Heritage Perth has developed a project to create an imaginative and sustainable façade lighting scheme for significant buildings within the city. Using energy efficient equipment, Light Up the City will provide a spectacular lighting show that brings important buildings to life at night, helping to reaffirm the Perth’s title of ‘City of Light’.
In order to gain maximum support from the community, the project has been designed to minimise the environmental impact of the lighting. Features of the scheme include minimum energy consumption by use of modern, energy-efficient, lighting equipment and measures to ensure a minimum of obtrusive light from each building.
Modern lighting technology makes it possible to light a building using a fraction of the energy previously required for the same purpose. With the assistance of the State’s Sustainable Energy Development Office the scheme is intended to have the minimum possible environmental impact. The lighting specification developed gives up to 500% efficiencies over conventional façade lighting systems.
By lighting the city’s icon buildings in a sustainable way we can encourage building owners to turn off internal lights, giving us the opportunity to replace mega-Watts of power consumption with kilo-Watts of magical lighting effects that will bring Perth alive at night, encouraging reactivation of the city centre and drawing increased numbers of visitors back into the city in the evening.
A similar project to light the heritage buildings of Liverpool, UK, has recently been completed and an independent audit suggests that the lighting has generated additional night time spending within the city centre of £3.2 million per annum. The audit also showed that 50% of visitors are making a special trip into the city to see the illuminations.
The first building in the city to be lit under Heritage Perth’s Light Up the City’ project is Wesley Church in the centre of the city, where the stunning new façade lighting scheme was formally switched on by the Lord Mayor on 15th November, 2009.
For details of the lighting benchmark specification click here
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