HOTELS, LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT VENUES
Audiovisual Systems for Leisure and Entertainment
One of GN AVS primary areas of expertise is designing and installing audio and audiovisual and CCTV systems for leisure and entertainment venues; from sound systems for a nightclub to bar audio installation, or upgrades, service and support for sound systems in restaurants, hotels, spas and fitness centres.
From expertly-calibrated sound systems for bars, nightclubs and live music venues, to engaging digital signage and a bespoke content package for your gym or hotel, we remain focused on helping you create an environment that will maximise your clients’ experience.
Flexible AV Systems
GN AVS are the experts in making spaces flexible and responsive. Our AV system designs are ideal for hotels and other high-demand spaces that are used in different ways at different times of the day or week. We have a breadth of experience with cleverly-zoned audio systems, creating different moods in a bar audio installation or using sound treatment in different rooms to suit the sound system for a restaurant. In hotels, the flexibility of space can be especially important – so we can ensure equipment is recessed into the ceilings or covered by panels to allow your hotel’s conference space to be as suited to a wedding banquet as it is a corporate AGM.
World-Class Audio Quality
Coupling great audio quality in the system design to our experience with acoustic treatment means we will always maximise your venue’s potential and our in-house technicians have honed their expertise in live sound and DJ venues over many years, and in many of the UK’s most prestigious nightclubs, theatres, music venues, live music venues and bars.
Simple Operation
With a high turnover of staff common in the leisure and entertainment industries, audio and audiovisual systems need to be extremely easy to use. We often deliver entirely controlled systems via one simple interface, like an app on your smartphone.
Audiovisual Service and Maintenance
Whether you have a single DJ bar audio installation or sound system in your restaurant, a city-wide chain of fitness centres, or a hotel group spread across Europe, our service and maintenance contracts give you peace of mind that you’re in expert hands. You will benefit from quick response times when it comes to any issues relating to the audio & AV systems. GN AVS engineers are responsive and discreet, and to minimise impact can work when your space is not being used, whatever your venues’ opening hours. Our scheduled preventative maintenance visits play a key role in preventing problems from happening in the first place.
Aesthetic Considerations
We take great pride in designing and installing audio and AV systems for hotels and entertainment venues that look perform well and look great. We dedicate considerable resources to ensuring we are familiar with the most attractive pieces of AV kit available. When selecting the visible elements of an installation, we will work closely with you or your interior designers or architects to ensure that the system is an integral part of the space. When a suitable-looking product doesn’t exist, we’ll happily custom design and manufacture the perfect item or use our strong links with manufacturers to tweak their existing range.
Digital Signage for Hotels, Entertainment and Leisure Venues
We offer a complete digital signage service, from simple informational displays to way finding, to a fully integrated scheduling system. Screens across your venue can be easily customisable, to show events you’re hosting yet still able to show one-off notices about special occasions. We can design systems that allow your guests to book appointments, and even check themselves in.
We are also one of the few AV companies able to offer completely bespoke content and software design. Our policy of remaining independent from tie-ins with specific brands means we will design a system holistically, choosing the right hardware for your space and the right software for the content.
Next Level – Innovative AV Solutions
GN AVS have a long history of innovation in AV. We can offer solutions that will dramatically enhance your customers’ experience, or enable your venue to be used in a larger variety of ways, expanding your customer base and in turn increasing demand.
Perhaps you need microphones for your live music setup to be controlled from a tablet wirelessly, from anywhere in the venue. Or maybe you want to offer your guests a touch-screen display or tablet to choose music and video clips from a bespoke graphical user interface with your logo and brand aesthetics.
You may even need a system that does nothing more than impress and excite your customers like an interactive projection at the entrance to your gym. However unusual or unique your requirements are, GN AVS love to push the boundaries, and we are leading the field in the successful delivery of these kinds of innovative projects.
From the refined and sophisticated to the loud and modern: GN AVS carefully designs AV and CCTV solutions that suit your venue’s style
CONFERENCE CENTRES AND EVENTS SPACES
Audiovisual Systems for Conference Centres and Event Spaces
Our depth of specialist experience in delivering AV and CCTV systems into large conference centres, meeting venues and events spaces means we will give you a venue that stands above the best of the competition.
The knowledge we have gained by supporting these types of AV and CCTV systems, week in and week out, through years of heavy use, allows us to create AV and CCTV environments that engage with audiences from the moment they step into a venue, and then deliver dynamic, captivating events.
These solutions might include large-scale projection installations that deliver vivid visual content, and multi-zone audio systems that deliver sound with punch and depth so that the whole audience receives the message with pin-point clarity, right to the back of the venue. Our digital signage systems enable you to quickly and effectively brand a space to make each of your clients feel like it’s their own.
We are brand and manufacturer-agnostic, which means each new venue gets our design ‘from scratch’ approach. The resulting design is genuinely tailor-made. This means that we maximise the effectiveness of your available budget and the particular physical environment of your venue. Our proposal documents present a variety of options, allowing you to make an informed choice about features and functionality for your venue.
Tried and tested by us
Many of our clients engage us to provide AV Events Technicians, and as a result, we have weekly experience of running events using the systems that we’ve designed and installed. We use this as a hugely valuable resource for gaining user feedback from real-situation use of systems, and we have developed rigorous processes for gathering this data. Over the years GN AVS has developed and honed its expertise in delivering conference room and events AV systems that put the speakers and organisers at ease. Let us deliver you peace of mind, and allow you to get on with your job without needing to worry about the AV.
It’s increasingly common for venues to offer highly configurable spaces, and things often need to be changed on the fly. Our audiovisual systems are designed with that in mind, and they empower facilities staff and event organisers to reconfigure the environment with ease and speed. Our design team will proactively suggest a variety of ways to maximise this flexibility and make the space work for you. It may be the installation of cameras and flexible video routing to create fully functional event overflow areas which otherwise would have been an empty lobby, or perhaps your venue would benefit from systems where the equipment like loudspeakers and projectors can be hidden away into the ceilings at the touch of a button in order to make a space equally suitable for a corporate presentation as for a cocktail party. What’s more, through powerful automation and meticulous systems design, carefully-planned presets within the AV control system make large or small changes efficient and convenient… although we have yet to work out a cost-effective way to move hundreds of chairs at a touch of a button!
Ease of use
GN AVS is a global leader in the design and implementation of bespoke AV control systems. We can create a beautifully designed interface that gives the end user, or venue staff, exceptionally intuitive and efficient control of complex audiovisual systems. We can allow a venue’s complete functionality to be configured from a wireless tablet in a user-friendly way – from mixing various wireless microphones to controlling building systems such as air conditioning, blinds, lights and CCTV. Our AV control systems can be set up to dial a videoconference, change the angle and zoom of a camera, start a webcast, control which zones an announcement from the paging system is heard in, or even shut down all systems at the end of a day with a single button press. Because our meticulously planned user interfaces are bespoke to each project, they are designed not only to maximise usability for that specific venue but also to ensure consistency with your brand aesthetics.
Our approach is always a holistic one and we push for close collaboration between our audio system designers, our CAD draftsmen, and the project’s architects and interior designers wherever possible.
Great sound for everyone
Making sure everyone can hear comfortably and clearly, is of course essential in an events space. Our approach is always a holistic one and we push for close collaboration between our audio system designers, our CAD draftsmen, and the project’s architects and interior designers wherever possible.
Interactivity and audience engagement
GN AVS can design and install elements of the audio and AV, CCTV systems that allow your clients to hold great interactive events and in doing so, create more engaging and memorable experiences. Successful whole-room mic’ing is one of the hardest things to deliver, but GN AVS in-house audio engineers are world-class and very experienced in meeting such requirements. Simpler, and something more commonly requested, are wireless voting systems, and the integration of roving mics into the venue’s audio systems in order to enable audience Q&A sessions.
Videoconferencing & Live streaming
Increasingly, clients require audio & video streaming, videoconferencing or webcast capabilities in their venues, as well as systems to record the event at high quality. Rather than hire in these systems, having them installed means better camera angles, better audio pickup, a neater-looking venue. What’s more, the costs of these installed systems can equate to just a few one-off hires of an equivalent system.
Future-ready systems to allow your venue to grow
Venues not only need to change from day to day but also evolve over time. GN AVS work to make our installs flexible and future-ready, to allow for your business to handle the ever-increasing expectations of clients in a way that is cost-efficient and will minimise downtime when it comes to upgrading the AV and CCTV systems in the future.
Holistic approach
When considering new builds or refurbishments of large venues such as conference centres, lecture theatres, multi-purpose halls, and sizeable event spaces, it is almost essential that the audiovisual environment is considered at the very earliest opportunity. We are very used to being involved in a project from the very initial planning phase onwards, which allows our in-house consultants to work with architects and other members of the project’s design team to deliver the best possible results in the most cost-effective way. In large events spaces, auditoria and conference centres, this usually involves a combination of acoustic treatment, meticulous choice and placement of loudspeakers, expert choice of building materials, proper consideration of the ideal locations of key equipment such as projectors and mixing desks, as well as first-rate specification and calibration of the audio system once it’s installed. We also work closely with all relevant parties to ensure that the deaf and hard of hearing are properly considered, with the inclusion of high-quality hearing loops and associated facilities.
OFFICES AND BOARDROOMS
Audiovisual Systems for Offices, Boardrooms and Meeting Rooms
GN AVS design and install audiovisual and conferencing systems for modern offices, boardrooms and meeting rooms that enable staff to present and communicate clearly and easily. Whether you’re a global multinational company requiring a new way to seamlessly link a network of boardrooms or you just need to enable wireless high-definition presentations in a single meeting room, we’re experienced and ready to help. We help you use technology to create boardroom and meeting room AV systems that enable flexible ways of working, increase business efficiency, reduce costs and make the office a better place to be.
Contact us today to discuss the best audiovisual options for your meeting spaces.
Working life
Above all, we understand that in order for our AV systems to increase the efficiency of your workforce, it is imperative that they are reliable and easy to use. To ensure that this is the case in every one of our projects, our audiovisual systems are designed and implemented with meticulous attention to detail. We employ rigorous testing procedures both before an installation and during the calibration stages, to make sure we get it right the first time.
Our comprehensive end-user training ensures your staff feel comfortable in using the systems and can get the most from them.
Flexible, multi-purpose spaces
Smart offices & Building Management Systems
Technologies can improve the efficiency of office spaces; we can deliver dynamic systems for room booking and meeting systems, or digital signage to help communication throughout your company. We can implement Building Management Systems that are constantly checking for faults, and send notifications to your facilities team, or to our support staff, before inconvenient and potentially costly problems occur.
Unified Communications and IT and AV Convergence
Increasingly AV systems need to co-exist within the IT infrastructure. We can design a system to fully integrate with your existing AV and IT infrastructure or take a blank sheet approach – in collaboration with your IT department – to design and then implement a holistic and unified communications technology roadmap for the decade ahead.
Open-plan offices & acoustics
Whilst open-plan office configurations enable quick and easy communication and teamworking, they can result in high levels of distractions and unwanted noise. This can often lead to increased stress for occupants, and lowered productivity. GN AVS specialises in designing and implementing multi-faceted, cost-efficient AV solutions to alleviate these distractions.
Acoustic treatment for meeting rooms reduces echoes and ‘room sound’, improving the quality of the audio captured for conference calls
Post-Install Support, Service & Maintenance agreements
We include a 12 months post-install support as standard. That includes swapping out failed equipment, handling the repair process with the manufacturer and installing and commissioning any replacements. Read more about our AV support and maintenance services here.
Multi-site communication and collaboration
We constantly research and test the newest technologies such as the latest videoconferencing tools for using platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Skype, and high-end telepresence and videoconference systems from market leaders such as Poly (formerly Polycom), Cisco, Crestron, Logitech and Lifesize to make sure we are up to date with the very best out there. Our systems are flexible but scalable. If you are a multi-site organisation we have a wealth of knowledge in available tools to bring your teams together in meaningful collaboration sessions, rich in content, ideas and productivity.
Breakout and client-facing spaces
Creating exciting and inviting spaces can impress your clients and motivate your staff. GN AVS can bring in our expertise in delivering some of the world’s finest retail environments into the corporate world. We have worked with clients like TripAdvisor to add interactive elements and engaging digital signage to their reception areas, and to implement games and entertainment areas for staff, with great success.
RETAIL AND SHOWROOMS
Audiovisual Systems for Retail and Showrooms
AV systems for retail environments and showroom spaces can play a huge part in creating memorable and exciting customer experiences and effectively delivering targeted information. Getting the right look, sound and feel for your brand enhances the connections with your target market, and GN AVS are a company that is extremely switched on to delivering just the right ambiences through our retail audio system installations, display solutions and digital signage design and fit.
Our teams have wide and varied experience in creating and enhancing spaces in some of Europe’s best retail locations and for some of the world’s most recognised brands.
Aesthetics
We know that the appearance of a retail installation, whether it’s a digital signage installation or a background audio system, is extremely important, and our teams excel in this respect.
When a job requires complicated systems we are experts at providing an integrated audiovisual solution that whilst being powerful is incredibly simple to use
Ease of use
We never encourage our clients to install a more complex solution than is necessary to meet their needs, and when a job does require a complicated system we are experts at providing an integrated solution that whilst being powerful is incredibly simple to use. Effective, streamlined audiovisual systems integration is an important part of nearly every GN AVS project. We place great emphasis on end-user training. Both intuitiveness of use and training, pitched at the appropriate level to suit, are especially important where there are frequently new members of staff joining the site.
Robustness
These systems are central to the visitor experience, and are in near-constant use, so whether we deliver a unified state-of-the-art AV environment across your whole retail estate, or a background audio system for a single shop, we will make sure that the products involved and the installation itself is durable, reliable and ready to deal with the year-round rigours of a busy retail space.
Delivery, installation, support and training
We will manage the entire process; from taking your initial brief, to the training of your staff, as well as providing you with full after-sales care. We provide straightforward, no nonsense user guides for the technology where appropriate, so that, for example, with a digital signage installation the content can be easily updated by even non-technical staff. Our teams work out-of-hours if your premises are already operational. If the work is part of a complete retail or showroom fit-out, we will demonstrate a considerate and flexible attitude when coordinating our schedules with all other contractors.