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LIGHTING

JOURNAL

October 2013

The publication for all lighting professionals

Chips of the desert: Abu Dhabi’s LED strategy Glowing Dutch – how Utrecht blazed a tourism trail Lessons learned from Suffolk’s part-night policy

Features for November/December Lighting Journal

Why the blues?

A study to explain why one colour dominates exterior lighting The rise of the IDNOs: What are the implications for local authorities?

Contents

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Lighting Journal October 2013 03 EDITORIAL 04 NEWS 08 LIGHT MINDED/

LIGHT HEARTED

10 CHIPS OF THE DESERT

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Martin Valentine outlines the particular challenges of devising an LED strategy for Abu Dhabi

14 TRAIL BLAZING

Jill Entwistle looks at how the Dutch city of Utrecht has used lighting to make tourists linger

20 EARLY LESSONS

Richard Webster explains what has been learned so far from Suffolk’s part-night lighting policy

24 ALL UNDER CONTROL?

Hoare Lea’s Dominic Meyrick on creating the company’s own cutting edge lighting and controls

28 FORWARD THINKING

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PLS address: new president Mark Johnson on living with the past and looking to the future

30 SUMMIT HITS

THE RIGHT NOTE

This year’s Professional Lighting Summit summarised

31 LIGHTING IN A

34 LUX LIVE PREVIEW

A selection of products plus the street and exterior conference programme at this year’s show

36 PLANNING

IMPROVEMENTS

Allan Howard considers the implications of new planning guidance for light pollution

38 THE ROAD AHEAD

Future concept: some of the thought-provoking ideas from a new lighting report

40 THE BROADER OUTLOOK

Mark Ridler, VP architectural lighting, on communication with the outside world

42 PRODUCTS 44 PUSHING THE ENVELOPE

Light on the past 10: Simon Cornwell on the slow emergence of the mercury discharge lamp

45 CONSULTANTS’ DIRECTORY

46 LIGHTING DIRECTORY 48 DIARY

MATERIAL WORLD

Light School, a new event at the Surface Design Show, will illuminate a different audience

32 CARBON UPDATING

James Everley reports on changes to the CRC scheme

COVER PICTURE Oudegracht canal, Utrecht. See p14

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Editorial Volume 78 No 9 October 2013 President Mark Johnson EngTech MILP Chief Executive Richard G Frost BA (Cantab) DPA FIAM Editor Jill Entwistle Email: jill@theilp.org.uk Editorial Board Tom Baynham Emma Cogswell IALD Mark Cooper IEng MILP Graham Festenstein CEng MILP MSLL IALD John Gorse BA (Hons) MSLL Eddie Henry MILP MCMI MBA Alan Jaques IEng MILP Keith Lewis Nigel Parry IEng FILP Advertising Manager Julie Bland Tel: 01536 527295 Email: julie@theilp.org.uk Published by Matrix Print Consultants on behalf of Institution of Lighting Professionals Regent House, Regent Place, Rugby CV21 2PN Telephone: 01788 576492 Fax: 01788 540145 E-mail: info@theilp.org.uk Website: www.theilp.org.uk Produced by

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o be brutally honest, when I first got a whiff that what semed to be some sort of lighting show was being planned at the Business Design Centre in London’s

Islington (see p31), my initial reaction was to be underwhelmed. Something along the lines of, oh no, not again. It’s where there has been more than one stab at a lighting exhibition with varying degrees of success. The upshot has generally been that the show has inevitably moved on, either to another venue or to oblivion, and reinventing the wheel yet again seemed a bit pointless. However, this time the approach is entirely different. Light School at the Surface Design Show will have an exhibition element but that is not, as the name suggests, the main thrust of the event, which instantly makes it a more attractive proposition.

Apart from a refreshingly different approach, the important thing about this event is that it’s about reaching a wider audience – in this case architects and interior designers – instead of talking to each other as usual. It is also a sensible way of going about that because, as empirical evidence has proved, architects are a notoriously difficult bunch to entice to a lighting exhibition. Instead of building it and hoping they will come, it makes much more sense to take the event to wherever they already go. Mark Ridler, VP architectural lighting, briefly touches on the same issue (p36). ‘I see my next focus as being on education and communication with the world outside the confines of our community,’ he says. Indeed.

Jill Entwistle

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News

Turbines threaten Galloway Forest dark skies, warn astronomers Warnings that Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park is being threatened by applications for nearby wind turbines have come from astronomers and land charities.

The Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the John Muir Trust and the Scottish Wild Land Group have asked the

Scottish government in an open letter to rule out wind farms in the area.

There have been nine proposals for turbines in the vicinity including plans from energy companies such as E.ON and RWE npower renewables.

Wind turbines have to be lit by infrared light and sometimes visible

Pendant creams student award Inspired by cream falling off a spoon, the Dollop pendant is this year’s winner of the LIA’s newly revamped student lighting design awards, sponsored

by Anglepoise and Osram. Designer Ash Allen is currently studying product design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Modelled using 3D-CAD, the fitting is slip-cast from earthenware ceramic, matt on the outside, glossy on the inside. The 7W LED at the top of the flue, hidden from direct line of sight, softly illuminates the space below, with the light reflected off the shiny internal walls.

Established in 1985, the LIA National Student Lighting Design Awards were rebranded this year as Delight in Light with major changes to the way the competition is presented and organised.

A website was set up where students could upload their own designs and the public were encouraged to vote online as a guide to the judges.

More than 70 designs were submitted and over 10,000 votes were polled. The 10 finalists displayed their products at 100% Design at Earls Court during London Design Week, where the public were again invited to give the judges a further steer. The final four were chosen to present at a Dragon’s Den-style public final.

‘The judges were unanimous in their choice of Ash Allen’s Dollop,’ said Peter Hunt, LIA CEO. ‘They were impressed by the elegant shape, complete lack of visibility of the light source despite an effective light output, and the use of ceramic material and traditional methods to manufacture a contemporary piece.’

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illumination in order to meet Ministry of Defence and Aviation Authority safety requirements.

The 800-sq-km Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park was awarded gold-tier status by the International Dark Sky Association in 2009, making it the first site of its kind in Europe.

Cree goes for cheap as (LED) chips strategy In an aggressive pricing move, US LED specialist Cree has introduced a $99 (£62) street light as part of its XSP LED range (see LuxLive preview p35).

Aimed at residential roads, the XSPR fitting, 25W and 42W, is designed to replace up to 100W high-pressure sodium equivalents. Payback will take less than a year, says the company, based on 12-hour daily usage at US power costs (roughly 7p a kWh). The fitting is backed by a 10-year warranty.

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Notts reverses part-night lighting

Nottingham County Council plans to end part-night lighting in favour of using dimmable LED lighting where possible.

This reverses a policy that began in October 2010 and has seen the conversion of 6116 street lights to part-night lighting between midnight and 5.30am.

The county council spends just over £4.8m each year on energy for street lighting, illuminated road signs, bollards and traffic signals, making up 15 per cent of the total highways revenue budget.

The cost of returning part-night columns to full-night lighting will be in the region of £110,000 with a loss of £80,000 a year in energy savings expected. However, the council says that switching to dimming will still save £700,000 by 2016/17. There are some 90,000 street lamps in the county.

In 2005 the county council’s street lighting energy bill was £1.05m but in 2014 it is expected to top £5m, not including Carbon Tax. Reversing part-night lighting is part of a package of financial measures introduced in September 2013. In May 2013, overall control of the council changed from Conservative to Labour, which pledged to ‘switch the lights back on’. Styrrup, Oldcotes and Scrooby, three villages in north Nottinghamshire, had their street lights turned back on again in September.

‘Advances in energy-saving lighting technology over the past three years and viable alternatives to part-night lighting mean that we can now meet the required energy and CO2 savings through dimming and converting lights to dimmable LEDs when they are due for replacement,’ said councillor Kevin Greaves (pictured left), chairman of the council’s transport and highways committee.

The council has also trialled LED street lighting in four residential areas.

Cllr Greaves added that the move is also in response to public concern about the perceived risk of crime and personal safety in some areas with part-night lighting.

‘These concerns included some elderly residents who felt more vulnerable without street lighting and those residents working shifts who set off for or returned from work without lighting,’ he said.

In 2010, Scottish and Southern Energy won a 25-year PFI contract with Nottingham City Council for street lighting. It includes the replacement of 27,000 of the city’s 40,000 lighting columns and 10,000 lanterns, and came with the promise of introducing a remote monitoring system and white lighting.

The cost of the service is met from an annual council street lighting budget of £4.8m and an annual PFI grant of £3.5m from central government. An SSE spokesman said the county council’s decision would not affect its work in the city.

‘Nottingham is a 24-hour city and so street lighting is required at all times, even in the early hours of the morning,’ says the city council’s website. ‘Unlike a few county councils that are in rural areas, it would not be practical or safe for the city council to switch off the street lights at set times.

‘The City Council is committed to making Nottingham a safer city and the contribution that street lighting provides in

reducing the fear of crime and increasing road safety is vital. Although we will not switch off the lights at set times, we will save energy through the use of more energy efficient apparatus and good design practices.’

Nottingham County Council’s decision runs counter to a countrywide trend.

Kent County Council recently announced the start of a year-long lighting switch-off trial covering 3000 street lights it believes are unnecessary. If successful, the trial will lead to a second phase in which 70,000 of the county’s 120,000 luminaires will be fitted with timers and switched off or dimmed in the small hours. This will save an estimated £1m and 5000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually. KCC says no lights will be switched off in town centres, busy road junctions, roundabouts or accident black spots. Its annual street lighting bill is £6.4m and 29,000 tonnes of carbon. In the past two years it has replaced 3441 failing lights.

Meanwhile Essex County Council plans to have part-night lighting throughout the county by February 2014, saving £1m a year.

The council says this will include roughly 70 per cent of its street lighting. Essex has about 130,000 street lights, 11,000 illuminated signs and 6000 Illuminated bollards. It is in the process of installing a central management system.

Essex piloted part-night lighting in Maldon and Uttlesford in 2007. The council says the pilot has also delivered energy savings of 20 per cent or approximately £70,000 a year, and there has been no increase in recorded crime or road collisions in the two districts. The number of offences occurring between 11.30pm and 5.30am actually dropped by 14 per cent in Maldon and by 12.6 per cent in Uttlesford, according to council figures.

See Early Lessons, p20

Creative lighting could slash retail energy bill Retailers could potentially slash their energy bills by as much as 84 per cent through creative use of lighting, according to a new report produced by the Building Research Establishment.

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News

Pillow talk

News in brief German exterior lighting company Sill has gone into preliminary administration. Business will continue as normal, however, as the company restructures. ‘Despite the insolvency the business activities will remain as usual,’ said a company statement. ‘The orders already placed with us will be processed with the same care and reliability.’ Sill is a world brand leader whose fittings have been used to light the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, St Pancras Station, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Albert Hall and Heathrow T4 and T5.

Although it’s mainly touted as a squashy pillow, Simon Frambach’s Soft Light would probably keep you awake at night never mind playing havoc with your circadian rhythms. Made of foamed polyurethane and shaped using rotation milling – which allows for a precise production of a desired shape – it can also be squeezed into gaps or trapped between objects where needed. Which is probably really useful. Nothing comes to mind right now, but we’re sure it would come in handy somewhere. For once it doesn’t involve LEDs, or at least not specifically. All the information reveals is that inside there’s an ‘energy saving light bulb’, protected by a cage. So we suspect a CFL. Very cuddly though.

LETTER

LETTER

I was interested in the article Painting the Town Red in the September issue of Lighting Journal.

Displays from all parts of the world were mentioned, some attracting 70,00080,000 visitors. All very interesting, but I cannot understand why the lights of Blackpool which have been shining for the past 100 years were omitted. Four to five million people visit this six-mile-long display every year and the financial benefits to the town are enormous.

Arthur Elliott Past president Editor replies: We did of course consider including Blackpool Iluminations but the feature really concerned the recent trend for the more fluid type of lighting festival, usually involving commissioned artworks, that has been inspired by the Lyons model.

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CMS specialist Telensa has appointed Keith Henry as business development manager for the UK. Henry, who is the ILP’s VP technical, began his career at Bristol City Council as an area lighting engineer and has since worked for Philips, Eclipse Partnership and as technical manager at SELC. To date 25 local authorities have adopted Telensa’s PLANet (Public Lighting Active Network) system.

Jo Harding, formerly sales director of Fagerhult Lighting, has left to set up her own consultancy for the construction sector. HardingConsult will offer advice on strategic sales and marketing, sales training and coaching, and specification sales skills. More details from joanne. harding100@live.co.uk

LETTER One of London’s new landmarks, the curiously swarthy and curved 20 Fenchurch Street, aka the Walkie Talkie, recently made the headlines for all the wrong reasons when it was discovered that its concave design coupled with the elevation of the sun in the late summer could reflect and magnify the sunlight causing damage to property and vehicles in surrounding streets.

The world’s press responded with magnificent flippancy by trying to fry eggs on the pavements while a spokesman for the building punned unwittingly that they ‘were now fully focused on the problem’.

I was reminded of a similar, if somewhat smaller, problem reported in the Annual Reports of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers in 1932. R Davidson, the public lighting superintendent for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, reported the use of a new refractor fitting for 500W GLS lamps. However, ‘a complaint has recently been received that during hot weather the rays of the sun, focused by the prismatic refractor in one of these fittings, set fire to the sun-blinds outside one of the shopping centres. The investigation of this complaint has not yet been completed. Have any of our members had a similar experience?’

The concerned lighting engineer never received a reply to his plea and no other occurrences of ‘death rays’ caused by street lighting refractors were ever noted. However, the problems facing the owners of Walkie-Scorchie appear far more serious and it will be interesting to see how they resolve this unwanted reflection problem.

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LIGHT Minded...

Where will our energy come from in future? John Fox,

managing director of LucyZodion, on elusive solutions The way in which we source and use power is one of those issues open to huge debate.

Being involved in the lighting industry means that this is a subject that is close to my heart, not least of all because the origin of the electrical generation will have a pronounced effect on the economics of street lighting and its control.

There are many schools of thought as to how we will source energy in the future and what needs to be done to make sure that there does not come a time when we run short. An issue that is, needless to say, highly emotive and one that has recently made national headlines as a result of last month’s Labour Party conference and the proposed plan to cap energy prices. The politicisation of future energy policy does confuse choices, and may lead to delayed or distorted decisions being taken.

Green energy has been high on the public and government agenda for some time but, as we know, despite its ethical credentials it does come with some challenges, not least economic.

For example, renewable energy such as that generated by wind turbines is fantastic as long as the wind blows. It is very difficult to store energy and even with greater storage capacity, renewable generation sources such as wind (and solar in the UK) need underpinning with dependable energy generation capacity from other sources to be able to provide power to services such as street lighting with a high degree of reliability.

There is nuclear energy – but there is a huge amount of public concern surrounding the safety of this form of energy production, particularly in the wake of Fukushima, and the disposal of waste. It is one of those technical ideals that, even if there could be a calming of public opinion, will always be dogged by ‘not in my back yard’ issues.

Consider also coal, oil and gas, each of which comes with issues of generated CO2.

While gas is better, CO2 requires carbon capture and sequestration, so comes with its own challenges and costs both financially and to the environment.

Consider the issues that are running alongside these ‘energy choices’. We have

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a diminishing capacity to produce energy as many of the nuclear plants in the UK will shortly be decommissioned because of their age, and the availability of North Sea gas is now shrinking rapidly.

We are, despite being encouraged to reduce our energy consumption as a population, using an increasing amount of electricity, commercially, industrially and in the domestic markets.

So what is being done to try and alleviate some of the pressures? The introduction of energy-saving measures and taxes will have an impact on the requirement to save energy. For example, most street lighting will from 2014 fall under the scope of the carbon reduction commitment. Under the greenhouse tax for medium-sized users, councils therefore will be ‘taxed’ separately on their energy usage.

The money to pay these bills will have to come from somewhere. Costs will need to be cut either directly through the reduced usage of street lighting or by impacting on another area of council spending.

We as a business could look at how we reduce our energy costs. Although operationally unattractive we could choose to export our manufacturing to Asia, for example. This would certainly reduce our local energy consumption and our CO2 production. However, this doesn’t help us globally because we would simply be exporting the CO2 and not actually stopping it from being generated.

There is no clear answer to longterm energy production issues although I anticipate that fracking will lead to another dash-to-gas. However, we can clearly understand that as a direct result of bad planning energy prices will rise and rise very sharply. We will be forced to rationalise our use of energy and as a result the development of energy mitigation strategies will accelerate.

We cannot predict how the energy issue will be addressed but we can control our response to the problem – we will need to continue to develop energy-efficient solutions to avoid councils resorting to a complete switching off of lights. One thing is certain, that is not the solution.

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Opinion

LIGHT Hearted VP Alan Jaques, sector leader lighting, highways and transportation for Atkins, on inspiration and innovation Inspiration, innovation and application: three words that sum up what I like about lighting. Over the past 30 years I have been fortunate to have worked with a number of inspirational characters especially during my early years in lighting. Their enthusiasm was infectious and their encouragement much appreciated.

We are working at a time when technological innovations are more rapid than at any other time in our sector. The sox lamp was being used on new schemes for around 80 years, the son lamp has been in general use for 40 years or so and it probably only has a maximum of five years left for use in new designs. The Cosmopolis lamp has only been on the market for 10 years or so and I suspect that its usage has peaked. White LEDs suitable for road lighting applications have only been available for around five years, but how much longer will they continue to be the flavour of the month?

What comes next to displace LEDs is fascinating – I’m sure that something new will come along. Once LEDs have saturated the market and bulk replacement of lamps is a distant memory, manufacturers will need to innovate to generate new sales and grow their business. What they do and what this will mean to designers and end users will be interesting to see.

There is no single best method of achieving an appropriate lighting solution as each design has to fulfil specific constraints and client requirements. I enjoy the challenge of complex projects where I can apply knowledge and experience, and then adapt and apply this to develop an innovative solution. If at some point this approach inspires someone else, we’ll have gone full circle.

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Urban lighting

Chipsof thedesert ‘Whether it is energy-based or environment-based in conception, the key is not losing touch with the importance of both maintaining quality of components and the quality of light.

Perhaps this might be something that has been lost elsewhere in similar legislation?’

Masterplan of new capital district

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have been working for the Abu Dhabi government for a little over three years now and am gratified to see that the sweeping changes I helped define for urban lighting are already making an impact around the Emirate.

I was one of a number of ‘experts’ (essentially municipal-level technical advisors) brought in to cover identified areas of urban infrastructure needing improvement. Others include irrigation, town planning, health and safety, and landscape masterplanning.

Where my role is concerned, prior to my arrival there had been an international consultant team appointed to undertake the preliminary research for an Abu Dhabi Sustainable Lighting Strategy. A lot of work had been done to record all the lighting assets in the Emirate, explore the comparison between local and international practices, and identify recommendations to save energy and improve performance.

It is true that much of this work centered on road lighting, but this is understandable here as this was by far the largest portion of the public lighting burden, and is responsible for the largest chunk of public lighting electricity consumption and maintenance costs.

Refreshingly though, part of this consortium did include lighting designers so the issues of lighting quality and the public realm as a whole were not left out, and the strategy report covered these important factors as well. The problem I faced in inheriting the strategy (I was told ‘it’s your strategy now’ on my first day here) was that it was just that…a strategy. In order to enable anything to actually be done, this report and presentation document had to be

refined and then turned into policy.

The basic principles in the recommendations were a transition to LEDs, a reduction in roadway lighting levels and ‘improvement’ in public realm lighting, albeit the last being only a tiny part of the report.

But (luckily) I was generally happy with the strategy and agreed with its main principles. What I needed to do was take it forward, and quickly.

In Abu Dhabi we have the Executive Council which has the final word in all such matters and one needs to have its formal approval before anything can be done. We also have to gain prior approval from key stakeholders. In the case of urban lighting, these include all the branches of the Emirate’s municipal system, the Department of Transport (which is responsible for highways in Abu Dhabi), the distribution authorities and the police.

All these bodies and their intricate relationships with each other were something with which I had to familiarise myself quickly, and I imagine that whatever country one is working in, this is perhaps the most essential aspect to learn as well as the purely lighting factors.

There is as yet no GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) or other collaborative Arabic body covering lighting standards in any unified manner – unlike the EU for example –and even the seven emirates which form the UAE are not currently bound to adhere to one standard for lighting.

What I did hear, and later found to be true, however, was that what Abu Dhabi does is often looked at by the rest of the region, and other emirates and countries historically follow its lead if and when it is seen to be working.

So to turn the strategy into policy:

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Martin Valentine, lighting expert to the municipality of Abu Dhabi, outlines the particular challenges of developing a quality, energysaving LED urban policy for the capital of the United Arab Emirates

moving to LED technology was easily the most concerning for many people to comprehend. I’m sure the same issues of budget/cost/payback justification are prevalent everywhere.

I managed to summarise the strategy figures for a 20-year (present value) economic cost analysis to show that by changing over all existing assets to LEDs and implementing LEDs for all new projects, the Emirate would save more than 1.1bn dirhams (ÂŁ192m) by 2030.

Payback at that time was assessed as six to seven years (in fact it has proved much sooner as fixture costs have come down far quicker than envisaged). Bearing in mind that this included expenditure on the new lighting, in a country where electricity costs are substantially lower than in many others, this was an encouraging start. But it should not be, and was not, just about a like-for-like attitude to changing the lighting. Improving the lighting environmentally included lowering the current lighting levels (on roads predominantly) from some of the highest in the world, down to levels similar to many European countries and the US, another controversial part of the strategy for many.

Historic practice and heavily tinted car windows were among some unique cultural factors that we needed to address. Add to this the factor of ensuring lifetime fixture optical efficiency performance and maintenance costs meant that rather than save 10-20 per cent in energy, we could achieve between 60-75 per cent savings.

I think it is important always to emphasise the long-term benefits of such a change to a client and, if at all possible, to get the decisionmakers on board without them

focusing just on the bottom line and expecting to see a quick return.

It is true that potentially there might be more money to spend on such changes in the UAE compared with other countries, but conversely this means less when considering the meter electricity cost here is a fraction of others. Any expenditure on this basis looks unattractive in the short term, so looking at the bigger long-term economic picture was the only way to prove the capital outlay worthwhile. The UAE might have potential funds available, but I and the municipality were

concern that people can identify with and the other, less-clear beneficial factors can follow more easily.

When it came to LED technology, I had to explain that there were no issues as long as the strategy set the correct standards for fixtures and the policy aspect mandated and enforced that. In other words, we have to set the technical criteria for all lighting and the marketplace either has to adhere, or we don’t allow it.

We do have some unique environmental conditions in Abu Dhabi. As well as high temperatures which in summer can reach 50

Grand Mosque landscaping project: an early example of a scheme completed to the new standards

under no illusions that it would be easy to get unless we were able to stand up and justify their use.

This core target of gaining complete lighting strategy approval based primarily on the road lighting savings meant that the parks, public realm, streetscape aspects (where lighting quality, human factors and better lighting design cannot as easily be financially quantified) could be tagged on to the strategy approval and then covered in the necessary design standards at a later date. It is always better to home in on the main area of

degrees C, the same time of year also suffers very high humidity (7095 per cent) and additionally high levels of salt and acids in the soil which get blown into the air and condense on surfaces. So standards needed to address these extremes, and lifetime prediction, material testing and thermal performance of fixtures must be proved to levels exceeding the international norms.

Demanding a nice big valid warranty is another thing every client has a right to do if claims are so confidently forthcoming. To this aim I

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Urban lighting

presented draft lighting specifications for both road and public realm/park projects that set out the LED technical criteria for fixtures as well as controls, material aspects and lighting design – all to ensure the strategy could be enforced. Committees were formed to bring this to the stakeholders and in a little less than a year the strategy and the specifications were approved by the Executive Council.

Since November 2011, all urban projects across the Emirate have had to be designed, installed and approved in accordance with these specifications (DMA Lighting Specifications) as they have been issued under decree.

Some examples of completed projects include the first road project, the Salam Street and Tunnel mega project in Abu Dhabi City, which has won two top regional awards already.

The LED street lighting has been operating for more than two years and the tunnel, with more than 5000 LED fixtures, has been open for one year. There has not been a single issue with any of the fixtures and in fact measurements show no drop yet at all in outputs. Another road project is a small residential sector called E48 in which the street lighting shows a saving of more than 75 per cent compared to the old system. Positive feedback has been collected from residents and it is close to achieving payback already.

Every park and public realm project is now being approved and installed to the new standards, in which lighting quality factors (CRI, Ra, LED/lamp chromaticity and so on) are weighted alongside the efficiency factors of fixtures and components. Refined calculation levels for all applications and lighting design guidance is provided to consultants for all project design stages. The landscape project at the Grand Mosque is one early example of a completed scheme to the new standards. Hundreds more will open in the next few years.

We are now producing a full Urban Lighting Code/Handbook, the first for the region, in which we want to promote all aspects of good lighting

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design, from the basics through to detailed technical advice, and that can be understood by individuals with varying levels of experience. As two years are almost up for the DMA Lighting Specifications, these too are in the process of being revised and updated to keep things in line with marketplace developments and international standards.

Abu Dhabi is about to launch a quality stamp scheme for external LED luminaires, under the AD Quality Conformity Council of which I have been fortunate to have been a part. This might become a UAE scheme under the Emirates Authority for Standards and Metrology (ESMA). Domestic lamp regulations are also coming.

But whatever is happening, whether it is energy-based or environment-based in conception, the key is not losing touch with the importance of both maintaining quality of components and the quality of light. Perhaps this might be something that has been lost elsewhere in similar legislation?

Always at the fore of everything that is undertaken and presented is the consistent message that what needs to be done is better for the environment, for reducing cost and ensuring future sustainability, but will also improve the safety, look and beauty of the urban environments. This is not something just for Abu Dhabi – this message should be no different anywhere.

Martin Valentine (above right) has worked as a specialist lighting designer for more than 25 years, most recently in the UK for Aecom. Past projects include BBC Broadcasting House, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the facades of the Natural History Museum and, the polar opposite of his current position, Halley VI, the British Antarctic Survey’s new permanent ice-shelf station.

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‘The bigger long-term economic picture was the only way to prove the capital outlay worthwhile.

The UAE might have potential funds available, but I and the municipality were under no illusions that it would be easy to get unless we were able to stand up and justify their use’

The Salam Street (below right) and Tunnel project, with more than 5000 tunnel LED fixtures, has won two awards

Al Maqtaa revitilisation project

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Trail

blazing Jill Entwistle looks at how the Dutch city of Utrecht used lighting to attract night-time tourism

Stained glass window of light at the Buurkerkhof

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ven if you are a quaint old city, as Utrecht undoubtedly is, and attract a reasonable quota of tourists, how do you turn them from day-trippers into overnight visitors?

Just 30 minutes from Amsterdam and 40 minutes from Rotterdam by fast train, the Dutch city is within easy hopping distance for a day out which meant that visitors weren’t staying to spend their money on local businesses in the evening.

The solution was to show the 2000-year-old city’s historic spots to best effect at night by creating a trail that linked landmarks and works of art using the medium of light.

The Trajectum Lumen – trajectum is the Roman name for the military settlement that formed the core of the original old town – was begun in 2010 and culminated earlier this year with the illumination of the Dom Tower by Speirs and Major.

The trail of lights, which is free of charge, encompasses 20 lighting installations by artists and students from the Utrecht School of the Arts.

Among them are a floating halo above St Willibrord’s Church, a freestanding stained glass window of light at the Buurkerkhof, and uplit bridges that exploit the reflectiveness of the Oudegracht, the old canal

that runs through the centre of Utrecht.

According to a spokesperson from the Utrecht Tourist Board, the venture has cost somewhere in the region of €4m. ‘That includes the production of 20 artworks, the marketing and promotions, maintenance service until 2018, development of a mobile application, a physical routemap, together with various other elements,’ says Frank Berg of the UTB. Probably the main challenge so far, he says, has been the care of the installations beyond the predictable routine maintenance tasks such as changing lamps. ‘All the artworks are standing in the public domain

Dom Tower: In Lumine Tuo Originally part of the Cathedral of St Martin, also known as the Dom Church, the tower is the highest in the Netherlands and the symbol of Utrecht, standing at the spot where the city originated 2000 years ago.

The final and most significant element of the Trajectum Lumen, the In Lumine Tuo scheme alludes to the Latin saying ‘In lumine tuo videbimus lumen’ or ‘In your light we shall see the light’. Light is used to connect the tower with the cathedral and square in a scheme that manages to be simultaneously subtle and spectacular.

The cathedral has a passive design, based on the philosophy that light comes from within: light glows through the stained glass windows and internal faces of the buttresses to creat a lantern effect. The square

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Client: City of Utrecht Lighting design: Speirs and Major Art consultant: Marijke Jansen Project manager: Kees Van De Lagemaat City engineer: Arthur Klink Programmer: Daniel Harvey Contractor: Heijmans NV Photography: James Newton

recalls the past, with highlighting to the gable wall where the west end of the cathedral once stood. The tower is the dynamic centrepiece, visible from many parts of the city.

After dark, using individually controlled LED modules, a light sequence begins every 15 minutes as the tower clock begins to chime.

The church, square and tower appear to ‘breathe’ in unison creating a connection between the three elements. The play of light accelerates and bursts of light, signifying memories, appear to ascend the tower. The sequence culminates just before the hour strikes when multiple bursts of light and patterns are unleashed to the sound of pealing bells. http://vimeo.com/68760857

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Halo installation at St Willibrord’s Church

which means there is degradation from the weather and, occasionally, random vandalism, which makes it difficult to keep them all working for 365 days a year. But despite the inconveniences, we still keep maintenance under control.’

As the trail has only just been completed it is too early to quantify how successful it has been in its aims, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that it has proved a very effective tourist draw, says Berg.

‘Now the route is complete, it is

time for research. What we do know already is that the route is extremely popular among the visitors to Utrecht – there are a lot of app downloads, for example, as well as full tours every week and a lot of online followers.’

Keith Bradshaw of Speirs and Major believes the idea has worked very well and that this is primarily down to careful consideration and execution at every stage, with the installation and commitment to maintenance handled by the city council.

‘It is a great success, mainly due to the quality of the projects, their diverse locations and installations, a strong commitment to maintenance and excellent marketing,’ says Bradshaw.

‘They invested in good curators and held very thorough interviews before appointing the artists and also employed good production staff.

‘Another key factor was the strong liaison with the public who understood the value of the overall project.’ www.trajectumlumen.com/en/

Uplit bridge over the Oudegracht, the city’s old canal

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Part-night lighting

Earlylessons Based on a thorough assessment of Suffolk County Council’s part-night lighting policy, electrical services manager Richard Webster explains the approach taken and what has been learned

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s part of Suffolk County Council’s aspiration is to be the greenest county in the UK, its street lighting team has introduced a number of initiatives to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions from its street lighting stock. It was realised that part-night lighting could make a significant contribution to meeting the council’s carbon reduction target. By 2025 Suffolk aims to achieve a 65 per cent reduction in CO2..This is in addition to an immediate target of a four per cent a year reduction in CO2 emissions resulting from the council’s operations that is required.

Following cabinet’s approval of a part-night lighting policy, the team procured the Telensa Intelligent Lighting System (ILS), through the OJEU process, and this was used in

conjunction with the Mayrise Asset Management System.

We recognised at an early stage that it was imperative all stakeholders were involved in discussions relating to part-night lighting to ensure that the right people and groups received the correct information at the appropriate times. The stakeholders were mapped using a power/interest matrix to ensure that their needs were catered for as shown below.

There was also a commitment to liaise with stakeholders in a number of different forums. These included: • Evening attendance at parish council meetings • Evening attendance with residents’ groups • Presentations to Suffolk Association of Local Councils (SALC)

Stakeholders were mapped using a power/interest matrix (above and above right) to ensure their needs were catered for

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Part-night lighting • Discussions with local groups such as Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS), AGE UK and so on • Talks to Over-60s clubs, editorials in village newsletters.

• FAQs • Online maps showing the switching regimes for individual units • Online schedules detailing the dates the switching would occur in each area/parish • Online survey for feedback or concerns • Posters attached to lighting columns within main town (Ipswich) prior to switch off Six two-man teams carried out the installation using personal digital assistants (PDAs) that interfaced with the Mayrise system. Barcode readers scanned the individual telecell into Mayrise against each lighting asset to minimise human data errors. Installation began in earnest in July 2011 as scheduled. All dates in the programme were met and the part-night lighting was implemented on time. The main installation programme needed to operate the system was completed 12 months later.

At the outset of the project the stated aims of the ILS were: • To generate revenue savings through the reduction of energy usage associated with the implementation of part-night lighting (lights off between midnight and 5:30am) in accordance with cabinet-agreed criteria • To further generate revenue savings through the reduction of maintenance charges using the ILS • Carbon (CO2) savings Before beginning the project, financial savings were predicted based on the number of lights that would be subject to part-night operation and in accordance with the part-night lighting policy. It was estimated that annual energy savings would be around £550,000. In addition to the units operating part night, the times the lights would come on and go off were ‘trimmed’ to increase savings.

This is where the ILS’s light sensors are adjusted so that the lights come on a few minutes later at dusk and go off slightly earlier at dawn.

The actual cost savings realised are £641,000 a year, plus a reduction of 3300 tonnes of carbon. In addition, the maintenance contractor has calculated that its carbon savings through maintenance efficiencies and reduced fuel consumption are around 300 tonnes a year.

The total value for the supply of materials and installation of the ILS was estimated to be £2.8m. The actual cost was £2.775m and therefore the project was delivered nearly £25,000 below budget.

A number of ideas agreed with stakeholders that seemed both pragmatic and likely to be well received by the public were trialled using the ILS in the early stages. However, in reality, the opposite was achieved. These included:

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• Where crime affected a particular property, the street light outside was left on – the reality was that the lit unit attracted a congregation of people who were often perceived as a nuisance. This unit was turned off and the next nearest light was put on. However, the people migrated to the next unit. The conclusion was that in these instances, and where practicable, the entire road would be left on; this also meant that the affected property would not be highlighted.

• As public houses and night-time establishments are now open longer, the main pedestrian routes away from these premises were identified and the lights left on for longer at the weekends to facilitate pedestrian movement. A number of calls were received from residents in the areas that were now lit longer stating that a large number of pedestrians were being funnelled down these routes, increasing the amount of anti-social behaviour. They asked for the lights to be switched back off.

• During the Christmas and New Year period, for one week all lights remained on all night on the basis that there would be a significant increase in night-time activity.

There was overwhelming reaction from the public that this was a waste of money and that the stated benefits of energy cost and CO2 reduction were being compromised; this was being reviewed for the 2013 period.

It was known from the outset that the fear of crime was likely to be a major concern for the public, and indeed council members, even if crime figures went down during part-night lighting times. To help mitigate this, a number of frequently asked questions (FAQs) were published and an out-of-hours phone number was made available to the emergency services in the event that, where required, areas could be returned to lighting immediately.

To date this has worked exceptionally well and the police are using this service on a weekly basis. Within the last year there have been 110 out-of-hours calls made by the police which demonstrate this initiative is being used. The ambulance service has an indirect benefit in that in the dark it is easier to locate people in their properties who have called for assistance as lights on in the house stand out in the darkness. The fire service does not use this facility as its view is that a large part of the county has no lighting and it carries the necessary lighting equipment.

On completion of part-night lighting, and after allowing a suitable period of time to elapse, the crime levels were assessed independently of the street lighting team. The analysis considered the impact of part-night lighting on the level of crime in areas that were part-night lit and areas where lighting remained on all night. In all, 30 weeks of crime statistics before and after the switch over of some 200 parishes and towns across Suffolk were collated to give the daily crime profiles by hour of day (this was the maximum amount of time that the ILS had been implemented at the time).

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The points of reference that were used to establish down into each town to identify any particular areas for the location of daily crime profiles in relation to the lighting further discussion. were 40m and 80m, and only crimes with a known time Moving forward, the county council is considering a frame to within three hours were included. Where crime capital-funded Invest-to-Save project to replace an initial statistics are concerned, the time to consider is from 15,000 lanterns with LED units to further reduce revenue midnight to 5.30am when the lights are off, according energy costs and CO2. Presently there are more than to the part-night lighting policy.

1000 LED units installed and feedback has been very The results demonstrated that the daily crime profiles within 40m and 80m of ‘part-night lighting’ during the part-night lighting period have seen a sharp decrease in the observed crime rate – by 18.3 per cent (655 to 535) at 40m and by 19.2 per cent (1102 to 890) at 80m. Conversely, crime in areas where all-night lighting is still in operation has seen a slight increase – by 9.9 per cent (859 to 944) at 40m and by 5.2 per cent (1356 to 1426) at 80m.

It could be speculated that the increase in crime in all-night lit areas may be as a result of crime migration.

However, these areas are predominantly in town Figure 1: Crime within 40m of part-night lighting centres where CCTV is in operation and crime types in the main were ‘non notifiable’: • Other theft (non-motor vehicle/burglary) • Other drug offences and public order offences

Photography: Neil Evans, SCC

Overall the effect of crime during the switch-off in that period has decreased by 177 from 3972 to 3795 (4.46 per cent). The crime analysis has also drilled

Figure 2: Crime within 40m of all-night lighting

Figure 3: Crime within 80m of part-night lighting

Example of scheme part way through changeover to LEDs

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Figure 4: Crime within 80m of all-night lighting

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Crime breakdown: part-night lighting

Crime breakdown: all-night lighting

positive. An example showing a scheme part way through completion is shown far left.

In this instance, as dimming has been applied, power consumption has been reduced further, increasing savings above 63 per cent without altering the burning hours.

This feature is based on a more detailed report compiled for Suffolk County Council. For further information, please contact richard.webster@suffolk.gov.uk

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Lighting control

All under control?

Outcome of direct/indirect scheme (BCO Guide to Office Lighting)

When Hoare Lea moved to new premises in King’s Cross it was an opportunity for the lighting team to design its own cutting edge lighting and control system, says Dominic Meyrick. How difficult could it be?

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he move to new offices in King’s Cross earlier this year gave Hoare Lea Lighting the opportunity to design a scheme in a space they would actually inhabit.

What’s more, it gave the team a chance to monitor the design on a daily basis and respond to reactions to the lighting from other occupants.

The brief was to design an energy-efficient scheme, which would help to create a comfortable, contemporary workspace for a total of 165 consulting engineers, support staff and management personnel.

The aim was to make the 2137sqm space feel as spacious and airy as possible, avoiding ‘boxed-in’ elements.

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The design also needed to enhance the heritage features, particularly the Grade II-listed brickwork and beams.

Challenges Essential for both efficiency and visual comfort was the control system.

Controls are difficult to operate, and therefore the desire to make the system as user-friendly as possible was central to the design. If a system is perceived to be too complex then it will not be used efficiently.

Intelligent lighting/Dali provides maximum control and flexibility, giving the ability to zone, change and adjust different areas as required. This low-energy system saves lighting energy through daylight linking and links to the alarm systems.

Dali is well established, but even so the success of any control system is dependent on the programming and the thinking behind it. Obviously, it is also essential to have competent electrical contractors, commissioning engineers and programmers. iPad control is used in the main interior spaces/meeting rooms to override preset lighting scenes.

This type of control is more commonly specified on very high-end residential projects, and is not generally used in an office environment. The technology therefore needed to be adapted to suit the requirements of Hoare Lea’s workplace.

In January 2013, international M&E consulting engineer Hoare Lea relocated its flagship London office to the Western Transit Shed, a Grade IIlisted Victorian building at the heart of London’s King’s Cross development, becoming the first commercial occupier in one of the largest urban development projects in Europe.

The distinctive BREEAM Excellent space comprises openplan office space, meeting rooms, break-out spaces, kitchen areas and tea points, as well as on-site amenities, including showers and cycle facilities. It gives Hoare Lea more space and the opportunity to occupy prestigious offices with facilities that reflect its design-led, sustainable approach to buildings.

The current issue with iPad control is that lighting controls manufacturers do their own preparatory apps, which they design and brand.

Because these are ‘functioned’ by the manufacturers, they decide what you can and cannot ask their systems to do. HLL wanted to access the Mode lighting control system, but through an iPad platform designed and functioned by us, as end users.

A tri-way approach was therefore adopted which comprised back of house (Mode Lighting control system); user interface (iPad with HLL-designed interface control

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platform) and, finally, an interface between iPad and Mode provided

by Savant Systems. This hosts the interface and can allow a number of Mac products to use that interface, while also allowing any upgrade to be quickly implemented on all devices.

The intuitive nature of the iPad makes it easy to use. The icons and imagery take the fear out of using the controls by enabling the user to see what lighting changes are possible, and the results of those changes, before they actually press the screen.

Why did the challenges arise?

As lighting designers we have to practise what we preach and in this case we had to make sure the lighting design achieved all the technical requirements of any modern office.

However this is immaterial if you don’t just walk in and think, ‘wow – this looks great’. Asking staff to move from the West End of London to upand-coming King’s Cross, and not ensuring the new office was ‘fun and funky’ was simply not an option.

Office lighting generally follows quite a standard format. Our aspiration was to make the Hoare Lea office an interesting, unique environment. Inevitably, incorporating elements such as feature colourchanging LEDs, accent lighting and built-in coving/lit structural elements presented challenges.

Ambitious lighting design and controls aspirations were set from the start. Essential to the visual aspiration was the extensive number of skylights on both sides of the pitched roof, which form a key feature of the 65m-long building. With so much daylight on offer we had to ensure light fittings were responsive to external conditions in order to save energy, and so dimming, daylight sensors, astronomical clocks, luminaire grouping/zoning and extensive scene-setting are all used to ensure energy use is kept to a minimum.

The challenge of a holistic approach to energy-saving controls was made more difficult because the office is split over two levels, with a mezzanine floor covering more than half of the first-floor office plate. With half the first floor and the mezzanine having daylight from skylights and windows, the key issue was the lit impression for those working under the mezzanine, currently around 50 per cent of staff.

In this area, Optelma’s Quad linear system is suspended between an acoustic raft system, forming lines of light and providing broad ambient task light. Linear RGB luminaires on top of the acoustic panels illuminate the white-painted ceiling above, creating a gentle feature-colour backdrop on a slow response colour cycle.

Given the research into the effects

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The control system

• Intelligent lighting: Dali provides maximum control and flexibility giving the ability to zone, change and adjust different areas as required • Daylight linking for half the net floor area: the office is divided into four zones in terms of daylight control, with two daylight sensors downstairs and two upstairs. Each track is divided into north, south zone • Blinds controlled through a web page on the intranet: the web interface was developed in-house. An automated timer has programmed-in default settings for night and weekend which, depending on the season, help lower the energy used for heating and cooling.

Automated timer has default settings for night and weekend • PIRs in all meeting rooms • Lighting controller linked with alarm system: ensures lights are off when alarm is set. It also provides settings for cleaning, working hours and special events • iPad control for main interior spaces to override preset lighting scene

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People are always at the heart of our design and, inevitably, they are going to have different needs and opinions

Screenshot 1: a cloudy day so all blinds are retracted

Screenshot 2: a more normal, intermittently sunny day with some blinds deployed according to individual users’ preferences

Screenshot 3: all blinds deployed on a summer day to minimise solar gain

of colour, we were not surprised to find that the primary colours were unpopular with staff, and so the saturated reds, greens and some blues were programmed out after they were found to be too emotive.

Various studies (such as Engelbrecht, 2003; Morton, 1998) have shown that responses to colour are both scientific (physiological) and emotional (psychological). Where physiological effects are concerned, use of colour has been demonstrated to cause changes in blood pressure and brain development, and eye strain. For example, exposure to red causes the heart to beat faster, an increase in blood pressure and

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a heightened sense of smell.* Pastel and secondary colours have proved more popular and these slowly ‘sweep’ across the uplit ceiling creating backdrops of jade, yellow or purple. The end-users – the people – are always at the heart of our design and, inevitably, they are going to have different needs and opinions regarding preferences. Easy, instant control to change such effects is essential and this goes hand-in-hand with post-occupancy involvement.

As already mentioned, the office is generously glazed and beautifully daylit. However, one result of this is the challenge presented by solar gain, particularly as glare control through

rooflights is more significant than through windows. We have found that automated control of the blinds simply does not work, as people’s perception of glare is too subjective.

They need individual control and this need has been accommodated by, again, creating an HLL-specific, web-based user interface.

The images left show the blindcontrol web interface based on the office intranet. Since glare is so subjective, every employee can deploy any of the blinds with the click of a button. On the day screenshot 1 was taken it was cloudy so all the blinds are retracted.

Screenshot 2 shows a more normal, intermittently sunny day with some blinds deployed, because of users’ glare sensitivities.

Finally, screenshot 3 shows all blinds deployed on a bright summer day, in order to minimise solar gain inside the building.

Solutions We are lucky to have Axel Jacobs, Hoare Lea Lighting’s daylight principal, resident in the building. He is monitoring the building on a daily basis. Having this level of expertise available represents a unique opportunity and we are determined to learn from the experience.

Conclusion: lessons learnt We believe that control is the way forward: off has always got to be better. A lighting (luminaires plus

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Graph showing the light output of one fitting in each of the four daylight-linked zones. Note how lights are off at night: linked to alarm activation

control) budget in the past would typically have been divied up to provide 90 per cent for lighting and 10 per cent for control. At the Western Transit Shed, 75 per cent of the budget was spent on luminaires and 25 per cent on control technology.

Realigning budget spend in the future, therefore, is vital in recognising the importance of control technology.

However, having the technology isn’t enough – it takes time, effort

and a great deal of thought to make the control systems work.

And, of course, post-occupancy involvement is essential.

The move has been a success for Hoare Lea. ‘The new office lighting provides a truly wonderful working environment for our staff and improves the facilities we can offer our clients,’ Miles Freeman, Hoare Lea’s London managing partner, has commented. ‘The office

Energy usage The power density in a good office would generally be around 8W/sqm • Total load (all lighting on in all areas): 19.5kW • Total floor area: 2127sqm • Total max W/sqm: 9.16W/sqm • Total office functional lighting load: 16.2kW • Other areas (boardroom, meeting and quiet rooms): 3.3 kW • Total max functional power density: 7.6W/sqm Possible adjustments: • Total wattage of track fittings – daylight linking: 3.9 kW Note: HLL believes that power for these fittings over a typical working year will be half the installed load. This is being monitored, but not enough data is available at this point • Therefore total load: 17.5kW • Typical total max W/sqm = 8.2W/sqm • ‘Other areas’ (assume again 50 per cent use over a typical year): 1.65kW • Therefore total load (minus 50 per cent for daylight-linked product and intermittent use of meeting rooms): 15.85kW • Typical total average power consumption: 7.45W/sqm

also gives us the opportunity to trial and modify new technologies, acting as a test bed before we recommend technology to clients.

‘We are particularly proud to have gained an RCIS Ska Gold rating – the highest possible – for the office fit-out,’ he added. ‘The lighting design was central to this success.’ *Further information for referencing on the impact of the use of colour: Physiological and Psychological Responses to Colour The Inclusive Classroom: The Effects of Color on Learning and Behavior published in Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education, 29(1), Spring/ Summer 2011 Kristi S. Gaines, Zane D. Curry, Texas Tech University (www.natefacs.org/JFCSE/ v29no1/v29no1Gaines.pdf).

Dominic Meyrick is lighting principal of Hoare Lea Lighting and a Hoare Lea partner

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Forward thinking

New ILP president Mark Johnson stressed the importance of looking to the future in his address to the PLS

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he focus of his presidential year would be the future, Mark Johnson told delegates at the Professional Lighting Summit last month. The key issues were where the lighting profession was heading and how the ILP could gear up to help the members of the future, he said.

The starting point was recognising the degree of change the profession has undergone in recent years. ‘No one can doubt that the profession has changed,’ said Johnson. ‘When we began life in 1924 as the APLE all of our members worked directly for local government. Now that figure has fallen to around 22 per cent.’

It has been recognised for a long while that people now joining the lighting profession come from different backgrounds, he said, and that the old electrical engineering

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route that he himself had followed was a thing of the past. ‘Not only are people coming from different routes such as the design sector, they are On the need for growth ‘The ILP needs to continue to grow its membership. While it is appreciated that times are hard we need to ensure that the institution offers value for money, improved training and services for all members.

‘We also need to promote ourselves far more effectively within our own sphere and to the outside world. The recent formation of our Middle East and North African region (MENA) is a demonstration of focusing on the future.’

coming from completely non-technical backgrounds. It is not uncommon for quite junior administrative staff or, at best, people from a technical background but with little or no knowledge of or experience of lighting, to end up managing lighting.’

The tremendous changes to local government and its structure have resulted in accountants rather than technicians holding sway, said Johnson, and for those authorities that do have a lighting engineer the remit is now far wider than just public lighting. There was no early prospect of this trend diminishing, he added.

‘Those of us who have been members of the institution for many years may not agree with these changes but there is little we can do to influence these developments.

However, we can and will continue to urge local authorities to employ competent lighting professionals.

‘We must accept that we have become a broad church, embracing people from many different backgrounds, but all linked by the common thread of the lighting profession.’

Reflecting that broader church, changing from the ILE to ILP has helped its members, continued Johnson. ‘It is no good bemoaning the loss of status of the lighting function in the public realm. We cannot put the genie back in the bottle. But in part the change has already been addressed. The change from ILE to ILP, our structure, our governance and our service delivery was in recognition of these external pressures. More than that, it was recognition of the need to plan for the future to meet the needs of a changing profession.’

The move had been a huge success, he said. ‘Our strategy for the transformation was never a quick fix but a structured approach with growth in key areas. The process has perhaps been slower than anticipated but we need to remember we embarked on this project during one of the longest and most hard-hitting recessions the country has seen.’

The upheavals in local government have been coupled with an unprecedented change in technology over the past few years, a pace of change which shows no sign of

PLS: President’s address On the regions ‘I would encourage all of the regions to communicate with their members as often as possible. Many regions now have their own newsletters; I would also encourage those regions who are not producing a newsletter to talk to their colleagues and endeavour to produce one.

‘It is even more important to keep abreast of developments both national and regional, given that time constraints away from the office are now, in some cases, forcing some regions to reduce the number of technical seminars compared to previous years.

‘I would also encourage all regions to make greater use of their web pages. Indeed all VPs will soon have their own pages, with contact details and copies of their business plans displayed for all to see and the offer for members to contribute to the work of the institution.

‘I would reiterate the call from Keith Henry, VP technical, for subjects for future PLGs to come from the members and not the central ILP think tank.

‘How can we deliver what members want if you do not inform us? Please remember the institution is here for its members benefit and support.

Please endorse this.’ relenting, said Johnson, pointing out that it had been estimated that by 2020, 75 per cent of all lighting used would be LED. ‘This is not just street lighting but all lighting – who could have predicted that 10 years ago? Every authority is approaching the use of new technologies in their own way with many varied strategies and technical solutions; it is no longer a onehat-fits-all scenario. The latest technologies will allow clients the chance to attack energy reduction on multiple fronts. Indeed many authorities are already being warned that significant changes to their energy usage and consumption

profiles may mean different pricing bands or multilevel charging.’

New technologies had already had a profound impact, he said. ‘What is in store with the next generation of LEDs or the technology that follows?

How do we plan for this new world? What can we do to nurture the lighting professional of the future?’

The answer lay in education, said Johnson. ‘From whatever background, we have to do our utmost to equip the next generation of ILP members with the knowledge, the training and the competence to do the job.’

The institution had made a good start, he said. Its flagship Exterior Lighting Diploma has been renewed and remodelled to reflect changing technologies, a process that continues, together with the engagement of new tutors. Other courses had been introduced: Fundamentals in Lighting, the Fundamental Lighting Electrical Course, Fundamentals of LEDs – ‘proof of the ILP listening to members, this course was designed and implemented at members’ request’ – BS5489 revision training, photometry training and an annual summer school.

New training is always being planned, said Johnson, citing the Skills Portal launched this year by Mark Ridler, VP architectural lighting, to help ILP members find appropriate training from other organisations. The ILP also remained a founding member of the Lighting Education Trust, he said, through which it was currently helping to develop an undergraduate degree in lighting.

‘From all this we can see that the ILP is at the forefront of lighting education,’ said Johnson. ‘We provide a lot, we must provide more. The institution is a professional body but what of the lighting industry in this context? In short, the profession relies greatly on the industry – without it the institution could not survive. Much of the educational provision I have described is underpinned by industry support both financially and in terms of expertise and personnel. This is a unique partnership of mutual benefit.’

It was in the industry’s interests to develop, educate and support the lighting professionals of the future, argued Johnson, because it was from them that the ideas, expertise

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and knowledge to develop their businesses would come from.‘A strong, independent professional body is in the best interest of the industry and support for our educational programmes is crucial to our future and theirs,’ he said.

‘The two are not distinguishable.’

The aim of the recently introduced Professional Industry Partners (Pip) scheme was to cement this bond more fully. ‘The institution recognises the need to give the industry tangible and valuable returns in recognition of its support for the work of the ILP, said Johnson. ‘There are many positives for both industry and professional in working more closely together. For example, we have recently had a very productive meeting with the Lighting Industry Association with the aim of continuing this.’

There are too many challenges ahead for the profession and the industry to work alone,’ he said.

‘Mutual support is the only way forward to ensure that we have a properly trained and competent workforce in the future and to ensure that British industry design and technology are at the forefront of worldwide excellence in the years ahead,’ concluded Johnson On competency ‘With regard to the sector as a whole I believe it is crucial we promote the recently launched competency scheme to both members and employers, and ensure as wide a roll-out as possible.

‘We also need to encourage both individuals and employers to recognise the importance and value of being a member of the institution and the fact that Engineering Council registration can be achieved in a relatively straightforward way.

‘Certainly when I was made redundant some years ago, my ILP membership and EC registration were a requirement when applying for many roles; something, perhaps, that those who have not gone through such tough times may not appreciate.’

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PLS

Summit hits

the right note

Opening speaker Dr Peter Hughes

Jill Entwistle reports on this year’s highly successful PLS

The two-day event in Glasgow last month, supported by headline sponsor OrangeTek and co-sponsored

by Charles Endirect and Photometric and Optical Testing, attracted more than 300 delegates to a mix of conference, workshops and well-

here can’t be many lighting conferences that have kicked off with an eminent engineer playing a variety of stringed instruments (or, come to that, with the public humiliation of the editor of Lighting Journal when commandeered to play one). His musical abilities aside, Dr Peter Hughes got this year’s Professional Lighting Summit off to a dynamic start with his paean to engineering and, in particular,his advocacy of Primary Engineer, of which he is chairman, the inspired initiative to bring science, technology, engineering and maths to primary schools.

‘It had all the right ingredients and delivered on all counts. The workshops were lively and encouraged attendees to take part effectively’

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Delegates at the conference sessions

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attended exhibition. The strong programme of speakers and subjects spanned the educational, inspirational and the downright practical, from Mark Major’s sweeping view of urban lighting strategies through to the latest guidance and codes of practice, energy efficiency funding and an examination of old versus new technology.

Features based on some of the papers will be appearing in Lighting Journal. Please contact us through email (jill@theilp.org.uk) or twitter (@ILP_Journal) if you have any preferences for which ones you would most like to see.

The Professional Lighting Summit was held at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow from 11-12 September. For a summary go to: www.theilp.org.uk/ events/professional-lighting-summit/

Senior VP Mark Cooper at the exhibition

Workshop in progress

Event

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A new lighting event at the Surface Design Show aims to educate and inspire a different audience

A new lighting event, backed by the ILP and with Lighting Journal as media partner, will be launched next February at the Building Design Centre in Islington, north London. Light School will be bolted on to the existing Surface Design Show which features more than 120 exhibitors and last year, as a two-day show, attracted an audience of more than 4000 architects and interior designers.

The Light School element will be organised by Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton of Light Collective.

A series of talks and interactive demonstrations, it will feature 15 top UK lighting designers who will present master classes for architects and interior designers, with the aim of changing the way delegates think about light.

‘Light and surface are inseparable partners in the built environment so the Surface Design Show presents a perfect platform for introducing light and lighting design to this audience,’ says Stammers. ‘Light School will allow us to disseminate our communal love of light and inspire the architectural and interior design communities to work more closely with both lighting

professionals and manufacturers.’

The programme will enable designers and architects to explore topics such as colour, technology, design and media surfaces. There will also be a showcase of innovative technology selected by Light Collective. Manufacturers taking part will each have a stand.

‘We have a School Room for lectures, a School Newspaper and a Product School which allows supporters of Light School to each have a space to demonstrate how their products use light to transform spaces and express materials,’ says Stammers.

‘We all spend too much time talking to each other and not enough time spreading our knowledge and passion for light and lighting design outside the lighting community.’

Paul Nulty of Paul Nulty Lighting Design, one of the independent lighting designers who will be taking part, agreed that the event was ideal for reaching a wider audience.

‘We work in an industry that can be construed as a bit of a dark art so this is a great opportunity to educate and inspire,’ he said.

Paul Nulty

Douglas James

Mark Ridler

Light School at Surface Design Show Business Design Centre, Islington, London 4-6 February 2014 http://light-school.co.uk/ Speakers will include: Mark Ridler, BDP Lighting Jon Hodges, Jason Bruges Studio Paul Traynor, Light Bureau Sally Storey, Lighting Design International Mike Grubb, Mike Grubb Studio

Douglas James, Mindseye Sam Neuman, Neuman Designs Paul Nulty, Paul Nulty Lighting Design Clementine Rogers, Speirs and Major Iain Ruxton, Speirs and Major

Iain Ruxton

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CRC update

Carbon updating James Everley reports on an important revision to the CRC scheme

Changes to Phase 1 of the scheme The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2013 was made on 15 May 2013, setting out the legal framework for Phase 2 of the scheme. Some changes were made retrospectively to the CRC reporting requirements.

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guidance in May (v2.1) regarding Phase 1, which made no changes in terms of the treatment of unmetered supplies. Subsequently, however, the EA issued further and amended guidance (v2.2) covering Phase 1 of the scheme on 21 June 2013.

The EA guidance now clearly states that both dynamic and passive

half-hourly (HH) unmetered supplies as well as unmetered non-halfhourly (NHH) supplies should be completely excluded from the CRC reporting for the 2012–13 and 2013– 14 compliance years.

The action that should be taken depends on the trading approach of the local authority.

CRC update Local authorities trading dynamic half hourly The change in guidance will affect those local authorities that chose to trade all or part of their unmetered supplies on a dynamic half-hourly basis during Phase 1 of the CRC (1 April 2010-31 March 2014). This includes those that created separate meter point administration numbers (MPANs) to trade their central management systems (CMS).

They should inform their energy/ carbon manager that any unmetered consumption that has been included as part of the 2012-13 annual emissions statement (annual report) will need to be amended – in other words any unmetered emissions should be removed.

If their annual report has already been submitted then the authority can submit a new amended report to remove any unmetered emissions at any time. This can be done through the EA registry of annual reports and will ensure that the authority has submitted its emissions accurately and is not paying for carbon allowances unnecessarily.

If you are unsure how to do this or are unclear about the impact it will have on the allowance purchase/ surrender process, you are advised to ask the person responsible for CRC in your authority to contact the EA helpdesk.

For the remainder of Phase 1, no unmetered energy supplies should be included in the annual report.

Local authorities trading passive half hourly Any local authority that switched to passive half-hourly trading (to avoid CRC liabilities) and would now like to benefit from being dynamic half hourly – through the use of their PECU (photoelectric cell units) array and/or CMS – may do so without having to pay for CRC allowances.

Most authorities that were previously dynamic and switched to passive in April 2010 gave an undertaking to their unmetered

The planned main change for unmetered supplies in Phase 2 is that from 1 April 2014, all unmetered supplies will be included in the CRC. Unmetered consumption does not count towards qualification supplies operator (UMSO) that they would switch back to dynamic trading.

The original intended date for this switch was 1 April 2014 but this also became applicable as soon as the CRC changed and dynamic trading was not penalised relative to passive. We would suggest that all authorities that are passive HH and were previously dynamic should now switch back to dynamic.

Dynamic trading has the potential to reduce annual kWh consumption by around one per cent on average (this varies for each local authority, therefore you will need to contact your meter administrator for an individual assessment).

Separate CMS MPANs Local authorities that created separate MPANs for their CMS to minimise their exposure to the CRC may now merge these inventories back on to a single MPAN. This reduces administration effort, managing additional supplier contracts and so on. The ‘removed’ HH MPAN should be recorded in the CRC evidence pack with a note stating the reason for its removal.

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CRC Phase 2 update The planned main change for unmetered supplies in Phase 2 is that from 1 April 2014, all unmetered supplies will be included in the CRC. Unmetered consumption does not count towards qualification for the CRC Phase 2. If your authority qualifies for the CRC, all of your unmetered consumption (whether NHH, passive or dynamic HH traded) will be included in your annual report and so when purchasing CRC allowances to cover emissions.

If your authority does not qualify for the CRC, then your unmetered consumption, however it is currently traded, will not bring your authority into the scheme as unmetered consumption does not count towards CRC qualification.

How much CRC will cost an authority in Phase 2 The forecast allowance price has been set at £16/tCO2 in 2014/15. From 2015/16 the price will be increased in line with RPI. The government has yet to announce the allowance price differential for compliance sales.

For an authority with 30,000 street lights (~12,500,000 kWh/year), the annual cost of CRC allowances will be around £100,000.

Further points for clarification When the CRC was first introduced, it was proposed that for unmetered supplies, NHH and passive HH trading would be subject to a 10 per cent estimate uplift as this form of measurement was considered to be estimated. The EA has stated that this issue will be considered as part of the Phase 2 scheme technical review.

PDA will keep the ILP updated on the progress of the review.

James Everley is an account manager at Power Data Associates.

PDA will continue to monitor changes to the CRC scheme and update guidance accordingly (http://powerdataassociates.com).

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Exhibition

LuxLivepreview A pick of some of the products and conference topics at next month’s exhibition, supported by the ILP

EXTERIOR AND STREET LIGHTING CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 21 NOVEMBER 9.30am Tech Theatre One Local Authority collaborators’ National Evaluation of Reduced Night-time Streetlight (Lanterns) Dr Phil Edwards outlines the Lanterns project. Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, the project aims to answer reliably the important question of whether reducing night-time street lighting has any impact on road traffic crashes and crime. Lanterns is supported by the ILP and involves all local authorities in England and Wales.

10am Tech Theatre Two Can Lighting Cut Crime?

How dynamic lighting presents a new opportunity for crime prevention and detection.

Presentation by Shaun Cutler of Raytec.

10.15am Tech Theatre One Competency for Lighting Professionals: the big secret Can you recreate BS tables from memory? Or identify a luminaire’s part number at 20 paces? Doesn’t matter. Being competent doesn’t mean that you know everything there is to know. Dave Burton, ILP VP education, will explain what it does mean and how it’s important and relevant for you, your clients and your employers.

11.20am Lux Arena Lighting Talk Live: can LEDs stop the big switch-off?

Local authorities are increasingly turning off street lights late at night to save energy – sometimes with fatal results. Do

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LEDs have a role in helping them achieve their goals without resorting to a complete switch off? Or are the benefits overstated? Panellists include Eddie Henry of Southwark Council, Julian Higgins of Hampshire County Council, Fiona Jones of Jacobs and William Marques of CU Phosco.

Chaired by Alan Tulla of Lux magazine.

1pm Design Clinic Live Projects Uncovered: Regent Street Lighting Strategy Tony Rimmer of Studio 29 on the trials and tribulations of this epic 20-year project to create a ribbon of light through the heart of London’s West End. 1.30pm Design Clinic Live Projects Uncovered: City Park, Bradford Carefully balancing the lighting for differing pedestrian experiences at this urban park, Arup delivered a flexible, playful night-time setting while maintaining the functional city centre. Judges in the Lux Awards 2012 – who named it winner in the urban lighting category – called it a ‘transformative project’ that is ‘socially inclusive’.

Dan Lister of Arup explains the brief, concept and execution of the lighting scheme.

2.30pm Tech Theatre One Controlling Street Lighting: the options Details correct at time of going to press. Updates available online:

www.luxlive.co.uk/street-and-outdoor-lighting-at-luxlive/

Exhibition CU Phosco The company will be showing the P850 LED luminaire and its complementary range (P851 and P852) designed for most street and highway lighting applications. Used on the A55 trunk road in Gwynedd, Wales (pictured), the P850 has a reflector system and light engines that allow the luminaire to be upgraded quickly and cost effectively. The luminaire uses CU Phosco’s AeroFlow system to manage heat dispersal. www.cuphosco.com Charles Endirect (C39) Charles Endirect will be featuring its Elexon-approved central management system, CELtek, with live demonstrations of its latest generation Light Control Unit (LCU). It can be externally or internally fitted to the lantern and interfaces with ballasts and PECU. The gateway can control each individual LCU or can be group switched. The company will also show how CELtek CMS can be used to control festive lighting, offering a straightforward solution to the switch-on ceremony. There will also be a display of CELtronic ballasts, including an HID electronic ballast and an LED driver, both with 10-level dimming capability, and the electronic HF sox driver. www.charlesendirect.com Raytec Raytec will be launching new VARIO IP network luminaires, designed to provide multi-purpose lighting for security and safety-critical applications. As an IP addressable luminaire, it can be fully integrated into building or video management systems (BMS/VMS). It can be controlled by camera/detectors to be activated on demand on detection of a subject. The same luminaire can also provide a safe, well-lit area for pedestrians or workers. The optics are designed to reduce hot spots to provide a controlled, even light distribution which is suitable for both general use and CCTV, and minimises upward spill and light pollution.

Lighting can be remotely adjusted in response to live events. www.rayteccctv.com

Earls Court 2, London www.luxlive.co.uk

Wednesday 20 November (9am-9pm) Thursday 21 November (9am-5pm)

YOUNG LIGHTER of the YEAR When: 12.30-2pm, 21 November Where: EcoLight Theatre

LUX AWARDS When: 21 November Where: Westminster Park Plaza, London SE1

Encounter the world’s first competometer Experts from the ILP will be on hand to show lighting professionals that the route to competency is easier than they might think.

The institution can help them demonstrate their skills and plan their development. Whether you are a member already, or new to the UK’s leading independent professional lighting body, find out how to maximise your professional competence to ensure employers, clients and peers see you in a whole new light.

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DW Windsor Lighting DW Windsor will be launching Kirium, a new LED lantern with even distribution optimised for road lighting. Its sleek styling includes a body that inclines backwards and a purpose-designed aperture that allows typical debris to be washed away. This also provides a good thermal barrier between the LED modules and the temperaturesensitive electronics.

Options include three light outputs for different lighting classes, S, M and CE: three modules (48 x 2.1W), two modules (32 x 2.1W) and one module (16 x 2.1W). Predicted lifetimes range from 75,000 hours (L70 for three modules at 700mA) to 93,000 hours (one module). The 4000K version of the fitting delivers 91.6lm/W. Total circuit watts are 115W at 700mA (three modules). With a universal mounting adapter for simpler post-top or side-entry installation, it has a wide range of mounting heights (from 4m to 12m, with an optional plus-five-degree tilt) and configurations. www.dwwindsor.com

Cree US company Cree will be introducing the XSP IP66 LED street luminaire range that has been optimised for European requirements and which now features an aggressively priced $99 model (see News). As well as using 50 per cent less energy than high pressure sodium and designed to last three times longer, Cree claims to have achieved better control over light output with its NanoOptic Precision Delivery Grid technology compared to a traditional street light. The XSP IP66 is available in both single and double-module configurations, and comes in a range of lumen packages.

It also features state-of-the-art thermal management, says Cree, and comes with a 10-year warranty. www.cree-europe.com

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Light pollution

Planning improvements Allan Howard, technical director lighting at WSP, on what the new online guidance has to say about light pollution

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fter much discussion and consideration, planning minister Nick Boles launched the new national online planning guidance resource at the end of August. This online resource provides much needed simplicity and clarification of the planning system, said the minister, making the guidance more accessible and easier to update.

The existing technical guidance was widely considered overly complex and repetitive, and involved some 230 documents comprising more than 7000 pages, basically rendering it ineffective for practical use. The new streamlined planning practice will provide clearer protection for our natural and historic environment, contends Boles.

So what does the guidance have to say about lighting?

Basically it looks at when lighting pollution concerns should be considered and is covered within one of the online planning practice guides (see website below).

The guide provides a high-level overview for planners with links to a few appropriate documents through the six following discussion points: • When is light pollution relevant to planning?

• What factors should be considered when assessing whether a

• • •

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development proposal might have implications for light pollution?

What factors are relevant when considering where light shines?

What factors are relevant when considering when light shines?

What factors are relevant when considering how much the light shines?

What factors are relevant when considering possible ecological impact?

The outcome of the above can then be used to get the right design through

Lighting concerns that might be deemed a potential nuisance can now be considered at the application stage and designed out, instead of being left to cause a problem

the setting of appropriate conditions at the planning stage It is not the purpose of this article to advise further on the publication of the online guides and discuss each question. Each stage is clearly described on the website in a minimal but precise number of paragraphs so it is better for people to access and digest the information directly.

Overall, this must be seen as a good step forward in that artificial lighting is now being considered at the planning stage. Lighting concerns that might be deemed a potential nuisance can now be considered at the application stage and designed out, instead of being left to cause a problem and then require investigation and resolution as we have often seen over recent years.

It is to be hoped that, while the guide does not specifically require it, planners will consider the application of artificial light and look to consult with lighting professionals to help them. The planners can then be advised on the conditions that might be applicable for each project and subsequently review any submissions to determine if the planning conditions have been met. http://planningguidance. planningportal.gov.uk/blog/ guidance/light-pollution/when-islight-pollution-relevant-to-planning/

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Future concept

The road ahead Some of the thought-provoking projects featured in a newly published report called The Future of Light

Glow-in-the-dark park

This safety warning system was actually installed in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel in Australia as far back as 2007. Called Softstop it projects light on to water in the form of mist to create stop signs that appear to float in the air. Developed by entertainment communications company Laservision and deployed at an instant’s notice, the barrier system produces a pseudo-holographic ‘stop’ message that is impossible for drivers to miss. One of its advantages is that while conventional warning signs appear in the peripheral vision of drivers, this appears in the direct view of motorists. The illusion of solidity is an added trigger for drivers to stop. www.laservision.com.au/page.asp?lid=1 &sec=Projects&subsec=Permanent+Attr actions&subsubsec=Softstop

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Comprising a series of bowls and tunnels, OTRO is both an artwork and skatepark which can be used by skateboarders, roller bladers and BMX riders. The green phosphorescent concrete – charged by exposure to the sun – allows it to be used after dark and reinterprets the way public spaces can be lit. The park was created by Korean artist Koo Jeong-a, who collaborated with L’Escaut Architectures and Belgium skate collectives Brusk and Barricade to realise the 186sqm structure. Located at the International Centre of Art and Landscape at Vassivière Island in Limousin, France, the park took four years to complete. www.escaut.org/urban-scale/otro/

Sign of the times

Future concept

Ahead of the game

Two concepts provide a new take on playing areas. The ASB Glassfloor (above and below) resolves the spaghetti of white lines needed to mark different courts in a multi-purpose interior sports space. The floor surface is made from glass underlit by hidden LED channels that can be switched to reveal different boundaries and court markings according to the game being played. Created by the German glass company ASB Systembau, the floor’s LED technology can also enhance the experience for spectators by displaying the score, statistics and team colours directly on the playing surface. The second concept allows any appropriate urban space to become an instant football pitch with a laser-projected soccer field (top). The result of a collaboration between sportswear company Nike and Spanish digital agency Doubleyou, a dedicated app allows soccer players to request a visit from a laser-equipped van. The van’s specialised crane is raised above an open area of space to project the digital soccer field on to the urban landscape.

The aim of the initiative is to give children and teenagers without access to the right facilities a dedicated space to play even at night. http://asbglassfloor.com/ www.nikeblog.com/2013/06/27/watch-fc427-mipista-nike-lasersoccer-field/

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Thin red lines

One way of avoiding the bother of creating cycling lanes is to get cyclists to do it themselves. The XFire Bike Lane safety light has the usual flashing red LED lights, but is also equipped with two 5mW red lasers. These project on to the road to create an instant virtual bike lane that is visible more than a mile away and is clear under headlights and streetlights.

Using just two AAA batteries, it’s weather and shockproof, and easily attaches to any bike. http://thexfire.com/products-page/ xfireproducts/bike-lane-safety-lightduplicate#sthash.UjpiOVDF.dpuf

The Future of Light is produced by PSFK and sponsored by Philips Lighting.

A collation of international schemes and concepts from the past few years, the report identifies future directions for light in marketing, branding, communication and urban improvement, and features comments from lighting experts.

Among the schemes featured are the Toffee Factory by Stainton Lighting Design and the Clink Street tunnel project in Southwark by Halo Lighting Design.

For more details go to: www.psfk.com/future-of-light

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The broader outlook The next goal is education and communication with the world outside our community, says Mark Ridler, VP architectural lighting

When I first joined as a VP I set out what I wanted to achieve grouped under four headings: membership, partnership, communication and knowledge. This is still the structure I apply and by which I judge progress to date. So what have we achieved?

On membership there have been some significant architectural lighting designers who have joined including Mark Major, Kevan Shaw and Graham Festenstein. The last two have not only joined but have also achieved chartered status, demonstrating that you can obtain this through the experiential route without an engineering qualification.

There is also continuing discussion with the IALD with regard to their international accreditation initiative, but it is good to know that there is a system here and now in the UK that is already accrediting professionalism.

One of the major components of any professional registration, of course, is CPD, so it was great to have a chance to contribute to the publication of the Lighting Professional Development Framework. I was pleased to see the Skills Portal form part of this and grateful to another new joiner, Rebecca Hines, for taking such an active part in getting it over the line.

There are a number of significant manufacturers which are making their training resources freely available to any member who wishes to use the portal to structure the improvement and deepening of their individual skills. I hope also that it will prove useful to practice leaders who wish

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to structure the training of their staff.

Another way in which we have worked with industry is through the PIP initiative, and it was a great pleasure to take part in the Workplace Lighting Forum held in June and reported in the Lighting Journal (July/August). What is interesting about these forums is that they are not only talking shops, but result in seeding further action. In this case the British Council of Offices (BCO) Lighting Guide, published last month, was much discussed and it may be that the ILP will work with the BCO to help disseminate this important document more widely.

This is the first time that the BCO has authored a guide dedicated to lighting and it is to be commended that two-thirds of it is devoted to daylight and lighting quality. It will, I’m sure, be a very influential document, not only guiding lighting designers, but also crucially telling the lighting story to the wider community including developers, architects, interior designers and letting agents.

So what does the future hold? I believe that if we are to grow the ILP, and develop and define architectural lighting design as a profession, then we need more people to join and become active. To do that, we need to offer real benefits from membership.

While there are many, the main ones in my view relate to helping individuals develop their careers through training and acknowledging their status. And it is for these reasons that I see my next focus as being on education and

communication with the world outside the confines of our community.

Carl Gardner has been working hard on writing an ILP publication on landscape lighting which should soon be available. This very visual book is aimed at all those who want to commission or deliver new public realm lighting, and I hope will sell the value of lighting very persuasively. It will also warn of the pitfalls, and promote the role of a competent lighting designer.

We are in discussions with a lighting manufacturer in central London to run a series of courses in the New Year for young lighting designers, honing their skills in interview technique, concept sketching and creating a portfolio.

With the Lighting Education Trust (LET) we are currently engaged in developing the diploma and lighting design pathway at Brunel University into a specialist lighting degree.

In February 2014 the ILP is working with Light Collective on an event called Light School (see P31)as part of the already successful Surface Design Show. It’s at the Business Design Centre in Islington with an audience of architects and interior designers, and its aim is to educate them on lighting design and light.

As our design membership increases, so can our activity. We have a plan, but we need the hands. So if there are any designers who have ideas about what they want from their profession, can write articles or talk at seminars then please let me know.

The art of making things look good

For your publications, newsletters, brochures, catalogues, marketing material - design, artwork, print and fulfilment call Julie on 01536 527297, email: julie@matrixprint.com

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Products

What’s new Lucifer Lighting 3 Series Downlights

The 3 Series is designed for interior and IP64 exterior locations and includes three options: fixed, adjustable on two axes – 45 degree tilt/ 361 degree rotation – and lensed wallwashers with internal linear optics for better wallwashing coverage with fewer luminaires. Various LED configurations are offered in both CRI 80-plus and CRI 95-plus with lumen packages up to 2220lm (35W). Colour temperatures are 2700K, 3000K, 3500K and 4000K. Fittings accept up to two optical accessories, and a proprietary total internal reflectance (TIR) beam optic system allows onsite adjustment between 25, 40 and 60 degrees. The diecast aperture for the interior models is 89mm with a 130mm trim plate available powder coated, or with treated metal and plated finishes. IP64 trim plates are 141mm.

Fixtures can also be flush. www.luciferlighting.com

Havells-Sylvania

RefLED Coolfit MR16 575lm

Xicato

2000lm Module

Xicato has expanded its Artist Series of LED modules with a 2000-lm version, designed as a replacement for fluorescent and CMH sources in higher ceilings (3m plus) with a light quality that approximates halogen. Using the company’s corrected cold phosphor technology (remote phosphor), the Artist Series has a CRI ≥ 95 measured against all 15 official reference colours (fluorescent and CMH colour rendering is typically based on eight of the CRI reference colours). www.xicato.com

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The 8W RefLED Coolfit MR16 has an output of 575lm and is the first true LED direct replacement for 50W MR16 halogen lamps, according to Havells-Sylvania. The flagship product in the RefLED Coolfit MR16 range, it features the company’s AHC (automatic heat control) technology to address thermal management issues, used in all RefLED lamps. This works by automatically and smoothly reducing lamp power through selfmonitored dimming, to find the balance between best light output and optimal thermal operation. This heat control enables the range to be used in enclosed firerated and IP65 luminaires.

Estimated lifetime is 25,000 hours. The lamp is available in a range of beam angles, including 60 degrees, and a choice of different colour temperatures. www.havells-sylvania.com

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Flos

IC Lights

Created by Cypriot designer Michael Anastassiades, IC Lights come in floorstanding, wall-mounted, table and pendant versions.

Inspired by a juggling act, the luminaires feature an opalescent glass sphere which appears to sit precariously on a stem finished in either satin brass or painted anthracite. IC Lights are available in two sizes, 20cm and 30cm diameter, with a 60W (980lm) or 105W ES lamp (1980lm). www.flos.com

Future Designs

BEEM LED downlights

3M

Lightfalls

Developed by New Yorkbased designer Todd Bracher and 3M, Lightfalls features a clever use of optics to create what appears to be a series of light fittings, but which actually uses only one or two LEDs – what they have dubbed the Virtual LED. The key lies in the material used and the CAD-designed shape of the reflector. The material is a proprietary 3M film that is more than 98 per cent reflective. This is moulded into a shape that has been calculated to maximise the distribution of light from one reflector to another. With seven standard mounting kits, the reflectors can be configured in any pattern – arcs, lines, circles or stand-alone sconces – and achieve the same effect. The position of the Cree LED (3000K or 4000K) will determine whether the pattern is symmetric or asymmetric. The system is dimmable (0-10V) and comes with four types of reflector: dark grey, silver, bronze and white. www.3marchitecturalmarkets.com/lighting

The design of the BEEM LED downlight range was partly driven by client requirements for a simple clean bezel. Using LED engines based on Zhaga Book 3 fixings specifications, the range comes in a square version in two sizes (BEEM-SQ, 100mm x 100mm and 80mm x 80mm) and circular option (BEEM-RD). Power consumption is 11.9W, and colour temperature either 3000K or 4000K (CRI 80). The fittings are also available in adjustable and plaster-in versions, finished to any RAL colour or anodised. www.futuredesigns.co.uk

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Light on the past: 10

Pushingthe envelope

The slow development of the mercury discharge lamp

The first trial of a modern discharge lamp in the UK along East Lane, Wembley, in 1932. Lamps were installed in the existing showcase installation outside GEC’s research laboratories

S

ir Hugo Hirst, chairman of the General Electric Company (GEC), always had huge ambitions for street lighting. This was clearly shown by the artwork adorning the company’s catalogues in which mile-after-mile of arterial road was lit by its flamboyant designs.

But Hirst was a realist and knew that these illustrations would never come to anything; no authority could afford such extravagant lighting, especially with only inefficient tungstenfilament lamps available.

But progress had been good and the new research laboratories in East Lane, Wembley, were coming up with the goods: the company’s Wembley lighting system (developed around its own dome refractor design) was selling; GH Wilson and JM Waldram were making progress with the ‘mechanism’ of street lighting and were developing a series of tests to determine the ‘revealing power’; and JW Ryde was working on a commercial mercury discharge lamp.

Ryde’s fundamental research was not new.

Ever since Sir Humphrey Davy demonstrated an electric discharge through various gases at the start of the 19th century, other researchers and scientific entrepreneurs had tried to capitalise on mercury discharge lighting. Notable examples included Professor JT Way’s mercury lamp of 1860 and the Cooper-Hewlett system of 1902.

Way’s prototypes were installed on Brunel’s Hungerford suspension bridge and consisted of a modified arc lamp with the base electrode immersed in a bubbling pool of mercury. The resulting heat of the arc vaporised the mercury and the lamp produced a blue-green glow. It was a notable demonstration for its potential to both impress and poison the general public simultaneously. However, the Victorians didn’t take to the open cauldrons of mercury vapour which crowned Brunel’s edifice and Way’s lighting was not repeated.

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The Cooper-Hewlett lamp, which appeared 40 years later, enjoyed more success and easily outperformed early carbon-filament incandescent designs. To modern eyes, it resembled an early fluorescent tube but suffered hugely from its appalling colour rendering, difficult starting and requirement for complex electrical gear.

It was therefore relegated to factory lighting where ‘the somewhat unnatural colour given to illuminated objects’ wasn’t an issue, but did result in its unwanted moniker of the ‘cadaverous lamp’. (This didn’t seem to deter the management of The Savoy who, in the only known exterior installation of this technology, used it in their forecourt.) The Cooper-Hewlett lamp eventually floundered when the tungstenfilament incandescent lamp was introduced and proved more efficient.

Theoretical work suggested that mercury had far more to offer, particularly at higher pressures and loadings hitherto attempted.

Ryde’s work was therefore to find an enclosure in which the discharge could be started and maintained but to keep the dimensions small so it could be used with existing equipment.

Experiments with quartz arc tubes looked promising but the electrode sealing proved problematical and Ryde was forced to try different options. In the end, he opted for a softer aluminosilicate glass which could not only withstand lower pressures and temperatures, but permitted the construction of a good seal between the glass and the electrodes.

The aluminosilicate glass could withstand a pressure of up to one atmosphere and produced a usable blue-greenish discharge but retained the zombie rendering of human flesh tones so beloved of the Cooper-Hewlett lamp. Heat was retained in the discharge, and harmful ultraviolet radiation reduced, by means of a second glass enclosure. And the starting problems which had

plagued earlier researchers were solved by the use of a third electrode with high resistance; this could start a small arc which would vaporise the mercury before the main discharge took over.

However, convection within the arc tube caused the discharge to rise and melt the top of the aluminosilicate tube; GEC’s pragmatic solution was to sidestep the problem by insisting that the lamp be operated vertically.

The company was extremely quick to publicise its new lamp and arranged for a demonstration along East Lane on 22 June 1932. The road, which fronted the research labs, was being used as a showcase for GEC’s various street lighting schemes and was populated with a bewildering range of functional and decorative lanterns. These were all fitted with the new lamps before the big switch-on to an invited crowd of delegates.

It was a huge success and the new mercury lamp was seen as a major step forward for street lighting. Despite the inefficiency of this early version, GEC was already boasting that the 400W lamp produced as much light as the 1000W GLS equivalent.

Hirst’s dream of finally lighting all the roads of the UK with an energy-efficient lamp was now within his grasp and he was extremely enthusiastic about ‘the possibility of lighting arterial routes from London to Birmingham, London to Glasgow, or London to Bristol with these lamps’. He would have also been secretly pleased by the timing of the demonstration.

He knew that competition was coming and that a rival system was being trialled in Europe.

Before the year’s end a competitor was demonstrating its own ‘golden’ discharge technology south of the river.

The medium-pressure mercury lamp. The design was marketed under GEC’s new Osira trademark and the lamp technology was eventually designated the MA to distinguish it from the more efficient designs which followed in its wake

Consultants Lorraine Calcott IEng MILP MSLL MIoD It Does Ltd Milton Keynes Business Centre, Foxhunter Drive, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6GD

T: 01908 698869 M: 07990 962692 E: Information@itdoes.co.uk W: www.itdoes.co.uk

These pages give details of suitably qualified, individual members of the Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) who offer consultancy services.

Listing is included on main ILP website with logo (www.theilp.org.uk)

Carl Gardner

Alan Jaques

Alistair Scott

CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd

Sector Leader – Exterior Lighting

Designs for Lighting Ltd

12, Banner Buildings, 74-84 Banner Street, London EC1Y 8JU

Broadgate House, Broadgate,Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 2HF

BA (Hons) MSc (Arch) FILP

T: 02077 248543 E: carl@csglightingdesign.com W: www.csglightingdesign.com

Professional award winning international lighting designer Lorraine Calcott creates dynamic original lighting schemes from a sustainable and energy management perspective. Helping you meet your energy targets, reduce bottom line cost and increase your ‘Green’ corporate image whilst still providing the wow factor with your interior, exterior or street lighting project.

Architectural and urban lighting design; specialist in urban lighting plans; expert witness in planning and light nuisance cases; training courses for local authorities on the prevention of light nuisance; marketing and product development consultancy for lighting manufacturers.

Mark Chandler

Stephen Halliday

EngTech AMILP

EngTech AMILP

MMA Lighting Consultancy Ltd

Principal Engineer WSP

99 Old Bath Road, Summer Field House Charvil, Reading RG10 9QN

WSP

T: 0118 3215636, M: 07838 879 604, F: 0118 3215636 E: mark@mma-consultancy.co.uk W: www.mma-consultancy.co.uk

T: 0161 886 2532 E: stephen.halliday@wspgroup.com W: www.wspgroup.com

The Victoria,150-182 The Quays, Salford, Manchester M50 3SP

IEng MILP Atkins

T: +44 (0)115 9574900 M: 07834 507070 F: +44 (0)115 9574901 E: alan.jaques@atkinsglobal.com The consultancy offers a professional exterior lighting service covering all aspects of the sector, including design, energy management, environmental impact assessments and the development of lighting strategies and policies. It also has an extensive track record for PFI projects and their indepedent certification.

BSc (Hons) CEng FILP MIMechE 17 City Business Centre, Hyde Street, Winchester SO23 7TA

T: 01962 855080 M: 07790 022414 E: alistair@designsforlighting.co.uk W: designsforlighting.co.uk Professional lighting design consultancy providing technical advice, design and management services for exterior and interior applications including highway, architectural, area, tunnel and commercial lighting.

Advisors on lighting and energy saving strategies, asset management, visual impact assessments and planning.

Anthony Smith Are you an individual member of the ILP? Do you offer lighting consultancy?

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IEng FILP Director

Stainton Lighting Design Services Ltd Lighting & Electrical Consultants, Dukes Way, Teesside Industrial Estate, Thornaby Cleveland TS17 9LT

T: 01642 766114 F: 01642 765509 E: enquiries@staintonlds.co.uk Specialist in all forms of exterior lighting including; Motorway, Major & Minor Highway Schemes, Architectural Illumination of Buildings, Major Structures, Public Artworks, Amenity Area Lighting, Public Open Spaces, Car Parks, Sports Lighting, Asset Management, Reports, Plans, Strategies, EIA’s, Planning Assistance, Maintenance Management, Electrical Design and Communication Network Design.

MMA Lighting Consultancy is an independent company specialising in Exterior Lighting and Electrical Design work.

We are based in the South of England and operate on a national scale delivering street lighting and lighting design solutions.

Public and private sector professional services providing design, technical support, contract and policy development for all applications of exterior lighting and power from architectural to sports, area and highways. PFI technical advisor and certifier support. HERS registered site personnel.

John Conquest

Philip Hawtrey

Malcolm Mackness

Nick Smith

Technical Director

Lighting Consultancy and Design Services Ltd

Nick Smith Associates Limited

MA BEng(Hons) CEng MIET MILP

BTech IEng MILP MIET

4way Consulting Ltd

Mouchel

Waters Green House, Sunderland Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 6LF

Severn House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8SQ

T: 01625 348349 F: 01625 610923 M: 07526 419248 E: john.conquest@4wayconsulting.com W: www.4wayconsulting.com

T: 0117 9062300, F: 0117 9062301 M: 07789 501091 E: philip.hawtrey@mouchel.com W: www.mouchel.com

Unit 9, The Chase, John Tate Road, Foxholes Business Park, Hertford SG13 7NN

T: 07825 843524 E: colin.fish@wspgroup.com W: www.wspgroup.com Professional services providing design and technical support for all applications of exterior lighting and power from architectural to sports, area and highways and associated infrastructure. Expert surveys and environmental impact assessments regarding the effect of lighting installations and their effect on the community.

T/F: 01452 417392 E: lcads.glos@virginmedia.com W: www.lcads.com

36 Foxbrook Drive, Chesterfield, S40 3JR

T: 01246 229444 F: 01246 270465 E: nws@nicksmithassociates.com W: www.nicksmithassociates.com

Allan Howard

Tony Price

Alan Tulla

Technical Director (Lighting)

Capita Symonds

Alan Tulla Lighting

Colin Fish WSP

43 Old Cheltenham Road, Longlevens, Gloucester GL2 0AN

IEng MILP

Road, amenity, floodlighting and cable design. Tunnel and mast lighting. Policy and environmental impact investigations.

Widely experienced professional technical consultancy services in exterior lighting and electrical installations, providing sustainable and innovative solutions, environmental assessments, ‘Invest to Save’ strategies, lighting policies, energy procurement, inventory management and technical support. PFI Technical Advisor, Designer and Independent Certifier.

Associate

BA (Hons) IEng FILP

Specialist exterior lighting design Consultant.

Private or adoptable lighting and cable network design for highways, car parks, area lighting, lighting impact assessments, expert witness.

CPD accredited training in lighting design, Lighting Reality, AutoCAD and other bespoke lighting courses arranged on request.

4way Consulting provides exterior lighting and ITS consultancy and design services and specialises in the urban and inter-urban environment. Our services span the complete Project Life Cycle for both the Public and Private Sector (including PFI/DBFO).

IEng MILP

Call Julie on 01536 527295 for details

BEng(Hons) CEng FILP WSP

WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF

T: 07827 306483 E: allan.howard@wspgroup.com W: www.wspgroup.com Professional exterior lighting and electrical services covering design, technical support, contract and policy development including expert advice regarding energy and carbon reduction strategies, lighting efficiency legislation, light nuisance and environmental impact investigations. Registered competent designers and HERS registered site personnel.

BSc (Hons) CEng MILP MSLL Capita Symonds House, Wood Street, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 1UU

T: 01342 327161 F: 01342 315927 E: tony.price@capita.co.uk W: www.capitasymonds.co.uk Chartered engineer leading a specialist lighting team within a multi-disciplinary environment. All aspects of exterior and public realm lighting, especially roads, tunnels, amenity and sports. Planning advice, environmental assessment, expert witness, design, technical advice, PFIs, independent certification.

IEng FILP FSLL

12 Minden Way, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4DS

T: 01962 855720 M:0771 364 8786 E: alan@alantullalighting.com W: www.alantullalighting.com Architectural lighting for both interior and exterior. Specialising in public realm, landscaping and building facades. Site surveys and design verification of sports pitches, road lighting and offices. Visual impact assessments and reports for planning applications. Preparation of nightscape strategies for urban and rural environments.

CPDs and lighting training.

Neither Lighting Journal nor the ILP is responsible for any services supplied or agreements entered into as a result of this listing.

LIGHTING DIRECTORY ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING

COLUMN INSPECTION & TESTING

CUT OUTS & ISOLATORS

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION

Kiwa CMT Testing Non-destructive testing at the root, base, swaged joint and full visual inspection of steel lighting columns.

Techniques employed include the unique Relative Loss of Section meter and Swaged Joint Analyser in addition to the traditional Magnetic Particle inspection and Ultra Sonics where appropriate.

Unit 5 Prime Park Way Prime Enterprise Park Derby DE1 3QB Tel 01332 383333 Fax 01332 602607

CONTACT JULIE BLAND 01536 527297 BANNERS WIND RELEASING

cmtenquiries@kiwa.co.uk www.kiwa.co.uk

DECORATIVE & FESTIVE LIGHTING

MACLEAN ELECTRICAL LIGHTING DIVISION

Meadowfield, Ponteland, Northumberland, NE20 9SD, England Tel: +44 (0)1661 860001 Fax: +44 (0)1661 860002 Email: info@tofco.co.uk www.tofco.co.uk Manufacturers and Suppliers of Street lighting and Traffic Equipment • Fuse Units • Switch Fuse Units • Feeder Pillars and Distribution Panels • The Load Conditioner Unit (Patent Pending) • Accessories Contact: Kevin Doherty Commercial Director kevindoherty@tofco.co.uk If you would like to switch to Tofco Technology contact us NOW!

7 Drum Mains Park, Orchardton, Cumbernauld, G68 9LD Tel: 01236 458000 Fax: 01236 860555 email: steve.odonnell@maclean. co.uk Web site: www.maclean.co.uk

LIGHTING COLUMNS

LUCY LIGHTING Lucy Zodion manufactures and supplies a complete range of Electrical/ Electronic products for Streetlighting: • Vizion CMS

Specialist in high quality decorative and festive lighting.

A full range of equipment is available for direct purchase or hire including unique firework lights, column motifs, cross road displays, festoon lighting and various tree lighting systems.

Our services range from supply only of materials, hire, design and or total management of schemes.

More information is available from: Head Office City Illuminations Ltd Griffin House, Ledson Road, Roundthorn Ind Est Manchester M23 9GP Tel: 0161 969 5767 Fax: 0161 945 8697 Email: dave@cityilluminations.co.uk

Business info: Specialist Stockist and Distributors of Road Lighting, Hazardous Area, Industrial/ Commercial/ Decorative lighting. We also provide custom-built distribution panels, interior and exterior lighting design using CAD.

METER ADMINISTRATION

• Feeder Pillars • Pre-Wired Pillars • Photocells • Cutouts/Isolators

Meter Administrator

• Electronic Ballasts

Power Data Associates Ltd are the leading meter administrator in Great Britain. We achieve accurate energy calculations assuring you of a cost effective quality service. Offering independent consultancy advice to ensure correct inventory coding, unmetered energy forecasting and impact of market developments.

• Cutouts/isolators • Lighting Controls Lucy Zodion Ltd, Station Road, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3AF tel: 01422 317337 Email: sales@lucyzodion.co.uk

www.lucyzodion.com

01525 862690 info@PowerDataAssociates.com www.PowerDataAssociates.com Wrest Park, Silsoe, Beds MK45 4HR

EXTERIOR LIGHTING Designers and manufacturers of street and amenity lighting.

CU PHOSCO LIMITED

Manufacturers of Lighting Columns, Floodlighting & Luminaires. Specialists in the design of Lighting Schemes for sports, car parks, docks & airports.

Standard Lighting Columns and Lanterns available from stock at competitive prices.

Charles House, Great Amwell, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9TA Tel: 01920 860600 Fax: 01920 485915

319 Long Acre Nechells Birmingham UK B7 5JT t: +44(0)121 678 6700 f: +44(0)121 678 6701 e: sales@candela.co.uk

candela L I G H T

E-mail: sales@cuphosco.co.uk Website: www.cuphosco.co.uk

LIGHTING CONTACT JULIE BLAND 01536 527297

CONTACT JULIE BLAND 01536 527297 LIGHTING CONTROLS

LUCY LIGHTING Lucy Zodion manufactures and supplies a complete range of Electrical/Electronic products for Streetlighting: • Vizion CMS • Feeder Pillars • Pre-Wired Pillars • Photocells • Cutouts/Isolators • Electronic Ballasts • Cutouts/isolators • Lighting Controls Lucy Zodion Ltd, Station Road, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3AF tel: 01422 317337 Email: sales@lucyzodion.co.uk www.lucyzodion.com

SHATTER RESISTANT LAMP COVERS

Holscot Fluoroplastics Ltd Fluorosafe shatter resistant covers – Manufactured from high molecular weight Fluoroplastic material whose lifespan exceeds all maximum quoted lifespans for any fluorescent Lamps.

Holscot supply complete covered lamps or sleeves only for self fitting.

LIGHT MEASURING EQUIPMENT

TRAINING SERVICES

CPD Accredited Training • AutoCAD (basic or advanced) • Lighting Reality • AutoluxLighting Standards • Lighting Design Techniques • Light Pollution • Tailored Courses please ring Venues by arrangement

HAGNER PHOTOMETRIC INSTRUMENTS LTD Suppliers of a wide range of quality light measuring and photometric equipment.

HAGNER PHOTOMETRIC INSTRUMENTS LTD PO Box 210 Havant, PO9 9BT Tel: 07900 571022 E-mail: enquiries@ hagnerlightmeters.com www.hagnerlightmeters.com

CONTACT JULIE BLAND 01536 527297

Contact Nick Smith Alma Park Road, Alma Park Industrial Estate, Grantham, Lincs, NG31 9SE Contact: Martin Daff, Sales Director Tel: 01476 574771 Fax: 01476 563542 Email: martin@holscot.com www.holscot.com

Nick Smith Associates Ltd 36 Foxbrook Drive, Chesterfield, S40 3JR t: 01246 229 444 f: 01246 270 465 e : mail@nicksmithassociates.com w: www.nicksmithassociates.com

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How to specify office lighting Mid Career College Venue: CIBSE, London SW1 www.cibsetraining.co.uk/mcc

SLL Masterclass: Quality Up Energy Down Venue: The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth www.sll.org.uk

October

November

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11-12

SLL Masterclass: Quality Up Energy Down Venue: Hippodrome, Birmingham www.sll.org.uk

Middle East Smart Lighting and Energy Summit Venue: Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE www.lightingsummit.com

October

24

October

New British Standard for Lighting BS5489 Venue: ILP, Regent House, Rugby ILP member: £195 + VAT Contact: jess@theilp.org.uk

27-30

October

Hong Kong International Lighting Fair Venue: HK Convention and Exhibition Centre www.hktdc.com

30

October (-2nd November) PLDC Venue: Bella Center, Copenhagen www.pld-c.com

6

November

Light Therapy: The Power of Light (SLL event) Venue: BDP, Manchester rhiannon.west@bdp.com

7

November

HEA Annual Conference and Exhibition Venue: Celtic Manor Hotel, Newport, Wales www.hea-ace.com

November

12

November

www.luxlive.co.uk

21

November

Young Lighter of the Year Award Final Venue: Earls Court 2 (LuxLive) www.sll.org.uk

21

November

Lux Awards Venue: Westminster Park Plaza, London SE1 www.luxawards.co.uk

21

November

Lighting and Energy Efficiency Mid Career College Venue: CIBSE, London SW1 www.cibsetraining.co.uk/mcc

Lighting Legislation (including daylight) Mid Career College Venue: CIBSE, London SW12 www.cibsetraining.co.uk/mcc

13

5

Fundamental Lighting Course (One-day course on basics of light, lighting design and maintenance) Venue: ILP, Regent House, Rugby ILP member: £195 + VAT Non-member: £340 + VAT Contact: jess@theilp.org.uk

SLL Masterclass: Quality Up Energy Down Venue: BDP, Manchester www.sll.org.uk

November

14

November

Fundamental Lighting Electrical Course (One-day course on basic electrical practices and principles for outdoor lighting schemes and other electrical street furniture Venue: ILP, Regent House, Rugby Prices as above Contact: jess@theilp.org.uk

December

10

December

SLL Event: LG13: Places of Worship Radio-Controlled Lighting Venue: Southwark Cathedral, London www.sll.org.uk

30

January

SLL Masterclass: Quality Up Energy Down Venue: At-Bristol, Bristol www.sll.org.uk

14

4-6

Chase the Dark (IALD global guerilla lighting event) Follow on Twitter at #IALDchasedark www.iald.org

Light School at Surface Design Show Venue: Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1 http://light-school.co.uk/

November

February

20-21 30 November-2 October: PLDC Bella Center, Copenhagen

November

LuxLive Venue: Earls Court 2, London

Full details of all regional events can be found at: www.theilp.org.uk/events/

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