Category: News

The start of a new Term

We were delighted to be told that one of our educational clients, the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex had identified a new space in their building to be turned into a teaching space. The job was carried out over the Summer and finished well in time for the Term. The room was Continue Reading

The value of Alexa in some of our clients homes

We rarely work at weekends, but on Saturday a small part of our team were kept busy integrating Amazon Echo Alexa https://lnkd.in/gQ93tSn in the home of one of our clients. The Home Cinema and Home Automation systems all now respond to our clients voice, enabling the family to control all of the elements including the swimming Continue Reading

A busy week on so many fronts

Some weeks at Ashdown Audio Visual it seems as if everything is a matter of minor bits all adding up to our whole, in other weeks such as this week we end up with a series of major pieces of work and one wonders how we manage to achieve so much in such a limited Continue Reading

Did we get a chance to meet with Shrek?

Its rare for our teams to travel outside of the South East, but also relatively rare when we get the chance to work on literally our own doorstep. This week bizarrely has seen us achieving both extremes. Whilst one of our teams led by Ben Cottingham has been up in Blackpool working on one of Continue Reading

Continuous Professional Development

Once every three months we all sit down as a team and discuss our own business practices, provide one another with on the job training and listen to suppliers that we have a strong relationship with. This week have benefited from the latest information provided by Sennheiser and Extron, two of the companies we work Continue Reading

Start of Term

This week was the start of Term for both of our local Universities. We are thrilled that this Autumn we have been busy working for both the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex for the first time in a significant way. Back in February we began work as the maintenance contractor for the Continue Reading

Blood Donor extraordinaire and acoustic expertise

The intention of writing a weekly or thereabouts news comment on this website is to ensure than when our clients or prospective clients check out the website, they can see we are more than a hang and bang company. Most of the items on the list below relate to our AV installation work, however occasionally Continue Reading

What is an ossuary?

We do find ourselves in some intersting places! Ben, our operations Manager was installing some new radio microphones at St Leonards Church, Hythe in Kent and afterwards he visited the crypt where there are a huge number of skulls and other body parts which have been in the church since the middle ages.  The place Continue Reading

A week of educational work

The last week of August saw a flurry of various educational projects, installing projectors in one School in Lewes and SMART screens in another School in Lewes, then we fitted a SMART screen for Buxted Primary School and a Clevertouch in Danehill Primary School. We also fitted some Audio Frequency Induction Loop Systems (AFILS) in Continue Reading

A new member of our team

We are thrilled to announce that our engineering team has grown once again with the arrival of John Bidwell. John has joined us from Northbrook College based in Shoreham Airport, although he spent a year out working for a charity in Brighton. His first major role with the company will be to work alongside Ben Continue Reading