Diary for February 2010
3rd The ARC Show, London
www.thearcshow.com Now appearing at Earls Court 2, which - in my humble opinion - has nothing like the atmosphere of the Business Design Centre in Islington. What used to be a meeting place for friends and colleagues to share industry gossip is now just another exhibition. Mais - c'est la vie, mes enfants....
22nd By the Power of Zhaga!
The Zhaga standards – from a new organisation made up of top lighting manufacturers – aim to ‘give consumers confidence to specify and purchase LED products ...’ ‘So, Mr. Bond – we meet at last.’ ‘Damn you, Zhaga. But you’ll never get away with it. I’ve seen many dastardly plans in my time, but if you think you can take over the world by subjugating the wills of those free spirits in LEDland, then you’ll just have to THINK AGAIN!’ ‘You believe that you see through our ruse, Mr Bond? Yes, wh...
17th Getting it WHITE!
In an ideal world, there’d probably only be one White – then at least the architects would be happy. But we live in relativistic times and White is no exception. There are ‘Warm Whites’ and there are ‘Cool Whites’ and ‘Daylight Whites’. Somewhere in there there’s a ‘Neutral White’, though that doesn’t count for much because all these tones of White carry equal weight when it comes to combining Light and Colour. What we’re talking about here is Colour temperature and its very important. Sitting ...
17th Lighting Specification and Electrical Design
The Electrical Safety Council recently published an article entitled 'ELECTRICAL INTALLATIN WORK - WHO IS THE DESIGNER? (page 7 of Switched On - Issue 15). I've always taken the time to explain gently to clients that I'm only a lighting designer and that means I produce lighting layouts. They are not electrical layouts, which are a different thing entirely. As far as the authorities are concerned, I only produce a specification; its not a design at all. The&#...
17th Part L Business - old stuff!
This piece relates to the 2006 edition of Building Regulations Part L: Conservation of Fuel and Power. I'm leaving it up as a reference source only. Its still relevant as a commentary, but the compliance figures have all changed. LIGHTING SPECIFICATION AND PART L: BUILDING REGULATIONS As we all know, Part L relates to the Conservation of Fuel and Power in building design. It is there to establish energy design criteria for the specification of materials and equipment in new buildin...
5th A Proclamation to the People
The exhibition season is surely upon us and the halls are filled with glorious, sparkly doings – everything decked out in its very best energy-saving and sustainable splendour. A recent exhibition experience was so overwhelmingly positive and life-enhancing that a small groupuscle created itself out of the shimmering air, and manifested itself around a table, from the residue of attes, cappucinos and espressos. Made up of some of the greatest cyneasts of our industry, we immediately dedicated...
1st It's Not Easy Being Green
Just when you thought it might be safe to go out at night, it turns out that we’ve all been seeing it wrong. How do I know this? Because of the work done by a bunch of Euro-boffins under the banner of the Mesopic Optimisation of Visual Efficiency project, or MOVE – for the sake of sanity. Checking the wacky world of the web, it seems that this study was wrapped back in 2004, but the stake in the heart obviously didn’t take because its findings have been discussed recently in one of our learned l...
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