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Monthly Archives for November 2014

Green buildings

Hong Kong- Singapore, 12-13th November 2014 I write this blog stuck in the plane on the tarmac of the Johore Bahru airport, just outside Singapore. Our return flight was diverted due to very bad weather at the airport in Singapore, … Continue reading

13. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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The new face of China

Hong Kong, 11th November 2014 As I am back for a few days in Hong Kong and China, with street protest in Hong Kong still going on, the inevitable question that many are asking is whether it is still business … Continue reading

11. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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Day lighting

Singapore, 10th November 2014 It sounds a bit like moonlighting and quite honestly I still feel that anything to do with day lighting is still a bit off the beaten track, like something you do on the side as an … Continue reading

10. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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The lighting supplier

Singapore, 7th November 2014 As lighting designers our prime point of contact is mostly our local lighting suppliers, those who represent the big and smaller brands, sometimes their own makes. Now in LED Cowboy world life must be really tough … Continue reading

07. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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Becoming a lumen being!

Singapore, 6th November 2014 Part of the development into the new LED age is finding ways to express lighting performances in understandable, comparable and communicable ways and one of the biggest hurdles in LED world has been the assessment and … Continue reading

06. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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The power of innovation

Singapore, 5th November 2014 As I met with IGuzzini the other day I came to realise why some of the established companies (who mostly earned their stripes in conventional lighting technologies) are struggling to survive and others seemingly are making … Continue reading

05. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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Tuning to the colour of LED

Singapore, 4th November 2014 I came back from Hong Kong with a nice little tool in my back, a mobile colour spectrometer. I had wanted to get one for a long time specifically with my constant frustration in regards to … Continue reading

04. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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Getting over the finish line

Singapore, 3rd November 2014 Many of our projects starts years and years before its due completion. Some are on time (and on budget) as in an ideal world but most are not. Over the weekend we received some initial pictures … Continue reading

03. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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