Category Archives for lighting standards
No budget, no glory
Singapore, 31st July 2014 July has come and gone…Is it me or is time just zooming past? How do you deal with clients who have no budget or better still have money (we know the mother company has plenty of … Continue reading
Whats wrong with suppliers!
Singapore, 25th July 2014 Sometimes you want to shoot some of your lighting suppliers! Either they are plain dumb or plain arrogant…Another round of frustration today when we assessed tender submissions from 3 pre-selected suppliers for one of our projects. … Continue reading
LED: 2500K is the new 2700K
Singapore, 24th July 2014 Something that has been bugging our team for a long time is the notion that incandescent light colour has to be 2700K. While manufacturers have been improving day by day in getting us good colour consistency … Continue reading
LED wars brewing
Singapore, 22nd July 2014 Over the last year or so we have seen the emergence of low costs LED manufacturers and I don’t mean the cheap copy, backyard made bad quality stuff (often referred to as Chinese made) but the … Continue reading
Tying up loose ends
Jakarta, 14th July 2014 The first day of the week is also the first day of a whole lotta travelling this week with at about one flight a day. I am in Jakarta today, before going to Hong Kong, Shenzhen … Continue reading
My friend the supplier…
Jakarta, 8th July 2014 What do you do with a client who has its mind set on using a specific supplier…I guess you (try to) comply… I am faced with this situation in this project where we have basically been … Continue reading
Testing 1, 2, 3
Perth, 4th July 2014 Another day and some more time spent on testing…It has become a far bigger part of our daily practice life then in the past, at least it seems that way to me nowadays. Again today we … Continue reading
Awards night
Perth, 3rd July 2014 Today a look at awards…I am attending the Australian Institute of Architects Awards night as an invited guest. Not so much to do with lighting, though there is a an architectural lighting category, but it does … Continue reading
Chinese Cowboys
Yangshuo, 16th June 2014 As I have arrived in Yangshuo for a project coordination meeting deep in the Guilin Mountains, famous for its depiction on many Chinese paintings and the back of the 20 dollar RMB banknote, I just want … Continue reading
Zhaga
Singapore, 13th June 2014 A good day to talk about Zhaga. While I am working through some decisions in relation to light fitting specification the issue of interchangeability of the LED modules is always one that comes up. This, specifically … Continue reading
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