LIGHTING & LIGHTING CONTROLS
Advanced wireless smart lighting for Norway’s Construction City
Glamox, a specialist in lighting, is providing around 12,000 wirelessly connected LED luminaires, with advanced light management systems and controllers for the Construction City project in the Ulven area of Oslo, Norway – an ambitious project to create a flagship business campus for construction, civil engineering, and real estate companies
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he time it takes to commission the lighting was cut by more than half, due to Glamox’s new Bluetooth-enabled wireless technology.
Glamox’s customer, Lysteknikk
Elektroentreprenør AS, is the lighting contractor for the Construction City project, which broke ground in October 2021 and is expected to be completed later this year. The concept behind the futuristic-looking building is to create a collaborative environment that fosters innovation, sustainability, and knowledge sharing across a vibrant community of approximately 4,500 staff and students from various companies in Norway’s construction, civil engineering, and real estate sectors. The building is being built to the BREEAM Excellent Standard, emphasising sustainability and environmental performance. Naturally, the lighting supports the building’s sustainability credentials. Glamox is providing a variety of connected LED luminaires for corridors, collaboration spaces, meeting rooms, offices, the car park, and outside the building. Nearly all of the 12,000 luminaires are equipped with sensors for daylight harvesting and presence detection, saving electricity and providing the right light level when and where it’s needed. Two of the building’s 13 floors – parking areas and the restaurant – have luminaires connected by DALI, while the remaining floors use 868 MHz wireless access points on each floor. The luminaires are controlled by wireless self-powering light switches, controllers, and sensors in the luminaires connected to Glamox Wireless Radio light management systems.
“An important and time-consuming part of my job is to configure and commission the lights to
ensure that they work correctly as they should,” said Daniel Jovar, lead technician on the project for Lysteknikk. “Normally, we have to find and then commission one luminaire at a time, which for 12,000 can take one person nearly a year to do. For the first time, we are trying out a new Bluetooth-enabled dongle that enables our tablets to find and commission 10 lights simultaneously. I expect this will reduce the time to commission the lights to around four months.” “Reducing our commissioning time allows us to pass on this cost-saving to customers, which in turn makes us more competitive,” explains Adrian Magiera, project manager at Lysteknikk. “I’m also pleased with the quality of the luminaires, the price, and the incredible level of support we get from Glamox. When we need them, they are there for us. It’s a true
collaboration – they’re more a partner than a vendor to us.”
Glamox has collaborated with Lysteknikk for over a decade and trained several staff on using the new Bluetooth-enabled commissioning dongle at Glamox’s LiteIP office in Southampton, United Kingdom. Lysteknikk expects to complete the lighting
project in November. Construction City opened its doors in July this year.
“Construction City will be a living and
breathing technological showcase, with Lysteknikk trailblazing our latest smart lighting systems. It is a true pioneer and has provided us with important feedback. The end product at Construction City will be something quite special,” said Bjørn-Erik Askestad, sales director for light management systems at Glamox.
School installs dark sky outdoor lighting to protect bats
A school in Market Bosworth, rural Leicestershire, has been equipped with special outdoor wall lighting designed to preserve dark skies for multiple species of local bats and other nocturnal animals
G
lamox, a lighting specialist, is providing energy- efficient LED wall lights, specifically designed to minimise light spillage and approved by DarkSky
International, a non-profit organisation that aims to restore the nighttime environment and protect communities and wildlife from light pollution. Hinckley House School is an independent day school designed specifically for students with special educational needs. It serves children aged 5 to 11 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, alongside a range of other associated conditions.
The school is housed in a Grade II-listed Old Rectory within a conservation area. During its renovation, careful effort was made to preserve and enhance its historic character while protecting local wildlife.
“In 2018, a bat detection study identified five distinct bat species and indicated a thriving bat community with a variety of roosting and foraging sites,” said Jake Smith, Senior electrical engineer at Crookes Walter Consulting, the electrical design consultant on the Hinckley House School renovation project. “For lighting the school perimeter, we specified lighting that was durable, energy efficient, and which would provide sufficient illumination for the safety of pupils and staff whilst minimising light spillage that could affect nocturnal species. Our goal was to preserve the nighttime environment as best we could.”
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DarkSky approved and environmentally friendly
Glamox provided the DarkSky-approved version of its O21-W wall light for lighting the perimeter of the school building. The tough luminaire emits light only where it is needed—in a downward direction—minimising light spill into the night sky. “Artificial light can adversely affect wildlife and plants, interfering with their perception of day and night and disrupting their natural behaviour. The lighting for this project has a warm colour temperature of 3000 K and uses special optics to restrict light spillage,” said David Hunt, managing director of Glamox’s business in the United Kingdom & Ireland.
“The wall light also supports a circular economy, which is the opposite of a throwaway society. It’s been designed to be disassembled, enabling parts to be replaced to extend its lifespan. Additionally, parts can be reused or recycled at the end of their life. Around 45 per cent of the wall light’s housing is made from recycled aluminium,” added Hunt. The wall lights are manufactured by Glamox in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in the United Kingdom, and exported across Europe. Glamox’s customer for the project is Crookes Walker Consulting, which provides sustainable mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design and professional services to property and construction industries. Simcott Projects Ltd undertook the lighting installation.
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