Category Archives: Project

General lighting and colour changing lighting features around the rear of house areas of the Barbican Concert Hall. Push The Button recently completed the installation of the new lighting system, rear of house at the Barbican Concert Hall – the home of the London Symphony Orchestra. Push The Button were initially approached by Yvette Chin […]

PTB worked with the Hippodrome’s Operation Director, Mike Bradford to deliver seamless digital signage to the refurbished foyer at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Screens were installed above the new ticket office with a ‘ribbon’ of screens installed above the main exit doors. But the biggest ‘statement’ was made by cutting away the original foyer fluorescent back […]

Bang on schedule, PTB completed the installation of the new dimmer system for English National Opera at the London Coliseum. In just five weeks, PTB removed the fifteen existing, problematic Strand SLD96 dimmer racks and replaced them with ten new ABD Eurodim Twin Tech racks, incorporating the DimSwitch modules that can operate as either dimmers […]

Working on behalf of White Light Ltd, PTB have recently completed the replacement of production lighting dimmers at The Savoy Theatre. The existing EC90 dimmers were replaced with four ETC Sensor3 ESR36 racks along with the installation of a custom termination chamber to deal with a large quantity of MICC cables installed in the theatre. […]

Working on behalf of Solutions AV, PTB have provided design and installation services for the second phase of works at The Link Thamesmead, a stunning new, state-of-the-art community hub made up of nine arches located under the Harrow Manor Way flyover in the heart of Thamesmead. The works have consisted of the design, supply and […]

The weekends & Monday’s of early August has seen PTB installing replacement dimmers into the Lyceum Theatre, London, on behalf of White Light. Out with the old and in with the new ETC Sensor’s, with the works carefully coordinated to always leave a functioning system for the week performances of ‘The Lion King’, prior to […]

Following an annual inspection, the existing five manual raise & lower winches were found not to comply with current standards and with only 3 weeks until a pre-booked Summer school needing to use the venue, PTB were contacted and asked to assist. Not one to walk away from a challenge, PTB carried out a site […]

Not limiting ourselves to just electrical works, when Grange Park Opera wanted to update their existing hydraulic revolve control system PTB provided a solution. The masses of existing hydraulic hoses which were installed from sub stage to stage right were removed and replaced with speed and directional electronic proportional values fitted adjacent to the power […]

Early March saw a new Production Distribution panel installed down stage left at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Designed by PTB’s Andy Phillips to comply not only with the clients requirements, but also to latest British Standards (BS7671:2008(2011) Requirements for Electrical Installations, IET Wiring Regulations 17th Edition, Amendment No. 1 and BS7907:2011 Code of practice for temporary […]