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News Release from: Simmtronic | Subject: Lighting Control System
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 May 2003
Highly Flexible Digital Lighting Control
System
Simmtronic digital lighting control system is proving highly flexible at the Glaxosmithkline HQ.
When Simmtronic designed and engineered the complete digital lighting control system to WSP specification for GSK House, GlaxoSmithKline's new HQ at Brentford, it ensured it was flexible enough to adapt to later revisions to the floor plan This was Europe's largest digital lighting control project and encompassed the entire one milllion square feet development of four five-storey buildings, the 16-storey tower block and the 142 metre internal street
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 23 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Microsoft Excel files, generated from CAD drawings, were used for the production of LCM labelling.
Load shedding has been applied on a building-by-building basis.
For the retail area the controls have been designed to manage LV, cold cathode, tunsten and even LED lighting and photocells were used to control the 'Street' lighting in conjunction with time programming and a multi-gang switch plate.
Simmtronic worked closely with the project team on the logistics for delivering large quantities of equipment for simultaneous installation at multiple locations around the site.
This was vital as the commissioning engineers moved around the site programming and witnessing large areas as they became available, rather than at the end of the project.
This major lighting controls project was successfully completed on time and to the complete satisfaction of the client.
The system has continued to evolve with GSK House, as it was foreseen that a workplace for over 3000 personnel would be subject to regular rearrangement of the floor plan.
The GSK facilities management team maintain a clean, computerised graphics file for the whole site and each month Simmtronic is given the latest updates on the operational layout.
From these it can reprogramme the controls, via modem to the on-site computer, to keep them synchronised with any revisions to the floor plan.
This has been so successful that after more than twelve months the lighting control system remains as effective today as it was on day one.
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