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Better lighting could draw more tourists to Tehran
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A computer-generated image of a street scene in Tehran, as it would look if enhanced with new lighting. Designers believe an upgrade to public lighting can help draw tourists back to the city
Lux Reports: Better public lighting in the Iranian capital of Tehran could help encourage tourists back to the city, says lighting designer Roger Narboni, who led a workshop on the city’s lighting at a recent conference.
Narboni, a French urban lighting specialist whose company Concepto has designed more than 90 lighting projects in France and beyond, described Tehran’s current public lighting as ‘very basic’ and the lighting in its bazaars as ‘an amazing mess’.
Participants in Narboni’s workshop, including representatives from the Tehran Municipality, spent four days coming up with a lighting ‘masterplan’ for parts of Tehran’s historic centre.
The plan focused on the city’s Marvi and Oudlajan bazaars, which are currently being renovated, and the surrounding areas. Designers studied the local architecture, existing lighting, the kinds of activities that take place and how people move around by day and night, before coming up with designs.
The four-day workshop – which took place during the second Iran Lighting Design Conference in Tehran in November – really only produced a ‘sketch’ of a lighting plan for the area, says Narboni, rather than a full masterplan. But he hopes that the government’s ambition to bring more tourists to the city, and the current renovation of the bazaars, will create an opportunity for ideas from the workshop to be taken forward.
‘In the public spaces in Tehran it’s really functional lighting, high-pressure sodium, 12 metres high, very simple and without any attention to anything. There’s no pedestrian lighting. And in the bazaar, it’s an amazing mess of projectors and fixtures, some of them 40 or 50 years old, cables and wires everywhere. Nothing is ever cleaned or taken away, they just add and add. Lots of the fixtures are 10 or 20 years old. It really needs a big job, because it’s not just the lighting that needs to be changed – it has to be cleaned and completely rethought.’
For the first time since the 1970s, the number of outsiders who visited Iran last year was greater than the number of Iranians who travelled abroad. If tourism is to continue to grow, Narboni says Tehran needs to be made more hospitable at night.
‘It’s a big challenge for many huge cities that are not really appealing and friendly at night, he says. ‘At the moment people just stay in their hotels at night, because there’s nothing to see. The city needs to create things that can be seen at night. There are huge heritage buildings and palaces to be seen, so they need to make it possible to see these things at night. The bazaar closes at night, but if we could light some part of it, it could stay open later.
‘It would totally change the city. It would totally change the way of being in the streets and in the public realm.’
Narboni is optimistic that the plan will help the municipality to install better lighting. ‘They need help and expertise,’ he says, ‘but I hope they will go on doing things, to follow up our ideas and come up with a masterplan that’s more professional. Hopefully this is just a beginning.’
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Why it pays to swap T5 lamps for LEDs
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Coming to a Woolworths car park near you: the retailer is planning to roll out its LED lighting scheme to other stores following the massive energy savings it achieved in Coorparoo.
Most of the new LED fittings will only be on when needed, thanks to an in-built motion sensor which instantly switches the light from the standby 8W light output to the full 35W output for a set period of time which can vary between 15 seconds and five minutes. When the set time ends, the light output returns to standby mode.commercial lighting · energy efficient financing · led batten · led ip65 · LED lamps · led lighting · LED retrofit · led tubes · Novel Energy Lighting
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Project Hammersmith Apollo, London
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LUX magazine reports. First impressions count at one of London’s top music venues. Robert Bain reports. The names of London’s major theatres and concert halls have become iconic, and few more so than the Hammersmith Apollo.
FADED LUSTRE
But like many such venues, the once opulent Apollo has not had the best of care over the years. As its use evolved from swish cinema to sweaty rock n’ roll venue, the Apollo’s lustre faded.
Now the Grade II listed building is in the midst of a rebirth.
When Kate Bush made her comeback this August after a 35-year hiatus, she did it at the Apollo, and the place looked better than ever.
Owners AEG Live and Eventim have embarked on a major refurbishment. The façade and front-of-house areas have already had their former glory restored, with the latest technology achieving effects not possible before, and bringing the best out of the building’s architecture. Next up will be the auditorium, which is set to be revamped next year.
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Edinburgh lights up stairwells in historic tenements with modern LEDs
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Lux Magazine reports: When you live in a private apartment block in Edinburgh, the stairwell lighting can be like an extension of the outdoor street lights in the sense that the Edinburgh City Council pays for it. And so it is that the great British streetlight battle has gone indoors.
No, the Edinburgh City Council is not turning off the stairway lights. Rather, the Council is – you guessed it – replacing around 90,000 bulbs in thousands of the city’s so-called tenements with energy saving LEDs models, according to the Edinburgh Evening News.
The city expects the £9 million project to cut energy consumption and slash costs by 50 percent.
Edinburgh’s tenements include the historic privately owned buildings that make up a large part of the city’s distinctive housing stock, known for stone facades, high ceilings and ornamental detail. Many of them date from the 19th century; some are older, and some date up to the 1970s. Various public policies look after their heritage and maintenance.
‘Not many people realise that the council does pay for and maintain the stair lighting in all the tenements in Edinburgh and there is a need to upgrade them,’ Councillor Rickey Henderson told the paper.
The city will solicit bids. It anticipates a four-year project at a cost of about £6 million for lamps and fittings and £2.9 million for the work.
‘To get better quality and more environmentally friendly lighting we will tender for that work,’ Henderson said. ‘The investment will need to be taken out of reserves but will be put back over a period of time because the lights will be more efficient and the maintenance costs will be reduced.’
One controversy in the UK’s raging streelight debates is that LED lamps illuminate only a narrow area compared to conventional sodium lamps.
Will that be a problem in the tenement stairwells? The Edinburgh Evening News reported that:
‘Housing leaders admitted there had been concerns when street lighting was replaced with energy-efficient alternatives, amid worries urban areas were not being properly illuminated. They stressed a pilot of the proposed new service had already been carried out in six tenement stairs, with residents who completed questionnaires expressing full satisfaction.’
A pilot is one thing. This is a project in its infancy, with many more steps to climb.
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Photo: Stairing at LEDs. Edinburgh council is installing energy efficient LEDs in stairwells of many of the city’s historic tenements. Image is from StockCube/Shutterstock
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London finds 11.5 million pounds more for energy efficient buildings
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Lux Magazine report: Facing criticism that he is missing his carbon reduction goals, Mayor Boris Johnson has found an additional £11.5 million – most of it from the European Union – to retrofit London’s buildings for energy efficiency.
The new financing extends a three-year old scheme called the London Energy Efficiency Fund (LEEF) that has helped install LED lighting, solar panels, insulation, new boilers and other technologies aimed at cutting energy consumption in private homes and in public buildings such as schools, libraries, hospitals and town halls.
‘We need to do everything possible to make the most of our resources, reduce carbon emissions and create a more secure, cost-effective and sustainable heat and power supply across London,’ Mayor Johnson said in a press release.
His critics would agree. A month ago, the London Assembly’s Environment Committee said the mayor was falling well short of the carbon reduction milestones he set in his Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Strategy. It scored him at 4 out of a possible 10.
LEEF is part of the London Green Fund, which is now funneling £10 million of European Regional Development Fund money into it. An additional £1.5 million comes from what the press release described as ‘generated interest.’
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LED Floodlights – Energy Efficient High Output Lighting
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Wide open spaces like stadiums and school fields need a lot of lighting at night. The large size of stadiums demands extremely bright light sources. During any football match, it is important that each area of the field is illuminated and clearly visible to the players and even the crowds who are watching the game. What’s more, since matches and practice games take place regularly in these stadiums, the lights that are used are expected to last for long durations without burning out in the middle of a match.
LED Floodlights
Traditional halogen and metal halide stadium lighting can exceed 1000W per lamp, and has a limited lifetime. Most stadiums and parks have dozens of such light fixtures for lighting up large open areas, which results in very large electric bills and ongoing maintenance costs (since floodlights tend to be in difficult to service areas). Additionally, these lamps emit an enormous amount of heat which makes them energy inefficient, and poses a fire risk.
To avoid the downsides of halogen and metal halide flood lighting, it is best to use LED Floodlights for all your outdoor lighting requirements. These lights do not contain any harmful chemicals like lead and mercury. Thus, they are environmentally safe, and because they are extremely energy efficient, they do not emit much heat even if used for a long duration. Their intelligent multi-core LED technology delivers a great deal of light from just small amounts of electricity, thereby reducing your energy bills by up to 90%. A 1000W halogen can be replaced by a 100-200W LED flood. LED floods also have long rated lifetimes of up to 50,000hours, which means that ongoing cost of ownership is low in terms of re-lamping and maintenance of difficult to reach floods.
Novel Energy Lighting supplies a wide range of high powered LED Floodlights, which are strong enough to light up Olympic-sized stadiums, outdoor municipal projects, manufacturing plants, large exhibition centers etc. What’s more, these lights require no warm up time, but emit light instantly when switched on. They even have a beam angle of 100 Deg, allowing them to disperse maximum amount of light all over a given place. And since they are eco-friendly, the do not emit harmful UV or IR light.
Additionally, all the IP65 versions of LED Floodlights available with us have an incredible lifespan of 50,000 hours and come with a warranty of 3 years. And along with these regular floodlights which deliver a cool white and warm white light with color temperatures of 6000K and 3000K respectively, we also have the Slimline range of floodlights, which are designed for commercial and showcase lighting purposes.
