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Innovation Awards Finalists
 

Jill Entwistle wishlist

onoffice to debut at ARC

Interview with David Scott-Maxwell

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Lightsource of 2012. Did you see our curator Durham Marenghi's New Year's Eve light and fire display at the London Eye? We did and can't wait to see what he has in store for us at The ARC Show.

The ARC Show is rapidly approaching and plans are well underway to make this our best show ever! With brand new features, not to mention innovative new products being launched at the show and a conference programme designed to inspire and inform, The ARC Show is your only destination for lighting in this historic Olympic year.

Undoubtedly one of the highlights of this year’s show will be our Innovation Centre, and with judging for our inaugural Innovation Awards now over, we’re pleased to reveal our very first shortlists!

Also in this month’s issue, renowned journalist Jill Entwistle discusses her lighting wishlist for 2012, while we preview the launch of onlight.

Finally, we ask David Scott-Maxwell, Managing Director of Forge Europa, about his thoughts on lighting in 2012 and what we can expect from him as part of the LED panel at this year’s ARC Show conference.

Until next time
Editor.
 

Innovation Awards – Finalists Announced!

The judging panel have chosen the finalists of the very first ARC Innovation Awards. These are the products that they believe will bring innovation and recognition to your projects, do you agree?

The judges were thoroughly impressed with the entries received and are looking forward to judging the finalists at the show.

The complete list of shortlisted products are as follows.
 

• ACDC Lighting were shortlisted for their AZETA (ROUND) product, part of a new family of technical, dimmable, recessed geared LED downlights offering lumen outputs equivalent to 20 and 35 Watt Metal Halide.
• Architectural Lighting Works were shortlisted for their ECO Trapeze product. Since LEDs need DC, this allows for more efficient, more powerful, and smaller current controllers compared to typical 12V AC systems
• Crestron UK were shortlisted for their Green Light Power Pack, which is a standalone room controller designed to communicate with photocells, occupancy sensors and control stations to automatically control lighting in any room
• Deltalight have been shortlisted for their Metronome product. Deltalight has worked in collaboration with fashion designer Tim Van Steenbergen to rework their Husk fitting to become a totally new creation. You can still recognize the Husk but the design has evolved and is titled Metronome.
• Erco Lighting have been shortlisted for their ERCO Opton Spotlights. Its modular design means that Opton is suited particularly for frequently changing lighting requirements such as in shop windows, for example.
• FDV Group UK has been shortlisted for their Katana Dual Inside product. Dual Inside is a revolutionary, multi-functional and multi-sensorial design that radically changes how we perceive and understand light and sound. It features easy-to-use Sensai technology that allows you to play your favourite music from any device with a Bluetooth connection.
• Helvar have been shortlisted for their uSee Hub & Panels product. uSee Hub is a web-based system management software that allows users to control their lighting system from any web accessing device.
• iGuzzini Illuminazione UK Ltd have been shortlisted for their iQ product. iQ has been developed to illuminate a column achieving uniform linear light without the usual scallop on the bottom part
• Inox Technical Lighting have been shortlisted for their LED Diva 2, which is a seamless linear LED luminaire for cabinets and small architectural details
• Inspired by Design have been shortlisted for their Wookyee LL product. Floor lamp with light and sound, the Wookyee LL is a hybrid combining LED sources together with speakers wirelessly controlled by your iPod. Architecturally designed and aesthetically pleasing, it can be used as a room partition system with a variety of colour finishes, it gives a new meaning to ‘light & sound’
• LED Light Sheet have been shortlisted for their Curved LED Light Sheet by Applelec product. Addressing a problematic feature of a retail space, a structural column, Applelec experimented with curving the acrylic used in its LED Light Sheet with a view to developing a slim, curved light box. The result is an 8mm thick curved panel which delivers bright, even illumination
• Pharos Architectural Controls have been shortlisted for their Pharos Touch Panel Controller, an advanced standalone, solid state lighting controller with an integrated 4.3” capacitive touch screen
• Photonstar Technology have been shortlisted with their ChromaWhite Tungsten+ Compact LED Module, which is the first and only module to genuinely emulate all the desirable features of halogen sources by combining "warming when dimming" whilst delivering consistent superior colour quality
• Vista Light have been shortlisted for their one.LED product which is truly unique, at only 4mm thin it’s the sleekest luminaire on the market.
• Whitegoods Lighting Ltd have been shortlisted for their Universal LED Module, which is a revolutionary approach to sustainable lighting solutions. It’s been designed to accept various market leading LED emitters, just like a traditional luminaire and lamp ideology.

Our shortlisted entrants are excited about the Awards too! Simon Shuck, MD of Inspired by Design commented “Having been associated with The ARC Show for many years we are delighted to have 1 of our new products shortlisted for innovation awards. This reflects Inspired by designs ability to always be at the forefront of lighting design and technology.”

There will be three prizes awarded at the show: Most innovative product and highly commended which will be voted for the judging panel, but you also get to have your say on the product you think is the most innovative with our Visitors Choice Award. Make sure a visit to The Innovation Centre is on your agenda to cast your vote!

The winners will be announced at the show on Wednesday 1 March 2012.
 

Renowned lighting journalist Jill Entwistle discusses her lighting wishlist for 2012

A small invertebrate has more willpower than I have so I’ve never even attempted New Year’s Resolutions. But if I can modify the formula slightly and make it a lighting wishlist for 2012 there might be less need for self-discipline and also less potential for disappointment. Admittedly, some aspirations are more fanciful than others.

• It seems likely that – after vigorous lobbying from the likes of the SLL – the consultation document for Part L of the Building Regs will moot the possibility of introducing LENI (Lighting Energy Numeric Indicator). This would be a big step forward as a far more rational way of measuring energy use. It makes no sense to require the installed load of a lamp/luminaire to be 55lm/W if someone leaves the lights on all night. What is needed is a systems-based approach that reflects the use of controls. There are various arguments for LENI, but a key one is that it measures the total energy actually consumed throughout the year. If this industry wish is to come true it will depend on a robust response from the lighting fraternity.
• With reference to the above, could companies finally do something about turning their lights off at night?
• That this is the year that an undergraduate degree in lighting is launched. It was going to be introduced last autumn at South Bank University but didn’t happen. The Lighting Education Trust (LET) has been tireless, and one would assume quite patient, in its efforts to get this off the ground and prospects seem hopeful. We now have another master’s degree in creative lighting design at Edinburgh Napier University, led by ex-Speirs and Major associate director Malcolm Innes, which is excellent. But the gap at bachelor degree level remains.
• Non-specialists who read the new Code for Lighting will finally get the point. In other words they won’t view it as a series of numerical goals to be attained, but recognise that lighting is about design not numbers and is for people not buildings.
• The Daylight Saving Bill is booted into touch once and for all.
   

onlight to debut at The ARC Show

onoffice, the UK’s top title for commercial architecture and design, is set to introduce a new resource for the lighting industry during The ARC Show 2012. Called onlight, the mini magazine will be packed with the latest industry news, projects, technology, profiles and product reviews.

onlight aims to highlight the fact that considered, high-quality lighting design has moved from being an afterthought, or a luxury, to an integral part of an architectural environment. Lighting designers are now brought into the process earlier, and what they provide is valued more than ever.

The first issue of onlight will reveal the process behind London-based studio Light Bureau’s illumination of the Dover Wartime Tunnels, as well as newcomer Emily Johnson’s techniques for making light fixtures out of bone china. Jonathan Coles’ transformation of the Wellcome Collection, which shows the potential of a light installation to connect visitors to a building and the history of an organisation, is not to be missed. Plus, Scottish artist and lighting designer Beau McLellan’s LED sculpture in Doha is a testament to the power of light in office building lobbies.

Of course, to round things off, industry experts have been invited to give their two cents on the UK’s lighting regulations, and don’t miss the roundup of the 5 best LED retrofit lamps.

It’s all in onlight!

Visit onofficemagazine.com today for your FREE subscription.

Interview with David Scott-Maxwell, Managing Director of Forge Europa

Why are LED’s still such a hot topic in the lighting industry?
LED technology is still developing at a tremendous pace and the Lighting Industry still has a lot of catching up to do to make the best use of LEDs as light sources.

What knowledge can people expect to gain from the conference?
An up-to-the minute update on all things Lighting – commercial, technical, strategic etc…

What do you most enjoy about working in the lighting industry?
The lighting industry is going through a period of massive technical change after many years of much slower development which is really exciting!

What recent lighting innovation has impressed you the most?
Too many to list, but the extraordinary improvement in LED efficiency in just a few years would be near the top!

What is your proudest career moment to date?
Forge Europa’s Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2009 – to my knowledge the only Lighting Industry business to ever receive such an accolade, would be the one.

What technological developments in the lighting sector can we expect in five years time?
I can’t tell you that, but with many players and a highly healthy competitive marketplace prepare to be amazed by what happens!