Category Archives for lighting and the economy
From start to finish
Cherating, 12th September 2012 Commissioning a project is nearly like the birth of a baby. For all those months, sometimes years, you have been nurturing your design, preparing the ideas and concepts to come into reality. It is really a … Continue reading
To dim or not to dim
Singapore, 6th September 2012 Deciding whether to incorporate dimming as a lighting feature is always a tough question, at least for me. Most people may not even loose a night sleep about it because if you always incorporate dimming the only … Continue reading
Standing your ground
Singapore, 5th September 2012 One of the most difficult things in lighting design is to stand by your design specifications and the implications it has either technically or financially. We are fighting these battles nearly daily and today was no … Continue reading
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
Peace of mind
Perth, 23nd August 2012 It appears many owners, operators and developers have no real understanding on how to achieve sustainability when it comes to lighting. Most of them rely on the information they receive (free!) from suppliers and manufacturers. But … Continue reading
Going green
Perth, 22nd August 2012 Promoting sustainable solutions in lighting as we do is nowadays a no-brainer. Not that we didn’t do that in the past, it’s just that in the present time it has been given a name or names, … Continue reading
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