THE FARNAM HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN OMAHA, NEBRASKA IS INSPIRED BY THE CITY’S CREATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL PAST. IT BRINGS SLEEK SPACES WITH INDUSTRIAL CHARM AND CONTEMPORARY STYLE FOR A LUXURIOUS ATMOSPHERE WHICH MATCHES THE EXCITEMENT OF THE CITY. PRECIOSA LIGHTING WAS PLEASED TO WORK WITH THE GETTYS GROUP, CHICAGO TO CREATE LIGHTING FOR NEARLY EVERY SPACE IN THE HOTEL. The brief here was comprehensive: lighting was needed for the hotel’s public areas, front desk, lobby, restaurant, ballrooms, pre-function space, corridors, and wine cellar. The lighting fit the Gettys Group design vision of modern, local, and exciting. The reception area includes a white, square metal installation featuring dimmable LED strips. The fixture gives a nod to another important part of the hotel; the creative exhibits regularly held in the lobby. Preciosa created a special light with an adjustable frame that holds a painting. The adjustable frame means the artwork can be changed. The lobby bar features a curve of slumped glass for a contemporary look over the blonde wood bar. In the Dynamite Woodfire Grill restaurant, the décor is warm and welcoming. Preciosa created a large lighting installation highlighting these warm vibes. Five round discs, each nearly two metres in diameter are highlighted by an aged patina surface finish on the outside and champagne brass finish on the inside. A second notable lighting fixture in the restaurant features a metal pendant consisting of three parts. Five inner pendants with hand-blown opal frosted glass spheres are surrounded by metal mesh rings. Curved metal segments attached to the ceiling fan out around the fixture. This gives the light a completely different look and feel during the day and at night. The wine cellar features a series of metal rings with a wood-coloured surface finish and dimmable LED strips. The Preciosa team created a wood-coloured finish that looks so authentic it’s hard to believe the lighting isn’t formed from real wood. They are reminiscent of wine barrels and hang consecutively through the space. Sparkles were brought into the ballroom with three lighting fixtures embedded in ceiling niches. The fixtures are minimalistic with simple polished gold frames and white bulbs. Additional Preciosa lighting can be found around the property (lovely marble lamps with linen shades and a champagne finish) and corridor floor lamps featuring a wooden table with tempered glass surface, a black matte metal frame and hand-blown opal glass shades.

The challenge Abbey Wood station in southeast London has undergone a major upgrade to become the southeastern terminus of Crossrail - London’s new east-west rail link. When it opens in autumn 2019, the new route, to be named the Elizabeth Line, is expected to carry 72,000 passengers per hour. Abbey Wood is one of dozens of stations to have been upgraded or newly built in preparation. The new Abbey Wood station has been nicknamed “the Stingray” for it’s unusual shape, with large zinc-surfaced wings extending into canopies on each side. The unique structure required an equally unique lighting solution. The lighting solution Thorn worked in partnership with Balfour Beatty and Anderson Green Building Services Consultants to come up with the concept design for Abbey Wood. The chosen solution uses Thorn’s Contrast, Areaflood Pro, Mica, College, Chalice, Voyager, Eyekon and Impactforce luminaires. The IP66-rated Contrast 2 LED fittings highlight the arched wooden roof above the concourse, alongside Areaflood Pro fittings which provide indirect lighting to the granite-paved concourse area. Contrast 2 is a compact architectural floodlight combining high output LEDs of predefined beams that offers complete flexibility, while Areaflood Pro is an IP66-rated, general purpose LED area floodlight with superior optical performance, ensuring excellent visual comfort for station users. Areaflood Pro also requires virtually no maintenance due to its 100,000-hour rated lifetime on both drivers and LEDs. DALI controls have been used throughout. In the office areas, illumination is provided by Thorn’s College linear fluorescent luminaires and Chalice LED downlights. College has a clear prismatic diffuser in tough polycarbonate for precision light control, vandal-proofing and high impact resistance. Chalice downlights have been engineered to offer efficacy of >100lm/W for ultra-low energy consumption and a long lifetime of 50 000 hours. The high performance optic and light mixing chamber provide a uniform appearance, a unified glare ratio <19 and a high CRI of 80-90. Thorn’s Mica Slim is a series of in-ground “drive over” luminaires, which have been used to provide guidance lighting for the external bench areas along with energy efficient, robust and impact-resistant Eyekon LED bulkheads. Impactforce LED luminaires, specifically designed for aggressive impact or corrosive environments, have been used in the plant room. The high performance LED exit signs from the Voyager Sigma range, are available with self or central automatic test options. The result Thorn’s comprehensive solution for Abbey Wood covers a wide variety of areas and solves numerous different lighting challenges, providing visual comfort, efficiency, safety and long life. The lighting solution is an integral part of the stunning and unique new architecture. Main Contractor: Balfour Beatty Project Consultant: Anderson Green Building Services Project year: 2019

Zumtobel and Thorn provide 'a light at the end of the tunnel' for St. Patrick’s Special School Working on a brief to deliver a first-class facility for the students and teachers of St. Patrick’s Special School in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Zumtobel together with our sister brand Thorn Lighting have supplied a number of luminaires throughout the €14 million project. Working with building engineers, Semple and McKillop Ltd, the project involved the supply of custom made linear SLOTLIGHT infinity light lines that had to be the exact size of the radiant panels and also be able to incorporate 3rd party lighting control sensors. The lighting installation was carried out by electrical contractor, Burke Electrical Installations. Special Educational Needs Facility Designed for students with special educational needs, the 5,940m2 building, mainly single-storey and part three-storey, consists of 20 classrooms with en-suite toilets, junior and senior dining areas, a general purpose hall, specialist teaching rooms and clinician facilities. The school provides a much needed, high quality facility for 400 students from Enniscorthy and the surrounding areas. In addition the building incorporates a hydrotherapy pool with an extensive range of support facilities on-site, including a fully equipped speech and language suite, horticulture room, ICT suite, home ecomonics room and physio services. Consistent Lighting Quality To achieve the required light levels and customised client requirements, Zumtobel’s SLOTLIGHT infinity has been installed extensively throughout the facility – in customised versions for the main classrooms, the corridors and the GP Hall. The SLOTLGHT infinity modular light line offers practically unlimited options, with freedom and flexibility of design, not just in straight lines, but even around corners. The unmatched, consistent light quality with virtually end-to-end illumination is available in runs of up to 20 metres in length without any joins to fulfil every lighting requirement. An unusual and eye-catching, customised SLOTLIGHT infinity ‘ring’ was created especially for the illumination of the main foyer area. Zumtobel’s CLEAN recessed linear luminaires have been installed in the swimming pool area to meet the exact specification requirements of swimming pool and clean area lighting, using the very latest lighting technology with a three-level luminaire concept. An important feature of CLEAN is the cover which has a high-quality anodised aluminium frame and toughened safety glass to ensure maximum safety for pool users. Zumtobel’s versatile CAELA illuminates the changing rooms, with a depth of only 55 mm and a diffuse cover that delivers the perfect light distribution. Low Glare Creates Comfortable Ambient Light Thorn’s Beta 2 LED luminaires have been used to illuminate the office spaces, providing low glare (UGR 19<) and ensuring a comfortable ambient light. Other luminaires installed in the interior of St. Patrick’s includes Zumtobel’s HELISSA in the toilet and stairwells, Thorn’s Duoproof LED in the kitchens, ForceLED in the plant rooms and Linn modular, wall recessed luminaires in the interconnecting space. Thorn’s long life and low maintenance Voyager Star provides the addressable emergency lighting throughout the school. Thanks to its specialised optics, Voyager Star sends light exactly where it is needed in the event of an emergency and, due to its wide spacing values, the number of luminaires required can be reduced compared to other solutions and therefore also reducing the the costs involved. Robust High Performance External Illumination External illumination is provided by Isaro Pro robust and high-performance LED street luminaires, D-co-LED Bollards to provide comfortable visual guidance and square recessed Linn LED luminaires for the pathway lighting. Thorn’s Eyekon energy efficient, robust and impact resistant LED bulkheads and Olsys LED floodlights with asymmetric distribution, have also been incorporated into the exterior lighting design including illumination of the amphitheatre space. Collaboration and Testimonial “From start to finish we partnered with ZG Lighting Ireland, like we have done for many of our educational projects in Ireland. The brief was complex and we needed to insure that we delivered a state-of-the art lighting solution for a state of the art school and ZG Lighting Ireland did not disappoint. The bespoke circular fitting that greets you when you enter the school is a testament of the hard work undertaking by all parties involved, I very much look forward to working with Niall and his team on future projects in Ireland” comments Declan Smyth Senior Associate and Project Engineer at Semple & McKillop Ltd. Zumtobel and Thorn have delivered a flexible and adaptable energy efficient, low maintenance solution, to create a 21st Century learning environment for the pupils of St Patrick's Special School, Principal Lee Rogers commented “Because of the difficult year that everyone has had in terms of activities and outings being curtailed by COVID 19 restrictions within the school, the new campus is effectively 'a light at the end of the tunnel'”. Client: St Patrick's Special School Consulting Engineer: Semple & McKillop Project year: 2021

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