BLOG

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

23. January 2015 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, Light & Learn, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and sustainability, lighting design, lighting design practice, lighting standards | 3 comments

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

02. December 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: going green, light watch, lighting and sustainability, lighting and the economy, lighting of the future, lighting standards | Leave a comment

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

25. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, Light & Learn, light and art, Light and inspiration, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and sustainability, lighting applications, lighting design | Leave a comment

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

24. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, light and art, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and sustainability, lighting and the economy | Leave a comment

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

14. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, going green, light watch, lighting and sustainability, lighting and the economy | Leave a comment

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
Categories: city beautification, going green, light watch, lighting and sustainability, lighting and the economy | Leave a comment

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
Categories: going green, light watch, lighting and sustainability, lighting and the economy, lighting applications, lighting of the future | Leave a comment

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
Categories: Light & Learn, light watch, lighting and sustainability, lighting design, lighting of the future | Leave a comment

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

30. October 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: light watch, lighting and sustainability, lighting applications, lighting of the future | Leave a comment

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

29. October 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: going green, Light & Learn, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and sustainability, lighting and the economy, lighting applications, lighting of the future | Leave a comment

← Older posts

Newer posts →