ELR Orion 2
The new Orion 2 is a series of micro pinhole downlights that is small and versatile, designed with ELR’s signature modular concept to be paired with ELR 20 series LED modules. Even with a minuscule aperture of just 15mm in diameter, the Orion 2 is able to produce up to 748lm output at up to 40° beam angle with the aid of X-Beam converging optical lens that are equipped on ELR LED modules to maximise luminous efficiency.
eldoLED Interoperable Tunable White Solution
Amplify your Quality of Light with this eldoLED Tunable White solution: DUALdrive LED drivers with eldoLED BLE radios and Casambi wireless control. eldoLED’s DUALdrive family incorporates its signature LightShape technology — the colour science behind dynamic white and incandescent Dim to Warm lighting. eldoLED drivers and technology bring your Human-Centric Lighting visions to life while remaining flicker-safe and ensuring seamless deep-dimming.
Bright Special Lighting Vates
Vates downlights are designed as the perfect lighting tool for both darklight technology and wallwashing, to meet the challenges of various applications such as offices, shops, museums and restaurants. Its embedded Darklight technology delivers high efficiency and visual comfort. Due to its source and components that are smartly set inside the fixture, its UGR degree is significantly low. Vates downlights come with a frame or trimless option and removable shades without tools.
Acclaim Lighting Flex Tube SC G2
Flex Tube SC G2 is a flexible, single colour, indoor/outdoor LED strip, available in multiple colour temperatures and mounting orientations. It comes in a 7m spool or custom-built lengths to suit project requirements and features a highly durable second-generation silicone body, which is outdoor rated and high impact resistant.
LEDiL Ilona-Zoom
Ilona-Zoom is a patent pending rotation zoom optic enabling an infinitely adjustable beam from 13-48° in a compact package. This zoomable beam without axially moving parts allows creation of simpler, more compact and cost-efficient luminaires. Ilona-Zoom packs the most punch and has the highest efficiency in the industry with a well-controlled cut-off. With excellent tunable white capabilities Ilona-Zoom is suitable for a wide range of applications, including retail, showrooms, museums, and theatres.
Lutron Athena Expansion
Athena, Lutron’s newest architectural lighting and blinds control system, is getting even better. A brand new touchscreen now gives you easy access to customise the environments. Behind the scenes, Athena’s flexible DIN panels make it simple to control any load type under one system. The system further expands with the new DALI emergency-testing feature built right into the Athena app, and offers extended third party integration capabilities.
Valmont Koli Wooden Poles
Decorative Koli wooden poles from Valmont Structures are naturally captivating and sustainably resourced. These square tapered Koli columns bring unique personality to pedestrian and traffic areas through natural beauty and creative application. Valmont harvests the raw materials from sustainably managed, PEFC certified forests and manufactures the shafts from GL28h glued-laminated timber.
Rako EOS Keypads
The EOS range of wired and wireless keypad controllers from Rako blend a classic, timeless design with easy-to-use and customisable control that will appeal strongly to specifiers and their clients. The attractive, screwless design of the EOS keypads create a clean, uncluttered aesthetic, with seven different finishes to suit contemporary or more traditional interiors. Recessed into each plate are six push buttons, offering a reassuring, tactile interface that allows easy configuration to suit client needs with custom engraving also available.
Schnick-Schnack-Systems D Series
With the D series, Schnick-Schnack-Systems is addressing equally demanding lighting designers as well as architects because this video-controlled RGBW series is equipped with high quality and efficient RGB LEDs as well as white LEDs with excellent colour rendering features.
The LED modules of the D series are easy to control with video sources. An internal colour processing takes care of the pixel-perfect conversion from RGB to RGBW.
Hacel Aart
The new Aart range by Hacel combines a contemporary style and minimalistic design with powerful performance and functionality. The elegant power spots feature an adjustable beam and are available in a choice of lumen outputs up to 3,485lm. The Aart is available in Midi and Micro sizes and is ideally suited to retail, art galleries and museum applications. Hacel’s innovative LED luminaires can incorporate the latest Bluetooth Low Energy control platforms, offering intelligent, revolutionary wireless lighting control.
Applelec Green LED Light Sheet
Supplying the design industry with the first, fully environmentally friendly light panel, Applelec Lighting announces the launch of their Green Applelec LED Light Sheet.
Manufactured at the brand’s West Yorkshire premises, Green Applelec LED Light Sheet has been developed to help improve its carbon footprint, whilst still delivering a premium backlighting product. Providing a more sustainable option, Green Applelec LED Light Sheet is the first light panel to utilise recycled and recyclable materials.
In Search for Answers: Light4Health Online Course of Health Research for Interior Lighting Design
Asst. Prof. Dr. Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska IALD, IES, CIE, MSLL, RIBA, presents the work of Light4Health Consortium. She explains how the dialogue that was initiated by this project will continue to share research knowledge and exchange best practices across the lighting community.
Three years ago, when I wrote an article in arc called: Human Centric Lighting - The New X Factor? (arc no. 108 Feb/Mar 2019), my intention was to raise questions in relation to the new topic and to find solid, research-based answers in the years to come. Today, I am happy to report that the lighting community, with the Light4Health Online Course of Health Research for Interior Lighting Design, has a useful tool, and consortium members have managed to close the gap between research and practice/application, and translate complex research into an ‘easy to digest’ format for end users. In
What assured me about the quality of the content, is the fact that scientists such as Dr George Brainard and his Lighting Research Lab team, have joined this project as worldwide experts to advise about the physiological aspects of light and lighting. They also provide guidance on the use of appropriate lighting matrices. This includes tutorials on the use of CIEαα-opic Toolbox. Thanks to this knowledge, I’m hopeful lighting professionals will be confident enough in using circadian protocols. The course content is open access and free to use by either lighting students or practitioners through self-study. This includes the syllabus and materials for Higher Education providers and external designers to use in whole, or in part, within their designs or lecturing.
Course Description and Goals
‘Light4Health’ (L4H) was a three-year Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project, which investigated the impact of light on health, wellbeing, and the indoor environments we live in. A novel cross-disciplinary course was developed, intersecting lighting design and health research via the selection of the most relevant health research methods, tools, and findings in Neurology, Photobiology, Neuroendocrinology, Neurobehavioral Studies, and Psychophysiology of Perception, as well as Behavioural, Cognitive and Environmental Psychology. This knowledge was then introduced into lighting design curricula that higher education institutions can adopt. The project involved experts from Neurology, Light and Health Research, Lighting Design, Architecture, and the Built Environment. Underpinned by scientific research, the light4Health project, supports richer understanding about informed lighting designs for domestic, educational, healthcare and other types of premises. The project’s inclusion of work by TJU for NASA, ensures that lighting design and performance will now be optimised for human health and wellbeing.
Course Content
The online course includes five educational modules. It presents different available tools, concepts, and research findings to inform lighting design. This is achieved in two distinct ways: (1) by exposing students to knowledge and examples of lighting-related health research in different fields of psychology and physiology; and (2) by guiding students to learn how to conduct their own evaluation and data collection: by identifying what can be measured, and how measurements are interpreted.
Course Modules
Module 1: Introduction to health-related research for lighting design
Provides participants with a short history about light and health, and why we need to consider health as part of lighting design. The effects of light on the human body are also covered with an introduction to aspects of the physics of light and the physiology of vision.
Module 2: Review on lighting basics and health and wellbeing research topics
Provides a review of lighting basics and lighting-related aspects of health. Included is daylight in architecture, daylight’s impact on health, and, in general, the neuroendocrine, neurobehavioral, and circadian effects of light on the human body. The psychology of light is also introduced; more specifically, how light is used as a visual trigger for psychological and behavioural impact. In addition, the topics of glare and flicker are discussed.
Module 3: Software, measuring devices and evaluation tools
This module investigates software, measuring devices, and evaluation tools. Metrics are presented which can be used to assess the potential for the physiological impact of lighting, and different software and measurement tools are discussed. In addition, some assessment techniques for subjective impressions of a space are presented. Finally, a tour is given of the Jefferson Lighting Research Lab.
Module 4: Standards and best practices
Provides an overview of standards and good practices. Metrics for daylight evaluations are presented, and the “Manchester Recommendations” for healthy daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure are introduced. Moreover, design integrations are discussed. This involves employing measurements and design criteria for physiological impact and visual perception.
Module 5: Application and examples from research and practice
Provides application examples and case studies from research and practice. In this context, several examples of light and health research are presented. This includes project examples from workspaces, and educational and healthcare environments. Specialty applications (e.g., space travel, users with autism), and concepts of spectral modelling for light and health considerations, double dynamic lighting, biophilia and information on therapeutic lighting applications are also included.
Who is behind the course?
The Light4Health consortium partners consisted of six universities, University of Wolverhampton (UK), Thomas Jefferson University (USA), KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design (Germany), Aalborg University in Copenhagen (Denmark), and ITMO University in Saint Petersburg (Russia).
Each partner was selected according to their contributions to the project topics. All of them have a vast and fruitful experience of higher education transdisciplinary curriculum innovation development with international partners, using digital educational platforms. All participating personnel members have research expertise in fields related to lighting and design, including some EU-funded projects. Four out of six partner organisations have strong Master’s study programmes in Lighting Design. UoW and TJU have no Lighting Design Master’s study programme as yet, however, TJU’s concentration in Lighting Design addresses developments in multidisciplinary approaches for lighting with a hands-on curriculum with students from a range of academic programmes. Spearheaded by Jefferson’s Industrial Design Department, this Lighting Design Education curriculum applies cross-discipline education to Lighting Design across 10 departments, including Industrial Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Engineering, Animation, and Medicine.
The following individuals were involved in the preparation of the course contents that were created and piloted during the summer schools:
Thomas Jefferson University
• Lyn Godley, Professor
• George C. Brainard, PhD, Professor
• John P. Hanifin, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Ben Warfield, Operations Support Specialist
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Ute C. Besenecker, PhD, Associate Professor
• Foteini Kyriakidou, Lecturer
• Iris Molendijk, Research Engineer,
• Federico Favero, PhD Candidate, Lecturer
Hochschule Wismar
• Karolina M. Zielińska-Dąbkowska, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Michael F. Rohde, Professor
• Bipin Rao, Research Associate
Aalborg University (AAU)
• Georgios Triantafyllidis, Associate Professor
• Ellen K. Hansen, Associate Professor
• George Palamas, Assistant Professor
• Emmanouil Xylakis, Research Assistant
University of Wolverhampton
• Ezekiel Chinyio, Senior Lecturer
• Paul Hampton, Head of Department
ITMO University
• Natalia Bystriantseva, Associate Professor
• Dmitrii Ingi, Research Assistant
• Valeriia Lukinskaya, Research Assistant
There are also 10 associated partners who supported the project with various expertise, equipment, and feedback: VIA-Verlag company/DE, (until January 2020), Università Iuav di Venezia/IT, Vicenza Institute of Architecture/IT, Roma Tre University/IT, Tallinn University/EE, Janowicz Architekci/PL, eldoLED/NL, Seoul Semiconductor/EU, QLAB Laboratory of Light/PL, Solemma/US, GL Optic/PL.
This course has been extensively reviewed by design practitioners e.g. architects and lighting designers, academics in the fields of lighting and health research, and students. The course was launched in August 2021 and it received a very positive response. As the online course becomes embedded in higher education curricula, it will continue to inform designers and young practitioners to develop innovative ideas to improve building performance and improve environments that support light for health.
Several of the partner universities are already using Light4Health resources in their teaching, and indications are that it will be more widely incorporated (e.g. 73% of academic reviews indicated they are likely/highly likely to incorporate the materials in their teaching). Architects, lighting manufacturers, and lighting practitioners that attended launch and dissemination events, or reviewed the materials, expressed a strong interest in using the materials to inform their activities.
The L4H consortium partners acknowledge that the content, while extensive, does not encompass the full extent of the work undertaken in health-related lighting design research. The current course content is subject to refinements, updates, and additions in the future. Comments and suggestions are still welcome.
The course is accessible from a Moodle learning management system online at https://course.light4health.net