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AECOM and Philips illuminate the Natural History Museum in London
Published: 19-Oct-2009
AECOM’s Specialist Lighting Group and Royal Philips Electronics have designed a ground-breaking LED lighting solution for London’s world famous Natural History Museum.
Philips has replaced the aging floodlight system with state-of-the-art ColorReach Powercore technology, which demonstrates the flexibility and unprecedented light output of LED exterior floodlighting. This is combined with light projection up to 500 feet.
The magnificence of the Waterhouse Building with its rounded arches and grand entrance at night, was not being optimized by the existing lighting solution, which used inefficient metal halide floodlights. Switching to an LED alternative offered multiple benefits including significantly lower annual running costs, as well as the opportunity to truly bring out the aesthetic quality of the building.
For general use, a white LED setting is used to complement the color and textural qualities of the grey and terracotta stone details. The programmability of ColorReach creates flexible ambiances to reflect the season, special dates or corporate events, providing added drama and movement via a myriad of color variations. All this is easily achieved by wireless programming system with a remote controller, which the Natural History Museum’s events team can operate simply and effectively for evening events.
Utilizing the existing fixing positions, just 32 ColorReach projectors were needed - half the number of the former metal halide floodlights – to light up the broad sweep of the arched entrance and flanking walls.
Glynnan Barham, energy manager for the Natural History Museum said that the Natural History Museum is focused on minimizing its emissions through all activities and one of the key areas through which it can be achieved is lighting.
The total electrical load has been reduced by 75% in normal operation. Added to this, LEDs are virtually maintenance free and have a useful life of approximately 50,000 hours. This means that the Museum would not need to replace the LED modules for at least 30 years under normal usage conditions.
Overall, calculations show that the installation cost of the LED solution would have a payback of just four years, with accumulative savings year on year thereafter.
Philips ColorReach Powercore has given the Natural History Museum greater scope to integrate stunning lighting effects within its architectural environment.
AECOM is California-based global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental and energy.
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company.
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