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Hoare Lea volunteered its expertise, providing MEP, Lighting Design, CGI, Acoustics, Fire Engineering, Utilities & Energy, Vertical Transportation and Sustainability consultancy services.
Mackwell was invited to be involved in the project by Dominic Meyrick, Partner at Hoare Lea with particular responsibility for lighting design. Hoare Lea and Mackwell have a long-standing relationship and Mackwell was an obvious first port of call for emergency lighting. Meyrick explains, “Mackwell has a fantastic range of emergency lighting products and it was great to be able to turn to them for help when designing the lighting scheme, knowing you can rely on the lighting industry to step up.”
A variety of Mackwell’s emergency lighting luminaires were used across the two buildings. Dominic Meyrick comments: “Emergency lighting should be clean and unobtrusive and Mackwell achieves this in a luminaire that is essentially ‘a really clever box’.” Mackwell’s non-maintained emergency lighting with LED was specified and these incorporate an inverter and small battery packs. In particular, the Maxwell XYLUX LS IP65 fitting was used because it can be placed in high ceilings, mid-height ceilings, open areas and escape routes, with optics tailored to the light distribution required.