Sports and community · Scottish Rowing training centre

Scottish Rowing training centre: projection, a 4K screen and weatherproof audio in a cold shed

The central training facility for Scottish Rowing has high ceilings, a metal roof and athletes used to very early mornings and very cold water. Lairds installed an Epson projector, an Elite electric 4K screen, Sonance Mariner loudspeakers and a Yamaha amplifier that will keep working whatever the temperature.

Client

Scottish Rowing

Site

Scottish Rowing training centre

Scope

Projection, screen, audio, wireless presentation and network

Loudspeakers

Sonance Mariner 54, weather-rated

The brief

The centre is the hub for the training and development of Scottish rowing, with strength and conditioning facilities, twelve indoor rowing machines, an indoor rowing tank, stationary bikes, catering and a meeting room. To keep up with the best facilities in any sport, it needed a screen and sound that could be used for analysing racing and training footage, for developing strategy, and for rest days when the squad wants a film or live sport.

The building is a high-ceilinged shed with a metal roof, which gets very cold. Rowers do not complain about cold; equipment does.

What we did

For the audio we chose Sonance Mariner 54 loudspeakers, which are water-resistant and rated for very high and very low temperatures. We have the same model on a rooftop terrace in Glasgow and on coastal sites, so we knew they would cope. They are driven by a Yamaha amplifier, and the whole system runs on a WyreStorm network.

The screen is an Elite Spectrum electric projector screen capable of 4K and Ultra HD, and the projector an Epson 5000-lumen WUXGA large-meeting-room model. A Google Chromecast means any laptop or phone can present to the screen wirelessly at the press of a button.

The result

A modern set-up with more than one use: video analysis and race strategy for the coaches, and a very large screen for the squad when training is over. See more of our commercial installations.