Custom Consoles awarded major university contractFebruary 1, 2006
The University of Newcastle has placed a major order with control room and office furniture specialist Custom Consoles. A custom-built video monitor wall, control desk and storage facilities for the campus' CCTV security centre are included in the contract. The centre is used to ensure the security of students, staff, visitors and property at the university's five sites. "We were recommended by another client in the security business" comments Gary Fuller, Sales Manager at Custom Consoles. "This installation is an excellent example of what can be achieved using custom-designed furniture within limited room-space. The furniture was pre-assembled at our Leighton Buzzard factory and completed onsite." Built on an MDF frame, the monitor wall is surfaced in beech veneer with sprayed grey texturing to minimise reflections around the screens. The wall accommodates twenty-seven 21 inch JVC CRT-based colour monitors in three rows of nine set above eight storage cupboards with matching beech doors. For health and safety and maintenance purposes, each monitor is housed on a pull-forward sliding steel tray. The control desk is 3 metres in width. It is surfaced in hard-wearing blue Marmoleum and provides seating space for up to three security staff. Six Ergotron LX monitor arms are attached to the rear of the desk, each providing independently adjustable support for a 19 inch PC display screen. The University of Newcastle traces its origins to a School of Medicine and Surgery (later the College of Medicine), established in Newcastle in 1834, and to Armstrong College which was founded in the city in 1871 for the teaching of physical sciences. These two colleges formed one division of the federal University of Durham, the Durham Colleges forming the other division. The Newcastle Colleges merged to form King's College in 1937 and, in 1963, when the federal University was dissolved, King's College became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Sustained expansion since 1945 has resulted in the development of a modern University campus, around the original Armstrong College buildings, on a 45-acre site close to the centre of Newcastle. A vigorous building programme over the past 30 years has created other additions to the campus. Custom Consoles (www.customconsoles.co.uk) manufactures a broad range of studio and technical-support furniture including motorised, manually adjustable and fixed-height units plus fan-cooled sound- insulated equipment housings. Contacts for further information: Gary Fuller, Custom Consoles David Kirk, Stylus Media Consultants |
