Total Lighting - March 2016

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Best of British
Tamlite Lighting is launching
the MODLED LG PRO LED panel
for typical office environments, which
the company says will provide advanced
energy savings, when compared to
traditional fluorescents.
Energy efficiency is now synonymous
with LED lighting, but the company hopes
to shake up the market with its impressive
results, showing in excess of 56 per cent
energy savings, when compared to existing
T8 HF installs, and 51 per cent on
T5 installations.
Using the latest high performance LED
module and Philips Xitanium driver, the
panel boasts an efficiency of 107 lm/W,
with a 50,000-hour lifespan.
Importantly, according to Tamlite, the
new panel proves that high efficiency does
not mean compromising on the excellent
light quality needed for commercial
Social lighting
Configuring Light has launched an expert
working group to tackle social inequalities
in public lighting.
The project is funded by LSE HEIF5,
and assembles high-profile experts and
stakeholders in the fields of design,
planning, and policy making, to develop
a cross-disciplinary and actionable
agenda to facilitate a more careful
consideration of lighting in housing
planning and development.
According to the Group, light is a
powerful material, fundamental to our
lives, and it can help create new and
interesting spaces in many different ways.
Light is also gaining a new momentum in
urban planning and public space design.
But not all of us benefit equally from
this new status of light and lighting. For
example, the lighting in London’s different
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Johannesburg, SA
15-16 March 2016
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applications. The MODLED LG PRO
offers flexibility with a number of
colour options depending on the
application: a comfortable, cool-white
light (5000K), a neutral white (4000K)
and a warm white (3000K).
Crucially, to eliminate glare, it has
been engineered with a Tamlite I-Tech
diffuser optic to achieve a UGR (Unified
Glare Rating) of below 19.
Colin Lawson, head of sales, marketing
and product development at Tamlite
Lighting, commented: ‘LED technology
is now established as the key to energy
efficient lighting, but this marks a real step
change in what can be achieved with LED.
‘Customers now have the benefits of
residential areas tells a story about social
inequalities: while housing estates tend to
be brightly illuminated to allow for better
CCTV surveillance, streets with a wealthier
demographic are usually darker, and free
from crude lighting interventions.
The expert working group will meet on
three occasions to discuss different Londonbased
housing case study sites, seeing
presentations and commentary from working
group members. Based on the discussions
and evaluations, a report, providing new
strategies for addressing social inequalities
in public lighting, will be launched in a public
LSE event on 12 May 2016.
Confirmed delegates are joining
the group from Transport for London,
Homes and Communities Agency,
Crisis, Metropolitan Police, Peabody,
Speirs+Major, Arup, and BDP.
CISL 2016
Beijing, China
17 March 2016
www.smartlightingsummit.com
LEDUCATION 9
New York, US
29-30 March 2015
www.leducation.org
glare-free, cool-white light as well as vast
energy savings compared to conventional
fluorescent technologies.
‘As a company, we’ve invested
£4,000,000 over the last three years,
with our biggest investment in the area of
product development – an R&D process
that’s all managed out of British sites in the
Midlands. The launch of the MODLED LG
PRO is a major part of this push towards
British lighting excellence.’
Acquisition
season
Belgian lighting manufacturer, Kreon has
acquired Belux, the renowned Swissbased
designer and manufacturer of
sophisticated lighting solution s.
Founded in Switzerland in 1970, Belux
has worked together with prominent
international designers, such as Frank
Gehry, Naoto Fukasawa, Ronan & Erwan
Bouroullec, Herzog & de Meuron, and
Hella Jongerius, in order to develop
and produce a range of remarkable,
inspired designs.
Kreon is a family-owned business, and
Belux represents an ideal addition, that
it believes will enrich its offering across a
number of areas.
Kreon plans to maintain the brand
name, product strategy, and orientation
of Belux, and with immediate effect
will operate in the market with the dual
brands Kreon and Belux.
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