This historical wooden shipyard building used to be the construction hub and launching point for old sailing ships is now converted to a museum for some of the armed forces most exotic pieces of machinery, tanks and ships.
The new upstairs pavilion was the base for the evenings event.
The building is large and open and a very cold place to be in mid-January. One of the first tasks was heating the venue to keep the guests warm with only two 63-amp three-phase supplies to work with. With the building being as long as an old sailing ship, cable lengths were an important consideration and after careful planning the heating power was distributed from four main distribution boxes.
This left little power for sound, lighting and catering so it was decided that LED lighting would make up the bulk of the rig.
LED wash lights were used down the length of the venue along with source4 profiles to project gobo patterns onto the ceiling. Two 2 Kilo-watt flood lights were used with blue HQI lamps to light the exterior and lower level of the venue providing an interesting and atmospheric blue glow on the interior.
The effect was finished off with some small 250-watt moving lights and some more LED units, combined with a haze machine to give the dance floor a bit of party finish.
Redundancy for the event was provided by having spare power distribution available at all the key points.
Light, warmth, good food and good drink were brought to a cold January night on the Medway estuary.
Further info: http://www.chdt.org.uk/Galleries/3_Slip ... 3Slip.html From Chatham Historic Dockyard website (Accessed April 2009)
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