Issue 37 Spring 23 WEB - Flipbook - Page 31
Picture perfect mobile
connectivity launched
at the National Gallery
Shared Access announces the installation of mobile connectivity infrastructure inside the National
Gallery offices in London.
One Gallery Hub is the new office accommodation at the
heart of the famous Grade I listed building. It has been
designed to offer seven floors of inspirational, collaborative and efficient work spaces for over 250 gallery
staff – as well as offering support for those working from
home. The provision of reliable mobile phone coverage
for staff in the dedicated spaces was an imperative.
“We were asked to provide connectivity infrastructure
that would deliver mobile coverage in all the office spaces,
common areas and basement meeting rooms, to ensure
operational efficiency for teams and individuals working
in the Hub as well as those working remotely. As the National Gallery is a Grade I listed building, our solution also
had to be aesthetically sympathetic to the environment.”
After a competitive tender process, Shared Access was
appointed by the National Gallery to design, deploy,
operate and maintain a multi-operator mobile connectivity service within its new accommodation hub.
The system installed consists of a DAS (Distributed Antenna System) inside the One Gallery Hub building,
which is connected via dedicated dark fibre to a BTS
Hotel (base station hotel) located four miles away. Limited
available space at the National Gallery required an innovative solution for siting of the extensive telecoms equipment needed to service the connectivity. Shared Access’
BTS Hotel houses all the mobile network operators’
equipment in a dedicated and secure off site location. EE,
Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone are the first live operators
with Three due to join imminently.
Sam Jackman, Chief Development Officer, Shared
Access: “It’s a spectacular new office space, but like so
many other buildings it suffered with poor mobile phone
coverage. This was due to a combination of original thick
stone and brick walls, highly insulating modern construction materials - that essentially repel a mobile phone signal
from outside - and the growth of buildings in the
surrounding area which effectively blocked phone signal
from reaching the building.
