Background

Founded in 1964, London Business School (LBS) is widely considered to be one of the foremost business schools in the world. Situated in the iconic Sussex Place on the edge of Regent’s Park, its London campus comprises of 26 main buildings and is home to over 2,000 students from more than 100 different countries.

The Plowden Building stands prominently at the heart of the Sussex Place campus. In 2024/25, it was redeveloped into a vibrant and accessible space to promote collaboration, development and wellbeing. This transformation sets the students up for success, providing more visibility to the support services and helping to dismantle the barriers to access, shaping resilient and brilliant future business leaders.

Challenge

Changing the lighting is a key part of a refurbishment. Lighting plays an important role in the experience in the space and has an important impact on the learning of the people using it. Adding the right lighting control system is an essential part of this.

It does not only impact the energy and carbon performance of the building, but is also a turning point in enabling a smart building. The lighting installation becomes the digital backbone for all kind of services such as air quality monitoring, energy sub-metering, emergency lighting and legionella compliance and space utilisation monitoring.

Benefits

The new Mymesh R3 system gives LBS full control of their building via entity profiles for their spaces and the Lumitel dashboard gives full insight via a digital twin of the building. This gives insight in the energy performance, any potential faults and how spaces are being used.

Furthermore, the Mymesh system gives a real-time insight in the usage of the site by giving an overview of areas in presence with an interval of 5 seconds. This will allow further optimisation of the site's energy usage.