Building
Darryl Easton, Manging Director, East On Media Solutions
Duncan Western About East On Media Solutions
East On Media Solutions offers a specialist project management service covering all aspects of complex builds and systems installations, working with some of the highest profile UK broadcasters and post production companies. The ‘specialist’ aspect of this service is a deep understanding of the unique M&E and base build requirements, from how acoustics treatments impact architectural realisation to server room HVAC and clean air across a facility to delivering a timetable that minimises disruption within a live working environment.
Managing Director, Darryl Easton sees his role as being, “explainer, interpreter and sometimes mediator” across all the stakeholders. A successful project is the result of a, “cohesive team bringing in contractors and clients and finding the enablers to unlock any challenges as
they develop – sometimes, those enablers are not the first people you would imagine”.
Darryl brings a calm, affable and measured approach to problem solving and comments, “that to achieve your goals, you need to be able to filter out the noise and remain clear, focussed, fair and supportive when required but ruthless when cock-ups arise”.
Darryl’s mantra is
“adaptability”. All complex projects have their own challenges and bottlenecks where skilled tradespeople are focussed on their craft and not always the bigger picture. Darryl believes that his role is to “always be looking three months down the line and thinking backwards to define the best approach and the correct order of work and overcome obstacles before they arise”. As we like to say in television, ‘you start by looking at the deliverables and only then work backwards.’
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East On Media Solutions was brought in to oversee building works at both Splice Post’s Nile Street and Perseverance Works facilities in 2021 and 2022. Splice Post’s Co- founder Duncan Western recounts the experience
of working with Darryl Easton and East On Media Solutions and the difference a project manager with M&E experience can make to what can be a fraught and diverting series of challenges.
Darryl’s a project manager who understands post production. We’ve always worked with the very best builders who understand picture and audio post – from the acoustic treatment and insulation to the flooring. We’d been doing it ourselves from sourcing everything to running the build. In reality, you’re learning on the job and making errors as you go. The builders build what you ask them to build and don’t really ask much further or look at the bigger picture.
We’d always thought it was cheaper to employ and manage our own builders and to employ a project manager was unaffordable and that’s what we’d done for the past 20 years. But it turns out that it isn’t.
Darryl Easton was recommended to us by Jerry Bennett when we were most of the way through the new Nile Street build but had hit a couple of snags.
Darryl immediately made a difference and made his presence felt. He took over project managing the top floor where we have 11 offline suites, a grade room, kitchen, meeting room and production offices. You can see the difference on the finish of the parquet floor. (It was already there but he got it renovated perfectly.) And he managed the bathrooms in the basement, which needed some attention.
After that we brought him in again to revamp and refurbish the basement at Perseverance Works. We have three audio suites and we wanted new flooring and fabric throughout. On top of that we had two voice over booths, grade, online, kitchen and bathroom and a really complex sanitary flow.
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