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Location Thorn Academy of Light, Thorn Lighting Limited, Green Lane Industrial Estate, Spennymoor, County Durham, DL16 6HL, UK
Description Reception and exhibition area, lighting application areas - indoor and outdoor, seminar room, training rooms, offices, mobile product displays, bar/lounge area
Total area 3,000 sq m
Date of completion 5th February 2009

Architects Aysil Sari/Supersymetrics; Herbert Resch
Support Architect Maria Plankensteiner/Marketing
Project Director Dietmar Egender/Messebau
Lighting design Aysil Sari/Supersymetrics; Peter Thorns/Thorn Lighting Design Department
Lighting equipment Thorn

Outdoor area Stefan Ebner/Messebau; Montageservice Gaßmann, DE; Steuerungstechnik Weber Robert, AT
Outside facilities GMI Construction Group, UK
Façade/building/lifts/sanitary ware GMI Construction Group, UK
Ceilings in office/seminar rooms GMI Construction Group, UK
Ceilings and walls 'Alucupond' Battisti, AT
Installation ceilings and walls 'Alucupond' Martin Streitler/Messebau; Martin Pfefferkorn, AT
Walls, concrete GMI Construction Group, UK
Walls, paintwork Markus Streitler/Messebau; Montageservice Gaßmann, DE
Stairs Wiedemann Treppenbau, DE; Montageservice Gaßmann, DE
Flooring/parquet Parkett Profis, AT; Montageservice Gaßmann, DE
Exhibition area Messebau, AT
Lighting application areas Messebau, AT
Electrics Messebau, AT
Technical services (heating/cooling) N G Bailey, UK 
Emergency/safety N G Bailey, UK 
Audio-visual equipment Ton und Bild, AT 
Furniture office Bene, UK
Furniture built-in components Sigg, AT

Event and Content Management Paul Stranks/Thorn Marketing Communications
Training Manager Martin Thompson/TAL Spennymoor
Administrator Sandra Robertson-Wright/TAL Spennymoor
Photography Joss Guest/Thorn Marketing Communications