Bill Chew, AA Dipl,
RIBA, MBKS

Bill Chew's career as an architect over 30 years has been spent in architectural design, construction management and consultancy. His experience covers cinema and multiplex developments, commercial, leisure and residential projects, large retail schemes and university buildings.

Prior to starting Bill Chew Associates (in 1988) and CineStructures International Ltd. (in 1995), he held senior positions at Bernard Engle, Ove Arup & Partners and was a Consultant to The Technical Office of H.H. The Emir of Qatar on the University of Qatar project, completed in 1986.

Bill has a wide and detailed experience of most aspects of buildings and building construction technology.

He has a long and successful record of project, personnel, organisational and financial management.

His involvement with architecture and cinema design has included numerous writings and contributions to technical and architectural journals, including Cinema Technology , Leisure Management, Architects Journal, AAQ, Screen Trade, SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, Cinema Record, Theatre World and Sound Solutions

Alan Kay, CEng, MIEE, Member BKSTS and SMPTE (Technical Director)

Alan Kay has been involved with professional and broadcast sound and vision for over 30 years.
During this time he has engineered a wide range of facilities for clients in the U.K., the United States, Europe and South Africa.

These projects include sound studios, television studios, broadcast transmission suites, edit suites, telecine grading rooms, film and video preview theatres and computer graphic labs.

All of these projects have been designed to the highest specifications and in full compliance with national regulatory requirements. Computer networking technology is very frequently a key element of modern system installations, and is an area where our team has great experience and expertise.

Alan’s recent projects have ranged from international high-availability web-server installations, through to individual home-automation installations with full remote access, IP multi-room media access systems and full-specification Internet-based CCTV security schemes.

Before developing a specification, Alan always spends time with a client to discuss their expectations in depth. The specification is then re-presented to the client and its facilities explained in full to ensure that the finished project will perform as required by the client organisation.

Alan joined Cinestructures in 2001 as its Technical Director.

Published Articles
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Projection Room Design in Multiplexes
Cinema Technology December 2002

Light Fantastic- The Electric and the Era of The Luxury Cinema
Cinema Technology September 2003

A Real Cinema in a Care Home
Cinema Technology June 2004

Soho Images Dual Purpose Preview Theatre
Cinema Technology December 2004

Outside Opinion
Screen Trade

the PDF articles are published by courtesy of the BKSTS/Cinema Technology