OSRAM Opto today announces that its new reception building at Semiconductors’ head office in Regensburg (Germany) is lit by LEDs for all the lighting functions – workspace, general room, effects and outdoor lighting. Compared with conventional lights, LEDs make completely innovative lighting designs possible while saving energy too – for example, 35 percent alone in the case of white light illumination, according to OSRAM.

More than 4,500 white and colored LEDs provide the accent, effects and room lighting in the reception area. The new LED systems include a huge array of colors and a very high light yield. The small size ensures inconspicuousness and saving in space.

Many of the LEDs used are dimmable and the brightness can be adjusted between 5 and 100 percent, enabling 35 percent energy savings with white LED lighting compared with conventional light sources. In addition, the LEDs can last more than 50,000 hours and are virtually maintenance-free.

The design versatility of LED applications is also highlighted. A 17 square metre wall of light, which consists of a highly elastic, translucent foil only 0.4mm thick, provides variable lighting conditions. The wall is capable of dynamically displaying all the chromaticity coordinates between warm and cold white but also colors and moving color transitions. A remarkable feature of the building lighting is that there are almost no visible lamps and light switches. The wall of light, for example, is controlled via a Traxon touch-wheel.