Concept Lighting Architecture | 9 Zealand in the specification lighting industry,” he says. “They’re a top team – they are actually one of the reasons I joined the company.” MEETING CHALLENGES Over the years, Concept Lighting has applied their skills to a plethora of landmark projects in New Zealand. In a recent example, they completed the Geyser office building in Auckland – the first building in the country to be awarded a 6-Star Green Star rating. The engineering consultant on that project was eCubed Building Workshop, another company Concept Lighting enjoys a longstanding partnership with. “That’s a landmark building inmany ways,” Baard says of the Geyser project. “And it’s a standout building from a lighting point of view because of the extremely tough brief by the architect and engineers. It turned out to be an extremely challenging job, but we pulled it off.” Overcoming challenges is a specialty of Concept Lighting. In 2011, they also completed a difficult project at Jellicoe Street, on the Auckland harbour front. For that project, Concept Lighting was asked to take a standard luminaire design and incorporate the latest DALI addressable Phillips Cosmopolis control gear into them, along with extra cable entries and other site-specific modifications. Additionally, they had to incorporate a stainless steel LED in-ground luminaire in between the existing disused railway tracks – and it all had to be built to withstand the trucks and fishing equipment that still used the wharf. “The project was operating on a very tight time frame with completion,” Baard says. “As part of the brief, it needed to be finished before the Rugby World Cup proceedings. It is unlikely any imported product would have been able to undergo such a fast R&D, testing, approval and fabrication process.” GROWING STRONGER Since changing ownership in 2008, Concept
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