The Royal Academy of Engineering

The ground-floor meeting rooms at Prince Philip House are designed to support interactive and collaborative meetings over an AV-over-IP network. Four of the meeting rooms are fitted with Taurus UCX units, whilst three larger conference rooms feature VINX systems paired with Panasonic PTZ cameras and Sennheiser Team Connect ceiling mics. Content sharing is managed via Taurus UCX’s integration with Barco Clickshare, facilitating a high-quality hybrid meeting experience and seamless content sharing. All systems are installed discreetly, mounted behind walls and monitors to preserve the aesthetic of the Grade 1 Listed building. User control is via familiar Crestron control panels. LED RGBW perimeter lighting and CLS Jade track lighting add visual appeal and atmosphere for both formal meetings and special events.

Upstairs, the first-floor multi-purpose event space required a reliable full-featured solution for larger meetings and events. Utilising the new 10-gigabit fibre network and Lightware VINX decoders and encoders, this area can receive or transmit video across the facility, with inputs at both the floor box and wall panels for adaptable content sharing. Taurus UCX-4×2-HC30 switchers, along with a Blackmagic vision mixing system, provide high-level manual control over visual content for on-screen or live-streamed events. Two Sennheiser Team Connect beam-steering ceiling microphones connected to a Q-SYS NC12x80 camera support voice-tracking, increasing engagement for remote meeting participants.

In-house technicians benefit from comprehensive system control and remote system monitoring, whilst users can enjoy all the benefits of this state-of-the-art integration through a familiar Crestron user interface, helping the RAE to offer superior experiences to their clients