Smart Lighting Brings Personalised Control to Cartwright Pickard’s Leeds Office

Cartwright Pickard’s Leeds office underwent a lighting refurbishment designed to create a modern, comfortable and adaptable working environment. With open-plan workspaces at the heart of the office, the new scheme needed to provide effective illumination across desks and circulation areas while giving employees greater control over their immediate surroundings.

The Brief

In a modern open-plan office, lighting needs can vary considerably from person to person. Different tasks, working patterns and individual preferences mean a single fixed lighting level isn’t always the most effective solution.

For Cartwright Pickard, the aim was therefore to create a lighting scheme that combined high-quality illumination with intelligent control, allowing the office environment to adapt to the people using it.

The solution also needed to complement the contemporary appearance of the refurbished space, providing consistent lighting across workstations and circulation routes.

The Solution

Ansell’s OCTO Vasco Evo linear luminaires were installed throughout the open-plan office, positioned above desks and across circulation areas to create a cohesive lighting scheme.

Vasco’s suspended linear design makes it particularly well suited to contemporary office environments. Its bi-directional light distribution provides both upward and downward illumination, helping to create balanced, uniform lighting while enhancing the feeling of brightness and openness throughout the workspace.

A key element of the refurbishment was the integration of OCTO smart lighting control. Rather than operating the office lighting at one fixed level, OCTO provides individual control over luminaires, allowing the lighting above each workstation to be adjusted to suit the person working beneath it.

Employees can therefore tailor their immediate lighting environment to their own preferences and the task at hand, creating a more personalised and flexible workspace. OCTO also enables fittings to be grouped, dimmed and controlled as part of the wider lighting scheme, giving the office greater flexibility as its requirements change.

The Result

The completed refurbishment has created a bright, contemporary office environment that combines the clean architectural appearance of Vasco Evo with the flexibility of smart lighting control.

By giving employees greater control over the lighting at their individual workstations, the OCTO system enables the office to respond to different users rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach.

The result is a flexible, user-focused lighting scheme that delivers effective illumination across desks and circulation areas while giving Cartwright Pickard greater control over how its Leeds workspace is lit.