Architectural lighting, from the specification to the switch-on.
Architectural lighting gets decided long before anyone orders a fitting. The control platform is usually written into the specification one to three years ahead of tender, and whoever installs it inherits those decisions. We work at both ends — alongside designers and engineers while the scheme is still on paper, and on site when it has to actually work, every night, in public.
Design stage, installation, and the years afterwards.
Recent work includes a 427-petal kinetic façade in West Perth — every petal individually mapped, driven by a moving sun-tracking envelope — and the colour-changing façade lighting on the Commonwealth Bank building on Murray Street, which we continue to maintain. Every scheme we commission is handed over documented: zone schedules, control schematics, scene tables and a plain-English operating guide, so the building is never dependent on one contractor to change a scene.
At The King's Chapel we're upgrading the auditorium house lighting: twenty addressable DALI LED fittings take over from the metal halide house lights, which stay in place as backup, alongside two DMX-controlled stage lights and a DALI-to-C-Bus gateway with two touchscreens — one fixed behind the stage and one portable — so whoever is running the service can set the room from wherever they are standing. The ageing roof-space wiring and an unsafe roof access are being put right in the same job.
Specifying lighting? Talk to us while it is still on paper.
Tell us the site, the standard and the deadline. We'll tell you honestly whether it's one for us.