Lighting
February 2012
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All aboard for The Arc Show
At the end of this month the Business Design Centre opens its doors for the first lighting event of 2012. Amanda Allen looks at the highlights and picks out some new products that will feature in the show -
BSPA and LUX-TSI create new test centre
Birmingham Science Park Aston (BSPA) and LUX-TSI are to create a new test centre for energy efficient lighting and photonics products -
By their own lights: lighting designers and their homes
Two different lighting designers with discernibly individual styles. When it comes to their own homes have they practised what they preach and created a lit environment that reflects their own professional approach? Or, like the cobblers’ children that had no shoes, did that all go out of the window? Jill Entwistle goes through the keyhole to find out -
CO2 emissions up by 3.1 per cent in 2010
UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 rose by 3.1 per cent, according to a report by the Department of Energy and Climate Change -
Dancing in the dark
The Islington Mill, Manchester was recently the location for a do-it-yourself club night, which relied on the attendees to provide the lighting -
Derek McNair joins Recolight
Recolight has appointed Derek McNair as compliance manager -
F-light of fancy
French designer Paul Coudamy has unveiled F-light, a modular lighting system constructed from recycled airbus parts -
GE lights John Lewis
GE Lighting range specified as part of John Lewis’ new build and refurbishment programme -
Gobo joins Philips Selecon and Strand Lighting
Gobo - Highlight A/S has been appointed as Philips Selecon and Strand Lighting’s new distributer for Denmark -
HEA achieves ISO 9001 certification
The Highway Electrical Association has become one of the few membership-based trade associations to be certified to ISO 9001 -
Highway to China
Abacus has been contracted to manufacture and supply its patented raising and lowering lighting columns in China’s New Territories East region -
Into welcomes Duncan Hamilton
Duncan Hamilton has joined 2011 Lighting Design Awards winner Into as an associate -
Licht Festival Gent...
As veteran light festival goers, and serial complainers about their content and lack of direction, we are delighted to report that we have just returned from an excellent one! -
Light Bureau appoints new design director
Tad Trylski has been appointed design director at Light Bureau -
Lumenpulse and Lightitude enter partnership
Lumenpulse has entered into a partnership with UAE-based Lightitude -
OCG acquires Kudos Business Technologies
LED supplier, Kudos Business Technologies, has merged with Business commodity provider, Office Canopy Group -
Philips announces Q4 Results
Philips’ official 2011 fourth quarter results show a sales increase of 3 per cent, thanks to a 7 per cent growth in Lighting -
Philips appoints White Light as Vari-Lite Service Centre
Entertainment lighting specialist White Light has been appointed as an authorised Philips Vari-Lite Service Centre -
Poor performing MR16s to be banned in 2013
Low-voltage halogen lamps are set to be banned under draft legislation from the European commission -
Putting it to the panel
The race is on to produce a glare-free LED luminaire product suitable for office lighting. Amanda Allen reports on a bench-test meeting between Mark Ridler, of multidisciplinary architect BDP, and GE’s Simon Fisher -
RCF Group sells SGM Lighting
RCF Group’s lighting division SGM has been sold to a consortium headed by Martin Professional-founder Peter Johansen -
Recolight joins the fight against drugs
There is more to dismantling cannabis farms than the disposal of suspect herbs as West Midlands police discovered -
Reds flag up their green credentials
As the inaugural Carbon Reduction Commitment chart showed, Manchester United Football Club is top of the league when it comes to assessing its energy usage. Nick Martindale looks at how Paul Nulty Lighting Design has persuaded the club to make a 75 per cent cut in general illuminance levels at its Nike Superstore -
Shadow health minister backs new lighting technology
Andy Burnham is backing a new infection-control lighting technology developed by MHA Lighting -
Swirling Moscow
Dmitriy Chistoprudov uses long-exposure photography to create stunning images of Moscow’s city lights -
The hunt for rare earth
The global shortage of rare earth elements, resulting from China’s increasingly strict export quotas, has brought the role of the buyer and product manager to the fore like never before. Andy Pearson visited Havells Sylvania to find out how the lighting manufacturer is coping with the crisis in raw materials supply -
The Northern Lights: but what are they?
Lighting has searched far and wide to find a comprehensible video explaining why the natural phenomenon occurs -
The numbers stack up
They say that once you work for yourself you never want to go back to working for someone else, but Thorn Lighting’s Nick Clark is the exception to the rule. Ben Cronin talks to the head of the manufacturer’s newly-formed Energy Solutions division about funding models for lighting upgrades -
The Wandsworth Group appoints Alan Goode
Alan Goode has been appointed as area sales manager for Kent, Sussex and south-east London -
Time, Transformation and Energy
This year’s Kinetica Art Fair is set to run from 9-12 February 2012 -
Urbis ceases high-volume manufacturing in UK
In a bid to improve its economies of scale, Urbis is to source its luminaires from Schréder factories in Europe from 2012 -
We heart work
In case you ever thought negative things about us, we would just like to say for the record, that this blog is not supposed to cause envy but to share what we see on our travels (honest) -
Why is simple so complicated?
As energy-saving technology in the lighting field becomes ever more sophisticated, we need to look much harder at making both its operation and its benefits clearer to the user, writes Dominic Meyrick
