Highfield School Letchworth
Highfield School in Letchworth boasts an impressive state-of-the- art facility providing a learning environment for over 1000 students. Original school buildings erected in the 1960’s have been replaced with a new £15M facility. The school benefits from improved classrooms, communal and circulation areas and new sports and recreational facilities where the old school was originally sited.
Pupil and staff movement around the school played an important role in the lighting design, uniformity of the lighting and good luminaire choice for flexible learning spaces was key in the design process. The use of modular and circular LED LuxPanels in corridors and walkways provided non-obtrusive but effective lighting in high traffic areas. LuxPanel requires no maintenance over its lifetime with over 50,000 hours of operational life (up to 100,000 hours on dimmable variants) with linear Academy luminaires installed in Circulation and Dining Rooms now offering up to 60,000 hours (L80 B10) working life. The face or first impression of the school, the outside space needs to
be lit effectively to ensure basic safety requirements are met. Outside spaces are often utilised for a number of important functions from circulation and break out to recreation and sporting activities. Luceco’s Post Top Amenity Lanterns were used externally, ensuring effective lighting, meeting basic safety requirements, yet sympathetically enhancing the outside space.
Lighting designers need to consider the quality of the lit effect and practical demands such as colour rendering and suitability for CCTV, balanced with the location and mounting positions available in the area to be lit.
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