Applications

Office and Education


Increasingly, office and educational lighting must facilitate a wide diversity of tasks, from looking at a computer screen to writing on a whiteboard.

In each case, the expert application of the latest Thorn lighting technology should go a long way towards creating a harmonious, glare-free environment for everyone.

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Northern Rock
Northern Rock bank on Thorn
Like all High Street banks, Northern Rock is concerned with saving energy as far as possible without reducing the quality of its facilities.

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Southwell’s “amazing looking school’’ lit by Thorn
‘‘I think the new school looks amazing…’’ That’s how Year 10 pupil Liz, describes Southwell’s new £34 million Minster School.

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Gateshead Civic Centre
Better light for a third the cost
Gateshead Council in North East England has a lighting scheme in the Civic Centre offices which is an example of how modern lighting and energy management techniques have been combined to produce a superior working environment with a 68% saving in energy costs.

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The dizzy heights of success
Thorn lights Leeds’ tallest office building
Thorn has lit the one of the tallest office buildings outside London. At 32 storeys and 137 metres high, Bridgewater Place is Leeds’ tallest mixed office and residential development, requiring over 3,000 modular luminaires, all of which were specially made.

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Royal Bank of Scotland
Gogarburn Campus
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) new Gogarburn campus, outside Edinburgh, Scotland has won the prestigious Building Services Awards 2006 for the Office Building of the Year.

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City of Sunderland College
Lessons for the future
Good lighting control, attractive appearance and economical operation required for £10 million college project in Washington, northeast England.