Rodd and Gunn Melbourne Flagship Case Study
The Brief
Four floors. One system.
A 1930s building with no risers.
Rodd & Gunn's Melbourne Global Flagship occupies a restored art deco building on Little Collins Street. The scope: full electrical, a Philips Dynalite commercial lighting control system commissioned across every level, a Zelo-designed LED wall at the retail entry, commercial kitchen power, CCTV, two data racks, and speaker cabling throughout.
The constraint: a heritage-listed building with no existing risers, concrete beams, and corniced ceilings that couldn't be touched. Every cable run had to be planned around the architecture — nothing surface-mounted, nothing visible.
Recognition
NECA Excellence Award entry — 2026 commercial fit-out category.
Grand Opening
Covered on TV news the night of opening. The building performed exactly as commissioned.
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Client Rodd & Gunn
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Location 280 Little Collins St
Melbourne VIC -
Timeline May – Oct 2025
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Contract A$700,000
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Scope Electrical · Lighting · Data · CCTV · LED wall
The BuildingFloor By Floor.
Lower Ground The Cellar + Caffetteria
- Custom linear pendant installation across the full cellar dining space — coordinated with joinery and ceiling build sequence
- Full commercial kitchen fit-out: power circuits for cooking equipment, extraction fans, cold rooms, and service equipment
- DALI scene programming — daytime café ambience through to evening wine bar, shifting on a timer without manual input
- CCTV system installed and integrated at lower ground level
- Speaker cabling throughout for background audio in cellar and caffetteria
- DALI
- Philips Dynalite
- Commercial kitchen
- CCTV
- Speaker cabling
Ground Floor Retail
- 2m LED feature wall at the building entry — custom designed and built by Zelo. Fabricated specifically for this space
- DALI lighting throughout the retail floor — each circuit individually addressable for merchandising flexibility
- POS power and data cabling fully concealed within the timber joinery — zero visible infrastructure at any service point
- Scene programming across retail trading, after-hours, and staff-only modes
- Coordination with Sphera Lighting on fixture specification and aiming
- Zelo LED wall
- DALI
- Evolt Ektor
- POS integration
- Schneider Clipsal
Mezzanine The Members Bar
- Precision pinspot installation to art deco wall panels — fixture aiming set to millimetre tolerance on heritage surfaces
- Feature pendant circuits above the marble bar top — multiple independent circuits for zoning flexibility
- Philips Dynalite scene control transitions the bar from pre-service through dinner to late-night atmosphere automatically
- All cabling concealed behind original art deco cornicing — no surface mounting anywhere on the floor
- Speaker cabling for background audio and events
- Philips Dynalite
- DALI
- Feature pendants
- Scene programming
- Heritage ceiling
Level 1 The Lodge Dining Room
- No existing risers in a 1930s building — every vertical cable route engineered from scratch around concrete beams
- Heritage corniced ceilings: all lighting and data cabling concealed with zero surface-mounted conduit or visible fixings
- 2 × 18RU data racks installed to serve the building's network and AV infrastructure
- Full DALI lighting with Dynalite scene programming — lunch, dinner service, and private dining modes
- Speaker cabling throughout the dining room for background audio and events
- 2 × 18RU data racks
- Philips Dynalite
- DALI
- Speaker cabling
- Heritage constraints
The ResultOpen on Time.
Featured on the News.
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Lost-time injuries across 5,000 hours on site in an active multi-trade build.
5,000
Hours on site. First in, last out. Grand opening covered by TV news — the building performed on night one.
Remote
Dynalite system remotely programmable. Lighting scenes adjusted without a site visit — exactly as commissioned.
NECA
2026 Excellence Award entry in the commercial fit-out category.
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