Specialist lighting design can positively impact upon the financial outlay of a building and its running costs.

By detailing, light designers can carefully place light where it is needed, and eliminate it where it is not. For instance, designers can create ‘dark light', where a fitting produces no light above a horizontal plane. This has many uses, for example, lighting pathways, so that only the ground is lit and none is wasted on polluting the night sky.

Lighting helps people work more efficiently and effectively – from simply avoiding accidents by illuminated spaces appropriately, and signing emergency exits, to understanding the psychodynamic effects of lighting. Cold hard neon strip lighting in factories and offices alienates the people who work there, and is often attributed with stress, absenteeism and even illness. Humans are drawn to warm sources of light – sunshine, candles, firelight. Lighting designers understand this and work to make an environment more inviting – from theme attractions to shopping malls.

A lighting designer's specialist understanding of up-to-date technology can save millions. In 2003, the exterior floodlighting on the Eiffel tower was renewed. Specialist lighting designers helped to maintain the visual impact of the Eiffel Tower at night, whilst saving 38% of the running cost of the previously installed system. And it's not only the running costs that are kept lower, with effective lighting design, maintenance costs are minimised. Today the operating costs of the lighting at the Eiffel Tower are only 16% of what they were prior to 1986.

Of course, these savings have the added benefit of minimising the environmental impact of the building

In short, great buildings need great lighting design – properly resourced and professionally delivered. Here at Visual energy, we love light. In our projects our clients know how much value we add to what they do. If you want to discuss what great lighting design can do for you, give us a call, and let us shed a little light on the matter…

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