Glamox lights Norway’s Construction City with advanced wireless smart lighting

Landmark 103,000 square metre BREEAM Excellent office complex will be a focal point for the nation’s construction and real estate industry.


Glamox slashes time to commission 12,000 wireless smart lights from nearly a year to around four months, thanks to new innovative wireless technology.

The Construction City project in the Ulven area of Oslo, Norway, is an ambitious project to create a flagship business campus for construction, civil engineering, and real estate companies in Norway. Glamoxis providing around 12,000 wirelessly connected LED luminaires, with advanced light management systems and controllers. Remarkably, the time it takes to commission the lighting was cut by more than half, due to Glamox’s new Bluetooth-enabled wireless technology.

Glamox’s customer, Lysteknikk Elektroentreprenør AS, is the lighting contractor for the Construction City project, which broke ground in October 2021 and is expected to be completed later this year. The concept behind the futuristic-looking building is to create a collaborative environment that fosters innovation, sustainability, and knowledge sharing across a vibrant community of approximately 4,500 staff and students from various companies in Norway’s construction, civil engineering, and real estate sectors.

The building is being built to the BREEAM Excellent Standard, emphasising sustainability and environmental performance. Naturally, the lighting supports the building’s sustainability credentials.

Glamox is providing a variety of connected LED luminaires for corridors, collaboration spaces, meeting rooms, offices, the car park, and outside the building. Nearly all of the 12,000 luminaires from Glamox are equipped with sensors for daylight harvesting and presence detection, saving electricity and providing the right light level when and where it's needed. Two of the building’s 13 floors – parking areas and the restaurant – have luminaires connected by DALI, while the remaining floors use 868 MHz wireless access points on each floor. The luminaires are controlled by EnOcean wireless self-powering light switches, controllers, and sensors in the luminaires connected to Glamox Wireless Radio light management systems.

 

“An important and time-consuming part of my job is to configure and commission the lights to ensure that they work correctly as they should,” said Daniel Jovar, Lead Technician on the project for Lysteknikk. “Normally, we have to find and then commission one luminaire at a time, which for 12,000 can take one person nearly a year to do. For the first time, we are trying out a new Bluetooth-enabled dongle that enables our tablets to find and commission 10 lights simultaneously. I expect this will reduce the time to commission the lights to around four months.”


“Reducing our commissioning time allows us to pass on this cost-saving to customers, which in turn makes us more competitive,” explains Adrian Magiera, Project Manager at Lysteknikk. “I’m also pleased with the quality of the luminaires, the price, and the incredible level of support we get from Glamox. When we need them, they are there for us. It’s a true collaboration – they’re more a partner than a vendor to us.”

Glamox has collaborated with Lysteknikk for over a decade and trained several staff on using the new Bluetooth-enabled commissioning dongle at Glamox’s LiteIP office in Southampton, United Kingdom.


Lysteknikk expects to complete the lighting project in November. Construction City opened its doors in July this year.

“Construction City will be a living and breathing technological showcase, with Lysteknikk trailblazing our latest smart lighting systems. It is a true pioneer and has provided us with important feedback. The end product at Construction City will be something quite special,” said Bjørn-Erik Askestad, Sales Director for Light Management Systems at Glamox.