the very latest technology providing us with a modular, expandable system," says Goodings.
"Whatever changes or improvements are made to the hotel in years to come, the audio facilities can be easily amended to suit. This is future-proofing of the highest order. Our objective was to put in the best equipment that money can buy, and thus obviate the need for our clients to outsource anything. Having a complete AV package like this creates revenue for the hotel; it's proving to be a great business model too and the system should pay for itself within a year."
(Jim Evans)
