Category Archives: Project

Naming Ceremony In a change to their usual role, Push The Button provided the technical elements for the naming ceremony of Seabourn’s Ovation cruise ship in the harbour of Valletta, Malta. Push The Button provided event staging suitable for a 22 piece orchestra together with a large video wall, comprehensive audio system and all the […]

Parry Hall Performance Lighting  As a continuation of Push The Button’s relationship with Eton College, the music department asked Managing Director, Nick Ewins, to enhance the lighting previously installed in the Parry Hall in 2014. The brief was to install a lighting solution to provide theatrical lighting in performance sessions, with minimal impact to the […]

Future Proofing With the introduction of LED light fittings into the performance lighting market, the Stephen Joseph Theatre were looking to replace their ageing Compulite Dimmer installation and decided to install five ETC ColorSource ThruPower Racks. This meant a radicalisation of the existing infrastructure. Working with the Chief Electrician, Paul Stear, Push The Button provided […]

Susie Sainsbury Theatre and Angela Burgess Recital Hall One of Push The Buttons largest and longest running jobs. The project provided a beautiful theatrical space in place of the old theatre and a new recital room above the aforementioned theatre. Both venues were completed at the same time with work carefully co-ordinated between Ian Ritchie […]

Local Entertainment System Upgrades, Arcadia and Oceana. P&O Cruises tendered works to be carried out on two ships whilst in dry dock, to be carried out consecutively in Hamburg, Germany. Push The Button worked with Carnival UK’s entertainment department. The team worked on the Arcadia to deliver local entertainment system upgrades to the Rising Sun, […]

Production Lighting Upgrades Following the installation of new pile winches and hemp flying bars in 2015, Push The Button worked with the staff and volunteers at the Shaftesbury Theatre Dawlish to overhauled their production lighting. All of the twin and earth cables were removed and replaced with a galvanised trunking system and custom internally wired […]

Bridge Theatre Push The Button were employed to join the gaps between items delivered in the main contract and items rewarded as a direct loose equipment supply.  At short notice, Push The Button installed a comprehensive network of CAT5 tie lines that gave the theatre users the option of extending networking or providing single universe […]

Silk Street Theatre, Production Lighting Upgrades Push The Button worked with Theatre Projects on a performance specification to provide an ETC Sensor Dimming replacement to the ageing legacy Strand LD90 Dimmers, together with a comprehensive LED working light and house lighting system. As this is a Grade II listed building, considerable work was undertaken to […]

Lyttelton Theatre House Lighting The National Theatre are very conscious of the collective load of their multiple auditorium house light systems. Energy saving was the driving force behind replacing all of the Lyttelton fittings with LED alternatives. Push The Button worked with GDS to provide a custom approach for the Stalls Downlights and Auditorium Wall […]

Lyttelton Theatre Production Lighting Upgrades The National Theatre management decided to remove the distributed dimming from the Lyttelton Theatre and revert back to a central dimmer room. Push The Button worked with Lighting Resources to facilitate the design. Push The Button also undertook the replacement of two legacy distribution boards (TP1 and TP2) which had […]