ACC Liverpool
The Challenge
Accommodating a diverse range of performances and events requires high levels of flexibility and functionality across all areas of the facility from seating/stage configuration to audio-visual control.
It was imperative that the lighting control system match the flexibility and functionality of the venue by allowing lighting schemes to be quickly and easily reconfigured for different events.
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Scalable
The Dynalite system was integrated into the university’s expansive campus. The modularity of the system allows the lighting control system to grow and evolve with the university’s ongoing expansion through a centralised control platform.
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Innovative
The project integrates Dynalite with multiple third-party systems, including the Q-Sys control system for audio-visual management, the university’s Building Management System (BMS), and a fire alarm relay. This integration creates a unified ecosystem that not only streamlines building operations but also enhances safety and energy management.
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Sustainable
The Dynalite system is a critical part of the university’s efforts to reduce energy consumption. The system’s energy-efficient features, such as automated scheduling, daylight harvesting, and occupancy sensors, ensure that lighting is used only when necessary, contributing to the university’s broader sustainability goals.
The Solution
The system includes over 200 dimming controllers, relay controllers and user control panel interfaces, which are linked via the Philips Dynalite sophisticated peer-to-peer communications serial bus network DyNet. A selection of controllers were fitted with dual communication ports allowing for both DyNet & DMX512 communication.
Integrated functionality
Importantly, these technologies can be tailored to the requirements of individual events and performances.
Every dimmable controller is factory set with a top output level of 90 per cent to maximise lamp life and minimise energy consumption.
Using EnvisionManager software, Philips Dynalite has made what is essentially an extremely complex lighting system very easy to operate and manage. The powerful software provides control status and scheduling information with the click of a mouse.
Easy operation
Operated via any one of seven on-site computers, EnvisionManager’s simple graphical interface makes it easy for users to identify every light, circuit and channel across the entire complex and effortlessly manipulate lighting schemes.
Much of the lighting system is automated. In fact, staff can customise the graphic interface to include ‘push buttons’ or lighting macros, which is ideal for routine lighting tasks and setting common exhibition and pre-show lighting schemes.
Staff can also select different lighting schemes via locally mounted user-control panel interfaces.
Areas within the building are fitted with motion sensors to reduce ACC’s electricity consumption, which is part provided by five turbines on the banks of the Mersey, between ACC Liverpool and the Albert Dock.
Conclusion
An extremely complex system has been made very easy to operate and manage giving staff real operational flexibility.
With staff able to control lighting from any one of seven computers throughout the complex or from a series of user control panel interfaces, the day-to-day management of the complex’s lighting is a simple task.
The Philips Dynalite system has also delivered powerful energy management, which is saving running costs.
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