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The new lighting will reduce 78% power compared to the previous installation and prevent the emission of 96 tons of CO2 per year.
It is the first facility in the country to use its own wifi network to regulate the lights
The Cathedral will shine from next Thursday with the new lighting has been installed and includes, for the first time, Cruz Hernandez Amores Square and the north side of the Tower.
The new facility has nearly 150 projectors focus the light from different parts of the environment, spread across 47 projectors for lighting imafronte, 51 for the Tower and the Gate of the Chain and 43 for the Episcopal Palace.
They all admit regulation and are operated from the control center, from which it is possible to schedule the appropriate level of lighting.
Thus, it has been adjusted one by one to achieve balance and harmony of the final composition.
The use of wireless technology through its own wifi network for communication and control between the control center and projectors, makes this facility one of the pioneers and most innovative in the architectural lighting sector in the country.
With this new lighting will reduce 78% power compared to the previous installation and will prevent the emission into the atmosphere of nearly 96 tonnes of CO2 per year, which will mean an annual saving of nearly 36,000 euros.
The project promoted by the City, through the Department of Urban Quality, in collaboration with the Diocese, has been carried out and fully funded by the concessionaire of the maintenance of public lighting, Electromur.
The premiere of this new lighting, next Thursday, will have its own soundtrack thanks to the Choir Fernández Caballero, who plays the part Lumen, a work for mixed chorus, orchestra and tenor solo written especially for the occasion by Margarita Muñoz, director of the Choir Orchestra.
The lighting, efficient, and environmentally sustainable through the use of the latest LED technology, has been developed by a multidisciplinary team of lighting experts and heritage conservation, which has sought to enhance the beauty of our buildings without fanfare .
With this project, the city of Murcia are pursued with the aim of enhancing the beauty and value of the monuments of the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, setting an environment in which live in harmony a historical monument with the latest technologies.
Until now, the whole facade of the Cathedral and had a imafronte based lighting projectors with discharge lamps, metal halide.
These were installed on the facade of the Cathedral itself and on the roofs of the surrounding buildings, being generally disrespectful installation with its architectural elements.
The high power spotlights attached to the poor location of these resulted night glare, mistaken feelings of deep, light pollution and poor light quality, with significant imbalances luminance and color temperatures accentuating the artificiality of lighting .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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