WSDG (NY) Continues European Expansion with Germany, Spain Offices
Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG), the acoustics and audio/video design firm based in Highland, NY, continues to expand its presence in Europe. Dirk Noy, partner and European GM for WSDG, has announced the opening of new offices in Cologne, Germany and Barcelona, Spain.
Carlo Fickler, based in Cologne, is one of three new additions to WSDG's European presence.
Carlo Fickler, who has been with WSDG since 2006, has been selected to head up the Cologne branch. Fickler is an expert in architectural acoustics and audio/visual technology integration, and will be focused on existing projects and on expanding the firm’s client base on the Continent.
Fickler completed the interdisciplinary program in audio and video technology at the University of Applied Sciences and Robert-Schumann-College of Music Duesseldorf in 2004. After a year as an assistant recording engineer in NYC, followed by freelance work as a sound engineer in Germany, Fickler joined WSDG in Basel, Switzerland in 2006.
WSDG’s Cologne branch is equipped with a full complement of advanced measurement equipment and software tools to analyze all room, structural and electro acoustical issues.
The Barcelona office will be overseen by Marc Viadiu and Robert Alfageme. Viadiu studied Technical Engineering in Sound and Image and Higher Engineering in Electronics at the University Ramon Llull in Barcelona. After graduation, Viadiu worked in an industrial acoustics company in Barcelona, before heading his own acoustic engineering and acoustic/audio product distribution firm. In 2009 Viadiu served a six-month internship at the WSDG NY office where he focused on project drawing, acoustical measurements and room acoustical calculations. Following his return to Spain in 2010, he rejoins WSDG in the new Barcelona office.
Robert Alfageme studied architecture at the University International of Catalunya, Spain, where he specialized in Acoustical Construction at the Sert School in Barcelona. Independent acoustical consultant assignments led to a collaboration with Marc Viadiu, and on to their WSDG Spain association.
“Since opening our Swiss office with Dirk Noy in 1997, we have completed a number of high profile European assignments,” WSDG co-principal John Storyk says. “These range from Moscow’sVGTRK Broadcast/Recording complex, the Sunshine Mastering facility in Vienna and the Swiss Parliament Building in Bern to Zurich International Airport. We are extremely enthusiastic about the potential of the European market and are confident our new German and Spanish offices will enable us to better serve the international corporate, institutional, recording and broadcast communities.”