ENERGY
AECOM AND PHILIPS ILLUMIN
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSE
eplacing the aging floodlight
R
AECOM’s Specialist Lighting Group
system, Philips state-of-the-art
ColorReach™ Powercore
and Royal Philips Electronics have
technology demonstrates the
flexibility and unprecedented
designed a ground breaking LED
light output of LED exterior floodlighting
lighting solution for London’s world
for signature façades today. Combine this
with its unparalleled light projection of up famous Natural History Museum.
to 500 feet, and it is easy to see why
ColorReach™ Powercore was the ideal offered multiple benefits including by wireless programming system with a
choice to illuminate this beautiful structure. benefitting from significantly lower annual remote controller which the Natural
Visitors to the Natural History Museum running costs, as well as the opportunity to History Museum’s events team can operate
cannot fail to be impressed by one of truly bring out the aesthetic quality of the simply and effectively for evening events.
Britain’s most striking examples of building. Ultilising the existing fixing positions,
Romanesque architecture. Named after For general use a white LED setting in all, just 32 ColorReach™ projectors
the architect who designed it, ‘The has been used to complement the colour were needed – half the number of the
Waterhouse Building’s rounded arches and textural qualities of the grey and former metal halide floodlights – to light
and grand entrance takes inspiration from terracotta stone details. The up the broad sweep of the arched
the natural beauty of Fingal’s Cave in programmability of ColorReach™ also entrance and flanking walls.
Scotland. The magnificence of the means that flexible ambiances can be As Glynnan Barham, energy manager
structure at night, however, was not being created to reflect the season, special dates for the Natural History Museum states,
optimised by the existing lighting solution, or corporate events, providing added “We were quickly won over by
which used inefficient metal halide drama and movement via a myriad of ColorReach’s superb projection capability
floodlights. Switching to an LED alternative colour variations. All this is easily achieved and flexibility. More than this however, the
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