Techno Q delivers QNCC Phase II
Published: MEA
QATAR: Techno Q has completed its largest single A/V project to date with the handover of Phase II of the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) building. The scope of the project included A/V and complete lighting systems for exhibition halls, meeting rooms, hospitality suites, VVIP lounges and admin rooms.
The technically advanced LEED Certified building is one of the largest A/V projects done to date in Qatar, and as such it took Techno Q’s team of 60 technicians working full time at the site nearly two years to complete. The audio side of the project has seen Techno Q install JBL ceiling speakers throughout the venue, powered by Lab.gruppen amps.
However, it is the processing brains of the system that Techno Q is particularly proud of. The company describes the convention centre as having ‘cutting edge facilities all controllable from the central control room’. This has been achieved with a combination of Peavey MediaMatrix and Crestron RoomView connected through the building via CobraNet.
On the visual side control is courtesy of an Evertz broadcasting system which manages HD/SD-SDI over fibre for all the meeting rooms. The video is delivered to the multiple NEC screen arrays by a Nexus media player. The arrays have used 200 screens from the manufacturer to create video walls of various shapes and sizes which are able to play any combination of video in high resolution. An additional seven large LED displays are located at the entrance to each of the exhibition halls, and the A/V installation stretched to outside the building with the installation of a 15m x 6m V shaped digital signage screen on the approach road to QNCC.
Control of the lighting system is also notable as it is via new Strand Lighting software that has been specifically developed for the QNCC project. This system controls bespoke items such as the reflective pool in the reception area with 3,000 channels of LED lighting to create the decorative lighting features. The Pharos LED touch panel controller is linked to the networked lighting system and required 11,000 terminations for the reflective pool.