Philips gets royal appointment

To celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s 80th birthday, Philips has been invited by the Royal Household to create a new permanent lighting installation to illuminate the façade of Buckingham Palace.
Although Buckingham Palace has long been at the centre of national celebrations and has had spectacular images projected onto the façade, there has been no permanent lighting installation.
The development of LEDs has meant lighting installations can achieve impressive energy savings per annum when compared with conventional solutions available a decade ago.
The lighting design scheme had to avoid any light pollution into the night sky since the Palace is set between the royal parks. A further point was that any possible spill light had to be reduced to prevent intrusion into the living quarters of those inside the Palace.
Philips LEDline2 offers precise directional controlled washes of light just where it is needed. In all 45 LEDline2 modules with warm white Luxeon LEDs were installed along the upper and lower levels of the façade, its slim profile blending into the surroundings with negligible disturbance.
This warm wash effect complimented the additional Pompeii and Decoflood luminaires which were placed close to the building’s exterior achieving good modelling with no light spillage entering the windows.