Philips leads the way in lighting solutions.

(From Gulf Construction)

Innovation, marketing excellence and customer service are the three integral concepts at Philips Lighting, says the Dutch lighting giant, which claims to hold a leading position in the global lighting market. The company - which showcased its innovation at the Lightstyle Gulf Light last month and the Middle East Electricity earlier this year - has recently been involved in one of the landmark projects in the region: the Khalifa Olympic stadium in Doha, Qatar

Philips developed a lighting design for the Khalifa Olympic stadium, which will be the main facility hosting the closing ceremony as well as the finals for football and athletics for the Asian Games 2006 in Doha. The Asian Games - the second biggest sports event in the world - will see the participation of some 10,000 athletes in 403 events in 38 different sports

Elaborating on the project, a spokesman for the company says: "While developing an optimum sports lighting solution for this state-of-the-art stadium, due consideration was given to the placement of luminaries on the canopy in order to avoid a disturbing glare for the goalkeeper and also to respect the day-time aesthetics of the sophisticated architecture. "The lighting solution has been realised with the innovative Philips ArenaVision luminaries, which create daylight at the stadium after sunset and provide the perfect conditions for players, spectators and top-quality TV viewing." "On the field of play (FOP - considered to be the sports field, including football plus athletics track and field, plus the area up to the first row of spectator seating), the lighting solution from Philips offers an average vertical luminance of 1,400 lux towards all the four vertical planes (+/- X, +/-Y) and an average vertical luminance of 1,800 lux towards the main camera and over 1,600 lux for other secondary cameras. "This ensures high-quality colour images not only of the overall action but also of the slow-motion replays and player close-ups, which are an important means of conveying the emotions and atmosphere in the stadium to millions of viewers watching at home," he explains

A total of 600 ArenaVision MVF 403 MHNSA 2000 W have been used for sports lighting and a further 72 of the uplighting version of ArenaVision have been utilised for architectural lighting of the arches and other steel structures. The sports and architectural lighting for this stadium consume a total of around 1.6 MW of power, he says

Philips Lighting - which has traditionally held close links with the world of sports - has designed and supplied lighting systems for almost every major sporting event since the ...