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A digital installation created by Jason Bruges and inspired by O2 Bluebook.

The O2 Memory Project - an exciting community artwork by Jason Bruges Studio - is touring London, Liverpool and Edinburgh for three days each from late-April to early-May 2008. The work uses cutting-edge technology to explore the temporary nature of our digital memories, drawing on the theme of 'nothing is lost'.

Commissioned by O2 and inspired by Bluebook, a service that saves contacts and automatically stores photos and texts for O2 customers, The Memory Project is an interactive installation piece conceived to prompt thought and discussion around how we capture and store digital memories.

The complete memory project structure was designed, manufactured, prebuilt and installed by Litestructures in just four weeks.

Visit the links: http://www.o2memoryproject.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7355777.stm

The O2 Memory Project will tour the UK from April 18th, starting at Gabriel's Wharf, Southbank, London. It will then visit The Mound, Edinburgh from April 25th and Williamson Square, Liverpool from May 3rd.

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Following successful installations at Gatwick North & South, East Midlands and Birmingham International, Litestructures have just completed an innovative design and install project for Best Of The Best in what is surely their most prestigious location yet - Heathrow Terminal 5.

Clearly, the stand design had to be in keeping with the terminal's overall style, with a sophisticated, ultra-modern, high-tech look. Owners BAA also required that the installation should not impede easy passage through the terminal, as this has been hailed as the facility's major passenger benefit. Accordingly, and following BOTB's brief, Litestructures created an installation comprising two stands, one of them equipped with a motorised turntable, the other a static display. Both sections are based on custom LiteDeck modules, and both sport electronically dimmable blue LED downlights which define access points and provide a cool overall look. Both stands feature canopies, their aluminium subframes clad with stretch fabric membrane, internally lit by colour-changing LED's, synchronously for both displays. Each stand has a POS cabinet with integrated power supply. The canopies themselves are held by elliptical structural supports, their 'goalpost' columns being made in the same section as was used to construct the terminal itself.

Note: This is not Litestructures' only involvement with T5. See our item ref. Heathrow Terminal 5, Alternative Access.

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Following successful involvements with Red Bull Racing, Williams GP and Toro Rosso, Litestrucures can mark the start of the 2008 Formula One season with a telemetry pod tour-de-force for Renault F1.

As ever with constantly mobile F1 teams, Renault F1 required a structure which was quick and easy to assemble, which was lightweight yet robust, and which was efficiently transportable. Litestructures duly came up with a fully-automated, self-folding design. The curved roof rotates through 90 degrees to act as protection for the screen and electronics and it is closed automatically by an electric linear activation system..

The new Renault F1 pod is 6m long, divided into two equal sections, and is 2.5m high. Its screen and shelf assembly lowers to an operating height od 1.8m, while the considerable weight load is spread using aviation-based honeycomb panels, co-operatively developed by both Litestructures and Renault F1 engineers.

The F1 season kicked off in March 16th, with the Australian Grand Prix, and with Litestructures in pole position.

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Litestructures have been building Westlife's stage sets for 7 years now, but their latest is the biggest yet. Designed for their 2008 'Back Home' tour, the 3-tier stage is shaped in their signature 'W' format, and measures an impressive 72'(w)x40'(d)x12'(h).

Following an original concept by Alan MacDonald, it took the Litestructures design team just 6 weeks to complete the technically advanced structure. Features within and around the stage's 55 LiteDeck platform modules included a brand new 3.5m high modular leg lift, constructed using LitePro 4 heavy duty truss. This lift passes through all three tiers. In addition, Litestructures built a 10m 'totem pole', also using LitePro 4, which sits centrally atop the highest tier, and which houses a laser feature. Rollability for the lower tier was achieved using legframe snap-on bracing. Some 32m of handrails, with perforated aluminium panelling and extra, custom design, access steps to the rear of the structure, round off this impressive rig.

Westlife then spent 7 days in the Litestructures Studios in both technical and full rehearsal, before taking to the road. From Boys to Men in a week!

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Litestructures was honoured to play a role in the opening ceremonies for Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008. Tens of thousands gathered on St George's Plateau for the People's Opening on Friday 11th January '08. Litestructures supported the Liverpool production team with rehearsal facilities, crew and two 40ft vertical walls constructed from Litestructures' popular LiteDeck staging system.
Approached in October '07 by the Liverpool Culture Company, Litestructures was commissioned to build an unusual stage in preparation of the Liverpool Capital of culture opening ceremony. In fact, the stage would be a 48ft by 44ft vertical wall used to rehearse an aerial 'wall walk'. Working along with production manager Simon Barrington and opening events team manager Nick Birkinshaw, the rehearsals took place in the Litestructures Studios in November for 3 days. The rehearsal wall proved so successful in rehearsals it was decided to replicate them for the actual event. The result was two walls used as screens (40ft x 40ft) for the ceremonies using over 100 LiteDeck from our Hire department. Being used as screens, all the decks had to be colour matched to a specific sample provided by the show designer. In addition to the wall, Litestructures provided show contractor Star Events Group some bespoke LiteDeck fitted with clear macrolon tops used for the roof top performance on St George's Hall.

Litestructures also supported UK Rigging by providing crew including our own Hire Manager, Ben Brooks who said: "It was a pleasure to be involved from start to finish in the biggest events Liverpool has ever experienced. Rehearsals were very important on that project as our LiteDeck system was used in a way we had not seen before. It is great to see our hire products being used in different ways that highlights their versatility."

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Working again with renowned practice DLA architecture, Litestructures once again had the opportunity to use technological aesthetics to bring interest and excitement to a public space. Following on from the award winning DEC project of 2006, DLA again selected Litestructures to work on a new cutting edge educational project, The Stage at Leeds University. The brief was to enhance the reception area of the new centre with a piece that is evocative of the entertaining, theatrical purpose of the centre, without looking too industrial.

Working with DLA, our design team spent time on some initial concept sketches before working these up into full 3D renders to allow the clients opportunity to fully understand the design. Having been given the green light, Litestructures then engineered the scheme to be practical in terms of both maintenance and cost, with an emphasis on providing value at every stage.

The final structure combines a set of delicate curves in AstraLite 3 Polished Trussing, set apart by fire retardant cloth infills to create four floating panels 7.5m tall and 2m wide. From approval of the initial concept to completion on site, Litestructures achieved design, manufacture and installation in just 4 weeks. The structure has received universal praise, and encapsulates perfectly the excitement and dynamism of this impressive University project.

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Litestructures teamed up with US rapping prodigy Kanye West providing a full stage set for his forthcoming European tour. With a start date of 17th November in Paris, everyone was in a hurry when they arrived.
Using an original concept by Simon Henwood and Richard Weager (partner, HSI, London), it took the combined resources of our custom design team and our hire dept. just three weeks to successfully complete the project. The concept, its realisation overseen by tour Production Manager, Brian 'Hot Dog' Tate was based on the then-futuristic Disney blockbuster 'Tron', and called for some 20 LiteDeck staging system modules, all with Makrolon tops, the creation of a custom DJ desk, plus keyboard and microphone stands. The combined stage and DJ workstation measured 17m across and 6m deep.

With such an important production, the tour management needed a unique venue to rehearse. The Kanye West team came naturally to Litestructures Studios to use the facility for a 5 day full rehearsal. It then came all together for the team who were able to use our Hire and manufacturing facilities being both on the same site as the Studio; meaning any last minute changes were possible and quick.

Litestructures has been short listed for the 'Innovation awards' at the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business awards 2007.
The awards ceremony celebrates the companies that have helped to make this region the most enterprising in the country. It gathers the creme de la creme of Yorkshire business and aims at honouring the region's finest most forward-thinking companies.

CEO Paul Below said " It is very exciting to be listed for this award. It is a tribute to the innovative genius of Adrian Brooks, the Company's founder, and owner. As a result Lite Structures is today one of the original producers of Aluminium trussing systems, a range that is continually developed and enhanced, such as with the incorporation of DALI and DMX control transmission in the latest Digitruss products .Litestructures are also the recognised leader in aluminium Staging and has a superb design and build operation for the most demanding projects and complex creations. As a private company we are able to respond quickly both to design oriented customers and to market requirements, developing new products and providing solutions. We have built a unique rehearsal facility in our Yorkshire based Studio; have pioneered out-sourcing of construction products in Romania and are a favourite supplier to the most demanding market sectors including live music, motor sports and fashion retail."
The awards will culminate in a glittering black tie dinner in Leeds on October 18.

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With Line Arrays now a common tool amongst most touring rental companies, a further investment usually has to be in infrastructure for the system in the form of cabling, and more often than not a ground support system.
The options for ground support systems are pretty limited and often come down to individual choice, as they're all very similar. That was before Litestructures entered the party with their new LiteMast, which they claim is "not just another mast". The team have thought about its design and how it will work out in the field. They have then designed an innovative system that not only works from a suspension point of view but more importantly works from a logistics and set-up angle as well.
LiteMast could have easily been a copy of what was already out in the market. But after speaking to various companies about what they would want and what works and doesn't from other masts, along with gaining information from speaker manufacturers about their various systems, Litestructures have re-invented the mast with their unique ProBase system which works in place of the standard fixed angled corner joint. The ProBase incorporates universal mountings for chain hoists allowing one person to locate and fix the hoist in position rather than two which most other systems require. Another key point to the ProBase is the all round hinged corners, these allow the unit to be folded down for shipping with out the need to fully disassemble the mast, aiding load in and load out time.

RCF's Greg Oliver who assisted the Litestructures team with information on speaker systems and other ground support systems that are being used out in the field at the moment comments "Having known the guys at Litestructures for some time, I met with Lee Brooks at the ABTT Show to discuss the possibility of them producing a V Mast. Many of our customers have been looking to purchase various systems, but all have issues about the way they perform and the cost. The LiteMast isn't just another ground support system, it actually works and assists you in suspending your speaker system, reducing load times and labour, which ultimately saves money. It's lightweight yet stronger than equivalent designs with full structural approvals, another key issue for UK based companies. Litestructures are a UK based company allowing faster response should one have any issue's or need a slightly customized LiteMast".

Lee Brooks adds: "RCF's support was extremely important to this project, and by listening to manufacturers as well as end users, we're confident that we've been able to bring something new, innovative and genuinely useful to the professional sound support market."

Oliver concludes "I got a call from Lee days before PLASA 07 and he said that they are showing the LiteMast at PLASA 'do you have a system we can suspend from it?' We supplied them 4 modules of the RCF TTL33-A - Active Line Array for the show, to allow customers to actually visualize what it would look like. The Black gloss finish on the show mast looked great and really caught the eye of passers by."

An immense and extraordinary spectacle has been created for the launch of one of the nation's largest cultural initiatives. Leeds' Light Night, expected to attract thousands of families onto the evening streets, will premier a plethora of never-before available artistic events. The blueprint initiative to bring European city culture to the UK, will be followed by up to eleven British cities, in a half million pound year-long series of Light Nights. A month before its 800th birthday, Leeds Light Night offers the signature, highlight show - HumanSect - a massive and fantastical trapeze display of aerialists from Urban Angels Circus.
Litestructures designed and provided a unique, freestanding, arched rig - one of the UK's largest - bringing huge theatrical scale to meet the expectations of the Light Night project. With such a scale, the Circus used the Litestructures Studios to rehearse and getting ready for the event. The massive, elegant structure will hang exo-skeletal humans with bejeweled wings metamorphose into deadly creatures 10 metres above the Royal Armouries' audience head. HumanSect combines jaw dropping aerial choreography with a stunning visual narrative - a must see!

Don't miss 'HumanSect', Friday 12th October 2007 - The Royal Armouries Square in Leeds.
www.urbanangelscircus.com - www.lightnight.co.uk

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An unusual feature of Litestructures' impressive stand at this year's PLASA Show in London, was the large number of visitors from the world of professional audio. The focus of their interest was one of two brand new products Litestructures unveiled at the show, LiteMast. As M.D. Adrian Brooks explained, "The tremendous rise in popularity of Line Array sound systems within the concert and touring sector of the pro-sound marketplace has created a problem. They need to be flown, and many venues do not have the facility to easily do this. LiteMast provides a convenient, labour-saving and cost-effective solution, hence the interest from this area, with both manufacturers and hire companies enquiring." The fold-and-ship or fold-and-roll options proved particularly attractive, along with the design's ability to accept all types of motorised hoist.

With characteristic foresight, the company also launched LiteBarrier, a modular crowd control system with advanced features and superior ergonomics, designed to hold back the pressing hordes. Commenting on these successful introductions, Brooks added that, "We saw many more visitors than last year, and processed many more enquiries. This was one of our most successful PLASA Shows for many years."

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The Scissor Sisters 2007 Ta-Dah Tour featuring dates at London's 02 and Manchester's MEN Arenas hit all the right notes, playing to packed houses, and featuring an entire stage set and trussing rig from Litestructures. This was the second slice of Litestructures action for the Scissors, following their good experience with us in 2006. Working to a concept by designer Marc Brinckman, overseen by Scissor Sisters production manager, Litestructures provided both the custom staging and the trussing. The impressive set, measuring 15m wide, 12m deep and 10m high, took just 5 weeks to design and build, from concept to completion.

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For the first time at PLASA, the Litestructures team will be complemented by additional space and presence from Rope Assemblies and Hoist UK stand H69. This collaboration offers a real solution to any customers involved in the entertainment industry; no need to search the show for complementary trussing rigging and hoisting solutions, you can find them all on one stand!

Visit us and win £1000!
Visit the 'Black Room' and be amazed by a huge array of black products, perfect for theatre and entertainment use. Name them all and win £1000!

Also featured...
the original AstraLite, the first multi purpose trussing system, DigiTruss, the innovative cable-free, modular truss system that incorporates both live power circuits and data rails within a single structure. The industry standard LiteDeck with an unparalell combination of light weight, towing toughness and cost effectiveness.
Learn more about the Litestructures Studios, the UK's largest purpose built rehearsal Studio.
And... we will be launching our new Product Catalogue and Portfolio brochures covering both recent projects and new products.

Register online http://www.registerbynet.com/shows/plasaLITE07links

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The annual In-Store show, held at Earl's Court 2 in London, covers all aspects of retail merchandising and the in-store environment. Litestructures used this year's event, from 12th-14th June to consolidate its position as a leading supplier to this important and dynamic marketplace. Our innovative stand design featuring many exciting new products, including LED lighting, lightboxes, Remote Control Lighting luminaires and control systems, attracted much attention and many enquiries, especially for our Livelite and Digitruss powered trussing systems, as well as for the sophisticated, state-of-the-art RCL products which we now also distribute.

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Spring 2007 has seen the second BBC BritBus Tour take to the turnpikes around the U.S., this year playing in fifteen major cities across America, and climaxing in New York towards the end of June. Each bus stop is a 2 - 4 day event featuring the best in British music, television, entertainment and, of course, products, and Litestructures is out there with them. A high-profile promotional tour like these BritBus events, needs to travel with an easy-to-assemble, lightweight, modular, transportable staging and decking system. With its stylish design and unique, time-saving, Top Lock system, LiteDeck was the obvious choice. Having designed and supplied the ideal rig for the tour, Litestructures have also become BritBus sponsors, joining the BBC, Virgin, Gibson guitars and other world brands. Litestructures' Managing Director, Adrian Brooks commented; "When it comes to combining engineering with entertainment, Britain in general, and LiteDeck in particular still leads the world."
Visit www.thebritbustour.com for more details.

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Litestructures is very much at home in the high tech, high performance world of Formula One. Accordingly, we have now provided 3 key elements for RedBull and Scuderia Toro Rosso, including stands, garage structures and the all-important telemetry pod.
After the drivers and the cars themselves, the telemetry pod is arguably the most important resource, seeing constant use during practice, the race itself and for post-event analysis of data. It needs to be structurally strong and stable, incorporating monitors and associated electronics as well as seating and weatherproofing, yet it also needs to be of minimum weight, easy to assemble and dismantle for trucking.
Having excelled with our custom design and build for the 2006 campaign, RedBull came directly to Litestructures, not only for their own 2007 seasons requirements, but also similar structures for their sister team, Scuderia Toro Rosso. The equipment inventory included 8 Astralite garage sets, 12 individual work stations plus LED feature lighting and a viewing area for the pit garage.

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Litestructures Group Holdings Ltd. has appointed Paul Below to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Announcing the appointment, which is effective immediately, founder and Group Managing Director, Adrian Brooks commented, "Litestructures has recently expanded and strengthened its workforce in a number of key roles in response to growth in our principal business areas, and it was therefore timely for us to create this role and to make this appointment to help maintain our forward momentum."
Litestructures, chaired by John Jagger, also operates Europe's largest sound stage and rehearsal facility, adjoining its South Kirkby, Wakefield, manufacturing base. Officially opened recently by H.R.H. the Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Litestructures Studios is already an established favourite with big name touring acts, bands and shows. An active exporter, Litestructures also maintains major business interests in Germany and Romania.

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Saudi Arabian oil giant, Aramco, recently commissioned design consultants HB Source to devise and procure a special, signature sculpture for their corporate HQ. Appropriately, the chosen concept was to create a sculptural representation of a splash of oil. With their unique fabrication, design and manufacture skills, Litestructures were the obvious choice to turn HB's concept into 3-dimensional reality. The imposing suspended structure, measuring some 7 metres in diameter, was engineered and constructed, during a 3-month consultation process, at Litestructures. Incorporating the latest Lexion LED lighting, the structure was assembled inside the Litestructures Studio, and shipped in its entirety to Aramco HQ. Final assembly and on-site installation was in February, and took just one day. Following, as it does, the much acclaimed success of the UVA Volume exhibit at London's Victoria & Albert musuem, this latest Litestructures tour-de-force places the company at the very cutting edge of sculpture culture.

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Held within London's Business Design Centre in February, the annual ARC Show provides the leading U.K. business forum for suppliers, designers and manufacturers of Architectural, Retail and Comercial lighting. Encouraged by the success of our recent projects for clients such as PC World, United Visual Artists (U.V.A. @ the V.&A.), and Spain's Nueva Condomina shopping centre, the 2007 event saw Litestructures exhibit for the first time.
The stylish and appealing stand attracted much attention: this was the first opportunity for many ARC visitors to acquaint themselves with the unique features and tremendous potential of our latest product, Digitruss, with its innovative cable-free system for the mounting and control of display lighting.
The Litestructures stand also featured a photo-montage, 'Switched On London', with images from the lighting festival of the same name which was, by night, running concurrently in the Pool of London. Having two such strong points of interest to attract potential customers proved a great success, and Litestructures was able to effectively demonstrate that, in this important and expanding marketplace, the company is now fully 'Switched On'.

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Volume is an atmospheric sculpture of light & sound which is positioned in the centre of the V&A's garden. The sculpture is made of an array of light & sound columns operated by motion sensors; in other words it responds to any human movement creating a series of audio-visual experiences. With an original concept from the UVA (United Visual Artists), Litestructures has been chosen to help turn this beautiful project into reality.
The challenge in this job was to create 24 state of the art lighting blocks with minimal aluminium detail showing and the main trick was to make blocks the look of floating vertical shafts of light.
Thanks to Litestructures' professionalism and experience, the project is a great success and the exhibition is a beautiful state of the art sculpture, a must see. Learn more

Watch the video on:http://www.youtube.com/litestructuresstudio

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Litestructures attended the PLASA 2006 show at Earls Court, London from 9th -13th September as usual this year. However, this year they were not only showcasing their existing truss and decking ranges together with their set & stage design services and studio facilities. Litestructures chose the PLASA show as the platform from which to launch their innovative new truss system - Digitruss - a structural truss that incorporates both live power and data signals too. The full range of products and services were professionally supported by an impressive range of new literature prepared specially for the show.
The stand, which had been designed and manufactured in house to display to best effect the breadth of products and range of skills within Litestructures, was manned by an enthusiastic customer service and technical team kitted out for the first time in Litestructures "crew" uniforms.
The stand was well received and the level of service admired by all who visited over the four days.
The interest in Digitruss was phenomenal with queues forming throughout the day at the live demonstration area located at the rear of the stand.
The number of leads generated was tripled this year, whilst the quality of leads has proved to be extremely high too.
One week on from the show, work is well underway to capitalise on the contacts made and to continue to promote Digitruss and establish it as an original and innovative market leading product!

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Digitruss by Litestructures is a truly innovative, cable free, truss system that incorporates both live circuits and data rails within the one structure, The data rails can carry both the architectural protocol DALI and the entertainment industry standard DMX 512 enabling both conventional and intelligent lighting to be attached to the same truss without the need for extension cables.
With Digitruss from Litestructures it is now possible to cost effectively create, seamless, colourful mood paintings or micro climates. You can now stimulate your audience with an endless variety of ever changeable canvasses in a fraction of the time and with reduced labour costs. Any number of light, sound and visual sources can be incorporated in the one, cable free, light weight, low maintenance, environmentally friendly, infinitely flexible truss system - that is Digitruss!

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July 2006 saw Redbull Racing take delivery of a vital part of their F1 team infrastructure - a Litestructures Telemetry Pod. As the place where the team engineers and managers spend much of a race weekend, monitoring live technical data and observing the cars behaviour on track, the function of the Telemetry Pod is a primary consideration for any team. This is allied, as with everything in the high powered world of F1, with the need for performance and innovation to be integrated into every element of the design.
Redbull Racing originally approached Litestructures with a brief in May 2006, having recognised the good work that the company has performed with many other F1 teams. Lee Brooks, Technical Sales Manager on the project, takes up the story. 'Redbull gave us a very comprehensive brief to work to, having thought carefully about how they wanted the structure to work and look. We were then able to work this up into a feasible design, using advanced composite materials as well as aluminium, to achieve stringent performance target. It was fantastic to work with such a professional client, and to create a structure which not only works efficiently, but stands out visual in a very demanding arena.
The Telemetry Pod is likely to be used for the first time at the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim on July 29th/30th 2006, and will commence its world tour, hopefully assisting Redbull Racing to success in the future.