Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Located in northern England, Sheffield Hallam University is one of the country’s largest and most diverse universities. It is home to a community of around 28,000 students and 4,200 staff, with approximately 330,000 alumni worldwide.

Thorlux Lighting has worked closely with Sheffield Hallam for over 25 years. The University was among the first users of the original Smart lighting control system and hard-wired DALI Scanlight emergency lighting monitoring – both pioneering systems at the time. Through a gradual renovation process, the University is updating to the modern SmartScan lighting management system.

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Education

The Hallam Alliance

Sheffield Hallam has recently embarked on a new development of state-of-the-art buildings to house Sheffield Business School, the Institute of Law and Justice, the Institute of Social Sciences, and the Architecture subject group from the Institute of Creative Industries.

The University has established the ‘Hallam Alliance’ to develop its City Campus collaboratively with key partners, including Thorlux. This alliance is the first of its kind for a UK university building programme, with all design, construction, and facilities management partners working collaboratively with Sheffield Hallam.

For two years, Thorlux worked with consultants and contractors to develop, design, and supply the new buildings’ luminaires and lighting control systems. Using the wireless SmartScan system to connect and control luminaires on-site provides managers with multiple advantages, from precise energy consumption and activation time down to the individual luminaire to scheduled and monitored emergency lighting testing and targeted maintenance.

A SmartScan Campus

The new buildings house a wide range of Thorlux luminaires, with seminar and learning spaces heavily featuring the suspended Flexbar linear luminaire system. Due to the project’s timescale, Thorlux supplied most luminaires pre-wired and flexed, so the contractor only had to plug the lighting into the modular system. This helped to minimise the amount of cable installation required.

There are now nearly 10,000 SmartScan devices connected across the campus. In conjunction with the monitoring and management of lighting via the web platform at a high level across the entire site, wall-mounted SmartScan scene plates enable manual control in individual rooms.

The success of the new lighting systems at Sheffield Hallam demonstrated the importance and effectiveness of collaboration between all participants.