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Rosslyn Chapel

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:46:49 +0000

The spectacular roof of the new visitor centre moving into place!

Over the last couple of months I have been working on a project at Rosslyn Chapel just outside Edinburgh.

Rossyln a 15th-century medieval Midlothian chapel was featured in Dan Brown’s 2003 novel “The Da Vinci Code” and ever since the annual visitor numbers have rocketed!

The current refurbishment includes creation of a purpose built visitor centre and an upgrade to the lighting within the Chapel.

On this project I have been working for Mode Lighting the Lighting Controls manufacturer and alongside Arthur Mckay the electrical contractors and Gavin Fraser of FotoMA who has completed the lighting design.

Tech Blurb:

The evolution lighting controls system in Rosslyn Chapel controls a number of different types of lighting including LED, Fluorescent and Metal Halide Lighting. The Control system has redundancy built in with system shutdown in the chapel or visitor center not affecting the other. In addition a Mode Lighting Relay Pack controls the small mains power for all audio visual systems along with a communication to the AV control systems giving the staff a single point of control for all systems. The system has a number of control plates including the evolution LCD plate which gives text feedback to users and simple key switch control for non-technical users.

Lighting Design Qualifications

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:20:14 +0000

Lighting Control’s Neil Silver has recently completed the LIF Certificate course. The course is designed to educate in all aspects of lighting and is recognised as such across the lighting industry.

The award of the Certificate is also recognised by SLL (The Society of Light and Lighting) as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the SLL Lighting Diploma.

The course included a large practical design exercise which involved a complete lighting design for the interior of a multiuse building environment.

Neil’s submission was recognised with a high grade due to it’s quality and comprehensive completion of the design task.

The Kelvin Lorne Hotel

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:00:34 +0000

Lighting control recently completed extensive programming of the public areas in this Glasgow hotel Redevelopment.

The Kelvin Lorne

The work completed involved extensive focusing and positioning of lighting and creation of a variety of daytime and night-time scenes to be used by the staff.

Bar Lighting

The restaurant area uses a number of track lighting circuits with a mix of aluminium reflectors and MR16 sources. The positioning and focusing of these fittings makes this space come to life with all the other interior features.

Restaurant Lighting

The new function suite is due to be commissioned shortly with a three partition lighting system capability.