TVS Group – Acoustic stars of the silver screen

Specialist skills in acoustic isolation and noise suppression are making UK-based TVS Acoustics the go-to company for help in the resilient new cinema sector.

Despite the fast-growing popularity of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, UK cinema admissions are holding firm. Last year’s figure, just short of 177 million, almost matched that of 2018, the highest box office figure recorded for 50 years. The advent of the multiplex and record levels of investment are seeing a new era of cinema building across the UK and Haslingden-based TVS Acoustics is at the very heart of many of the projects from York in the north to London in the south.

The recent opening of Reel Cinema’s 6-screen multiplex in Chorley, part of a £16-million development of the town’s Market Walk shopping centre, is just the latest example. TVS (Total Vibration Solutions) was chosen because of its comprehensive knowledge of floating floor structures. TVS RESi Floating Floor Systems, as used in Chorley, are designed to create a floating floor or slab to dramatically reduce impact and airborne sound transmission within building structures. The cost-effective system can support lightweight floors and screeds through to heavy raft foundations with typical air gaps between floors ranging from 50mm to 150mm plus.

TVS not only needed to achieve the high level of acoustic isolation demanded by Reel Cinema but also ensure that adjacent businesses were not affected. In addition, the floating floor had to be installed early in the project and take account of later construction of the auditoria walls, vomitory walls and seating, all of which would have to be supported off the floating slab.

In addition to the concrete floating floors within each auditorium, TVS Acoustics was tasked with the design, supply and installation of a lightweight floating floor in the foyer, corridors and back of house areas to ensure continuous level flooring right across the Reel Cinema complex. TVS worked closely with Eric Wright Construction to ensure the project was delivered to the client’s high expectations.

“Chorley is just the latest in a series of projects where TVS floating floors, which help to decouple each cinema screen from the rest of the building structure, have proved the silent solution,” explained Christopher Taylor, the company’s Project Director.

“In fact, our systems are so effective that we were asked to install the same solution for the Escape Entertainment Bowling Alley on the same Chorley development,” he added.

TVS Acoustics, Tel: 01706 260 220, sales@tvs-acoustics.com

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