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LIGHTING TO PLAY MORE PROMINENT ROLE AT CIBSE'S FLAGSHIP EVENT

CIBSE is to launch a dedicated lighting platform as part of this year’s CIBSE Build2Perform Live, its flagship event. Light2Perform 'will showcase the lighting professionals and technology at the heart of the net zero agenda'.

The SLL will partner with the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) to curate a programme of expert speakers covering the latest in lighting research, design and technology. Themes will centre on research into the impact of artificial lighting on health and wellbeing, the circular economy for the lighting industry, and lighting's role in reducing carbon emissions throughout the lifetime of a building.

The aim is for Light2Perform to provide a platform for lighting manufacturers, designers, researchers and suppliers to engage with the wider building services industry. 'It will provide an opportunity for lighting professionals to speak to specifiers and engineers from related industries, sharing knowledge around the circular economy, net zero policy, building safety, and health and wellbeing in the built environment,' said CIBSE.

The dedicated area within Build2Perform will offer a range of opportunities for sponsors and exhibitors, says CIBSE. With more than 3000 people already pre-registered for this year’s event in December, attendees include specifiers and key decision makers from lighting and related building services sectors.

The first Light2Perform will take place as part of Build2Perform Live on 5-6 December 2023 at ExCeL, London.

For more about sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities: https://go.cibse.org/b2p-2023-l2p-downloads-pr

BACK TO SCHOOL

Two lighting professionals recently took part in a Class Of Your Own initiative with students in a South Yorkshire school.

Liz Cooper from Arup lighting and David Battersby from Gamma Illumination attended a workshop with sixth-form students studying Design Engineer Construct! (DEC!) at King Ecgberts School in Dore.

The students' project was a community or mixed-use building scheme involving the design of all elements, from foundation and structural design to the building services. Ideas included converting Sheffield's John Lewis building into an indoor go-kart and BMX track, and redesigning the city's dry ski slopes.

Cooper and Battersby presented on lighting design techniques, discussing the fundamentals of light, how light can influence feeling and wellbeing, and how to create a lighting journey. They also advised students on their projects.

Cooper had previously taught teacher Helen Vardy the basics of Dialux to allow students to create visuals of their work.

'Helen shared some of the students’ work as a result of our lighting session and the results were great,' said Cooper. 'We hope to have inspired some budding lighting designers to join the SLL and see potential in a career within the vast world of engineering and design.'

CIRCLE OF LIGHT

An SLL event in August will focus on the circular economy and the application of CIBSE TM66. The Path to Sustainable Lighting will be held at Edinburgh Napier University and online, and will feature speakers Ruairidh McGlynn of Stoane Lighting, and Dr Irene Mazzei, KTP associate, Edinburgh Napier University/Stoane Lighting.

The theme is recognising and quantifying the circularity of lighting products and looking at how to increase their service life. The presentation will involve detailed scrutiny of the metrics used to quantify the environmental impact of luminaires.

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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

The outcrop of traditional table lamps which has mushroomed in a woodland setting is one of the more domestic lighting installations by Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen.

Elsewhere, task lights cluster in the rocks by the sea or in a melted patch of snow, illuminated geometric constructions nestle among trees. Formerly working with reclaimed wood structures, his creations increasingly evoke high-rise buildings or office lighting.

'Being an artist for 20 years, always working in and with nature, it has been a story of going from optimism to seeing our nature in a dystopian manner,' Guneriussen told art platform Colossal. 'I have felt nature change to a degree I cannot recognise.'

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