A year ago, manufacturers were complaining about the rigours of UGR19. Specifiers – or, more to the point, facilities managers – had woken up to their responsibilities to provide lighting conditions that worked in favour of office staff. A new generation of LED panels was threatening to flood offices with horribly glaring light caused by
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Vexica Technology is based in Sherburn-in-Elmet, between Leeds and York in the county of North Yorkshire.The in-house electronics design team produces LED light engines to suit a variety of applications. The company has a portfolio of registered designs and patent pending technology. Vexica has become a member of “Made In Britain”. The Made in Britain
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Bad things happen, hands get wrung, promises are made – and then we quietly slide back into the same old torpor of not caring very much. And then bad things happen . . . . . . . . . P4 Fastel has published a short, pithy Guide to Emergency Lighting Obligations. Its not difficult,
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Vexica announces new website. The arrival of a new website should come with fanfares and street parties, and the latest Vexica is no exception. Following on the heels of the new downloadable brochure, the website celebrates the great new developments in flexible LED profiles. Click to visit the new Vexica website Click to see
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Human Centric Lighting is shifting its focus or, to put it another way, Human Centric Lighting is finally finding its focus. The term itself has been problematic for many people ever since it was first coined to describe a way that artificial light could be used to augment (interfere with?) the natural rhythms of the
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Concord has brought its lighting expertise to Triumph motorcycles new factory visitor experience. The new Triumph Factory Experience delivers an engaging journey that tells the full story of the brand and showcases Triumph’s historic and modern achievements in design, engineering, racing and popular culture. To ensure every element of the tour is showcased to its
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It is unlikely that there is anyone still active in the world of architectural lighting who remembers a time when Concord Lighting wasn’t around. Rotaflex Lighting launched in 1968 and Concord Lighting, in its several iterations since then, has been a permanent presence on the library shelves. To celebrate the half-century, Concord Lighting released two
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I’m in a hotel room and have just finished what was laughingly called ‘a breakfast box’. There is a yawning gulf between what was in my head and what was in the box. In a positive glow of expectation, I was seeing a fresh croissant, perhaps a small pot of strawberry jam – maybe a
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Last week I wrote about the Climate Change Challenge and its good to see that everyone’s keeping their heads down, hoping that no one sees you sitting there. Here in Sherborne we’ve been thinking about ways to reduce our material consumption in general, the environmental damage that we do, and our carbon footprint in particular
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Luke Jerrams’s Museum of the Moon has gone on display in Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. From Friday 5th July until Sunday 7th July, the Moon will hang above the Abbey crossing. Open for viewing from 9am – midnight. See you there. The moon has always inspired humanity, acting as a ‘cultural mirror’ to society, reflecting the
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Usually, when the lighting industry goes quiet over something its for one of two reasons; expect a mass launch of new products at Frankfurt – or it’s something that’s too difficult to get the head around so let’s ignore it and hope it goes away. Given that Frankfurt Licht+Bild is a matter of months away,
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SG Lighting has introduced a revolutionary Tunable White (TW) phase control dimmer that can regulate both the lighting level and colour. For use with SG TW LEDDim luminaires. Until now, tunable-white control has only been possible with DALI DT8, which requires a DALI installation. With TW LEDDim Smart, all you need is a normal power
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