White Light brought its very latest technology to London’s Natural History Museum on June 28th, to help the Museum celebrate the launch of its new Courtyard outdoor area, part of the dramatic Darwin Centre extension to the landmark building.
Faced with the challenge of lighting the Courtyard cleanly and without disturbance to the event’s guests, White Light deployed two of its new HyLight hydrogen fuel-cell powered lighting systems, which had been officially launched just a week earlier. HyLight couples a compact, silent, non-polluting (- the only waste product is a tiny amount of water) power source with high-efficiency colour-changing LED lighting fixtures to give a self-contained lighting system perfect for lighting gardens and other outdoor spaces. Previously, such lighting often relied on noisy, polluting diesel generators for power; HyLight offers a far better solution.
“We were very pleased to be able to use the new HyLight hydrogen fuel cell system,” comments Zoe Watts, the Natural History Museum’s Head of Events. “They are silent with no emissions – perfect for the Darwin Centre’s gardens, with their proximity to our residents, and also for complying with the museum’s sustainability policy.”
“Having the ability to deliver instant power with minimum impact to the environment has to be the way forward for the events industry,” comments White Light’s Richard Wilson. “We are delighted to be leading the way in this area, and look forward to putting HyLight to use on many more projects in the future.”
As well as lighting the gardens, White Light’s team led by lighting designer Jason Larcombe made use of a range of other low-powered, high-output LED lighting equipment and wireless control technology to highlight the architecture of the Darwin Centre itself, bringing the building’s remarkable form to life as dusk fell as well as lighting the performances laid on by the museum to entertain the 350 guests invited to enjoy the launch.
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