FM Conway - Going the Extra Mile

Going the Extra Mile

Stewart’s team spent several months on ropes climbing all over Tower Bridge, getting the new lighting ready for the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

inventory list: ‘JCBs: one’. They sub-contract everything in. There isn’t space to mention all our Olympic achievements, but I would like to single out one more project, which created a considerable visual impact at the time: the new lighting of Tower Bridge. Three years earlier, in 2009, we had completed our first high-profile lighting project, when Colin Barrow, the then-leader of Westminster Council, had decided to give Marble Arch a complete makeover. The fountains hadn’t been used for ten years, and the Reflection Pool had been filled

In addition to restoring the fountains and the Reflection Pool for Marble Arch, in 2009, we also installed a new remotely controlled LED architectural lighting system.

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