Martin Professional’s US subsidiary, Martin Professional Inc., was awarded on February 2nd the lighting contract for the Sepulveda/Century entrance of the new Los Angeles International Airport Gateway project.

Designed and specified by Los Angeles based Dawn Hollingsworth at Moody Ravitz Hollingsworth Lighting Design, Inc. (MRH Design), the project will feature nearly 500 Martin Professional Exterior 600 lighting fixtures.

The popular outdoor color changers were ultimately chosen by MRH to illuminate the entrance’s 15 Sepulveda Circle Columns. Each column is approximately 30 - 60 meters tall and 4 meters in diameter and is made of a frosted glass material. The illuminated columns will stand at the entrance/exit to the Los Angeles International Airport and will be seen at night by the over 100,000 people who pass through LAX each evening.

The Exterior 600 fixtures will be programmed to change colors and will synchronize with an additional 15 smaller glass columns located on Century Blvd, the main road approaching LAX. The complete lighting project will be controlled via a customized system of Martin ProScenium lighting controllers. Helix Electric, Inc., constructors and engineers for the $25 million LAX Gateway portion of the $110 million LAX improvement project, are supplying the complete job.

Upon completion in June of 2000 the project is certain to be the largest automated exterior color changing lighting system in the world. Completion is slated for just prior to the start of the Democratic National Convention which will be held in Los Angeles this summer. Visiting delegates will be treated to a vibrant and colorful red, white and blue welcome to Los Angeles. Over 60 Million people pass through LAX each year.