Executive Insight

Alistair Robertson, Managing Director - WE-EF Lighting Pty Ltd. 

While the exposure of lighting to energy scrutiny in a carbon-constrained world and advances in technology are ensuring the trend towards more efficient light sources, there is also significant demand for greater degrees of lighting control.

Simon Gerard, Managing Director - Gerard Lighting Group.

With a history of more than 90 years in the lighting market Gerard Lighting Group’s strength is in its customer relationships and network of family companies which includes several well-known brands, a byproduct of being a family-owned company according to Simon Gerard.

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Lighting Photography by Warren Julian

BOver the many years that I have edited this journal the poor composition and quality of many of the photographs submitted for publication has surprised me. It is a though people do not care. The problem is most obvious in the material received for the various lighting awards. In the days before digital photography, very small matte prints were often submitted. Sometimes, now, low resolution images arrive with date stamps. However, the major problem has always been in image quality, often prompting the question “How did this possibly win an award?”.

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Colour Quality and LEDs

If you’ve flipped through a lighting catalogue, strolled through a trade show, attended a professional conference, or otherwise been paying any attention to the lighting industry over the past few years, you know that solid-state lighting (SSL) is here. It seems like there are countless issues a lighting designer now needs to consider when evaluating a lighting product: thermal management, power factor, controllability, spatial distribution of light, lumen depreciation, luminaire mass (!), and so many others. While everyone agrees that colour quality is an important characteristic in a light source, there is still confusion regarding what constitutes good colour quality and how we can communicate about colour properties with each other.

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