The IP Rating system is there to provide a guide to the degree of protection that lighting equipment has against the ingress of solids and liquids. The ratings are defined in international standard EN60529. The First Number (IPn*) relates to solids and ranges from 0 – 6. The numbers offer a logical progression that indicate
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The Light Review’s Lighting Tree asks lighting designers for their least favourite activity in the creative process of producing lighting design. With eye-rolling regularity, also from your editor, it comes down to drawing-up the specification. It takes an awful lot of creative energy to withstand the grinding task of notating, counting, listing, checking – then
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Positive news comes out of Braintree, from the new home of SG Lighting. Having outgrown their old place, the company has moved round the corner to bigger premises in Great Notley. You’ll now find SG Lighting at Majesty House, Avenue West, Skyline 120, Great Notley, Braintree. CM77 7AA. New catalogues to go with new office
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John Bullock writes: I’ve been following the progress of Footfall Lighting for the past few years. Its probably my romantic notion that UK SMEs are the great champions of industry – we’re just hopelessly misunderstood. So I welcomed the opportunity to sit down with John Haynes, the man behind this new enterprise. JB: John, we
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I was talking with Peter Harrison, Technical Director at ILP, the other day. The conversation came round to all the professional bodies that proliferate around the lighting industry. What is it they do exactly? This is what things look like from the UK. Thanks to Peter for his original input in creating the directory for
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Standards are there to ensure that products and services are delivered in a ‘standard’ fashion. Often, standards refer to the minimum acceptable way of doing something, often to ensure safe or ethical behaviour. A Service can be far better than is required by a Standard, but that Service never fall below the requirements of a
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Vexica Technology is an independent British manufacturer with a focus on providing innovative solutions for the flexible and linear LED marketplace. Coupled with a new and exciting range of linear lighting systems, Vexica has recently launched some world firsts in flexible technology, including a new UL Listed range for the USA. 2019 represents the beginning
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According to The Urban Land Institute the UK can expect a boom in architectural and fit-out projects that wish to embrace health and wellbeing strategies as core features of the working environment. A new report, ‘Picture of health’, published in July by ULI and produced by the ULI UK Sustainability Forum suggests that there could
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We’ve recently seen the term Human Centric Lighting (HCL) be dropped in favour of the apparently more focused ‘circadian lighting’. But this simply maintains an assumption that HCL should only relate to the direct physiological impact that lighting can have on the body’s systems. And it hasn’t helped that HCL has been hijacked by manufacturers’
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WARNING: electrical talk here! Power factor is all about wasting energy. The LED chip is only one part of a complex electrical circuit. Some of the components within the drivers do strange things with electricity, like consuming power that only gets noticed at the point of generation. It doesn’t register on domestic or commercial meters,
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Rachael is a Senior Designer with dpa Lighting Consultants, in Oxfordshire. The Lighting Tree is a celebration of young UK lighting designers. If you’re new to The Lighting Tree, this is how it works. Nominees for The Lighting Tree are nominated by previous nominees, so its nothing to do with the editor. Oh – and
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At the core of ‘circadian lighting’ is the phenomenon that we call ‘the melanopic response’. This comes from the research that’s been going on into the ‘non-visual’ effects of lighting. It relates to the way that blue frequencies in daylight restrict the production of melatonin in the body’s system until after dusk, after which time
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