St. George's Hall
Our building automation solution met the lighting control system needs of St George’s Hall in Liverpool city centre.
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Specified by Building Services Consulting Engineers Hannan Associates, the KNX system is installed as the lighting Control System in the public areas of the building.
Our KNX bus system has helped contractors MITIE Engineering Services (North) Ltd solve the modern lighting control system needs of one of the finest Neoclassical buildings in the world, St George’s Hall in Liverpool city centre.
Specified by Building Services Consulting Engineers Hannan Associates, Tebis is installed to control the lighting in the public areas of the building. Two Tebis systems are installed, one for the North wing, which is now complete and programmed, and a second for the future completion of the South wing.
On the North wing, a single twisted pair bus cable provides flexible control across 26 lighting circuits supplied from 5 different distribution boards. A conventional hard-wired system would have had multicore cables running through an estimated 300m2 of corridors and exceptional cable lengths to find alternative routes around 8 foot walls.
"The KNX bus system proved to be the ideal solution for a lighting control system"
St George’s Hall is a grade 1 listed building which prevented MITIE Engineering Services (North) Ltd from installing local light switches, so a multi-gang grid switch controls all the circuits in the North wing. Using Tebis means the grid switches simply tap onto the bus line via input units, rather than having multiple cable connections. Outputs to switch the lighting circuit contactors also tap onto the Tebis bus cable. Both the inputs (switches) and outputs are then assigned addresses and programmed so that certain outputs (or contactors) respond to different inputs (or switches). These switching combinations can be altered or expanded if required at a later date.
Comments MITIE Engineering Project Manager John Ludlow: “Due to the size of St George's Hall, the number of circuits required needed a flexible cabling and control system. The KNX bus system proved to be the ideal solution for a lighting control system being it is financially cost-effective for the general and provides emergency lighting.”
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