About Amec Foster Wheeler
AMEC is a British consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, England. With offices in over 55 countries worldwide and roughly 30,000 employees, the company serves customers in the oil and gas, minerals and metals, clean energy, environment, and infrastructure markets.
Challenge
AMEC wanted to outfit their new Houston office conference and training rooms with easy-to-use AV equipment that enabled both HDMI and VGA. The system had to be intuitive, one-hundred percent reliable and all products needed to be out of sight.
Solution
IAV, the professional integrator, designed sleek, no-nonsense systems for three different parts of the building: the training room, the executive conference room and 23 smaller conference/training rooms. Each room has a simple system that accesses the necessary digital technology with the push of a button without having to adjust projectors or resize screens. And there are no poor quality images.
The 30-seat primary training room inherited equipment from the executive conference room. This included a smart tablet for annotating images, two ceiling-mounted projectors and Kramer VGA and HDMI cables inside a custom podium. Twenty-three smaller conference/training rooms were outfitted with identical systems. Each included either a Kramer VP-434 or VP-435 scaler connected by Kramer VGA and HDMI cables. The scaler converted the selected video signal to a computer graphics or HDTV output resolution. The HDMI output signal was transmitted to the projector via CAT 5 cables.
Existing cable in most of the rooms saved the considerable expense of rewiring. All hardware was housed under the conference room tables to create a sleek and professional installation with reduced clutter. The AMEC executive conference room features an under-the-table mounted VP-435 ProScale Digital Scaler and a Kramer FC-46 audio de-embedder for audio conferencing.
Results
“They didn’t want a control system or a confusing bunch of products, so we designed a simple, intuitive system with easy-to-use Kramer products. We were very conscious of having no clutter on the table. The Kramer under-the-table mounted units and especially the cables helped us achieve that,” said Tom Austin of Industrial Audio/Video Inc.
A graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology, Doug has been in the Technology industry since 1976 and actively oversees Fearing’s daily operations. Along with his wife, Lois, and three others, Doug started Fearing’s in a 600 square-foot facility in Portage, Wisconsin. In the 25 years since, the company has grown to over 30 employees with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug likes to say he’s a “TV Technician with a dream� going back to his history with the family’s original business-Fearing’s TV and Appliance.
Doug values time with family, watersports, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing. In addition to being a devoted member of his church, Doug serves as Board President for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County, Board member of Schools for Haiti and Scripture Chair of the Gideons-Portage camp.
A graduate of MATC, Lois oversees Fearing’s daily book keeping along with various HR responsibilities.
Along with Doug, Lois is deeply connected to community outreach, serving as a Board member and Fundraising Committee Chairperson for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County. She also serves on the Schools for Haiti Fundraising committee. In addition, Lois’ ongoing passion and commitment to provide care for the elderly comes from her 10-year history of working in a Reedsburg, Wisconsin Nursing home.
Lois enjoys singing, hiking, sunny days on the pontoon, and spending time with her 4 grandchildren.
Ehren drives Fearing’s technology by continually seeking out trends to enhance capabilities while supporting Sales, Engineering and Installation teams. Throughout his years with Fearing’s, Ehren’s talent and vision have joined forces to create a wide variety of projects and strategic solutions that exceed expectation.
Ehren loves music, family time, movies, nature, sustainability efforts and electric vehicles.
With 10 years with Fearing’s and over twice that long in the industry, Ben continues to lead, coordinate, and develop the Commercial AV team.
By consistently delivering an outstanding experience and outcome, Ben contributes to the Fearing’s legacy of long-lasting partnerships that truly make a difference. Whatever the Commercial AV need may be, Ben and team deliver at the highest level.
Ben is an avid fisherman and photographer. He enjoys coaching his sons and other youth.
Chris has been with Fearing’s for 20 years and in the industry for over 2 decades. As a Certified leader in Sales Acceleration and trained in EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems), Chris successfully utilizes his skills to lead the Fearing’s Salesforce. Chris and team are motivated and driven to develop new client partnerships while continuing to reinforce loyal long-term relationships with ongoing Service excellence.
Married for 19 years with 3 children, Chris enjoys skiing, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, camping and golf. He’s also been actively involved as a Youth Football and Softball coach for his family and others.
