Recent content by piersc

Thanks for all the additional comments. Someone pointed out that in the plan above we only have one egress and we need two. I assume over the stage and out doesn't count! Would a side door stage right work that would lead in to the corridor past the dressing rooms and out that way? The gym...

The seating proposal was for 12 rows and the seat pad for the top row was at 12'. The gym is 24' to metal beams with roof space of about 8' above that. Our original thought was to have a raised stage (maybe 4 steps tall) with an opening of 18'. One of the dual uses would be graduation so the...

Some fantastic information - thank you for all the contributions. The budget is likely to be $1.2m-$1.5m. Fortunately we already have a very good lighting system in the gym that we could re-purpose although we would probably want to have it on motorized bars rather than using a lift or having...

I am in the early stages of putting together a plan to convert a gym for our small independent school in No. Va. At the moment for each performance we take over the gym and create a stage/seating etc and then tear it down a week later. I want to propose that we convert the gym to a...