Congratulations to our Audio-Visual team which has just completed two impressive UTAS videowalls.
The first 163-inch videowall was a custom installation at the University of Tasmania‘s Burnie Westpark campus, which included recessing the screen into existing soundproof panelling.
Through careful design and planning, the team was able to remove a section of the acoustic panel and install a subframe structure to mount the LED wall cabinet panels on to.
The full HD LED videowall is made up of 288 tiles and weighs 172 kilograms.
Contact Group’s Audio-Visual Manager, Andrew Otley, said the biggest challenge was ensuring the surface the videowall was attached to, was completely flat and had no imperfections.
“Because any imperfections in the level of the wall get magnified tenfold when the LED panels are attached,” he said.
He said the installation is painstaking work, which has to be 100-percent accurate.
“Once the cabling in place and connected the next step is to use a suction cup to pick up the 288 individual LED modules and place them on the wall.”
He said they’re held on to the wall by magnets.
“They have to be butted up against each other perfectly, so it looks like all 288 tiles are one video surface.”
Once the tiles are in place the team has to calibrate the wall to make sure it’s all color matched.
Andrew Otley said there’s no room for error.
“You’re faced with pulling a lot of tiles back off, and pulling nearly the whole wall apart, to get an issue corrected,” Mr Otley said.
“Our team has it down to a fine art now, they have a process, that ensures they get it right first go, because it’s very difficult if you need to fix something down the track.”
In the state’s south, the second UTAS videowall was another custom installation in the Law Faculty at the Sandy Bay campus.
For this 163-inch videowall we built a new wall to mount the screen onto, with our electrical team also updating the lighting in the lecture theatre to ensure optimum display.
Our Integrated Technologies specialist, Michael Macey, said utilising Contact Group’s diverse range of services was a huge advantage for the client, because we were able to coordinate all the technicians to be onsite at the same time, to carry out the work, exactly how we wanted it done.
Contact Group carpenters built the wall and also assisted with the installation of an integrated podium lectern system.
This system was installed down through the floor, with cable running across the Law Library and back up into a new cable riser to connect back into the videowall.
Michael said Contact Group’s ability to do all the work in-house is a major selling point to clients, with this project proving just how well our divisions work together to achieve a high-quality finish.
Congratulations to all our technicians involved and thank you to our suppliers and manufacturers for contributing to the project’s success.
