The Lighting Practice launches Dallas office
(USA) - The Lighting Practice has opened offices in a third location, with the formation of a Dallas-based studio.
Led by Principal Jered Widmer, the Dallas office will accommodate the firm’s rapid growth, while serving as a home base for local and national projects.
“It’s an exciting new chapter for The Lighting Practice to expand our physical presence in Texas,” said Widmer. “I am looking forward to being local to many of our current projects and clients.”
Helen Diemer, President of The Lighting Practice, added: “We’ve had the good fortune to be able to build and grow strong relationships with great clients in Texas over the years. With Jered’s leadership in Dallas, we are pleased to be able to expand our base of operation and offer our Texas and southern regional clients access to more in-person consultation and design services.”
The Dallas market, and Texas as a whole, is not unchartered territory for The Lighting Practice. The firm has been part of Texas design teams, working on impactful projects for several years, inlacing: Liberty Mutual Headquarters, ICR Discovery Center, Austin Ridge Bible Church, Le Meridien Houston, Blue Flame El Paso, UTSW William P. Clemente Jr. University Hospital and The American Airlines Admirals Club at DFW Airport (pictured).
In addition to opening its Texas office location, The Lighting Practice is a certified Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Texas Women’s Business Enterprise Alliance and WBENC Women’s Business Council - Southwest.
CIBSE and LIA set up new Circular Economy Assurance Scheme
(UK) – The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) have together launched a new circular economy assurance scheme designed to support the accuracy of circular economy claims from lighting manufacturers and specifiers. The TM66 Circular Economy Assured scheme will provide a quality mark for the design and manufacture of lighting products.
Supporting the recently published TM66 Creating a circular economy in the lighting industry and accompanying Circular Economy Assessment Methods (CEAM), the scheme forms part of this toolkit for manufacturers and specifiers to assess the circular economy credentials of products.
Published in 2021, the award-winning TM66 Creating a circular economy in the lighting industry is the result of cross-industry collaboration, providing practical guidance and tools to enable the sector to deliver a circular, sustainable approach to lighting and building services engineering more broadly.
Major specifiers and organisations have already adopted this metric and the intention is to develop it beyond lighting products, for application in other areas of building services engineering. Manufacturers are already rating their luminaires, while others are seeking assistance to do so with a shared ambition to ensure credibility, objectivity, and consistency in their ratings.
David Barnwell, Managing Director of Holophane Europe Ltd. commented: “Anything that helps to drive greater knowledge of the environmental benefits of a circular economy approach is a positive step forwards and being able to specify a minimum rating in line with industry accepted guidance strengthens the delivery of sustainable lighting through the supply chain. The TM66 Circular Economy Assured scheme provides participating manufacturers with a way to demonstrate their sustainability and provides a clear differentiation from unsubstantiated greenwash.”
This scheme combines CIBSE’s deep sustainability knowledge and UKAS accredited certification expertise with the LIA’s Quality Assurance systems and independent UKAS accredited laboratory.
Society of Light and Lighting President Ruth Kelly Waskett said: “Sustainability is at the heart of good lighting practice, but our focus is now shifting from energy efficiency in use towards whole life carbon and the life cycle of materials. TM66 and CEAM have already given us a framework within which to evaluate products and equip us to make the right specification decisions. TM66 Circular Economy Assured takes us one step further, giving us the added benefit of knowing that circular economy claims are robust and comparable between products. This allows decisions to be made at the specification stage and then protected through any value engineering process.”
Terry Dean, LIA President added: “The lighting industry has long been a key solution to delivering net zero, but many recognise that we will soon be asked to prove and improve all aspects of our environmental impact. Moving away from the unsustainable linear economy of take, make, waste, to a circular economy where we conserve, value and extend the life of the resources in our luminaires is the next step. We are delighted to build this partnership with CIBSE, led by Bob Bohannon, the LIA’s Head of Policy and Academy who was TM66 and CEAM’s lead author. It brings our two organisation’s key strengths together to deliver this much asked for level playing field in sustainability ratings.”
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Light Middle East rescheduled to early 2023
(UAE) – Organisers of Light Middle East have announced new show dates for the upcoming instalment of the event, as well as the launch of the brand new Intelligent Building Middle East as part of the show.
Originally scheduled for 15-17 November, the event will now take place on 17-19 January 2023, with the new, dual trade platform providing greater traction amongst corporate real estate, facilities management, building owners and operators, and IT departments. The three-day event will focus on three core themes in 2023: innovative design, sustainable future and seamless integration.
Alongside the launch of the new Intelligent Building Middle East, Light Middle East is collaborating with Intersec, the world-leading emergency services, security and safety event. With a joint focus on smart home and building automation, intelligent building monitoring systems, lighting controls and facial recognition, organisers are hopeful that the co-location will provide the perfect platform to drive the region’s Smart City Vision in developing a smart, safe, secure, connected and sustainable environment.
Hacel: Infinitas
A display of understated elegance, Infinitas by Hacel is a refined LED system. Available in Surface, Suspended or Recessed, in both Bezel and Bezel Free formats, Infinitas is sleek and slender in its design and is precision extruded. The system offers continuous lines of uninterrupted uniform lighting, and the flexibility is further enhanced by uplighting variations and completely illuminated corners. Optional accent luminaires further enhance the versatility of Infinitas. Stylish Solo Modules are available to complement the continuous system.
Casambi appoints new General Manager for North America
(USA) – In a move to reinforce its commitment to the US lighting market and expand operations in the region, Casambi has appointed Mark McClear as General Manager for North America.
McClear is an important figure in the LED and SSL sectors, having previously held a number of high-profile positions, including Vice President Global Sales at Cree, Chief Operating Officer at BIOS Lighting, and having led the LED components business as President of North America for Seoul Semiconductor. He will be based out of Casambi’s North American headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Kari Mettälä, CEO at Casambi Technologies, said: “Mark is a popular leading authority with an unmatched understanding of the smart lighting movement. His unique knowledge gained over decades working at the heart of the industry will undoubtedly accelerate our plans to expand Casambi’s global footprint. Mark will grow Casambi into the leading US wireless lighting control provider.”
McClear added: “Wireless control is the next big leap forward for the lighting industry. Casambi’s open ecosystem architecture is a generation ahead of the proprietary legacy systems currently on the market. Together with the US team, we will provide service and support, and expand Casambi’s commercial network across North America.”
Schnick Schnack Systems LED P-Dot
For special applications like enlightening acrylic rods, or creating hard shadows, there is a need for powerful LEDs. The tiny but powerful LED P-Dot by Schnick Schnack Systems can be comfortably installed with a simple daisy chain wiring system and easily controlled, for example with RGB-video signals. Its four LEDs, red, green, blue and white, have been picked with meticulous discrimination to achieve lighting results of highest quality.
Hacel Solex
The latest generation of compact downlighters, designed and manufactured in the UK by Hacel, the Solex range seamlessly combines outstanding photometric performance, with ease of installation. Delivering lumen outputs up to 5342lm and efficacies of 153lm/W. Solex is available in a wide choice of high quality control gear, including Casambi wireless lighting control. Surface and pendant options complete the Solex range.
John Cullen Lighting Contour Edge
Create clean consistent wall grazing effects with the new Contour Edge from John Cullen Lighting. It combines ultra-low glare with a high 98 CRI to suit your projects whether inside or out. The Contour Edge is available in four sizes – 25, 50, 75 and 100 – which can be easily paired together when a longer illuminated run is required, ensuring that the LED pitch is maintained for a continuous graze.
Corporate Friends C1-mini-C
The new C1-mini-C is one of the smallest Casambi Ready spotlights on the market. With its dimensions of only 42x49x17mm reduced to the absolute minimum it is especially suitable for smallest lighting solutions, where the light source must be discrete without limiting its function. The dimming range has 810 steps, from 100% to 0%, with a minimum non-zero value of 0.4%. Fitted on magnetic track (11x7mm) for 9-24V DC connection, it can be positioned freely in any direction.
Lucent Prospex Performance
A range of high output reflector-style downlights, in fixed and accent versions, which feature locking graduated adjustment to 35 and full 358 lockable rotation.
Available in four sizes – 105, 140, 160 and 195mm diameter – with delivered lumen outputs from 1800lm to 8200lm with minimal trims and a low glare 40 cut-off with semi-specular silver reflectors. Typical applications range from residence, offices and retail for the smaller size downlight, through to shopping centres and airports for the largest version.
Landscape Forms Profile
The Profile family of lights creates beautiful and intentional light emanating from a refined, minimalist design. Shadows from Profile’s I-beam channels and modular column design build a light experience like no other, creating poetry between the sculptural form and the play of light upon the object and its surroundings. One product family composed of an area light, accent light, column light, and trio of bollards.
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Reggiani Yori IP66
The Yori projectors family has widened with the Yori IP66 – the newest system of projects for outdoor lighting. Selected materials, IP66-rating and CRI>90 make Yori IP66 a reliable system for outdoor high-end lighting projects. Available in two different dimensions – Ø45 and Ø60 – and 10 colour finishes, its precision lenses offer quality distribution of light and smooth edge beams in line with standard Yori optics. A wide selection of accessories helps to beautifully integrate the product range into any project, from ground spikes and beam clamps to surface/pendant and wall versions.
