Category Archives for lighting and sustainability
The week that was: 19-23 January
Singapore, weekend 24th January 2015 Monday 19; Singapore: Traffic jam I am slowly getting back in the groove; for some reason it really took me a while to get over my jetlag. This Monday was a busy day with many … Continue reading
Phasing out the old lighting technologies
Singapore, 2nd December 2014 The big discussion these days is not only about the rapid progress of the LED lighting technology but also the rapid demise of the old conventional technologies. The IES ANZ (Illuminating and Engineering Society of Australia … Continue reading
Lighting Design Forum Singapore
Singapore, 25th November 2014 Maybe it’s just me but I have the impressions that lighting events are happening more and more these days. I just have to look at my own involvement over the past year where I was invited … Continue reading
Public support for lighting
Singapore, 24th November 2014 So last Saturday in Fremantle was the big launch event for the cliff up-lighting at Arthurs Head, also known as the Roundhouse Art Precinct or Bathers Beach. Whatever the name people know it by, the … Continue reading
Rumours!
Singapore, 14th November 2014 Back in Singapore I am confronted with a manufacturer’s complaint who feels that our office has defamed their product by spreading false rumours in the market. On first sight that seems like a serious complaint and … Continue reading
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
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
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
The Air LED’s
Singapore, 30th October 2014 As I was reading some of the literature from the fair on my way back to Singapore last night, one article specifically struck me. It was an article in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post with … Continue reading
The Hong Kong Lighting Fair 2014 (Autumn edition)
Hong Kong, 29th October 2014 While I came to China and Hong Kong as part of the CLDA activities over the last couples of days, I did take the opportunity to walk the fair. I had not been to the … Continue reading

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