One of the B:HIVE’s own has scored bigtime in the delivery of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Leading Design Professionals (LDP), a lighting and electrical engineering company based on Level 4 of the B:HIVE, designed the lighting around the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar.
This project included a lighting master plan and detailed design of all exterior lighting, including 200km of roads and carparks around the airport, three major intersections, and the Emir’s private terminal area with custom designed equipment to provide the airport site with a “unique identity”, senior lighting and illumination engineer Ben Cullen says.
LDP is a lighting design company which focuses mostly on designing for the built environment and infrastructure, while considering and reducing the impact of bad lighting on the natural environment and wildlife, Ben says.
“LDP is really about limiting the impacts of bad lighting, by designing good, well-controlled lighting,” he says.
LDP’s work in Qatar is not the only major international project its team of expert designers and engineers have undertaken.
They also designed the relighting of the 100,000-seater Olympic stadium in Sydney, Australia, alongside various other sport stadiums including the Avantidome Velodrome in Cambridge, including full electrical and backup power integration design, and North Harbour Hockey Stadium.
LDP’s success has been recognised this year with five awards for three different projects.
The company designed the relighting of the streets of Dunedin City, a project for which it won three awards: the IESANZ Award of Excellence: Energy Efficiency and a Commendation, and the Royal Astronomical Society of NZ Award of Excellence.
Senior Engineer Ben Cullen said they worked on the Dunedin City Council (DCC) project for eight months, which included the design and placement of 14,000 lights.
Not only did they reduce the energy usage of the DCC by over 60%, they significantly reduced “sky glow”, Ben says.
“We reduced the sky glow by using warm white streetlights, making sure they focused downwards and didn’t throw light into the sky. This helped the local ecology including birdlife, and reduced light pollution, which the DCC was really focused on,” he says.
LDP were also awarded IESANZ Awards of Commendation for a new cycleway linking Glen Innes and Tamaki Drive, and the Viaduct Harbour precinct.
The lighting project in Viaduct Harbour saw LDP retrofit and redesign the original lighting along the promenade with LED while keeping the original bespoke feel.
LDP worked with the original design which focuses upwards into a dome which reflects it to the ground, creating a “soft, ambient” effect, Ben says.