The GEMS School of Research & Innovation in Dubai has been designed ‘to redefine what a modern educational environment can be’. The campus combines advanced technology, collaborative learning spaces and immersive educational experiences to support different teaching styles and educational experiences, requiring audio systems that can adapt to a variety of activities.
The GEMS (Global Education Management Systems) STEM Lab needed an audio system capable of supporting presentations, demonstrations and collaborative learning sessions. The Reading Lounge required clear, comfortable audio that could enhance the atmosphere without becoming distracting. Meanwhile, the Immersive Room demanded audio performance that could complement interactive visual experiences and help create more engaging, sensory-focused learning.
To help bring this vision to life, the school partnered with leading A/V integrator Granteq to deliver a range of solutions for the specialised learning environments across the campus. ‘The school wanted a reliable, high-performance A/V system that could support a modern education environment where technology is part of everyday learning,’ says Granteq MD, Girish Narayanan. ‘The challenge was to make the technology powerful enough for each space while keeping it simple and dependable for daily use by teachers and staff. We chose LEA amplifiers because in an education environment, the system has to work every time.’
Granteq installed several Connect Series 352 amplifiers to power the audio systems in the Reading Lounge, STEM Lab,and Immersive Room. The CS352 is a two-channel amplifier that provides 350W/per channel. The Connect Series supports 96kHz DSP as a standard feature. With LEA Cloud, A/V integrators like Granteq can remotely control and monitor amplifiers from anywhere, at any time.
Since completion, the school’s A/V systems have helped support the collaborative and immersive learning envisaged during the design phase. Across the spaces powered by LEA amplifiers, students, teachers and staff now benefit from audio that enhances presentations, and supports interactive activities and engaging educational experiences.
‘With more than 20 years of experience in the A/V industry, we continuously evaluate technologies based on reliability, network capability, DSP features, ease of configuration, and long-term support,’ Narayanan says. ‘LEA was a strong fit for the modern, networked A/V environments required at GEMS School, and we look forward to using them again in future.’
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