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Historic railway bridge over the Ohio River now carries pedestrians and cyclists and Louisville has added iconic LED architectural lighting.
Philips Lighting has announced an LED architectural lighting project installed on the historic Big Four Bridge that links Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN across the Ohio River. The dynamic, color-changing solid-state lighting (SSL) is intended to help revitalize the Louisville waterfront and make the pedestrian and bicyclist bridge a destination point in the region.
The Big Four Bridge was originally built in 1895 as a railway bridge and was named based on the four railways served — Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railways — which were collectively dubbed the Big Four Railroad. The bridge was decommissioned in 1969 and much later renovated by a public-private partnership for pedestrians and cyclist and reopened in 2013.
The project is certainly not the first to use dynamic LED lighting to highlight a railroad heritage in revitalization efforts. For example, the Light Rails project in Birmingham, AL back in the fall of 2013 has drawn tourists and increased safety in Birmingham.
In Louisville, the reincarnation of the bridge had already been a hit with as many as 1 million people visiting annually including both residents and tourists. The architectural lighting was intending to add a nighttime element to what had become a popular draw, with the SSL project able to act as a backdrop for waterfront events. The lighting was included in a six-year plan launched by Mayor Greg Fischer to leverage energy-efficient LED lighting to create a green and inclusive environment around the city.
“This was a strategic opportunity to leverage LED technology to further enhance the city’s most popular attraction and continue the momentum of moving Louisville forward as an innovative and independent city,” said Mayor Fischer. “The new lighting will make the bridge safer at night, enhance waterfront events, and contribute to the artistic flair and pride of this community.”
The project utilized more than 1500 Philips Color Kinetics luminaires on the interior and exterior structure of the bridge. The dynamic software-based control system was installed by Vincent Lighting Systems. The light show is visible from dusk to 12:30 AM nightly from the bridge and surrounding parks.
Philips has been instrumental in supplying the SSL products for many of the most significant outdoor architectural lighting projects around the globe. Philips was the supplier behind the Birmingham and San Francisco projects. Philips also supplied the lighting for the
dynamic lighting of the Miami Tower,
New York’s Madison Square Garden, and many more SSL projects.
“Illuminating iconic structures creates a meaningful impact in a community, a source of pride for residents that brings people together, attracts visitors, and is a reflection of the city,” said Amy Huntington, president of Philips Lighting Americas. “The Big Four Pedestrian Bridge is a shining example of the positive impact that public-private partnerships can have in our communities. We are committed to working with city officials and local organizations to help make neighborhoods more livable.”
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| AFP/Jiji Press/AFP/File – Energy saving traffic lights in Japan are failing to melt snow covering them |
AFP News: Energy-saving LED traffic lights seemed like a cool way to cut back on electricity costs, but Japanese police said Monday they might just be too cool — because they don’t melt snow.
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) account for around 45 percent of all of Japan’s stop-and-go signals and that proportion is growing as local authorities cotton on to their economising possibilities compared with regular incandescent lights.
But in wintery northern Japan the lights have encountered a problem — drivers can’t see them because they don’t get warm enough to melt accumulated snow.
Akira Kudo of Aomori Prefectural Police said snow has to be removed manually between December and mid-February during blizzards. “We don’t have enough staff members to remove snow as more and more LED lights are being introduced,” he said.
LED lighting is becoming ever more popular in public and private spaces because of its lower energy consumption.
The technology has been big news in Japan since three local-born physicists won the Nobel Prize last year for the development of the blue LED, the breakthrough that led to the white LED now commonly used worldwide.
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Drax power station – Energy efficiency, including LED lighting, means the UK needs fewer of these
The Association for Decentralised Energy, which represents the combined heat and power industry, says that generating energy locally and using it more efficiently is saving consumers more than £37bn ($56bn) a year, compared to 1980.
The report, which looks at local energy generation and energy efficiency actions such as lighting, says that these measures have helped the UK avoid building 14 new power stations, the equivalent of half the country’s current power generating capacity.
But these benefits are often overlooked because policymakers focus too much on energy supply and not enough on demand, the association said. It’s easier for politicians to implement and evaluate big, centralised measures addressing supply than to grapple with the myriad smaller demand-side measures going on across the country, the report says.
Lighting industry figures have made similar criticisms of the government’s approach to energy, arguing that much more attention needs to be paid to reducing demand, rather than simply increasing capacity and moving to renewable energy.
Last year
Lux came up with
its own estimates of how capacity could be reduced if low-energy lighting were more widely adopted.
The ADE wants to move the demand side ‘from the margins to the centre stage, making it the primary focus of future policy’.
The association’s director Tim Rotheray said: ‘Actions on the demand side have helped keep Britain’s lights on, making the UK a better place to do business by keeping energy supplies consistent and reliable… Despite these considerable achievements, new energy policy often repeats the same patterns, taking a centralised approach to solving the energy challenge and overlooking the substantial contribution that users and individual actions can make.
‘With a clear, simple policy approach that values these smaller contributions, demand-side services can help consumers do even more to cut waste, improve competitiveness and reduce emissions. By 2020, we could save consumers a further £5.6 billion and make the UK a more attractive place to do business.
‘Adopting the right policy could mean that by 2020 we could save enough power to run the London Underground for 30 years, equivalent to 45 TWh (45 billion units). Further reduction in energy demand will make the UK more secure and enable greater energy independence.’
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LUX Reports: Hadrien Bera leads a team of 20 engineers responsible for the overall asset management of London’s grand hotel Claridge’s in Mayfair. It’s a challenging role; requirements to save energy aren’t easy to balance with the need to maintain the look and feel of a lavish Grade II listed building with art deco interiors, frequented by the royals and sometimes referred to as the ‘annexe to Buckingham Palace’.
Lux spoke to Bera to find out how he plans to make the lighting in the prestigious, 200-year-old building more efficient.
Lux: What are the biggest lighting challenges you face at Claridges?
Bera: We’ve got a lot of different systems and it is difficult to keep enough stock because a lot is custom-made. That forces me to plan ahead and to create stocks of critical spares so any issues would have as little disruption to the hotel’s operations as possible.
We’ve got chandeliers in the main reception that use incandescent candles, which also comes with challenges: I am looking at replacing these bulbs which are energy hungry and more and more difficult to source but I cannot just replace them with anything. This is one of the first features our many guests will see so it has to look in tone with the rest of the art deco style of our lobby. It’s easier to be creative and to focus on energy efficiency in the back of house areas.
Have you had much experience using LED technology?
We’re replacing all the filament lighting in our suites with LEDs. The project is still in the early stages and I’m experimenting with different LED manufacturers. With this kind of major refurbishment project, we use lighting designers who will specify the best fittings to meet the operational requirements and also the best lighting outputs.
We’ve got 197 guest bedrooms and the amount of lighting will vary from 10 to 50 light fittings per room. In all our latest rooms, the lighting is 100 per cent LED, from the strips in the pelmets and the wardrobes, to the candles in the bedside tables, the GLS in the standing lamps and the spot lights. At this stage, about 50 bedrooms are fully lit with LEDs, so we still have a long way to go.
Do you have energy reduction targets?
There is not a set target in regards to energy saving. The aim is to ensure that we do not compromise on quality and that we do this in the most sustainable way possible. Then, it is up to me to propose projects to accomplish that. I obviously ensure that the energy is not wasted by having a strict maintenance program but this is not enough, we need to be as proactive as possible to ensure we remain at the top of the game.
Is it difficult to justify investments in energy-efficient lighting?
It’s relatively easy if payback is short. Any investment that would take longer than three years to pay for itself would be difficult to justify and anything that would take less than two years would always be preferential. A business case needs to be submitted to show and justify the return on investment. This requires a lot of research and months of trials. That also gives us the time to negotiate with our lighting provider to make sure that we get the best products at the best price.
In my opinion, many people had a bad first impression of LEDs when they were at their developing stages. This is slowly changing but it is up to us, facility managers, to change this by shortlisting the best possible applications, showing the difference in regards to the ‘feel’ LED can provide, the energy consumption and the associated CO2 emission reduction. This is important and this is why this process is so lengthy.
How do you go about installing new lights without disturbing guests?
When we’re satisfied with the lighting products, we have to do a whole bedroom in one go. We’ll do a survey first to ensure we know exactly what is required, place the order, block the room off and then go in one day and replace all the lighting. Once the room has been converted, we would leave it for a couple of months to gain additional feedback from the rest of the team, from the guests and from the hotel management team before we move on to the other rooms.
For the corridors, the same process applies but the work would be carried out at night when we would convert the corridor into sections, which can take up to two or three nights. This is to ensure that the task doesn’t affect the operations of the hotel or disturb our guests.
What other lighting plans do you have for Claridges?
Façade lighting is another project that I am working on. The hotel is a listed building and its architecture is spectacular. It deserves the best façade lighting we can obtain. There are, of course, different ways to achieve this and everything we do has to be submitted to the authorities to gain the mandatory planning permissions.
At the moment I am at the design stage where I am reviewing with a lighting consultant how we can achieve the best results. In previous Lux editions, there have been a lot of interesting case studies, especially the feature on the Science Museum façade lighting replacement. The result was amazing and it was interesting to see their process.
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As the government updates the regulations on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), Lux hears from key players in the lighting business on what this means for how we make, use and recycle lights.
Lux’s roundtable forum on the WEEE Directive was held in association with Recolight.
Featured in this video: Robert Bain, Lux Magazine
Russell Hirst, Wiser Recycling
Nigel Harvey, Recolight
Fiona Elliott, Osram UK
Phil Morton, Repic
John Bullock, Lighting designer
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Illuminate your space with LED MR16 for quality lighting. LEDs have numerous advantages over conventional lamps. Along with superior light output, LEDs save on electricity and offer a better lifespan. These lamps consume about 10% of the energy of traditional halogen lamps, making them a perfect switch from halogens.
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Philips MasterLED MR16 lamps include a patented intelligent driver which makes the lamps emulate a halogen in the eyes of a transformer. This makes the LED MR16 compatible with over 90% of transformers in the market, and means that these lamps can be used on most existing transformers. Therefore, you can avoid the hassle of replacing and installing new transformers when switching to LED lighting, saving time and money.
Megaman LED MR16 lamps offer a lifespan of up to 50,000 hours, and come in a range of wattages to provide light output to meet your needs.
These lamps come in both dimmable and non-dimmable configurations for different requirements. LED MR16s are suitable for a wide variety of different applications including residential and commercial properties, architectural, retail, offices, museums, schools, and entertainment and gaming.
By replacing your halogens with these LED lamps, you can reduce your power consumption by up to about 90% with absolutely no compromise on brightness. Also, these lamps do not emit any kind of UV or IR radiation in the form of heat, which make these ideal for lighting up heat-sensitive objects, or paintings
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LUX Magazine, 12 JUNE 2014
Increasing LED light levels boosted pupils’ cortisol levels by the same amount as fluorescent light, and slightly faster, in a study conducted by Fagerhult’s lighting academy.
Measuring the hormone levels of students at a university in Sweden, researchers found that the students’ level of cortisol, the hormone that keeps us awake, increased in LED-lit environments with luminance levels of 100cd/m2. The work was based on a previous study from 2009, conducted with fluorescent T5 luminaires, which showed that the cortisol in students’ blood level increased when they were exposed to boosts of a high luminance in the morning and early afternoon.
Henrik Clausen, director of the Fagerhult Lighting Academy, said: ‘People started asking whether LED would have the same effect as T5, so we had to repeat our research. We did that at a school in Sweden where we found the same hormone release results.’ Clausen added, ‘Actually the pupils’ cortisol levels raised a little bit faster with LEDs than they did with fluorescent. It’s probably because there is an inherent peak of blue light in LEDs, but we don’t know that for sure.’
The research facility is now looking at students’ grades to see if the improved hormone levels result in better academic performance, but has not yet proven a correlation in the LED-lit classrooms. The 2009 study on increased fluorescent light levels showed an increase in performance by one grade on average in the dark part of the year, Clausen claimed.
Another study from 2007, also comparing differently lit classrooms, showed that colour temperature did not make a difference to the students’ hormone levels, whereas light intensity did.
Speaking at the International Lighting Fixture Design conference in London last week, Clausen cautioned not to apply the research results too widely: ‘If you want to do research you have to choose a path and we chose to focus on classroom lighting, so we don’t claim that this approach works for everything.’
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Illuminate your space with LED GU10 lamps for a preferred ambience without burning a hole in your pocket. With a consumption of only 10% of the energy of halogens, these lamps make a drastic change to your electricity bills, and over the long term these savings add up. Less power consumption does not mean you have to compromise on the quality. LEDs offer better light quality compared to halogen and fluorescent lamps, yet consume so much less power.
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Do not worry about flickering or burn out with LEDs. These low power consumption lamps also have a long life. Many LED GU10s are rated for up to 50,000hrs, with warranties up to 5 years. So install these lamps – they are the ultimate fit and forget solution.
LED GU10s lamps come in wattages ranging from 3.5W to 8W, which are equivalent to over 65W halogen. With low wattages, these lamps last as long as 50,000 hours. We sell quality lights from manufacturers including Philips, Heathfield, Toshiba and Osram.
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LED GU10s come in both dimmable and non-dimmable configurations. Dimmable lamps, in home settings, are an excellent choice for areas like living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms. In office setting, these lights can be installed in conference and meeting rooms. Non-dimmable LEDs are used in areas like lobbies, stairwells and receptions where the lights are always on.
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Unlike halogen lights, LEDs do not produce UV or IR radiation in the form of heat. LEDs convert electricity to light and not heat. Mercury-and lead- free, these LEDs are easy to dispose and do not require special attention. Along with saving money on electricity bills, LEDs help you save on maintenance as well.
It’s time you switched to these environmentally-friendly lamps.
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MR16 lamps are a great choice for lighting your space. LEDs have numerous advantages over conventional lamps. Along with superior light output, LEDs save on electricity and offer a better lifespan. These lamps consume about 10% of the energy of traditional halogen lamps, making them a perfect switch from halogens.
LED MR16 lamps
Novel Energy Lighting supplies LED MR16 lamps from various quality manufacturers like Philips, Heathfield, Megaman, Emprex, and Verbatim. LED MR16s come in wattages ranging from 4W to 10W to replace 20W to 50W halogen MR16s. The low voltage makes them safe to work with. These energy efficient LEDs offer a lifespan ranging from 20,000 hours to 50,000 hours. Unlike fluorescent lamps, these LEDs are mercury-and pollution-free, which makes them recyclable, and safe on the environment.
LED MR16s come in a variety of colour temperatures to suit requirements. We offer specialist VxRGB MR16s by Verbatim with ultra-high colour rendering qualities that accentuate the true-life colours of art or food. These lamps are also available with narrow or wide beam angles. Narrow beam angles are suitable for enhancing the prominence of objects and displays whereas, wide beam angle bulbs give a greater spread, useful for general space lighting.
These lamps come in both dimmable and non-dimmable configurations for different requirements. LED MR16s are suitable for a wide variety of different applications including residential and commercial properties, architectural, retail, offices, museums, schools, and entertainment and gaming.
Since they emit little to no UV or IR radiation, these make an ideal choice for art galleries.
LEDs are rapidly becoming the preferred lighting solution of both professionals and residential users. Save money and energy in maintenance and replacement by making the switch to LED! Visit Novel Energy Lighting to see the wide range of quality LED MR16 lamps available.
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