In 2008 the Catholic Education Office (CEO) commissioned Glanville Architects to design a vocational training college in Burwood. The first stage of the project was the construction of a performing arts and hospitality training centre including a training theatre, commercial recording studio, green screen room, AV edit suite and multiple rehearsal rooms. Auditoria was engaged in October 2008 by the CEO to design all audiovisual, theatre and acoustical elements of the building.

After nearly two and a half years to project was commissioned in March 2011 and has now been handed over to the teaching staff and facility management.

The training theatre consists of a tension wire grid system with fully flexible rigging facilities, configurable 48 channel audio system with multiple loudspeaker layouts to suit different room configurations, variable acoustics to suit different performance types, over 250 dimmers, 100 lighting fixtures, video switching and projection. The Tension Wire Grid was design with twice the typical working load limit to allow up to 8 adults at any one time.

The recording studio was specified to meet the demands and requirements of a commercial facility with 64 simultaneous inputs, a Protools HD3 system with C24

user interface, mechanically isolated floating slab/box in a box construction techniques, 5.1 monitoring system as well as specific features for training purposes such as dual 46” displays and a console overhead camera.

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