Philips is a market-driven company with an organisational structure that reflects the needs of their customer base, endeavouring to make even the most advanced technology accessible to the people who are going to use it.
In developing and expanding their portfolio of lighting design and solutions, Philips recently acquired Colour Kinetics, as a subsidiary company operating under the Philips brand. Founded in 1997, Colour Kinetics Incorporated is the leader in intelligent Solid State Illumination technologies. The company designs, manufactures and markets an award-winning line of products that are currently used in professional lighting, pool and spa, and consumer applications. Its flagship line of technologies leverage a patented layer of digital intelligence, called Chromacore®, to generate and control millions of colours and a variety of lighting effects. Through its pioneering use of LEDs as an illumination source, Colour Kinetics offers a low power, ultra-long life, low heat and UV-free illumination solution, transcending the limits of traditional illumination methods to create an extremely energy efficient, cost-effective an d versatile source of light.
Colour Kinetics employs a comprehensive Quality Management System. New products are based on extensive market research and on-going dialog with end users and lighting design experts. Quality assessments and verifications are made at each milestone in the product development process. Their design philosophy is to always push the envelope and strive for a better product. Visit the website.
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Philips, the global leader in lighting, today announced that its Color Kinetics business is celebrating its 34,000th installation with a unique lighting solution at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the latest in a long list of global landmarks to be transformed by the company's revolutionary LED lighting. The milestone was made even more meaningful given the role lighting is playing in the expansion of a major pediatric healthcare facility, underscoring Philips' global commitment to enhancing life through light.
This dynamic lighting project was part of Phoenix Children's Hospital's $538 million expansion led by architectural firm HKS of Dallas, Texas and called for a lighting design to replicate that of a desert flower blooming at night. Scott Oldner, Principal of Scott Oldner Lighting Design in Dallas used innovative interior and exterior LED lighting from Philips Color Kinetics to create an immersive escape for the hospital's patients and families and a distraction from the medical ailments surrounding them.
"It is symbolic that the Phoenix Children's Hospital is our 34,000th installation since it epitomizes what we do as a health and well being company," said Jeff Cassis, Vice President and General Manager of Philips Color Kinetics. "We give designers the tools they need to bring their vision to life that then translates into experiences for those who enter the created environment. Through the use of light, the wonderful team at Scott Oldner Lighting Design turned what could have been a very intimidating and sterile environment into a welcoming place with a positive feeling for children and their parents."
"From the start of the design process, beautiful, magical color was required for the ‘Desert Blooms' concept," said Oldner. "Only Philips Color Kinetics had the quality, specialized solutions and passionate team needed to realize our vision. We gave the children and their families something unique, vibrant, entertaining and full of life to distract them from the challenges they face entering the building."
While the creative vision was strong, the lighting designers had to work within key practical limitations. The goal of turning the building into a beacon that could be seen from almost any direction was met with concerns regarding adherence to the local Dark Sky ordinance and the project's sustainability and budget requirements. The lighting solution from Philips Color Kinetics could outline the building's distinctive architectural fins, while creating a visual canvas to display artistic animated color displays. Long ribbons of LED fixtures were also placed down the front of the building and continued into the lobby area, visually connecting the building's exterior and interior.
Lighting also contributes to a visual surprise once inside, with the initial idea of an indoor wall fountain replaced with floor to ceiling textured acrylic and LED fixtures for cost and practicality concerns. The end result is a wavy water-like effect with shades of blue and aqua that surprise and enthrall patients and hospital visitors. "The LED lighting system has an extreme calming effect on patients as they arrive to our new facility - you can see it on their smiling faces as they enter the atrium," said Dave Cottle, Executive Director of Planning, Design and Construction at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Philips Color Kinetics solutions are also used along the corridor walls to provide interactive way-finding displays and to illuminate the back walls of the hospital's retail store display boxes.
To round out the ease of use of this installation for the hospital maintenance team, all interior and exterior LED lighting fixtures are controlled by a single lighting controller from Philips Color Kinetics. And while certain budget constraints meant that some traditional cove lighting fixtures had to be used in some areas of the hospital, these were all selected so that the hospital could easily retrofit with LED fixtures for additional energy savings in the future.
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