{"id":41231,"date":"2014-02-27T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/planning-for-maintainability-the-light-bulb-goes-off.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:33:30","slug":"planning-for-maintainability-the-light-bulb-goes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/planning-for-maintainability-the-light-bulb-goes-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Maintainability: The Light Bulb Goes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
This story's from last fall, but it got raised in a discussion at my office. In particular, the beautiful and "smart" lighting setup in Heathrow's \u00a0multi-zillion dollar new Terminal 5.<\/p>\n

'Heathrow's Terminal Five currently houses the world\u2019s largest controlled-lighting system, featuring 2,600 sensors designed to automatically switch off when no motion is detected. […] Earlier this year […] it was named best airport terminal building in the World Airport Awards, organised by Skytrax, an aviation research organisation.'<\/i><\/p>\n

A beautiful controlled-lighting system … that nobody thought of how to reach the light bulbs in order to replace them.<\/p>\n

'Sixty per cent of the 120,000 light bulbs at Terminal Five have blown yet not a single one has been changed since 2008, faced with \u201cno viable way to replace them\u201d, according to O\u2019Brien. Various ways of replacing them have been investigated, including gondolas and high-level cherry pickers, none of which were deemed \u201cpractical or safe\u201d.'<\/i><\/p>\n

It's gotten so bad, they've had to bring in "contingency lighting" in order to illuminate the place.<\/p>\n

The current proposed solution is a specialty company "using \u2018Cirque du Soleil-style\u2019 high-level rope work". \u00a0They'll be replacing all the bulbs with LEDs, which should last substantially longer.<\/p>\n

Now, it's easy to point and laugh, but it's also the sort of mistake that's so easy to make — designing for beauty, designing for function, even designing for energy savings … but not designing for maintainability. \u00a0But a project that can't be sustained afterwards is a failed project, no matter how many other functional requirements it meets or exceeds.<\/p>\n

It's certainly something we're trying to keep in mind in our kitchen remodel …\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Heathrow seeks high-wire walkers to change light bulbs – Telegraph<\/a>
\n Heathrow will require high-wire artists to change the light bulbs at Terminal Five which have not been replaced in more than five years\n <\/p>\n

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This story's from last fall, but it got raised in a discussion at my office. In particular, the beautiful and "smart" lighting setup in Heathrow's \u00a0multi-zillion dollar new Terminal 5. 'Heathrow's Terminal Five currently houses the world\u2019s largest controlled-lighting system, featuring 2,600 sensors designed to automatically switch off when no motion is detected. 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