The Forum

The Forum and Millennium Library is a major new civic and community centre which has already established itself as a focus for City activities. The three-storey horseshoe form of the building accommodates different activities on a series of balconies around a dynamic central public atrium. The Norwich Millennium Library occupies the semi-circular end on two levels while the outer arms of the horseshoe house restaurants, shops, studios and offices for BBC Radio, the city's tourist information centre, as well as careers and adult education services.

The Forum is conceived as a covered Courtyard, which lets light into the heart of the building with the spectacular glazed end wall opening onto the forecourt and welcoming the city in. The Delmatic lighting management system extends the drama of lighting into the building coupling scenic effects with energy-efficient daylight-linking and presence-related controls. Lighting throughout the public and back-of-house areas is controlled with comprehensive automatic switching/dimming coupled with local user controls. Three networked PCs provide independent control of defined areas enabling lighting to be efficiently managed and monitored and special control patterns to be configured for public and evening events.

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