Event planners of all kinds can often have complex requirements, with some even looking to host two (or even more) different types of events at a multipurpose venue all on the same date! That makes event space reinvention essential — something made so much easier at a venue where retractable seating is installed. And if the seating system can be fully, telescopically, closed up and wheeled away, all the better.
Conversations Drive Creativity
At Master Industrie we spend a lot of time talking to owners and managers who need seating system solutions that don't just fulfil the requirements of a single "type" of audience and these conversations are the driving force behind our creativity. With each event possibly having multiple elements, speedy and stress-free layout changes between event stages helps ensure enough time can be allotted to getting each element exactly right. Freeing up floor space at a venue and reconfiguring seating layout, is usually the main requirement.
The good news for planners is that modern seating systems can be retracted and even moved in their entirety to another position or to outside of an event space! Best of all, it can be done quickly and easily, and with no wheel damage to premises flooring. It's the type of seating system design that helps realise the dreams of venue owners at countless locations around the globe.
At individual venues where nothing is nailed down, space can be opened up, thanks to the number of really fantastic options available from the best seating designers. Nowadays, it’s possible to create, expand or re-configure your venue seating in minutes. Making the area divisible using air-walls, which are sound-proof, can also be an option at halls, just as removable structures can be utilised as catering or merchandising areas. All this is such a far cry from venue design in previous decades, where very few theatres and auditoria were pillar-less, and where fixed seating was the norm; the advent of dream-like automated telescopic seating and all the fabulous flexibility it offers was a long way off.
The Multi-purpose Venue
Nowadays, competition between events companies is fierce. Of course, there is still a market for the traditional conference and exhibition format, but it's dwindling. Attendees expect to be provided with a cool and current event experience: the sorts of happenings they've seen on YouTube, read about on Social Media and heard others rave about. Whether it's an individual site or a campus where there are several buildings custom constructed to host events, making venues multipurpose is becoming essential and planners are being compelled to bring innovation to every single event. Audiences will have attended other events, getting a 'Wow!' experience that they'll compare with all others. You can guarantee that every time they get that Wow! it's likely they'll tell the world about it.
Pioneering Engineering For The Venue Space
If you're talking to a company just now with the aim of improving your venue seating, look at their "pioneering" credentials. Today's top seating system companies should be able to demonstrate to you that they're engineering fresh ideas into telescopic seating designs all the time, adding new features, maximising flexibility, and simultaneously providing increased versatility to their clients' venues. Ask about such things as horizontal retraction, vertical retraction or even a combination of both; do you need a manually operated system or should it be automated? Ask about lighting options, railings and seat coverings. Talk to them about training and after-sales service. A good company will be able to cover all bases - from innovative and creative engineering to good old-fashioned customer service.