The Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre (PAC), a 4 100 square metre multi venue building, in the heart of the city of Camrose, in Alberta, Canada, has just been equipped with 100 ETC Source Four, LED Series 2 Lustr luminaires, which is the largest number installed anywhere in the world.

The venue earned a prestigious level four Green Globe distinction for its energy efficient building design and commitment to green technology before its doors opened in October 2014. There weren’t any venues within a 45 minute drive of the city that could accommodate touring Broadway shows and large scale dance or theatrical productions. Camrose has become a home to a blossoming arts community, and the city desperately needed a new, large-scale performance venue and its primary goal was to be as green, flexible and technologically advanced as possible.

An all-LED house was the natural choice, when it came to planning the lighting system. According to Richard Schick, theatre consultant from Schick Shiner and Associates, who worked on the installation, states that LEDs on the market back in 2012 didn’t perform up to the specifications of the venue, but their wait, finally paid off.

Finally in 2014 they were told they could have access to a prototype of the Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr. Before the Series 2 Lustr, nothing they found on the market came close to being able to meet their 17 metre FOH throw distance. The Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr uses the x7 Color System with an additional lime green emitter that increases the luminaire’s lumen output, making whites and lighter colours livelier and brighter, while marrying the two ends of the colour spectrum with ease.

The Series 2 is great for long throw illumination, and outputs fantastic saturation and brightness. The Series 2 Lustr luminaire’s lime green emitter also works in conjunction with double the number of red emitters to produce rich ambers, straws, pinks and magentas that match gel colours produced by conventional fixtures. The centre uses a Gio console to control their theatrical lighting rig, making colour mixing easy and fast.

With all the LED fixtures installed, the venue is able to save between $30 000 and $35 000 each year in energy costs from the lighting system alone.