InstallationNews
CP Electronics has supplied controls to the Centre Building, a new state of the art, flexible and highly sustainable academic and teaching building in the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) complex.
CP has lighting under control at LSE T
he brief was to provide accurate and easy adjustment
of light levels, something vital for today’s places of learning, particularly the lecture areas which have to cater for both traditional teaching and technical presentations. LSE has created this new landmark building and Public Square at the heart of its campus on Houghton Street which will become a world- class home for the political sciences. The design has been zoned vertically, with the most public and highly- serviced facilities located on the lower levels which helps to animate the newly-created LSE Square and Houghton Street. The more private academic departments,- to which access is controlled, are located on the upper levels. The Centre Building also houses meeting rooms, a 200 seater flat auditorium which can be used for both lectures and events, and an LSE style lecture theatre that allows traditional style teaching as well as collaborative group work and a ground floor café. To control the lighting in the buildings’ multiple use spaces, from lecture
Product News
Ellis flexes its Quads Designed to safely secure single cables in a quad formation, Ellis Patents’ Vulcan+ Quad cable cleats are in high demand across a wide range of industries around the globe.
T
he Vulcan+ Quads, which were designed and developed in-house at Ellis’ North Yorkshire headquarters, were launched in 2000 and are now firmly established as
the number one choice for specifiers, contractors and installers. Stephen Walton, Ellis’ technical director, said: “The market has changed dramatically in recent
years; and while that’s good from the point of view that the vital importance of correctly specified cable cleats is fully appreciated; there is a drawback in the fact that customers are now presented with numerous products of remarkably similar appearance. “Competition is, of course, good; as it gives a customer choice, and helps to drive
product development, but unfortunately in the cable cleat market this isn’t really the case. In many instances these new products are being brought to market as computer renderings before they actually exist. And while they say that imitation is the best form of flattery, it certainly makes a customer’s job harder when they have to sort fact from fiction in the specification process.” Designed, developed, tested and manufactured in accordance with IEC 61914, Ellis’ Vulcan+ Quads are available in a range of sizes, ranging from Ø23mm to Ø70mm. The frame of the cleat is manufactured from corrosion resistant 316L grade stainless steel, while the cables are supported by an integral liner manufactured from a low smoke zero halogen (LSOH) material. The cleats are available with a range of adapters, including C-clamp and ladder rung fixings, ensuring they can be utilised in more quad and quadplex installations than any other similar product.
For further information on Ellis’ Vulcan+ Quad cable cleats visit
www.ellispatents.co.uk/products/vulcan-quad-cable-cleat/
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theatres to individual offices, CP provided the company’s RAPID System with a control strategy that includes daylight linking, presence detection and timers. CP’s RAPID System was specified for the project to control all of the lighting throughout the building, including a hardwired 3 x network area controller with Ethernet, 64 address hardwired DALI gateway modules, scene modules, a DALI network ceiling PIR and a RAPID computer graphics package. The DALI gateways and Area Controllers were built into panels offsite, to allow for future expansion when required. The Centre Building offers purpose
built spaces and facilities that will support and inspire the people who work within in it and their ideas to transform the world through social-science research and education. CP products are already in use across multiple buildings around the LSE campus, with products that meet the requirements of flexibility and ease of use.
For more information, please email
enquiry@cpelectronics.co.uk
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