Hospitality & Entertainment Facilities

Caesars Forum Conference Center, Las Vegas

RETROFIT TEAM

ARCHITECT: Friedmutter Group

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Penta Building Group

INTERIOR DESIGNER: KGA Designs

LIGHTING DESIGNER: John Levy Lighting Productions

DMX INTEGRATOR: Pharos Architectural Controls Ltd.

MATERIALS

The lighting design team contacted Spectrum Lighting to design a special downlight luminaire to be used in the conference center. Caesars Forum contains the two largest pillarless ballrooms in the world and required very specific lighting fixtures and configurations. The fixtures were to deliver 7,000 lumens from 35 feet with 30-degree beam, kelvin tuning range from 1800-5500K, DMX controls, and feature 6- and 8-inch square apertures.

Spectrum Lighting designed the optical and LED package to meet the specifications. In-house designers engaged with the lighting design team and developed IES files and samples. Within three months, luminaires were produced that matched specifications. Other requirements of the project were to match the kelvin tuning ranges of 1800-5500K with DMX in 3-, 4- and 6-inch downlights, adjustable accent, cylinders and other luminaires.

“The most complex aspect of this project was truly adaptability to scale,” explains Chelsea Lavell, principal and director of Interior Design at KGA Designs. “The grand ballrooms are each 100,000 square feet of open floor plate divisible into limitless configurations of smaller breakout spaces. Our design gestures needed to be appropriate to configurations as small as 1,200 square feet, as well as to the ballroom as a whole.”

All metalwork for the optics, trims, housings, heatsinks and other components were made in Spectrum Lighting’s 250,000-square-foot Massachusetts factory. Production schedules were supplied to the electrical contractor each Monday and timelines were met on more than 40 fixture types and approximately 7,000 fixtures in total.

All fixtures supplied were required to utilize the same LEDs and drivers for ease of long-term maintenance by the convention center. Through- out the process, Spectrum Lighting’s tech group engaged with the DMX integration team and ensured there were no communication issues with the fixtures. All fixtures were 100 percent tested by Spectrum Lighting on DMX prior to shipment.

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