Glow Up The Decor With Stage Lights

By Author: Matt Volpe
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Our client was a large hotel on the East Coast looking to completely replace the existing lighting design system in one of their conference rooms. The conference room had recently been renovated creating a clean, open space that could be setup for a variety of functions. With the addition of tables, chairs, benches, or formal dining tables, the conference room could be used for a variety of occasions and special events in addition to seminars and business meetings. The problem was that as soon as renovations were complete, hotel management quickly realized that the conference room had now outgrown the capabilities of its primitive fluorescent lighting system, and that it would require a more advanced source of light in order to attract rentals for all the many events for which it could now be used.

In order to accommodate the complexity of this project, we first asked the hotel to send us a list of the various room orientations that they envisioned. Dinner parties, seminars, group therapy sessions, and business presentation meetings were all included on the very extensive list we received from the client. This indicated ...
... to us immediately that we would need to install more than one source of conference room lighting in order to fulfil all of the client's expectations. We would also need to create multiple switching points to create different layers of light in different portions of the conference room. Mood setting was not the primary goal here, but practical use instead. There were a number of shows coming to town that featured products and activities that tended to attract an older audience. The conference room lighting would need the brightest and most energy efficient lights to host events such as coin shows and other product showcases where detail and high visibility were of the utmost concern. There was also a need for superior colour rendering, so another layer of lighting from a halogen source would be necessary to make certain that people could clearly distinguish colours when looking through merchandise.

The conference room also had a small stage where speakers and musical guests periodically performed. The hotel asked us if we could install Home lighting here. Stage lighting equipment is not our normal forte, but we told the hotel we would commit ourselves to developing a solution as part of the overall conference room lighting system.

We simply could not have done this project so effectively without our photometric software. Using IES files on a number of different fixture options, we were able to model dozens of hypothetical lighting scenarios for the conference room's many possible uses. This allowed us to develop not only a precise equipment list for the hotel, but more importantly, a plan for lighting control in the conference room that would allow management to change the levels and type of light in the conference room quicker than they could change the setup.

This new system now allows event coordinators to either turn all lights on at maximum capacity when high foot candle levels were required, and to turn off fluorescent lighting and precisely adjust incandescent sources and sconces to lighting levels specifically appropriate to respective functions.

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