Scotstoun Stadium

PEL Services Ltd., one of the UK’s foremost providers of commercial sound and communication systems, has completed the contract to supply and commission a substantial voice alarm and public address system at the newly refurbished Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow.

Scotstoun Stadium has benefited from a £18 million refit ahead of the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow in 2014.  The revitalised stadium features new 5000 seat grandstands, indoor athletics training facilities, track and fitness suite, along with a renovated 400m track.

With these world class new facilities, Scotstoun Stadium required state of the art safety systems and turned to PEL Services which has extensive experience in this field.

After careful consideration, PEL Services chose a Bosch Praesideo digital public address and emergency sound system which is fully monitored and provides excellent audibility as a result of its ability to process and communicate both audio signals and control data entirely digitally.  The system uses fibre optic cabling which ensures signal integrity and allows considerable distances to be covered – ideal for the stadium environment.

Praesideo has been used with Bosch and Bosch Electro Voice loudspeakers throughout the stadium for total clarity.  The system has a variety of audio feeds installed by PEL, including an audio rack with CD players for broadcast of music to any selected zones or ‘all call’, digital messaging of security announcements, chimes, time signals etc, a radio microphone for trackside interviews and standard microphones at reception, events control and the commentary booth.  In fact as many as 28 different uncompressed audio signals can be broadcast simultaneously using this state of the art system.

To further enhance the system, induction loops have been installed by PEL Services in the meeting / press suite, on the club deck, at reception and all ticket office counters.  These systems are designed to reduce background noise and improve clarity of sound for hearing aid wearers.

The Praesideo racks have been installed by PEL in the main equipment room for easy access by authorised personnel.

A fully programmable system, PEL has interfaced the Bosch Praesideo with the stadium’s fire alarm system and has incorporated a fire officer’s microphone for added safety.

For sales information please contact PEL Services Ltd on 020 8839 2100 or go to www.pel.co.uk.

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Bedford Athletics Stadium

PEL Services Ltd, one of the UK’s foremost providers of sound and communication systems, was selected to upgrade the Public Address system to compliment the recent refurbishment of Bedford Athletics Stadium.

Also know as Newnham Athletics, Bedford Athletics Stadium boasts a range of facilities including an international standard eight lane floodlit track, athletics fields, a weights room and two rugby pitches, one of which is floodlit. In addition, a variety of activities are also on offer such as football, athletics and a range of general fitness sessions.

The existing Public Address arrangements had grown over a number of years and this had resulted in several disparate systems, which were now no longer fit for purpose. PEL’s task was to assess and utilise the existing equipment as far as possible, working with the stadium’s management to propose and deliver a sophisticated Public Address solution to fulfil their needs now and into the future.

PEL’s solution was to provide a state-of-the-art central control rack that offers digital signal processing and flexible programming to drive new amplification units serving six existing loudspeaker zones. This arrangement allows for local control of input sources to serve a local areas or zones, but still allows the Public Address operator to group any combination of zones to broadcast site-wide when necessary. Control of the public address system is from six-zone microphone paging consoles situated at reception and within the commentary box, where further provision is made for two commentators hand-held microphones. Utilising existing antenna, provision is also made for radio microphones for commentary and interviews out on the track or field. Provision for music is made, primarily for the lounge bar area, from CD or MP3 located within the rack with localised controls for music selection and volume.

Being kind enough to write to PEL’s Managing Director, Brian Cottrell the Stadium Manager stated:

“I am pleased to have this opportunity of writing this brief note to you to acknowledge the professional manner in which your company carried out the recent upgrade to our Public Address system. In particular, I would like to say a big thank you to Peter Saunders whose conduct from start to finish has been exemplary. Throughout the project he kept in regular contact to ensure everything ran smoothly and was always available to deal with any queries. Thank you for a satisfactory outcome and please convey my thanks to him and his other colleagues.”

PEL believes such a letter reasserts their policy of appointing one from a team of skilled Systems Engineers to work closely with the customer and to be responsible for the project from initial design proposals through to system handover.

For further information please contact PEL Services Ltd on 020 8839 2100 or go to www.pel.co.uk.

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