InstallationNews Scolmore secures specification for care home


The refurbishment of a former NHS care home, by new owners, Rushcliffe Care Group, has just been completed, with products from Scolmore’s wiring accessories collections specified and installed throughout the 27-bedroom facility.


main wings, with 27 bedrooms, four main corridors, kitchens and dining facilities and a range of offices and clinical support rooms. Scolmore’s Deco Plus switches and sockets in a black nickel finish were


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selected for the bedrooms – with three light switches and double sockets in each room – as well as for all the corridors and nurses’ stations. Launched last year, Deco Plus is a comprehensive range of more than


800 premium decorative metal wiring accessories that builds on the huge success of the classic Deco range – first launched in 2003 – and introduces smooth, contemporary curves that will have wide-ranging appeal with contractors, specifiers and end users alike. For the main kitchen, four satellite kitchens and offices, the Click Mode range has been installed. The smooth modern lines of the Mode range complement the Deco Plus products utilised. All white moulded and CLICK Mode Part M wiring accessories are manufactured using Urea Formaldehyde and are all independently tested achieved a 99.99% kill off rate across all four types of the strains of bacteria. Simon Bell from SB Electrical, the contractor responsible for the specification and installation of Scolmore’s products, commented: “I’ve been using the Click Mode range of wiring accessories since the first time the range was launched. The flexibility to integrate different inserts onto a plate was quite unique at the time and I now can’t remember a time when I used anything else.


ill Lodge Care Home in Kegworth provides secure in-patient care for adults. The single storey building is made up of four


Products from Scolmore’s wiring accessories collections were specified and installed throughout Mill Lodge Care Home in Kegworth.


“Scolmore is a great company to work with; the products are a great


quality and really robust. I’ve been involved in a lot of the DIY SOS makeover projects and never hesitate to recommend Scolmore’s wiring accessories and lighting products when I can.”


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B.E.G. tackles sensitive architectural challenge with intelligent lighting


Building controls specialist B.E.G. has helped deliver an integrated lighting control strategy to a college at one of the finest universities in the world.


1200s, needed a lighting control solution as part of its New Court building refurbishment. The controls were required to reduce operating costs, whilst minimising light pollution and meeting the needs of its architectural sensitivities. Cambridge-based Baulogic Limited, which


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designs, installs and maintains building controls, in conjunction with B.E.G., undertook a site survey and, because of the building’s unusual design, it chose B.E.G.’s wall mounted Indoor 180 KNX detector. Mark Gedrych, Director at Baulogic Limited,


said: “Most of the lobby spaces on either side of the central spiral staircase have tall cathedral ceilings, with archways between each area, neither of which we were allowed to touch. “That’s why we selected the B.E.G. wall- mounted KNX 180 detectors for these areas,


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ambridge University’s St John's College, which has some parts dating back to the


mounted at 2.4m off the floor, and chose frames that were colour-matched to the paint colour which had been selected by interior designers Eve Waldren Design. “The overall effect is very pleasing because


the detectors blend nicely into the renovated 1830s’ neo-Gothic spaces whilst still providing excellent coverage to catch Fellows and guests as they exit their rooms surrounding the lobby spaces on all sides.” In a few areas, B.E.G. used the ceiling


mounted detector PD4 KNX SM, which gives coverage of up to 24m diameter. When fine tuning the detection areas, some detectors were fitted with lens shields to prevent lights being triggered by passers-by. Stephen Payne, Systems Sales Manager at


B.E.G. said: “We are delighted to have worked with Baulogic Limited in one of the most successful and prestigious universities in the world. “There were some interesting challenges as


B.E.G.'s wall and ceiling mounted detectors were used on the spiral staircases.


this celebrated college building had certain unique features, such as the archways. Between B.E.G. and Baulogic Limited, we came up with a tailored solution that provided a fantastic lighting solution for St John’s College which will reduce its running costs and limit its light pollution.”


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