Westfield
LED light panels are 'a winner' for Westfield Stratford Olympic siteW&Co was invited to assist in the production of feature lighting for Westfield, Stratford City, Europe's largest urban shopping centre and the gateway to the Olympic Park. A sample of our LED light panel was requested by the architect working on the Stratford site and when they saw it they realised what immense potential the light panel had and how it could fulfil many of the lighting solutions required on the project; soon after Westfield approved the usage of the light panel within the centre.
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The brief from Westfield's in-house design team was to install unique bulkhead feature panels incorporating LED light panels and illuminated flat light panel balustrades for installation on various levels in the interior of the central and northern arcades of this shopping centre.
The top floor bulkhead was made up of huge flat blocks creating a large brick-effect, with some protruding and some recessed from the main wall. These bespoke blocks were made up of ACM (aluminium composite material) panels as the back tray and a front cover of polycarbonate. Some of the blocks were illuminated with LED light panels and some were left non-illuminated to give a sporadic lighting effect. These blocks continued along the bulkhead for nearly 400m, with many individual blocks being a different size and shape.
The lower floor bulkheads were a continuous stretch of what essentially were LED light walls in different sizes butting up together. Underneath the handrails on various levels were the illuminated balustrades which are made up of LED light panels with toughened glass fascias creating what is probably the longest LED light wall ever produced.
The LED light panels proved far superior to the original intended use of fluorescent tubes, with a far better spread of light across the face, more energy efficiency and only a fraction of the time required for servicing as LED light panels have a 50,000 hour life expectancy compared to 10,000 for fluorescent tubes.
The LED light panels were all designed and manufactured in the UK and were installed over period of eight weeks, four weeks ahead of schedule.
