Category Archives for lighting and sustainability
Memory lane and the test of time
Kuala Lumpur 31st July 2013 After a day of meetings that ended a bit earlier than expected (yes some meetings can be conducted efficiently! 🙂 ), I decided to visit an old stomping ground, the KLCC Petronas Twin Towers, where I spent … Continue reading
Are LED’s creating job losses?
Perth 2nd July 2013 Today I had a shock revelation during a discussion with the hotel operator of a project we are currently doing with them, realising that our strive to improve the sustainability of the hotel through savings in … Continue reading
Electricity
Perth 1st July 2013 Back in wintery Perth…cold at night but glorious weather (sunny and blue skies) during the day! While (whistle blower) Edward Snowdon is still holed up in Moscow awaiting his asylum request into Equador, US president Obama … Continue reading
Daylight
Bali 27th June 2013 Daylight is of course the cheapest form of lighting and it’s free, but incorporating daylight in the lighting design is not necessarily an easy task certainly in the tropics!. The subject of daylight came up during … Continue reading
Numbers
Perth 12th April 2013 I don’t know how my colleagues work but I would assume that budget planning is part and parcel of the lighting design services. It’s all nice and good to create a beautiful lighting design but it … Continue reading
Seasonal impacts
Singapore 26th March 2013 The good news today is that some clients seem to have woken up from hibernation…some long outstanding payments start coming in and some clients seem to move into action in regards to projects. From my observation … Continue reading
Reversed education
Singapore 19th March 2013 Back to LED! It’s been a couple of blogs I have not mentioned LED’s I believe 🙂 Yesterday I met with one of the LED suppliers and had an interesting discussion. At least this one is … Continue reading
ROI
Perth-Singapore 11th March 2013 Calculating return on investment (ROI) is quite a daunting exercise. Over the last couple of days I have been putting together an ROI for replacing the conventional lighting in a hotel into sustainable lighting solution principally based … Continue reading
Generation Y
Kuala Lumpur- Singapore 1st March 2013 First congratulations to our Grace, who this afternoon delivered a healthy baby girl! Well done, and that considering she still came to the office this morning! Now that is dedication for you :). We … Continue reading
Decisions
Singapore 26-27th February 2013 Yes I did not blog yesterday…Life is all about decisions, decisions, and yesterday evening, as I was about to start writing my blog, I got an unexpected visit of a dear friend, the decision was easy…the … Continue reading
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