Consultation on European Legislation

There is currently a discussion paper on Possible Measures for Targeting the Energy Efficiency of Lighting in the Tertiary Sector open for consultation until mid September. We have looked at this and CELMA ( the European Association of Light Fitting Manufacturer’s Associations) have also shared comments with us. In principle we are proposing to agree to lighting legislation based on system efficiency measures that will require incorporation in the lighting designer’s work flow. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Building Regs Consultation

The UK Department for Local Governments and Communities have a consultation open on the future of the England and Wales Building regulations here. It is open to the end of August and this is our limited chance to influence this important legislation. We need to get away from lamp and luminaire efficiency and start working with system wide measures such as the LENI as set out in BS/EN 15193. I will provide a formal response from PLDA but we need a lot of people to email them asking for the same thing to get any action.

Thanks

Kevan Shaw

Too Much Light?

Here is an article written by Neil Knowles of Elektra Lighting for Mondo magazine in July 2008. He is looking at the light levels we are designing to and asks if these are too high. As a significant reduction in maintained lighting levels means a comparable reduction in energy use is this not something we should be considering? Read the rest of this entry »

Guidelines for Specification of LED Lighting Products

A wise person once said to me, “The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” One area in lighting in which I find that to be particularly true is in specifying LED luminaires. Read the rest of this entry »

LED flourecent lamp replacements

I think we all believe these to be a really stupid product, those nice people at the U.S. DoE have now done the hard work to prove it! Read the rest of this entry »

LEDs for Museums

In this months PLD there is an interesting article looking at the latest generation of cold phosphor LEDs in the context of lighting in museums. Read it here.

Mercury, the EU position

Bruno Demester of ACT attended a recent meeting on Mercury Strategy for the EU Emissions of Industry on my behalf and provided the following report: Read the rest of this entry »

EuP for Directional Lamps Again!

As posted previously I went to Brussels on the 9th of June to take part in the stakeholder event for DEFRA’s further information. Read the rest of this entry »

LUCI Charter on Urban Lighting

The followinghas been recieved as part of Luci’s newsletter of may 2010. Please provide comments that we can forward to Luci Read the rest of this entry »

EuP for directional lamps

In a surprising turn up DEFRA in the UK provided the following press release. It seems that they have been asked by the EU to provide further technical information to clarify, or rather criticise the output from the EU’s paid consultant VITO. These reports makes more sense than a lot of the VITO report and these first two documents are apparently the beginning of a series of documents on this issue. I am off to Brussels next week for a stakeholder meeting to find out more. I will report back next week. Read the rest of this entry »