Pure AV upgrades Lancaster University meeting space

The John Welch room at Lancaster University has been updated by Pure AV to give the space the look and feel of a corporate boardroom.

The John Welch room is a mid-sized meeting space able to accommodate up to 20 people. It had to be flexible enough to respond to the requirements of a variety of different room users and offer easy connectivity with minimal fuss. The rollout of Office 365 across campus also meant that the room had to support the use of Skype for Business for conferencing with remote participants.

End-user room control is straightforward; managed via an AMX control panel programmed by Pure AV with a user interface to match the style of those already deployed across campus. David Neal, teaching space technology co-ordinator, Lancaster University commented: “Working with Pure AV’s programmer we’ve ensured the panel design matches our other meeting and teaching spaces, so room users can quickly understand how to switch on, interact and manage the room environment.”

The rollout of Office 365 across campus is increasing the use of videoconferencing within the University’s meeting spaces. The addition of two ceiling-based boundary mics to cover the conference table and a PTZ camera to capture video makes running a Skype for Business meeting within the John Welch room easy. Meeting attendees can log into their PCs and set the meeting up without the need to worry about audio quality and clarity.

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