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The Arium, Leeds

Posted on by Lynn Titcombe

We started this project at The Arium Leeds several weeks ago and started with installing the containment for cabling followed by installing the distribution boards. As we go along, we will install cables, connecting them up along the way.

cable containment at the Arium in Leeds

Arium is a nursery run by Leeds City Council which is open to the public. We carried out the main installation in 2017 and were invited back to carry out the additional work.

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There is further expansion planned for the site, our works as well as fitting out the workshop, which includes a supply upgrade to the whole site.

See our original work here – The Arium 2017.

This job featured a wiring containment that we had specially designed which is capable of spanning 6m gaps. This means cables are adequately protected and gave us wiring routes to get to the specific parts of the greenhouse where equipment is situated.

This method is cost-effective as it only involves a bracket on each post, no additional supports required.

Keep an eye out to see our continuing work on this exciting project, and get in touch if you have a horticulture project you’d like to discuss.

01482 880390 / hello@lightouchsolutions.co.uk

The Arium is a plant nursery in Leeds that can help you with any garden project, no matter how big or small. They have a shop and cafe, and a large children’s play area, and do a lot of work in the local community.

See all the facilities here – The Arium Leeds

New Project – Horticulture LEDs

Posted on by Lynn Titcombe

We were approached in the summer of 2017 to install a garden using Horticulture LEDs on the 27th floor of a new building in London.

There have been other internal gardens, but this was different as it only had light coming in from the side, not from above. One of the issues was how to stop the plants morphing and leaning towards the light.

We have put numerous proposals in for trials and mimics of the area, all have been rebuffed. They committed to building two prototypes, which we have done.

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With support from Osram, we have developed a fixture with horticulture LEDs

So far, the development to prototype has been around 12 weeks, and now we are in the process of testing the fixture to compare design data with actual data. We have a UPRTek Spectrometer for Horticulture that tells us the specific micro mol output. Micromol or U-mol/M2/Sec is a measurement for horticulture per second per metre Sq and was developed by Einstein, so we are in good company.

The fitting will be controlled by either Dali or DMX at this juncture, but we are working with a more specific bespoke control system for this project with the consortium.

We believe this development will remove some of the lighting issues involved in Urban Farming using traditional methods.

This project was also different as it is a garden area, the client wanted something nice to look at and to be recessed and that is what we have designed.

Keep up to date with this project, and our other work, on our social media pages – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

If you’d like more details about our horticulture LEDs, or would like to discuss your project with us, drop us an email or give us a call – 01482 880390 / hello@lightouchsolutions.co.uk