Here at JimOnLight.com, sense is trying to be made of the current labyrinth (movie starring Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie) that is the Energy Independence and Safety Act (EISA). As we dig deeper and deeper into a piece of legislation that could actually do some good if it wasn't so heavily balanced on income, news of some [...]
Read More civil lighting, confusion, legislation, PART L, UK Building RegulationsBarcelona, Spain has added some intelligent planning to some of their street lighting – they've added sensors and detectors to sense the presence of people passing through an area. Coupled with LED sources for illumination, the city of Barcelona shuts off lighting to certain sections of the city when not being traversed at that specific [...]
Read More civil lighting, intelligent lighting, LED, Lighting Control, sensors, street lightingI just read an article about lighting for stairwells – an interesting concept that includes illuminated railings along stairway walls: Zoran Sunjic's design for an LED-lit stairway rail is based on the idea that a stairway that has low light can be spruced up by his LED rail, or some energy-hogging fixtures can be replaced [...]
Read More civil lighting, hand rails, LED, public lighting, stairways, Zoran SunjicAnother interesting concept from the Russian geniuses at Art Lebedev Studios is something they're calling Air Crosswalk. Essentially, it is illumination for crosswalks, diffuse, and from above, minimalizing the chance that a pedestrian might not be seen in the night. These sources are suspended above the crosswalk itself, lighting the crosswalk and anything moving through [...]
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