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New Lighting for London's Natural History Museum
Although still thought of by some as a supplier of theatre lighting, London-based White Light continues to demonstrate that its work now spans every area of entertainment lighting with the recent installation of a dramatic new LED-based lighting scheme for London's Natural History Museum.
Designed by Martin Valentine of AECOM's Lighting Group, the new scheme replaces 64 Philips Arena Vision metal halide floods with 32 Philips/Color Kinetics ColorReach Powercore LED fixtures. The fixtures can re-create - and actually improve on - the white light of the previous lighting scheme, bringing to life the landmark building's dramatic Romanesque architecture. However, the colour-mixing fixtures also provide many other lighting options which can be exploited by the museum's staff on a seasonal basis or for special events.
White Light undertook the installation on behalf of AECOM, Architainment, who supplied the lighting fixtures, and the Natural History Museum itself. White Light's team installed and commissioned the 32 ColorReach fixtures and the Pharos control system which runs them.
As well as improving the appearance of the building, the new system offers dramatic energy savings - a reduction of electrical load by 75% in normal operation. The LED fixtures also have a useful life of about 50,000 hours, giving a thirty-year operating life under normal usage rather than the average three year life of most metal halide lamps and so reducing the Museum's on-going maintenance bills.
The new lighting scheme continues the relationship between White Light and the Natural History Museum; White Light is already an approved supplier to the venue, providing dramatic lighting to events making use of the Museum's spectacular galleries.
The Natural History Museum is a world-leading science research centre. In the new Darwin Centre, visitors can discover the collections and watch scientists as they prepare, mount and study some of the Museum's millions of insect and plant specimens to understand the major threats facing our planet today. Through its collections and scientific expertise, the Museum is helping to conserve the extraordinary richness and diversity of the natural world with groundbreaking projects in 68 countries.
Whether providing lighting to the inside or the outside of this and other buildings, White Light provides the highest possible standards of service on the tightest possible schedules, based on almost four decades of meeting the unchangeable opening night deadlines of theatre productions. These qualities currently see White Light's services in demand around the world, with the company currently involved in projects across the UK and Europe, in the USA, in South Africa, Singapore, Macau and elsewhere.
19th March 2010
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