Academy Building – Pearse Street

A Landmark Building in Pearse Street the Academy Building had a beautiful plastered ceiling within the great room. The ceiling was illuminated with fluorescent tubing around the perimeter. The usual problems with fluorescent started to occur. Shadow gaps between the batons and there was limited access to the area to replace the batons.

The most frustrating problem was the colour of the replacement tubes was always slightly different to the tubes that had been in place. Coupled with these issues was the consumption costs, the system had been running at around 50watts per metre.

The solution required an LED strip system that would be easily retrofitted, be extremely energy efficient, and would be durable in that the area post installation would be very difficult to access. More importantly however was that the LED system had to offer similar light levels and colour temperature to the Fluorescent. As you will notice the light had to travel up around 1.5m along the curved ceiling. As part of the sampling process 2m of the FLpod LED LUX warm white system was installed. Some of the fluorescent batons in the various colours were also switched on to offer a comparison. In direct comparison the client was shown the LED in situ. It was clear it offered a clean consistent light, excellent light level and perfect colour temperature