With a brief of creating inspired lighting appropriate to this iconic civic building, both externally and internally, and emphasise its standing as a gateway into the city, Speirs and Major specified building-wide ETC dimming and control systems.
Keith Bradshaw, associate director at Speirs and Major says: "Given the scale and the sophistication of the control system we required, we knew there were very few people who could manage it properly. It needed to be a company who were able to think laterally when faced with complex and unique problems and we knew ETC had the flexibility and brainpower to deal with it."
Accommodating more than 40,000 worshippers in its prayer halls and courtyard, this is the largest mosque in UAE and one of the largest in the world, covering an area of more than 22,000sq.m. Internally, the lighting had to celebrate all the architectural details and features, while providing a level of functionality for reading and prayer as well as being suitable for TV broadcasting.
(Jim Evans)
