Category Archives for lighting and culture
The perfect client
Singapore, 3rd September 2012 In my first season of blogging I asked the question about what would constitute the perfect project. Last week when I was in China, someone asked me about the perfect client. Does such person exist, a … Continue reading
China 3
Shanghai, 31st August 2012 Once you can weed through all the contractual, administrative and design technical matters there is still a lot of satisfaction to be got from doing projects in China. The fact is that China wants to show … Continue reading
China 2
Shanghai, 30th August 2012 So business in China is still good. Even though most financial analysts suspect that the latest economic growth figures (reported to be more than 7%) are inflated, fact is that you just have to look around … Continue reading
China
Shanghai, 29th August 2012 My regular blog followers will have noticed I don’t spent that much time in China anymore…today I am back in Shanghai and while it is nice to be back in a city I used to come … Continue reading
It’s raining!
Cherating, 27th-28th August 2012 Weather has always been a good excuse to explain the delay in works. Contractors under pressure to complete works on time know every trick of the book when it comes to finding reasons to justify delays … Continue reading
Quality time
Perth, 21st August 2012 We had a long weekend as Muslims (in Singapore and around the world) celebrated the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, also called Eid-ul-Fitr. It is one of the interesting sides of the multi-cultural Singapore … Continue reading
The pretenders
Singapore, 17th August 2012 Some of you may be familiar with my winch for the weekend…dealing with people who pretend to be more than they are. In our project world we come across them all the time. Most of the … Continue reading
Lighting technology
Singapore, 15th August 2012 Choosing the proper lighting technology for our project applications remains one of the most crucial and challenging parts of lighting design. Though you might argue that the way we are going with LED technology you really … Continue reading
At what cost?
Singapore, 13th August 2012 With last night’s closing ceremony of the London Olympics behind us, we may just stand still at what costs such events come, to the organisers specifically and to the (tax paying) public in general. On a … Continue reading
National (Lighting) Day?
Singapore, 10th August 2012 Did not get to write on Wednesday and yesterday, which was Singapore’s National Day. “Social obligations” kept me busy elsewhere and in between I was not in a mood (nor state) to write something meaningful…Travelling around … Continue reading
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