Sound Division shapes up at the Venue
Audio-visual contracting and entertainment service specialists Sound Division recently installed a total of nine high-resolution Fujitsu plasma screens into Beaumont's Health Club in the Venue, an £18M fitness and leisure complex in Borehamwood, Herts.
The Venue, which opened in October 2000, is one of the new breed of fitness and leisure complexes which offers a vast range of services under one roof. On the fitness side customers may avail themselves of an 8-lane 25m swimming pool plus a separate teaching pool and toddlers pool, two dance studios, a 125-station fitness facility, a spinning studio and a health suite. The Venue also has a number of treatment rooms, sunbeds, a crèche, a soft play area for children plus a cafeteria and a 300-seater spectator area around the pool for galas and other events.
All nine screens supplied and installed by Sound Division have gone into the fitness suite to replace the original screens that had come to the end of their natural life. As The Venue's fitness, sales & marketing manager, Iain Buchanan explained, "Each screen had been on for something over 30,000 hours, so they owed us nothing. It was definitely time to replace them! Sound Division did a great job for us at every stage of the process. We were kept informed and updated without having to ask; the installation itself went extremely smoothly with no disruption to the centre whatsoever, and the level of after-sales service has been excellent, staying in touch to check that there were no teething problems (which there weren't). All in all, a very personal and efficient service. I would not hesitate to use Sound Division again, nor to recommend them to other leisure operators."
Managing Director of Sound Division, David Graham, commented, "We are doing more and more work in the fitness and leisure market, and regardless of the size or complexity of the installation, it's always gratifying to be acknowledged for the quality of your work, especially from such a prestigious operation as The Venue. We look forward to assisting them with the their next AV project, whatever that may be."
May 2004