Linea Light Group Periskop
An outdoor projector perfect for accent lighting, the Periskop is equipped with an aluminium bracket that allows tilting of up to 180-degrees. The Periskop family extends its range with two larger models and an RGB version newly equipped with a series of accessories that allow light emission control. Available in Spot, Flood and Medium Flood optics, they can be integrated with accessories such as the honeycomb filter for reducing glare and changing the light beam of the secondary optic; or the Blade elliptical filter, designed to produce an oval beam.
RCL DRX Zoom
Coming soon, Remote Controlled Lighting will launch the DRX Zoom range; a variable beam option that will be available for DRX1 and DRX5 luminaires. Users will have the ability to vary from accentuating a small object, or pin spotting a table, to lighting a wider space at the touch of a button. More information about DRX Zoom will be available shortly, but you can find details on the current DRX range online.
Ligman Vancouver
Ligman’s Vancouver range encompasses numerous standard column and bollard options. Ligman showcased a special Vancouver design with the unique corporate mashrabiya pattern of Abu Dhabi City Municipality. Column versions of this bespoke design are now installed around the grounds of the main Municipality HQ in Abu Dhabi in a matching RAL finish to the historic building cladding and more already underway for other Municipality sites.
KKDC KOH 40
KOH 40 is the new linear general/office lighting solution from KKDC which uses high output interchangeable LED modules (Switched/1-10V/DALI) configurable in short lengths or continuous linear systems. KOH 40 is available in Recessed, Surface mounted or Suspended options for direct/indirect lighting in a range of premium paint colour finishes. A choice of LED and cover options in Prismatic/Diffused or Black Louvres for optimum performance.
Megaman Gabio
Megaman has introduced a range of aluminium linear LED pendants, Gabio. The patented louvre is available in 20W and 30W versions, producing up to 117 lumens per watt. Able to be configured with direct as well as direct-indirect lighting the louvre suits a variety of design requirements. Furthermore, Gabio features a unique design, incorporating light cells within its junctions, which conceals the joins completely to create unbroken lines of light, which delivers excellent design consistency.
Forge Europa celebrates 25th anniversary
(UK) - Forge Europa celebrates a quarter of a century in business.
Founded in 1993 by Peter Barton, Forge Europa, an LED lighting solutions firm that manufactures LED solutions focused on innovation and quality whilst providing accompanying customer service and technical support, celebrated its best year in 2017.
Forge began as a sole trader operating out of a spare room at Barton’s home. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength and today delivers innovative LED lighting solutions to customers in 34 different countries. The company invested heavily in R&D and testing facilities to aid its position at the forefront of LED technology and has developed a number of industry firsts, including ranges of interlocking LED displays and underwater lighting, as well as precision optics for anything from designer lighting to helicopter landing pads. Forge Europa received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Outstanding Innovation in 2009 and the building of its imposing Lighting Solutions Centre, which was opened by HRH, Duke of York in 2012.
Barton, founder and CEO commented: “Starting the business in 1993 was a leap into the unknown, which required a huge amount of hard work and tenacity, mixed with occasional inspiration and, of course a bit of luck. However, without doubt my biggest asset in the beginning was a very supportive family that had tremendous faith and convinced me that anything was possible. LED technology has changed beyond recognition since 1993 when, effectively, white LEDs, which are now the mainstay of the lighting industry, didn’t exist. One thing I have learnt is that a company must constantly keep innovating to stay ahead and therefore I’m absolutely delighted that, despite the ongoing challenges and uncertainty of Brexit, our 25th year has been our most successful so far. We have a very professional team with a diverse range of talents, many of who have been with the company for a long time. I thoroughly appreciate all their hard work, loyalty and, occasionally, requisite sense of humour. After 25 years of growing success, I believe that our best times are ahead of us.”
Ian Dixon, Commercial Director, has been involved for eighteen of Forge’s 25 years and puts this down to a unique combination of the continuous development in LED technology, the evolving diverse market place and a business that continually invests and re-invents itself to keep it at the top of its game. Dixon commented: “Forge Europa’s customers are the life blood of the company and working with them across so many market sectors is not only interesting but an absolute pleasure.”
Technical Director David Scott-Maxwell has been with the business for thirteen years and commented: “It’s been both highly challenging and hugely stimulating to have helped Forge Europa grow at the leading edge of the LED Lighting Revolution over the last decade or so. But LED Lighting is still really only in its infancy - so here’s to the next ten years!”
Issue 102
arc Feb/Mar 2018 – Issue 102
Read all about it!
As a print and book lover, it is very satisfying to be able to publish some spectacular library projects in this issue.
I grew up living next to a library so spending time there, whether revising for exams or just discovering books, became second nature to me. Of course, back then there was no such thing as Google and even home computers were only just becoming available to all (OK, I’m showing my age now) so visits to the library were commonplace for conscientious students like me!
A few years ago, well after I had left my home town for a career as a journalist, I was sad to discover that the library had closed down (although it recently got rehoused at the town bingo hall!). Without that library and the love it gave me for reading and writing I may well have gone on a different career path but here I am writing as an editor about some new libraries that have caught our eye as architecturally stunning buildings with lighting playing a crucial part in their success. Of course, the libraries of today need to diversify to survive (and indeed thrive) and it is the re-imagining of libraries as cultural hubs that has led to projects like Tianjin Binhai and The Word becoming realised.
And it’s ambitious projects like these that allow light to come to the fore. The lighting for both these projects, although not a huge part of their budgets, were crucial to their success as architectural icons in their own right. In Tianjin, China the flexible cove lighting radiates throughout the building’s curvaceous cavern around the glowing auditorium eye. The Word in South Shields, UK flies in the face of the government’s austerity programme to create a phenomenally successful cultural hub with a spectacular lighting centrepiece engineered in a cost effective way. It has been a pleasure to feature these projects and I hope you enjoy them too.
Paul James
Editor
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Formalighting Moto-Zero Compasso 40 Track
The smallest motorised track spotlight on the market, mounted vertically or horizontally, with a light head measuring only 40mm in diameter and 74mm in length. Available with a beam angle as narrow as 4-degrees, the Moto-Zero Compasso 40 is ideal for applications where size really does matter, and smaller is better. The movement of the light head and the light intensity are controlled at the tap and slide of a finger with the formalighting wireless app.
Arkoslight Six
Six, designed by Arkoslight’s head of design, Rubén Saldaña, is a spotlight for either track or single recessed installation, standing out by its optical lightness and elegance. Its disc-shaped body with slightly convex rim encloses an innovative combination of reflector and lens, and the joint action of both directs the light beam with maximum uniformity and minimum distance. Moreover, Six connects directly to the track adapter through an articulated arm, allowing orientation of the fitting in any direction.
Mike Stoane Lighting Protozoa
Protozoa, like the 16mm Surf Type S when that launched in 2009, is the smallest technical luminaire in its class. Merely 9mm and 37.5mm tall at maximum extension, it has full 360-degree pan and 180-degree tilt adjustment. A very low glare, high-grade optic delivers a generous 13 to 60-degree zoomable clean beam. Launched with 3000K and 90+ CRI initially, it is available in surface mount and soon also semi-recessed, stick mount and repositionable track mount.
Astro Lighting Dunbar 160
Inspired by the flowing lines of a Mobius strip, Astro’s concrete Dunbar 160 combines a soft curve structure with the crisp linear edge of its light output, where deeply recessed LEDs provide powerful yet glare-free illumination. Celebrating the character and charm of raw material aesthetics, the Dunbar 160 is individually cast by reinforcing raw concrete with weatherproofing additives. The result is an authentic luminaire with natural imperfections and a unique finish.
Nexia Moon
“We conceive light as an emotion”. Nexia has launched a totally unique range of spotlights. Moon, with its exclusive and architectural design, features the latest lighting technology. Nexia offers complete and upscale lighting solutions, taking care of light control with a new range of technical accessories, the use of Bluetooth, VCL technology, dim to warm and tunable white dimming controls.