We were delighted to work with the BBC development team behind the brand new,  state of the art BBC headquarters in Cardiff to install production-grade lighting and infrastructure into the building’s magnificent five-storey skylit atrium.

The new BBC headquarters boasts a magnificent full storied open atrium that sweeps around a central tower of open-fronted live broadcast studios and production development offices that face open landings and offices across the atrium’s wide and bright space with its glass, sky-filled, ceiling. The stunning new atrium is the heart of the new BBC headquarters in Cardiff.

It was important that the lighting specified reflected the BBC’s technical, creative and innovative, broadcasting heritage and production standards. The brief utilised the very latest in LED colour controllable, moving lights, mounted on both sides of the atrium on theatrical stage truss, installed by the BBC along the first and second-floor intersections.

We were commissioned to specify and source the required lighting fixtures along with a DMX solution that provided flexible creative programming control that could also be used both manually and portably when required for both production and broadcast purposes.

The Lighting was required to be used for both everyday architectural lighting that would fill the atrium with immediate and dynamic lighting effects, emphasising a broadcast aesthetic, whilst also being fully capable of being used as live production lighting for BBC broadcasts from within the central atrium.

Dan Marks: Major Projects Infrastructure: BBC Design & Engineering:
“I just wanted to say a massive thank you for all Enlightened’s hard work. The Lighting Directors have been having a very fun time getting to grips with the fixtures over the last few days. I am happy to report that Lighting was the only element that has received no snags”