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CDEC Ltd - AV Awards 2011 Finalist uses Edis AV products for Litherland High School
A 27.5 million (US$41 million) next-generation school which has just been completed at Litherland in Sefton, Liverpool UK was a finalist project in the AV Awards 2011 last week.
The hi-tech solar powered building boasts colour-coded rooms featuring the latest computers along with dance and recording studios.
The school is the first in Sefton, Liverpool to be completed under the Building Schools for The Future programme.
It features outside classrooms, solar panels and a wind turbine with separate hairdressing and beauty salons equipped to professional standards and interactive classrooms with projectors and sound systems.
School bells are be replaced by classical music which change on a fortnightly basis.
The colour coding ranges from green for student support areas to blue for calm classroom areas, to red or yellow for music and dance.
Headteacher Jim Donnelly said he believed the improvements were "long overdue." He added that: "The building has been carefully and individually designed to enhance learning in the 21st century". 
The central avenue unites the three distinct curriculum areas of the school and features the professionally-designed hairdressing and beauty salons; "it is called the Avenue of Stars to reflect our strong links with Hong Kong."
The school's old building was the first school to be opened by Lancashire County Council after the Second World War which will now be demolished to make way for a new "village green" for the use of the school.
The school building is 10,900 m2 Sheppard Robson, the arcitect, is working with Kier Education on a One School Pathfinder to provide a bespoke tailored design for a school providing interactive classrooms to enhance learning.
The new Litherland High School embodies the vision of the staff and students into an innovative interactive learning environment, a radical departure from the traditional institutional school style.
Interactive classrooms include Edis EA35 In-wall amplifiers with microphone inputs, Fast-install cable kits either side of short throw Epson projectors, Digital signage features Edis World Beater LCD Tilt wall mounts with all Audio Visual equipment supplied and installed by CDEC Ltd who are Finalists in the AV Awards 2011.
As a vendor to Midwich - Edis AV takes great pleasure in congratulating Midwich on winning the accolade of Distributor of the Year at the AV Awards 2011 ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in London last Friday.
The EA35A in-wall amplifier module fitted into a dual gang Fast-install kit proves to be the favourite choice for installers. The faceplate has 2 audio inputs to a 30 watt stereo amplifier with VGA, composite video and USB connections See more here ...
Our Plug and Play Cable kit now has a USB active repeater and HDMI connectivity. Use 5m of USB cable either side of the cable kit for those extra long installs where the whiteboard (or other USB device) is up to 10m from the computer
Edis products for the classroom and training room will be on display at the Midwich Technology Exposed event at Ascot Racecourse on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
We hope to meet you there if you are attending
When the wall battens are not in the right place the EP40 short throw mount has no problems.The unique swivel arm feature enables the wall plate to be fixed on secure wall battens in stud walls then the swivel arm can be swung into the correct position to line up the projected image on the whiteboard
USB 2.0 active repeaters for the Plug and Play and Fast-install cable kita extends the useable length of USB cables by 5m or more on either side of the repeater. Just what's needed when the whiteboard or projector are more than 5m from the PC or Laptop (can be used with projectors and other devices) See more ...
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