Linea Light Group Archiline
Linea Light Group will present Archiline, the new family featuring a wide range of linear lighting fixtures with multiple configuration options that fit every lighting requirement. They can be installed with recessed mounting with steel or aluminium flange or without flange or in the wall version. The features that make this family of products unique and extremely versatile are its wide range of optics (Narrow Spot, Spot, Medium Flood, Flood, Wall Washer and Elliptic 20x50-degrees), different lengths and power packs, and the choice between monochrome versions (warm white and natural white) and multi-colour RGBW.
Acclaim Lighting Dyna Drum HO
Acclaim Lighting will launch the second generation Dyna Drum HO. With a new chipset and optic system designed from the ground up, this high power floodlight now features higher energy efficiency, and features class leading output in both white and quad colour LED versions. In fact, the white version reaches more than one million centre candela, while reducing power consumption by 20 percent.
First jury members for Lamp Awards 2019 announced
(Spain) – The first judges for the eighth instalment of the Lamp Awards will officially be presented at Light+Building in Frankfurt next month.
The first five members of the Lamp Awards 2019 jury have been announced.
Held in Barcelona every two years, the Lamp Awards celebrate the creativity, innovation and sustainability of lighting projects around the world with awards in architectural outdoor lighting, indoor lighting, urban and landscape lighting, and student proposals.
For each instalment of the awards, a jury of lighting professionals, architects and designers from around the world is recruited to case their eye over the shortlisted entries and make their judgement.
The first five members of the jury for the 2019 awards are French lighting designer Roger Narboni, Uno Lai of Taiwan, Paul Nulty of the UK, Swedish lighting designer Aleksandra Stratimirovic and Chilean Pascal Chautard.
Roger Narboni, founder of Paris-based lighting design studio CONCEPTO, launched the Light Urbanism discipline in 1987, and is widely considered an expert on city lighting strategies and dark infrastructures.
Uno Lai, an accomplished lighting designer and light artist originally from Taiwan, draws inspiration from a broad spectrum of professional training, including photography, theatre design and interior design, with each of these influences nurturing his creative spirit. In 2005, Lai founded Unolai Lighting Design in New York, and is now President and CEO of Unolai Design Group, with offices in Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong and New York, and serves on the Board of Directors of the IALD.
Paul Nulty began his career in the lighting design industry 18 years ago, setting up his own practice, Nulty+, in 2011. The firm has grown to have offices in London, Dubai and Beirut, and has gained a reputation for creative, considerate design concepts that constantly test assumptions and delve into new, more energy-efficient and cost-effective techniques. A prominent industry commentator, Nulty has provided expert articles for industry magazines and regularly presents seminars at lighting events worldwide.
Aleksandra Stratimirovic boasts more than 20 years of experience in the world of art and light, completing a number of permanent site-specific artworks in Sweden and abroad in public spaces such as hospitals, schools and stations. In recent years, her work as been included in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris and various institutions and events in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Singapore. Stratimirovic is also the co-founder of the Lighting Guerrilla festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia and a core member of the Transnational Lighting Detectives, as well as founder and artistic director of the event Belgrade of Light.
Finally, Pascal Choutard leads LLD Limari Lighting Design, an independent lighting design practice based in Santiago, Chile. Choutard began working with light in 1986, working in theatre lighting in Paris, before founding LLD in 1993. Focusing mainly on architectural, museum and urban projects, Choutard has been invited to give many lectures, workshops and masterclasses around the world, alongside teaching at the school of design at PUC University in Chile.
All five judges will be officially presented at Lamp Lighting’s booth at Light+Building in Frankfurt next month.
Messe Frankfurt acquires Thailand Lighting Fair
(Thailand) – The team behind Light + Building has expanded its international portfolio with the acquisition of Thailand Lighting Fair.
Messe Frankfurt New Era Business Media Ltd has acquired Thailand Lighting Fair and Thailand Building Fair, expanding the worldwide portfolio of its Light + Building brand of trade fairs.
Powered by Messe Frankfurt since their inception in 2015, the two fairs will now officially form part of the Light + Building family that totals fourteen fairs around the globe. Messe Frankfurt will leverage its extensive international experience in growing trade fairs, while at the same time utilising its local organising partners' knowledge to propel the fairs forward as ASEAN’s leading trade fairs for lighting and building technology, design and solutions.
Thailand Lighting Fair and Thailand Building Fair will be held from 8-10 November at Bangkok International Convention & Exhibition Centre. The 2018 edition is expected to welcome more than 165 exhibitors utilising some 10,000sqm of exhibition space.
Stephan Buurma, Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt Group, commented on the acquisition: “The Light + Building brand of shows is well-recognised around the world for its high quality event format and its power to attract the best in the industry. Adding the Thailand Lighting Fair and Thailand Building Fair to this growing family will complement our existing shows by creating a synergy between the different lighting and building markets.
“The acquisition will facilitate Messe Frankfurt to further develop our presence within the network of ASEAN countries. Our local partners ‒ The ExhibiZ and the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) ‒ have been instrumental in establishing the shows and we look forward to working together with them for many years ahead.”
An experienced organiser of trade fairs in Thailand, The ExhibiZ is eager to continue working alongside its seasoned international partner, explained Pakwan Jiamjiroj, General Manager: “We are delighted to bring the Thailand Lighting Fair and the Thailand Building Fair into a new era thanks to the partnership with Messe Frankfurt.
“With their strong international reputation and some 800 years’ experience in organising trade fairs, we know that both shows have the potential to grow immensely. The lighting industry in Southeast Asia is already worth as much as $5billion, with the LED lighting industry accounting for over $1.5billion of that value. This healthy outlook demonstrates that the time to invest in Thailand and its neighbouring countries is most certainly now.”
Messe Frankfurt has already established renowned lighting and building fairs across Asia in Guangzhou, Shanghai, New Delhi and Mumbai since the turn of the century. The shared expertise that has been gained in running these shows will benefit the Thailand Lighting Fair and Thailand Building Fair and should bring these diverse markets closer together.
www.thailandlightingfair.com
www.light-building.messefrankfurt.com
Klaasen Lighting Design partners with Gooee
(Asia) – Klaasen Lighting Design has entered into a partnership agreement with Gooee, recognizing the need for smart, connecting lighting systems.
Klaasen Lighting Design (KLD), which has offices in Singapore, Perth, Shanghai and Jakarta, has entered into a partnership agreement with US-based data platform provider Gooee.
KLD has built a solid international reputation in architectural lighting, and the growing need for smart, sustainable and connected lighting systems (IoT) and lighting for well-being (circadian lighting), together with new demands towards Light-as-a-Service are now motivating KLD to embrace the new lighting technologies and eco systems in their designs.
Gooee's Enterprise IoT Ecosystem is a unique ‘full-stack’ data and analytics platform incorporating hardware, software and cloud infrastructure that unlocks the smart buildings market at scale. Networked sensors and beacons communicate using Bluetooth Smart Mesh and are deployed via Lighting-as-a-Host, capturing the 'Four Dimensions of Building Activity Data' - People, Product, Place and Time. This 'Data Brain' drives application-enabling intelligence for developers, building-occupiers, property owners and managers.
Martin Klaasen, CEO and founder of KLD said: “We are excited to partner with Gooee, in a rapidly changing industry, a luminaire that is acting as a host, will have many additional functions beyond illuminating a space. This requires a whole new design-approach for specifiers and lighting designers. We value the flexibility the Gooee IoT platform offers us and our clients, it is the ultimate lighting-ecosystem allowing the designers to provide independent professional lighting solutions.”
Jan Kemeling, Chief Commercial Officer of Gooee added: “KLD is taking a leading position in creating a new lighting-design approach that considers and plans its designs around the device-integration in to Gooee’s data platform. KLD appreciates that a design project for lighting will now involve many new aspects, which need to be taken in to consideration.
“While the illumination of the space remains key,” he explained, “occupiers of the space might now also need sensors or beacons or other connected technologies, which might have an influence on the layout and location of these multi-purpose devices. Illuminating these spaces will be just one function of the device. The role of the lighting designer will therefore be redefined to include the data platform options while making sure that the integrity, quality and standard compliance of the lighting design is upheld.
“Both Gooee and KLD are acknowledging the need for the lighting designer’s role to be redefined.”
Philips Lighting recognised by CDP
(Europe) – Philips Lighting’s work in managing carbon emissions and addressing climate-related issues across its supply chain earned recognition from CDP.
Non-profit global environmental disclosure platform CDP has recognised Philips Lighting as a Supplier Engagement Leader for 2018.
Philips Lighting is actively engaging with a significant number of its suppliers to help the company to manage carbon emissions and address climate-related issues across its supply chain. The recognition comes in addition to receiving an A rating in CDP's climate program for reducing Philips Lighting's own environmental impact.
"I'm very proud to be included in CDP's Supplier Engagement leader board as this is clear recognition for our efforts to reduce the carbon footprint in our supply chain, which is an incremental part of Philips Lighting's sustainability program Brighter Lives, Better World," said Anna Spinelli, Head of Procurement at Philips Lighting.
"Together with CDP we developed a tool that enables suppliers to measure their energy use and carbon emissions. We also started to raise awareness among our suppliers by giving class room trainings in China and by providing webinar trainings in other parts of the world."
"I congratulate Philips Lighting for its industry-leading work to cut carbon emissions in the supply chain, which has earned it a place on the CDP Supplier Engagement leader board," added Dexter Galvin, Global Director of Corporates and Supply Chains at CDP.
"Environmental action has never been more vital, nor urgent, and companies have a crucial role to play in keeping up the momentum needed to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement. The leadership shown by Philips Lighting points the way for other businesses to act, and is an impressive achievement given that this is the first year the company has been independently disclosing to CDP."
CDP's leader board includes a total of 58 companies, a doubling from the 29 nominated companies in 2017. This represents only two percent of the more than 3,300 companies that submitted information to CDP to be assessed against its supplier engagement rating methodology. According to CDP, only 23 percent of the participating companies reported active engagement with their suppliers on climate change, highlighting the urgency of addressing sustainability as part of supply chain management.
www.lighting.philips.com
www.cdp.net
LpS and TiL get ready for their co-hosted 2018 event
(Austria) - LpS 2018 will see nearly 2000 leaders in light technology come together to share and debate the latest updates for researchers, engineers and system architects in the fields of LEDs, OLEDs, drivers, controls, optics, thermal management, materials, standardisation, testing, technology trends, and luminary design.
LpS, the international symposium and exhibition, has kept up with the rapid rate of change that has taken place in the sector. LpS has been through the lighting revolution, developing its format and content at the same rate as the changes in the technologies themselves.
Over the last eight years, LpS has earned its title as the leading European lighting conference because it calls on the leading experts from academia and industry to present their latest research, developments, innovations and expectations for future technologies to its highly-qualified audience.
This year it will not only be the technologies that LpS will focus on; the multiple knock-on-effects created by this boom in development means that LpS will welcome specialists in cyber security, miniaturisation, the human centric approach, productivity, manufacturing and economics.
The Trends in Lighting (TiL) conference successfully launched last year. A combined 1800 delegates joined leading light experts from international companies including Zaha Hadid Architects, Amazon, Philips Lighting, Osram and Zumtobel Group.
This year TiL returns with a new focused ambition, it is dedicated to bridging the gap between technologies and design to reinvigorate concepts of lighting designers, architects, engineers, consultants, planners and investors so they can collectively realise the full potential and value of lighting design.
Today, TiL believes lighting designs must adopt a human centric approach. Designs for smart buildings and cities must be agile to keep up with rapidly changing user behaviors and new functionality requirements. By bringing together the most fascinating innovators, inventors and industry leaders, TiL will inspire and encourage attendees to build a future for lighting design that is relevant and secure.
The organisation behind TiL 2108 is Luger Research; the team behind the globally successful LpS series of conferences and the widely respected LED professional Review publication. With over fifteen years dedicated to technologies in lighting, this group of experts recognise the need to bring the two worlds of technology and design together to open up the dialogue and allow the experts to explore the future of lighting design together.
A panel of experts carefully selects the papers for the co-hosted 2018 event. If you want to be considered for a speaker session, submissions can be made via the TiL website until 16 February.
www.trends.lighting
www.led-professional-symposium.com
Nulty expands Middle East team
(Dubai) - Architectural lighting design consultancy Nulty has expanded its team in the Middle East with the appointment of Amy Rossetti as Associate. The Dubai studio has seen rapid growth since launching two years ago with a growing design team headed up by Director Mark Vowles. Rossetti’s appointment comes six months after the launch of Nulty’s Beirut studio, which was established to provide further support to the team in the UAE and assist with the expanding needs of the projects within the region and beyond.
Rossetti first discovered her passion for light during university where she gained a First Class Honours degree in Interior and Spatial Design. Following university, Rossetti spent time working in the lighting industry in London, before leaving for the Middle East where she worked as a Design Director. Rossetti says, “My experience within the region has given me invaluable insight and Nulty was an obvious choice for me. I have long been inspired by the company and the projects they are working on, so I’m excited to have the opportunity to join this growing and talented team.”
Founder Paul Nulty says, “Amy has an exceptional pedigree and we are delighted that she’s joined us. It signals our continued intent to deliver high quality projects with exceptional staff, whilst building a market-leading architectural lighting design studio.” The last two years have seen the Dubai studio deliver high-end projects across the retail, residential, commercial and hospitality sectors. In 2017 the studio won ‘Retail Lighting Project of the Year’ at the Light Middle East Awards for luxury department store Bloomingdale’s Kuwait.
Light School to light the way at Surface Design Show 2018
(UK) – Light School gives lighting designers the chance to discover the latest developments in architectural lighting whilst learning from the UK’s leading lighting experts.
Light School will be hosted within Surface Design Show 2018 at the Business Design Centre in London from 6-8 February 2018. The revealing programme of talks from the UK’s leading lighting experts along with the newest innovations in architectural lighting from exhibitors sets Light School apart from other lighting exhibitions.
London is now the world’s capital for lighting design specification, home to more than 100 lighting design practices working on some of the most exciting projects across the globe. Light School allows architects and designers to touch, compare and learn about innovative lighting and technology products.
Presented by Light Collective and supported by the Institution of Lighting Professionals, Light School sets out to educate architects and designers about the importance of lighting for both interior and exterior building design and allowing attendees to discover the best of new lighting design and learn about the important partnership between surface and light.
This year’s Light Talks, sponsored by LED Linear, will be one of the highlights of Light School, with an exceptional programme of talks from the leading experts of the lighting design industry. Light Talks will host sixteen presentations across two and a half days, including:
A 30 minute guide to creating beautifully lit spaces by Christopher Knowlton (18 Degrees): Tuesday 6 February, 7.45 pm
The transformative power of light: creating an emotional response to the home by Rebecca Weir (Light.iQ): Wednesday 7 February, 2.00pm. Her talk will be ‘a visual journey through recently completed projects, including a discussion on at what point a house genuinely becomes a ‘home’.
Reports from the front line – perspectives on lighting design by Stuart Alexander (Michael Grubb Studio): Wednesday 7 February, 4.00pm
The world’s a stage by Mark Ridler (BDP): Thursday 8 February, 12.00pm. This talk will explore theatre’s influence on the application of light in architecture.
Metric code by Farhad Rahim (BuroHappold): Thursday 8 February, 1.00pm. This will be a discussion about lighting codes and measurement of lighting metrics for energy efficiency. This talk will ‘look to challenge if lighting codes are the correct means of implementing good lighting schemes and if the current valuations of metrics used to asses lighting efficiencies are the correct way forward for the future’.
Inspiring atmospheres – designing light for the new Design Museum by Theo Paradise-Hirst (ChapmanBDSP): Thursday 8 February, 3.00pm
Light School will also feature a wall of postcards featuring speakers’ projects for curious visitors to browse and take-away.
For a full programme of Light Talks visit the Light School on Surface Design Show’s website here.
Confirmed exhibitors for Light School 2018 include Applelec, Evans Turner Finishes, F-Light, Lightly Technologies, Optelma Lighting, Pixalux UK and Unibox.
Light School aims to ensure that its attendees leave enlightened, having learnt something that will change the way that they view and use light.
For further information and images please contact Cora Kemp cora@informare.co.uk 07903 481131
Visit the website for more information on Light School and to register.
www.surfacedesignshow.com/light-school
LG Innotek unveils new Flip Chip LED package
(South Korea) The newly developed “Advanced Flip Chip LED Package” is expected to implement stable 220 lumens per watt efficacy.
LG Innotek has developed an 'advanced flip chip LED package' that demonstrates high efficiency and high luminous flux without deteriorating performance, even after it gets through 300-degrees Celsius soldering process.
The high quality flip chip LED package improves reliability by applying state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies. As a result, it became possible to commercialise high efficacy and high luminous flux premium lighting products at both medium and high power.
Alongside this, it produces the high efficiency of 220 lumens per watt (lm/W) stably because the bonding between the chip and the substrate does not melt even at a temperature of 250-300-degrees Celsius. According to a representative from the company, lighting companies can use this flip chip LED package to produce premium bulbs, tubes and flat-panel lightings without sacrificing the light quality.
LG Innotek developed the package by improving its internal structure, designing its own production process, and enhancing the existing flip chip mounting technology. The internal structure of the chip is newly designed with its proprietary technology to maximise the efficacy and heat dissipation performance.
In addition, LG Innotek conducted a reliability test of more than 6,000 hours, where the flip chip package achieved stable performance even when applied to the high temperature thermal shock at the request of a customer. Due to strict quality verification process, it took two years to develop this product, considerably longer than the period required for the development of general LED packages.
LG Innotek applied for 65 new technology patents during the development process, and has taken thorough measures not only to secure its proprietary core technologies but also to help its customers to focus on manufacture and sales of the modules and finished products without worrying about patent disputes related to the light source.
A company official said: "This high-quality flip chip LED package is an innovative product that can advance the reliability of premium lightings to the new level.
“We expect that its application range will be greatly expanded as the product replaces the existing LED packages.”
ILP announces How To Be Brilliant programme for 2018
(UK) – The 2018 How To Be Brilliant series of talks, organised by the ILP in collaboration with acdc lighting, will begin on 14 March in London.
The Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) is launching another series of How To Be Brilliant (HTBB) talks, beginning on the 14 March in London in collaboration with acdc Lighting. These events have proved popular, and demand from membership and the lighting community have influenced the launch of this 2018 programme.
HTBB is the ILP’s free series of evenings; designed for students, interns and junior members of staff, it is open to all from lighting or other allied disciplines. The events offer a warm welcome to anyone looking for some inspiration and expertise from more experienced lighting design professionals.
In 2017, The ILP had people attending from all parts of the world and from a wide range of backgrounds in different areas of lighting, as well as artists, architects, electricians, theatre staff, photographers and all sorts of other specialities.
As the ILP is a charity, they strive to ensure that their activities provide a public benefit. For HTBB, that is by inspiring and guiding people to provide better, more interesting, dramatic or exciting lighting for places our citizens use: from educational and medical facilities, to social and community places, working environments, and the outdoor public realm.
This year’s speakers will talk about lighting in a way formal education doesn’t always cover, as alongside art and science, other subjects of discussion will potentially include geography, religion, music, architecture, film, history, sociology, TV, fashion, festivals, astronomy, environmentalism, politics, psychology, theatre and well-being.
2018’s How To Be Brilliant evenings will begin on 14 March in London, at the Body and Soul Building on Rosebery Avenue just ten minutes’ walk from Farringdon station.
The first three speakers for 2018 will be; Christopher Knowlton from 18 Degrees Below on 14 March; Sally Storey from Lighting Design International on 25 April; and Lisa Hammond from Gravity Design Associates on 23 May
Follow HTBB events on twitter with the hashtag #ILPBrilliant.
iGuzzini acquires Sistemalux
(Canada) – Following more than 20 years of working together, iGuzzini has acquired Canadian lighting distributor Sistemalux.
iGuzzini lighting has signed an acquisition agreement for 70% of the assets of Montreal-based Sistemalux Inc. The Canadian company is expected to end 2017 with revenues of 30 million CAD. Through the acquisition, iGuzzini reinforces its presence on the North American market and completes its product range.
Founded in Montreal in 1984 by the Italian-Canadian family Folisi, Sistemalux is one of the most qualified players in the sector of design, production and commercialisation of indoor and outdoor lighting systems for commercial and residential projects, operating with a network of 54 distribution agencies, offices and showrooms in Canada (Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City) and in the United States (New York). With around 200 employees, Sistemalux registered a yearly growth of more than 15% over the last three years.
The partnership between iGuzzini and the shareholders of Sistemalux started more than 20 years ago when Sistemalux became an iGuzzini distributor. In 2007, the collaboration evolved through the constitution of the joint-venture iGuzzini North America, owned 70% by iGuzzini and 30% by Sistemalux’s shareholders. In 2010, iGuzzini North America expanded further, entering the United States with the opening of iGuzzini Lighting USA in New York, led by Salvatore Folisi.
“The acquisition of Sistemalux represents an excellent opportunity to reinforce our presence in North America and improve the profitability and the potential for growth available in this important market,” said Andrea Sasso, CEO of iGuzzini illuminazione.
“We are proud of this new agreement, which is not only an industrial arrangement but the natural evolution of a 20-year collaboration between the Guzzini and Folisi families,” added Adolfo Guzzini, iGuzzini President. “We share the same idea of a successful business model. A model that is based on the industry competencies, technology, design and attention to territorial marketing policies.”
“Our family and all the employees of Sistemalux share the same values with all their partners,” declared Salvatore Folisi, CEO of Sistemalux, iGuzzini North America and iGuzzini Lighting USA. “This agreement marks an important new chapter in our growth trajectory. The lighting industry is rapidly evolving, most of all in terms of digitalisation, and iGuzzini has the capacity to perfectly integrate its know-how in terms of territorial dynamics, consolidated leadership and strong expertise in the sector.”