October 2019 – LIGMAN

10/30/201909/17/2021

New product – FRAME seat bollard

LIGMAN’s new FRAME bollard is a unique and stunning piece of urban landscape furniture. More than a just a lighting bollard, FRAME is designed to be both a comfortable exterior seat as well as provide ambient and directional lighting.

The design’s inspiration came from the shape of the letter ‘I’ in the LIGMAN logo; with a gently canted solid cast LM6 low copper content aluminium robust construction, with separate lighting elements to the head and base and protection to IP66 and IK08.

Standard options are with white LED lighting to the head and base and a version with RGBW to the base. Special finish options can be provided with two-tone powder coated variations. Both were demonstrated at the launch of FRAME at PLDC in Rotterdam in October.

For more details please contact your local sales representative or explore the range here: https://www.ligman.com/frame-bollards-fr-bo3/

10/30/201911/30/2020

International lighting design family tree with Light Collective

It’s often said that the lighting industry is one big family. You can easily move from one branch to another but like many families, it is complicated and over time, the career paths of designers span many companies and also countries.

In 2011, Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton of Light Collective scribbled out their personal branch of the Lighting Design Family Tree. Then in 2014, they went on to create a bigger family tree to include other designers in the UK to demonstrate the entangled mesh of practices and people. UK designers shared their roots and journey with them and enabled them to create a colourful graphic.

Now, Light Collective are ready for something bigger. With the help of LIGMAN and arc magazine they are planning to create an International Lighting Design Family Tree.

The International Lighting Design Survey in arc magazine 2019 is the biggest yet with almost 1600 lighting design practices featured, so the new family tree is going to be global, exploring the links, backgrounds, education and career paths of the lighting design profession.

Light Collective are asking designers to provide their data to help them get it right. They would like you to use the link below to share with them the companies you have worked with in your lighting design career. You just need to currently be working as a lighting designer.

They plan to use this data to create a physical version of the International Lighting Designers Family Tree on the LIGMAN stand at Light & Building in 2020. If you don’t get around to adding your data online, you can visit and add yourself on to the wall.

If you do add your data, come along and see what we have created.

Participate by sharing your information here: https://ld-family-tree.paperform.co/

LIGMAN is excited to be supporting this massive undertaking and there will many more announcements and updates in the months and years ahead!

10/30/201909/17/2021

Project – Church of Bédée, France

LIGMAN France recently delivered and commissioned a beautiful and respectful lighting installation for the Church of Bédée, (Eglise Saint-Pierre, Bédée).

The project was designed by Lumiscop lighting designers and their Rennes Thierry Garcin with the collaboration of the technical director of the city of Bédée. The church was under renovation and they took advantage of the scaffolding to test and validate the lighting solution using LIGMAN’s LADOR spotlight range.

Using the 21W LADOR with Elliptical Optics, the design called for the illumination of the alcoves only as a primary focus and to illuminate the Church base gently as a visual support. The Church is visible from afar and within direct view of the local highway, so the wish of the city was to illuminate the structure to support these design and view factors. In addition, the LADOR floodlights have anti-bird spikes affixed to them to prevent damage and nesting around the immediate mounting areas.

Bédée is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. It is located in the North West of France and is labelled as a Stage village since 2009.

Check out our extensive LADOR range here: https://www.ligman.com/lador-floodlights-projectors-la-pr3/

10/30/201911/12/2019

Education Seminar – King Mongkut’s University School of Architecture and Design

As part of LIGMAN’s constant drive to support, and directly provide, lighting education globally, on the 16 October 2019, Students from the school of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University visited LIGMAN’s Bangkok Flagship store for a training seminar and hands-on experience hosted by our Lighting Design Division.

Mr Steve Aries (LIGMAN Lighting Design & Training manager) hosted a tour of the five floors of lighting education displays and product demonstrations. Throughout this day the students were taught the importance of optics, beam variations, light quality and colour and controls as well as LED technology and thermal control.

Acharawan Chutarat PhD; Professor King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thon Buri (KMUTT) has a long-standing relationship with LIGMAN and we are delighted to be able to continue to support her and her students on this year’s course.

10/30/201909/14/2021

LED Specifier Summit, Chicago 2019

Martin Valentine, LIGMAN’s Global Design Director, with LIGMAN Lighting USA is continuing his international series of talks at the annual LED Specifier Summit in Chicago on the 13^th November, with a presentation entitled Isolation & Darkness: Surviving Winters in Antarctica. With the topic of human circadian rhythm lighting a subject of both debate and contention at the moment, this course is a unique project and circadian story with some surprising findings and solutions.

Martin says “For those that ‘winter’ in Antarctica, psychosis, suicide, and depression have been common issues. So too have been records of circadian sleep disorders. This presentation shows the history and challenges of living in Antarctica, specifically at the British Halley Ice Shelf Research Station. I designed the lighting for Halley VI and the whole design for this new base was informed by more than 40 years of endocrinological medical data gathered from previous stations. Now, five years since the station became occupied the story and solution for Halley VI has a resonance and provides lessons to all in the field of human-centric lighting.”

At the end of this course, participants will learn:

How do you meet the circadian needs of humans in completely artificial environments when they are sharing space with colleagues on different work/relax shift patterns?
What are the unique and surprising factors for designing lighting for such an extreme and remote location?
What does one do for exterior lighting equipment in such extreme weather conditions?
Seeing as the project was designed and specified back in 2006 when LED was in its infancy, what would be done differently today?

https://www.ledspecifiersummit.com/midwest/

This talk and the others at the event from part of The American Institute of Architects’ Continuing Education Systems Course. Credit(s) earned on completion of this course will be reported to AIA CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request. Other credits for IES and other associations are available.

Martin and LIGMAN Lighting USA will be present the whole day of the Summit. Please come and visit us on our booth.

If you are unable to attend the Chicago Summit, Martin will also be giving the presentation at IES Chapter events being held in Los Angeles on the 7^th November and New York on the 14^th. Please contact the IESNA to attend either of these events https://community.ies.org/events/calendar

10/16/201911/12/2019

Change of underwater luminaire ordering process

Previously, LIGMAN offered as standard a 2 meter long pre-wired outdoor cable with cable gland for each luminaire.

As of today, every customer needs to order a specific cable length for the particular project requirement that will be unterminated, and we have discontinued the supply of cable glands.

10/01/201911/30/2020

The first summer school of the international project LIGHT4HEALTH

LIGMAN are honoured to have been a part of the first Summer School of the International Project LIGHT4HEALTH, which took place from 29th July to 2nd August 2019 in the framework of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership programme.

The event was organized at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, partnered with Thomas Jefferson University (USA), ITMO University (Russia), and the leading European schools in architectural lighting design Aalborg University (Denmark), Hochschule Wismar (Germany), and KTH Royal Institute (Sweden).

The first Summer School was focussed on the topic “Interior Lighting for Domestic Spaces” with 21 students working with 7 teachers having the opportunity to identify ad discuss key factors to design health research-based lighting for elderly people or families with children.

The students attended lectures about the physics of light and vision, potential dangers of light, space analysis, neuroendocrine, neurological, and circadian effects of light. In groups, they practised working with measuring equipment, calculating daylight factors and creating calculation grids, as well as considering the effect of flickering.

LIGMAN donated a number of custom pre-programmed lighting kits comprising of 2700-6500K Tuneable-White NYBRO fixtures with Xpress controllers allowing the students free range to set up, adjust and take measurements.

Alison Carminke, Academic Enterprise Manager for the University of Wolverhampton’s Faculty of Arts, said: “Given that every human being is constantly exposed to some sort of lighting situation, massive introduction of ‘human centric lighting’ could have a significant social and economic impact for the EU.

“For that to happen, the quality and relevance of students’ knowledge and skills needs to be improved, in order to meet the increasingly growing needs of the lighting industry and of the labour market.

“There is a missing link between health research and lighting design and researchers will be testing the impact of technologies and solutions, with wellbeing in mind. It is important to look at lighting in the workplace, for example, where people spend many hours each day.”

Over three years, LIGHT4HEALTH will lead to the development of a new graduate level course to enable lighting designers to benefit from health research.

The Programme of the Summer School is available on the project website www.light4health.net

Month: October 2019