The first phase of the National Air Traffic Services NATS) Corporate and Technical Centre (CTC) in Whitely, Hampshire was completed in June of last year and the office spaces are primarily lit with Fagerhult's suspended Looplight system. The first phase of the new CTC houses headquarters and engineering staff and with the addition of two more buildings this year, will bring NAT's total CTC population to around the 1,400. This is a big investment programme for the organisation, with new systems, new centres and a new way of working for the staff.
The company employed architects Pringle Brandon to work on the interior design of the project. Brian Szpakowski, project architect from Pringle Brandon explained that the lighting is an important aspect of their design. The philosophy behind the lighting of the open plan office spaces was to create clean, contemporary bright spaces with a high degree of uplight. The Looplight system answered this brief with its minimal visual appearance and technical performance for the uplighting requirements. The luminaires are individually mounted over work stations in the office spaces, with all vertical areas lit by Fagerhult's Sidelight. Pleiad downlights with a decorative hover glass were supplied throughout the corridors and general core areas.
Simon Jones from Hoare Lea explained that the Looplight luminaires needed to be mounted at 90 degrees to the desks, to avoid any glare or direct view of the lamp. The technical brief for the office lighting was to meet the current requirements of LG3, which was successfully achieved using the Looplight direct/indirect linear pendants for task and ceiling illuminance supported by the Sidelight to meet the vertical illuminance requirements. Over one thousand extruded pendants were supplied in white with a 2 x35w T5 lamp package. The Looplight also housed the PIRs for the Prolojik lighting control system, in a slightly extended part of the extruded body. The PIRs are used for both presence and daylight detection and are part of the de-centralised lighting control system, which negated the need for an expensive front end building management system.
The aim of the lighting in the restaurant areas was to avoid creating an internal 'staff canteen' environment as can often be the end result with corporate buildings. Pringle Brandon worked with Hoare Lea Lighting on this concept and succeeded in developing a restaurant ambience at NATS. Hoare Lea Lighting also carried out the lighting design for the Reception area, meeting rooms and common areas. Dominic Meyrick, Lighting Principal at Hoare Lea Lighting aimed for 'emphasis on perceived light pattern in the space'. This has been achieved using Fagerhult's Notor 1 x 35w T5 uplight luminaire, continuously mounted to provide the uniform lighting pattern on the ceiling, interspersed with lit columns in the space to provide feature lighting. Brian Szpakowski was pleased with the small dimensions of the Notor extrusion and commented, 'with Notor you notice the quality of light but not the fixture itself; The lighting is fantastic.'
The client is very pleased with the finished result and looking forward to occupying phase 2 of the project.
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Posted on: 1st February 2005, United Kingdom
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