When Covid-19 restrictions lifted over the summer, a sizeable proportion of businesses adopted a phased approach to entice workers back to the office, with promises of greater flexibility and adjusted working conditions so everyone could have time to recalibrate. To pull it off, particularly for larger and more complex organisations,…
PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) is a massive space in which you can create life-sized environments – a railway station, high street, town square – under controlled conditions, so that we can examine how people interact with the environment and other people in these types of places. You can change the…
The AV Awards 2021 proved to be a fantastic evening. Yes, we would say that, wouldn’t we, but it was gratifying to see everyone gathered back in the same room after a two-year absence. Before we got the show on the road, so to speak, we felt it was important…
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum examines the day of the attacks, the historical context that led up to the attacks, and chronicles what has followed in their wake. Its designers and curators had a complicated task on their hands: how do you create an enduring Memorial and Museum…
A technology-enabled workplace is essential to the digital transformation underway within organisations across the globe like GAMA Healthcare, a manufacturer and distributor of infection prevention and control, supplying hospitals the world over. The need for its products has never been greater and the business has seen rapid growth. To support…
Sport Direct’s Oxford Street flagship store reopened in July with a £10 million makeover designed to transform it into a retail destination par excellence – one that group head of elevation, Michael Murray calls a “globally-recognised retail destination filled with digitally immersive technology”. That’s no easy task in Europe’s busiest…
Imagine that your organisation has hundreds of AV-equipped rooms. Imagine that each one is booked back-to-back, by people who generally have just an hour or less of their customers’ time. Then imagine the fallout if something were to go wrong. At a higher education institution they don’t have to imagine.…
London’s Wembley Stadium connected by EE is one of the most instantly recognisable sports stadiums in the world. The home of the English football team - it is owned by the sport’s governing body, the Football Association (FA) - and site of many legendary events over the years, such as…
Expos are famous for their avant-garde architecture. Every five years countries all over the world gather together to showcase their most cutting-edge developments in pavilions shaped like everything from towers and turrets to giant golf balls. The upcoming Expo in Dubai will set new standards but this time, AV will…
If you have a recruitment business in providing crews for events largely to venues and other businesses closed by Covid-19, the last year has been a year to forget. Unless you’re JacobsMassey, that is. Albert Einstein couldn’t have been more right when he said: “Out of adversity, comes opportunity,” almost…
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