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News Release from: PB Design and Developments
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 May 2003
Inverters add safety to Millennium Point
PB Design has supplied four inverters to NG Bailey to back up the emergency lighting at Birmingham's Millennium Point.
PB Design has supplied four inverters to NG Bailey to back up the emergency lighting at Birmingham's Millennium Point - the largest Millennium project outside London, costing GBP 114 million including GBP 50 million of Millennium Commission lottery funding and GBP 25.6 million from the European Regional Development Fund Millennium Point houses Thinktank - the Birmingham museum of science and discovery, the region's first large format IMAX theatre, the Technology Innovation Centre, the University of the First Age including the Young People's Parliament along with commercial space for retail, leisure and office tenants around a stunning public mall
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Eden Project, a global garden created in a 15 Hectare disused Cornish clay pit, which will open to the public in March 2001, features static inverters with battery back up from PB Design
Naturally, emergency lighting is particularly important for a complex of this size and its backed by four PB Design systems, with one rated at 30kVA, one at 20kVA and two at 8kVA.
Each unit can provide 3h emergency backup using valve-regulated lead-acid batteries to BS6290 Part 4.
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