The New Ligman UK Team

UK offers – Premium Brand, Premium Service, Premium Team

The new Ligman UK team have made significant in-roads to the competitive UK lighting industry in their four months trading so far. But how does Ligman brand fit into the UK marketplace and how do Ligman products compare to the huge range of fittings already available to specifiers in Great Britain?

Ligman and the UK Marketplace

The UK construction industry is tiered in terms of its project values and length of time a project can take to mature and begin onsite. Although lower value short-term projects are regularly available, higher value specification projects take far longer to gestate, from specification to order. This said, investment into regeneration projects in the UK remains high, with major development contracts being continually awarded both from central government and private developers. At the top such projects as British Lands’ £4bn investment into the development of Canada Water, London with many thousands of other projects ongoing across the country, with confidence high, even with Brexit on the horizon.

The lighting industry has a lot of suppliers from which to choose, so how do the UK team plan to penetrate this tough industry with a new brand? Well, the new team has over 100 years collective experience of the UK lighting market and whilst luminaire diversification and technological developments continue from existing UK suppliers, designed to continue to attract specifications and grow market share, the lighting specification route is still the same, with the same core requirements – performance and value.

Ligman are already very well placed in this particular market due to the product value already on offer; but crucially, Ligman can also extend this value to the designers without sacrificing quality. Rarely are lighting suppliers able to straddle both camps, specification and procurement, other than the largest and most established suppliers in the UK, so this is one big bonus entering this marketplace and one the UK Ligman team are using to their advantage.

Additionally, Ligman are also able to track and quickly respond to technology changes with development and innovation, creating great leverage in the marketplace. Comparatively speaking, the Ligman range of luminaires is manufactured to a higher standard than most available in the UK market, certainly at the existing price-point.

The UK team are able to offer all clients luminaire choice; that commercially and technically compete against the wider established market suppliers. Offering clients the desired combination of lighting performance, aesthetic quality and durability in budget, which is difficult to find elsewhere.

Having also the reputation of being open to develop bespoke luminaires for design clients, whilst combining fittings with landscape forms such as benches and paviors, Ligman UK offer a big part of the solution for any forward-looking Landscape designer.

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Through marketing and promotion, Ligman have selected an initial group of fast moving fittings to introduce the company, to demonstrate this balance of high quality and value, beginning with the Harrier inground. An impressive luminaire boasting an IK10/IP67 rating and 5 year warranty as standard, the Harrier revolutionises the performance level within this application, whilst remaining extremely competitive.

With the Ligman best in class manufacturing it ensures a straight-forward installation and a long-life of 50k hrs resulting in a proven fit-and-forget status onsite for the end user. Specialist immersible IP68 fittings are hard to come by in the UK and crucially many are unreliable. Ligman’s global expertise comes to bear here too with 5 ranges being promoted, with several performance IP68 luminaires included.

The broad selection of street lighting optics available across the ranges also enables the designer to get great performance from more products than before. The linear light for example has already received some great reviews from UK specifiers for its performance and aesthetic qualities all housed within an attractive minimalist enclosure.

Ligman UK is growing. Watch this space for more or check out LinkedIn and our other social media channels for regular updates.

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06/21/201811/13/2019

Lighting design support and service

Ligman Lighting provides lighting design support through our various global subsidiaries and distributors. Our large lighting design team is composed of well-trained lighting designers able to adopt any lighting design request or provide design inspiration as needed as requested for a project; for any interior and exterior projects, including also any needs for specific technical design such as those needed for sports lighting, street lighting or tunnel analysis.

By utilising modern lighting software, our design team can ensure that we deliver the best possible design to our customers including, as needed; lighting calculations, luminaire setting out information, project load data, specification details and a range of visualization options. The staff are well versed in a variety lighting packages such as AGI32, Dialux Evo, Dialux 4.13 and 3D Max. Plus proficient in Sketchup, Photoshop and other complimentary packages necessary to aid the design service.

1. Point-by-point calculation: of incident direct or reflected light on any real surface or imaginary plane. Using this, we can predict or quantify the distribution of artificial or natural light in any environment.

2. Isolines: providing contouring capability to demonstrate Illuminance, Exitance values, GR and UGR values, luminance (Diffuse and Roadway), Daylight Factor, Veiling Luminance values and visibility level values.

3. Realistic Modeling: AGI32 and Dialux are simple and accurate technical packages, yet contain powerful model builders, capable in the hands of our experienced designers of constructing almost any architectural environment in great detail: Vaults, domes, curves, slopes and extrusions are able to be recreated allowing us to accurately model the architectural elements of any project. For those customers with existing 3D models, AGI32 can import 3D Geometry via DWG or DXF files. And for Dialux it can import as 3DS files.

4. Rendered Environments: Ligman’s lighting designers can generate extremely fast and photometrically accurate colour images conveying the behavior of light within an environment. Fast enough to be used on an iterative basis, our designers now can quickly visualize and share different lighting scenarios before they are specified, purchased and installed.

5. 3D False Color Rendering: Illuminance and Luminance are evaluated by means of colour temperature scale for quick reference and analysis to visually determine the levels of the surroundings. Red signifies the brightest level and black is the darkest level.

6. Photo Realistic Visualisation: Ligman has invested in staff highly skilled in 3D Visualisation using the advance 3D software; 3D Max, to create and generate photo realistic effects of different lighting arrangements and also to realise the actual appearance of Ligman fixtures when integrated into a project.

Every individual in our lighting team has unique capabilities for the various lighting design services we offer and packages we use to achieve them; including our Application Engineering Manager; Steve Aries, whom oversees the design team whom himself has won various international awards in Lighting design software for using Dialux and AGI32.

One of our many success stories; Ligman’s Lighting Design Support service has already garnered a reputation for high quality and quick turn-around in the marketplace working with Engineers, Designers, Architects and they are ready to take on any project for which their services are requested.

06/19/201811/13/2019

Middle East Lighting Design Summit 2018

Ligman took Gold sponsorship at the event and the Ligman Middle East team were there in force, headed by Sales & Marketing Manager, Jehan Dharmadasa. In addition, Ligman’s Global Lighting Director, Martin Valentine came back to the region in which he lived many years and gave a presentation on the morning of the first day and was also invited to speak as part of one of the panel discussions. He personally has been involved with every one of these summits since the first one launched in 2011 and has been instrumental in working closely with Expotrade, the organisers, in growing this event to the success it is today.

This year’s Summit attracted over 400 delegates over the two days, of which over 50% comprised of Lighting Designers & Architects, around 20% were from the Interior and Fit-out design industry, consulting engineers made up around 15%, 10% were from the urban planning/develop r sector and the rest from Municipal and public works entities.

Every year has seen the event host several renowned international and local speakers and this year was no exception, with Regina Santos bravely stepping in to move up the agenda at the last minute and provide a wonderful talk for the event’s key note presentation and Michael Grubb giving a engrossing and fun visual exploration of what it is to be ‘The New Age Lighting Designer’.

Martin Valentine presented ‘New Opportunities for Dynamic Façade Lighting to Historic Buildings’; showcasing Ligman’s recently completed unique wireless-DMX dynamic façade lighting project of the Abu Dhabi City Municipality Headquarters, together with examples of other historic buildings on which he undertook lighting design for challenging solutions, including London’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Natural History Museum.

On the second day ADM’s Lighting Expert; David Dunn, gave a fascinating presentation about how lighting design is linked to visual perception. And over both days a number of important topics were covered within panel discussions, hosting some of the most influential people in the region as guest panellists. The subjects ranging from setting the right mood with lighting to how cities look!

Ligman is proud to have been involved with such an enlightening event, for all the new people we met and thoroughly recommend keeping an eye on the website for more photos, reviews and videos and interviews of the presenters and delegates. www.lightingsummit.com

06/14/201801/12/2023

European Factory Product Training – May 2018

Ligman’s new European factory also houses customer visitor and training facilities and large product showroom showcasing the majority of our expansive portfolio.

In May 2018 Sakchai Manawongsakul (Ligman’s President & Group CEO) and Martin Valentine (Global Lighting Director) welcomed Ligman’s new Business Development Director, Emre Güneş and a number of our European Sales Offices and Distributors to a day of lighting presentations and product training to coincide with the launch of the new 2018.1

Main catalogue: https://www.www.ligman.com/en/catalogues/outdoor-and-indoor-catalogue-2018

Colleagues from Germany, UK, Austria, Czech Republic, Sweden, Finland and Lithuania joined key staff members from the factory for the training session which culminated in discussions and a walk round the newly opened showroom. This facility allows all fixtures to be individually switched or dimmed via our addressable Bluetooth system and enables specific optics and scenes to be viewed on demand.

Month: June 2018