The auditorium will be used for weekly devotional speeches and commencement addresses, graduation ceremonies and even regional church conferences. The building also houses a communications suite enabling the University to broadcast future events.
The system comprises 55 BigTow winches, control cabinets, a Nomad control desk and a Solo handheld control console. The system also includes two camera pylons - an engineering innovation from the Stage Technologies research and development team. The camera pylon enables perfect filming of motion shots on a vertical axis and consists of a sturdy, fixed camera base on a steel telescopic frame which extends upwards, allowing the camera to ascend or descend without deviation or stutter.
Stage Technologies also installed a 24-axis automation control system in 2007 at the 140-year-old Tabernacle building in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, also part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Tabernacle was built in the 1860s but now contains some of the most technically advanced lighting, sound and automation systems ever installed in a house of worship.
(Jim Evans)
