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Tateside’s partnership with Halkin scales up at new Euston workspace

Halkin has enjoyed a close and evolving relationship with AV integration specialists Tateside in London. What began with small-scale installations has gradually expanded as Halkin’s footprint grew. One of their largest collaborations to date is at Halkin’s new prime location at Mainframe Euston, marking the workplace brand’s ninth location.

Mainframe is a fully renovated building featuring three floors of office and co-working environments in London’s Knowledge Quarter. It also offers a multi-functional event space. To match this flexibility, the AV systems had to be capable of supporting different types of use throughout the day. The project scope ranges from global background audio to meeting room systems and sub-divisible room AV set-ups.

All three floors were equipped with Bose background audio systems, divided into two to three audio zones per floor to create tailored ambience. These zones are controlled from an iPad located at reception, so staff have the ability to manage the audio environment across the entire site. “Being able to manage all floors from one interface was key”, says Jack Cornish, Technical Director at Tateside. “Staff needed accessible control without any level of technical know-how and most people are comfortable using an iPad.”

In terms of content, the background audio is based on a license-free music playback system. The playlist, which is curated by Ollie Humphreys at Soundscape, plays throughout the shared and transitional spaces in the building without the need for a PRS music license. “It’s designed for those ‘in-between’ areas, places where you don’t want silence, but you also don’t want to pay commercial music licensing fees every year”, explains Cornish.

For the hard of hearing, Tateside introduced an IR hearing loop system in key areas, ensuring accessibility. “We couldn’t install traditional floor loops in some spaces due to building constraints”, continues Cornish. We opted for a Williams Sound system instead.”

The core focus of the Halkin project was its various meeting rooms. Establishing a technology standard, six meeting rooms were installed with Neat Board Pro systems, each configured for use with Zoom Rooms software, the clients’ preferred conferencing solution. Each space is equipped with a Neat Pad booking panel for room scheduling. Ashton Bentley BX breakout hubs, mounted under the desks, give full BYOD functionality.

The most technically demanding and rewarding space to fit out was Halkin’s subdivisible event room on the ground floor. This space can be used as one large room or split into two smaller meeting rooms. Intelligent automation was required to ensure the rooms could switch quickly between modes, whilst maintaining a familiar user experience.

Each half of the room is equipped with four cameras, eight in total across the space, which operate in sync when the room is opened into a single open configuration. Audio is provided by Sennheiser Dante-enabled ceiling microphones and a combination of ceiling and pendant-mounted Bose loudspeakers. The entire system runs on a Q-Sys backbone for DSP and control. “The divisible room was the main technical challenge”, confirms Cornish. “Getting camera switching, audio behaviour, and screen content to adapt to the room’s physical state required tight integration between hardware, software, and the architectural layout.”

Each room runs on Yealink’s S90 Zoom Room system, which includes a dedicated mini-PC, AV hub, room sensor and touch panel. One feature is the interface design, where users can start with a basic room control interface or swipe across the touchscreen to access a deeper Q-Sys user interface for more granular control if needed.

When in open mode, the room features two 98-inch displays at either end and a delay screen on a mobile trolley for extra visuals when required. Using the sensor on the partition wall in the middle, the AV system automatically switches to the desired mode and connects to the appropriate room peripherals based on the behaviour picked up by the sensor. Lightware’s Taurus UCX handles signal management, connecting users’ devices via a USB-C to the room peripherals in each divisible space instantaneously, including all video and audio elements, while providing device charging at the same time.

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