February 2003 - PPP Awarded
Metronet has awarded AMS Acoustics its first series of contracts for London Underground work under the new PPP contract arrangement. Acoustic surveys will be undertaken in March for thee sites which will be the first to be modified under the PPP. Helen Goddard said, "It has been a strange time trying to guess what would happen with the PPP. As the London Underground is one of our major clients we were anxious not to lose their business and it seems that the Metronet camp will be business as usual. We are very pleased to be able to see our input continuing to be appreciated and look forward to hearing the difference in the next 18 months."
Watch this space…
January 2003 - T5
AMS Acoustics expertise has been called upon to begin work at Heathrow, on the long awaited, and much needed, Terminal 5. Helen Goddard was involved two years ago in a high level brain storming exercise as the first proposals for the terminal were being consolidated. Since then the enormous structure have been unveiled and work has begun on all of the electrical services design work. AMS have been developing reverberation time calculations for this structure, which will be used within the speech intelligibility predictions. Tony Stacey is currently heading up this project for AMS and said, "The question that everyone is asking at the moment is will it be an intelligent loudspeaker system or a traditional 100V line? All I can say is that it is too early to rule anything out."
December 2002 - Darren Morgan Joins AMS
Darren Morgan has recently been appointed Voice Alarm Systems Consultant, with responsibility for overseeing and directing the voice alarm specification writing service and project consultancy AMS Acoustics are currently offering to its customer base. In addition, Darren will be moving AMS forward with regards to its marketing. This has already included the upgrade and introduction of their new website, which offers the user an excellent links page and a question and answers page to provide help with acoustic problems. Helen Goddard, managing director said "Darren's diverse voice alarm experiences have uniquely prepared him for this position. Darren believes in raising the standard of voice alarm systems and hearing impaired systems to ensure that life-safety is at the forefront of the electrical consultant's mind when putting a building specification together."
Prior to joining AMS Acoustics, Darren was voice communication systems sales consultant at ADT Fire & Security plc dealing with several prestigious projects from their central London office. Previous to this he was southern sales manager at Federal Signal Ltd where he dealt with the continuing Canary Wharf development and set up their southern sales office. Darren said, "AMS Acoustics has a reputation as being the consultant's consultant. I'm tremendously impressed with their services and people, and look forward to the opportunity to being involved with the evolution of this company within its fast changing marketplace."
December 2002 - Mexican Hat Dance
In the first week in December, Helen Goddard attended the first Pan American Acoustical Society of America Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Helen was the invited speaker in the 'Acoustic Comfort in Architecture' session where she delivered a case study paper on the Paddington Station Project. The paper described the technical, aesthetic and political issues encountered by AMS Acoustics in attempting to introduce intelligible speech into a Grade I listed building. Helen said " It was daunting taking to such a large audience from another continent but the paper roused great interest and there was one familiar face in the audience."
The conference organised a trip to the sacred Mayan site at Cethcen Itzya, which comprises of many pyramid temples and a games court. Many interesting acoustic effects were demonstrated in an attempt to convince the delegates that, aside for sacrificing humans, the Mayans understood acoustics well. Helen said, "Being in the jungle on the top of an ancient pyramid was spectacular, and no, I didn't have a hat to dance on!"
November 2002 - Our Newest Addition
Christopher Westlake is the newest addition to the AMS Acoustics team recently employed as a Junior Technician. Chris is going to be fully trained across both electro-acoustics and acoustics and provide an invaluable asset to the company. Chris said, "I have always been interested in electronics and audio and saw this as an excellent opportunity that just could not be missed." Chris will join AMS's four other fully qualified consultants to help with the continuing increase of work.
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