Crestron Europe and exclusive EMEA sales agency TIG relocate offices in the UK-- specifically, the Crestron support team and training rooms are moving to Weybridge, while the TIG sales office is found in Cobham, Surrey.

The Crestron office space at 400 Dashwood Lang Road, Weybridge offers increased training facilities for both commercial and residential AV professionals to prepare for control system design and programming challenges. The modular office spaces feature movable dividing walls to facilitate modern working culture, and are equipped with the latest Crestron solutions for room scheduling and unified collaboration.

The Weybridge office also houses the support team comprising service technicians and specialists. The support team is backed up by experts based in the Crestron head offices in Belgium and the US. The rooms feature AirMedia for wireless data transmission, Fliptops, scheduling panels and signs, and a Crestron AirBoard to further simplify training and meeting environments. Managing the office is the Crestron XiO Cloud.

CEDIA announces the release of the final installment of a three-part video-centered white paper series-- The Integrator's Guide to Video: Colorimetry, an update on a 2017 white paper on the topic of video colour.

The white paper provides background on cinematic colour and explores topics such as colour perception, colour gamut, colour space, chroma subsampling, colour bit depth, high dynamic range and calibration.

CEDIA announces Mitchell Klein is the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award. Klein will be honoured at the CEDIA Expo Opening Keynote hosted at the Colorado Convention Centre on 11 September 2019.

The CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award recognises individuals showing outstanding, creative, innovative and visionary leadership in the growth and advancement of the residential technology industry. Klein is a 30+ year industry veteran with a career in educating the industry, building, creating and implementing strategic businesses and programs, and leading companies to help bring smart home and custom installation into the mainstream.

Klein is known to have kicked off many key CEDIA initiatives in almost every area, including operational, educational, financial, legislative and marketing. Examples include initiating and implementing the first CEDIA strategic plan, the creation of an operating budget and reserve fund, introducing the CEDIA certification program and Management Conference, along with various policy and promotional projects. He continues his volunteerism on the Professional Development Action Committee today.

CEDIA announces nominations are open for the 2020-2021 board of directors. The board influences the direction of the industry, governs association activities and represents the residential technology profession to the outside world.

"Being part of the CEDIA board has been one of the best experiences I have had both personally and professionally-- it is a great honor to be part of casting the strategic vision for the association," CEDIA chairman David Humphries says. "We are always looking for new leaders to help shape the future of the association. I would encourage every member to consider nominating someone they think would represent the industry and the association well."

There are 7 open board positions for the 2020-2021 term. The association fills positions in 2 ways. CEDIA members vote to fill 4 elected positions. Home Technology Professional members employed at a member company can be nominated, as vetted by the governance committee and proposed as candidates for the global membership vote. Filling the vacancies in the election cycle are one CEDIA member from the EMEA region and three from the rest of the global membership.