Theatre & Cinema Projects
This is a list of some projects in the theatre and cinema sector for which Spectrum has provided acoustic consultant or noise consultancy services.
Project Description of Client Services
Chelsfield plc/Apollo Plaza redevelopment, Lower Prepare shell specification for developer. Cinemas Regent Street, London Negotiate with cinema tenant for 6 auditoria. Design measures to attenuate noise from transportation including underground trains. Design isolating structures between adjacent auditoria
City Screen The Picture House, Mailbox Acoustic Design of new 3-Screen high
Development, Birmingham quality THX® certified theatres, in prestigious new ‘Mailbox’ city centre development
City Screen The Picture House, Cambridge Acoustic Design of new 3-Screen high
quality THX® certified theatres
City Screen The Picture House, Stratford East Acoustic testing in THX® theatres (Ambient noise and Reverberation Times)
City Screen The Picture House, Clapham Acoustic design of new screen added to existing multiplex site. Recommendations made to minimise rain impact noise on roof
City Screen Foundation for Arts and Cultural Reverberation modelling and design of THX< Technology (FACT), Liverpool certified cinema and box art space
City Screen The Greenwich Cinema, London Acoustic upgrading specification for 5 screen conversion. Site testing. Sound insulation improvements. Reverberation modelling and surface treatment design. Flutter echo rectification
City Screen Hackney Picturehouse (former Background noise surveys, acoustic testing, Ocean development) and acoustic design of new 4-screen cinema development.
Collins Theatre Trust Collins Theatre, Islington, London Acoustic advice, performance specification for new 300 seat theatre. Acoustic design development, detailed design and testing
Granada TV New TV/film Studios, Manchester Acoustic study and preliminary design of industrial unit conversion to film studios
Horsham Borough Arts Centre, Horsham Major refurbishment and expansion of a new Council Arts Centre incorporating 400 seat theatre, 2 cinemas, dance studio and other performance spaces. Acoustic surveys, specification, design and completion testing
Odeon Cinemas Sound Leakage Study – On typical older estate theatres converted Phase 1 into multi screens (1970's/1980's). Correlate sound levels leaking into adjacent theatres (during loud films), with results of questionnaire
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Theatre & Cinema Projects
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