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G-LEC Puts Casino Lisboa’s Name in LEDs
The new Casino Lisboa, which opened on April 19 in Parque das Nações, Portugal, the site of the former Expo ‘98 area, flaunts its name across the building in six metre high letters made from custom LEDs, thanks to G-LEC and its Portuguese partner, Fx Road Lights.
This 15,000 sq m building is a striking sight. Situated right on the coast, it is clad in black glass, except for the LED sign, where the glass is frosted. The six metre high lettering stretches for 22 metres diagonally, from ground level to roof, and required extremely bright and lightweight LEDs that could be adapted to suite the lettering. The G-LEC system proved ideal. Based on G-LEC’s LightFrame system, the sign will be on 24 hours a day, with soft fades and colour bars running through it continuously.
The client required a 10-year guarantee for the signage, so the system uses aluminium profiles to contain the LED tubes, with the frames then fixed to the existing framework of the building. Such is the size of the sign that it required the drilling of 12,000 holes to fix the 165,000 LEDs in the frames and then on to the building.
Thanks to G-LEC’s technology solution, which separates the control system away from the LEDs, the sign weighs in at less than two kilos, despite the fact that it covers 280 sq m.
5th May 2006
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