The lighting design process is one which recognises the importance of the visual impact of light in space. The lighting designer sits around the same table as the client, the architect and the interior designer.

Lighting design is not a compartmentalised discipline. It cannot exist separate to the overall design process. Over the years, lighting designers have begged to be involved in architectural and interior design projects from the very beginning of scheme development.

Light is an integral component of the building design process. We can only see a building, or a room, because light plays around and within it. So deciding to embrace the conscious process of planning how light should work within a space is a very valuable decision.

The farther away the lighting designer is from formative decision-making then the higher becomes the risk that the project will not realise its full visual potential. Which is a pity.

Fire-fighting: This is a speciality skill that most lighting designers have to develop. It happens with those projects where the lighting design has not been thought about at all until the very end of the building process. After all, light fittings are the last items to be installed before the paintings go on the wall and the furniture's delivered.

Fire-fighting can be fun and rewarding, but ought to be an endangered sport.
Sadly, its not.

Download a Typical Scope of Works

If you'd like more idea about how the lighting design fits into the overall design and construction process, you can download a copy of a typical Scope of Works in Adobe Acrobat format - 15kb [download]

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