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 in Wellard we replaced a failing Dynalite dimmer system and twenty 400 W metal halide high bays with SpaceLogic C-Bus and a DALI-2 gateway. Twenty individually addressed DALI LED high bays now run in five dimmable zones, with five one-touch scenes from Classroom to Church, controlled from a 10" touchscreen and a wall keypad that always show the same state. The whole system was built and tested at our Osborne Park office before it went to site, so the install fitted into the school holidays. The church received a plain-English user guide, test records and backups of the C-Bus project at handover. In their words, the system is "extremely user-friendly", and the installation was "excellent from start to finish".
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.