AECOM and Royal Philips Electronics have designed a ground breaking LED lighting solution for London’s world famous Natural History Museum.

Replacing the aging floodlight system, Philips state-of-the-art ColorReach™ Powercore technology demonstrates the flexibility and unprecedented light output of LED exterior floodlighting for signature façades today.

Natural History Museum London

A white LED setting has been used to complement the colour and textural qualities of the grey and terracotta stone details. The programmability of ColorReach™ also means that flexible ambiances can be created to reflect the season, special dates or corporate events, providing added drama and movement via a myriad of colour variations. All this is easily achieved by wireless programming system with a remote controller which the Natural History Museum’s events team can operate simply and effectively for evening events.

Indeed, the total electrical load has been reduced by 75% in normal operation. Added to this, LEDs are virtually maintenance free and have a useful life of approximately 50,000 hours. This means that the Museum will not need to replace the LED modules for at least 30 years under normal usage conditions. This compares with an average of 3 years for conventional metal halide lamps.

Overall, calculations show that the install cost of the LED solution would have a payback of just 4 years with accumulative savings year on year thereafter.