The 2023 Jean Heap Bursary has helped fund an advanced eye-tracking headset, which is allowing lighting designer and researcher Simone Bonavia to assess how lighting affects people’s non-visual functions
Tag: Lighting
Platform for change: insights from CIBSE Build2Perform Live 2023
CIBSE Build2Perform Live was a platform for industry professionals and academics to highlight the issues vital to the built environment tackling its net zero challenges while ensuring the safety and comfort of end users. Alex Smith, Molly Tooher-Rudd and Mike Sewell report
Setting the scene: Manchester’s new arts venue Aviva Studios
Manchester’s new arts venue, Aviva Studios, features two huge events spaces that can host anything from poetry readings to mega-raves. BDP had the challenge of devising a flexible lighting and services strategy that could adapt to any artistic situation, as the consultant’s Steve Merridew and Nick Meddows explain
Lighting up the gallery: daylighting in arts institutions
Advanced techniques in lighting analysis are allowing designers to reintroduce daylighting into galleries without damaging the exhibits or causing visual discomfort to those viewing them. Max Fordham’s Nick Cramp highlights the benefits
Control explosion: review of LG14 Control of Electric Lighting
No longer an optional extra, control systems have become an integral component of lighting schemes. Jill Entwistle talks to Sophie Parry about the Society of Light and Lighting’s updated guide to an increasingly important field
Trialling materials passports at the Edenica office building
Edenica’s new all-electric office building in London is a pilot for the use of material passports. Waterman’s Mark Terndrup and Anastasia Stella give details of how the scheme has been designed
Graduating with honours: Cambridge University’s Passivhaus student housing
Passivhaus accommodation for Cambridge University students at Cranmer Road won a CIBSE Building Performance Award thanks to an elegant, but simple, all-electric services design by Max Fordham that delivered high-performing buildings with occupant comfort at its heart
Under the lights: LG4 guide to sports lighting
The new version of LG4 Sports lighting is designed to ensure that stadium lighting matches the quality of today’s broadcast trends and technology. Mike Simpson outlines key updates to the guide
LSBU’s cool new hub
More than half of all UK building services engineers studied at London South Bank University, so BDP’s services retrofit of the main building on the campus had to demonstrate best practice in every function. BDP’s Laura Smith reports on the steps taken to transform a tired teaching facility into the collegiate LSBU Hub
Circular route: New Street station lighting retrofit
To minimise embodied carbon in the retrofitting of nearly 900 luminaires at Birmingham’s New Street station, Q Sustain used CIBSE TM65 to calculate the potential savings of reusing existing luminaires. The firm’s Lovely Chavan and Yara Bekdache explain how it saved more than 163 tonnes of embodied carbon