Client: Reading Borough Council
Designer: Peter Brett Associates
Contractor: Balfour Beatty 
Products used: The LED Handrail, Sculp 60, Sculp Dot

Reading Borough Council wanted to create a new bridge across the River Thames – an architectural feature that would attract visitors, as well as pedestrians and cyclists, providing better connectivity between Reading and Caversham.

Whilst working closely with Peter Brett Associates, Urbis Schréder designed and installed a bespoke 400m LED handrail and architectural feature lighting. 

The LED handrail provided functional lighting and for architectural feature lighting, a series of Schréder Sculp floodlights were used, including one placed in the middle of the ‘tuning fork’ at the top of the 40m high-mast. 

The colour changing lighting display included 28 Schréder Enyo LEDs running up the suspension cables, two Noctis 225 LED floodlights recessed beneath the bridge to illuminate the underside, and flexible LED strips underneath two ‘floating’ benches located on the bridge.   Bench lighting and surrounding security lighting was installed with radar detection.  Digital Multiplex (DMX) network design and programming was built-in from the start of the project. 

An Ethernet fibre link to a nearby kiosk was included to allow authorised members of Reading Borough Council to control the feature lighting display remotely.