LIGHTING CONTROL
Main and below left:
Existing fixtures were
refurbished and retrofitted
with LED lamps
Inset: The UNI.T theater
is a listed site
The second aspect of the job saw GDS
address the difficulties posed by the need to
use the existing cabling. The Special Projects
team regularly meet similar problems in other
theaters and had been developing technology
to overcome these issues.
Dyer, together with GDS’s head of research
and development, Adam Cooper, had utilized
lessons learned previously to formulate the
DX driver and to provide control over a GDSdeveloped
proprietary protocol, as well as
Special Projects team less than four weeks from
the disassembling of the fixtures to returning
both these and the new products for installation.
“From a technical standpoint, this was a
fantastic project to be involved with,” comments
Dyer. “It was great to work with the existing
1970s fixtures and upgrade them into modern
eco-friendly versions without affecting their
appearance. Time wasn’t really on our side and
it meant the team drawing on every ounce of
our experience and creativity.”
AUDITORIA 2019 VOLUME ONE 57
Photos: Anke Schierenbeck