JUNE/JULY 2013
Australia Post Approved – PP237091/00004
LED Lighting that truly performs
Made in Australia
2013 IESANZ Australia New Zealand Excellence Awards
Lighting Retrofits | SPARC Synopsis
1090 - LED Downlight Series
Metal Halide... a thing of the past.
A 28W, 45W or 60W LED Downlight suitable for all types of
commercial applications. An excellent choice for any retailer
such as Veronika Maine, looking to maximise their light levels and
minimise power consumption. With a high colour rendering index
and “perfect” colour binning and purity, colours never looked so
good... and will stay that way with no UV output causing fading.
Looking good doesn’t get better than this!
Veronika Maine, Liverpool Westfield - Photography by Michael Gliatis
www.gammaillumination.com
Established since 1986
LED Lighting that truly performs
Made in Australia
Illuminating Engineering Society
of Australia and New Zealand Ltd
Lighting the official publication of the
IESANZ – The Lighting Society is published
bi-monthly by RALA Information Services.
SECRETARIAT
PO Box 7077 Yarralumla ACT 2600
P: +61 2 6247 2354 F: +61 2 6162 3457
E: secretariat@iesanz.org
W: www.iesanz.org
CHAPTERS
New South Wales Chapter
Suite 5, 38 East Esplanade, Manly NSW 2095
Tel: 61 2 8922 9615 Fax: 61 2 8580 5716
E: nswsecretary@iesanz.info, www.iesanz.org
Victoria Chapter
PO Box 3260, Moorabbin East VIC 3189
P: 0409 235 974
E: vicchapter@iesanz.org
South Australia/Northern Territory Chapter
Paula Furlani
GPO Box 1461, Adelaide SA 5001
E: sachapter@iesanz.org
Western Australia Chapter
PO Box 1020, West Perth WA 6872
P: 61 8 9478 1399, E: wachapter@iesanz.org
Queensland Chapter
PO Box 3275 South Brisbane QLD 4210
P: +61 7 3844 4910 F: +61 7 3846 5087
E: qldchapter@iesanz.org
New Zealand Chapter
PO Box 8134 Symonds Street
Auckland New Zealand
E: nzchapter@iesanz.org
Canberra Branch
c/- John Griggs
10-12 Colbee Court Philip ACT 2606
E: jgriggs@northrop.com.au
Lighting Correspondents
New South Wales Chapter
Derrick Edwards
E: d.edwards@ndy.com
Victoria Chapter
James Murrell
E: jamesm@jsblighting.com.au
South Australia/Northern Territory Chapter
Paula Furlani
E: paula@light-tech.com.au
New Zealand Chapter
Erin Kilpatrick
E: ekilpatrick@aesthetics.co.nz
Membership
IES: The Lighting Society invites membership
from individuals interested in the art and
science of lighting. Membership includes
subscription to Lighting magazine.
Companies can become corporate members.
For information please contact your local
2 LIGHTING
MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Chapter
or the Secretariat.
Zealand Excellence Awards
Special Features Writer
Claire Thompson
PUBLISHER & MANAGING EDITOR
Barbara Cail
E: barbara@rala.com.au
studies
Brisbane commercial tower
10 From the Editor
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Joanna Lee
E: joanna@rala.com.au
12 Letters to the Editor
LED Lighting that truly performs
Made in Australia
18 President’s Message
41
Front Cover:
(6 issues) Overseas
$AUD132.40 includes Postage
Gamma Illumination
ACCOUNTS
Cheryl Welsh
E: accounts@rala.com.au
Veronika Maine
Liverpool Westfield
Photography by Michael Gliatis
Head Office:
1A/551 Mowbray Road West
Lane Cove North NSW 2066, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9420 2080
Fax: +61 2 9420 5152
Email: adam@rala.com.au
The publisher reserves the right to alter or omit any article or advertisement
submitted and requires indemnity from the advertisers and contributors
against possible damages or liabilities that may arise from material published.
COPYRIGHT© RALA Information Services Pty Ltd. No part of this publication
may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise,
without the permission of the publisher. ISSN 1320-8403 Lighting Art & Science
for International Designers is the official journal of the Illuminating Engineering
Society of Australia and New Zealand Ltd.
56 IES Updates + Posts
57Events Calendar
Yet again,
Gamma has proven that
Metal Halide is a thing of the past.
Also see pages
*Inside Front Cover-Page 1
*Pages 20-21
Subscription Form
53 IES Corporate Members
Project:
MULTI COMMUNICATION SPECIALISTS
By Connan Brown
54 SPARC synopsis
EDITORIAL
Melinda Cail
E: melinda@rala.com.au
RALA Information Services Pty Ltd (ABN 37 003 849 483)
By Matthew Martin and Jake Bugden
48 Retrofitting a 30 year old
ADVERTISING – CHINA REPRESENTATIVE
Ms Angela Jiang
E: polarischina@gmail.com
T: +86 15 801 748 090
ART DIRECTION & DESIGN
Anthea Vandertouw, Ferncliff Productions,
E: ferncliff1@bigpond.com, T: 0408 290 440
By Claire Thompson
42 Retrofitting choices and case
Volume 33, Issue Three
June/July 2013
ADVERTISING/MARKETING/Integrated Solutions
Adam Cail
E: adam@rala.com.au
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
(6 issues) Australia
$AUD104.65 includes GST & Postage
By Warren Julian (words) and Peter McLean (images)
34 The retrofit equation
IES EDITORIAL ADVISOR
Vessi Ivanova
E: Vessi.Ivanova@philips.com
Western Australia Chapter
Brendon Nazar
E: brendon_nazar@hotmail.com
Queensland Chapter
Sonya Thie
E: sonyathie@sla.net.au
23 2013 IESANZ Australia New
EDITOR
Dr Warren Julian AM, Emeritus Professor,
Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning,
University of Sydney NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA,
E: warren.julian@sydney.edu.au
61Lighting Suppliers Directory
contents
Profiling companies & lighting solutions
June/July 2013
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
3
branded content – case study
NEW HypaLUME
®
Introducing the revolutionary HELLA
HypaLUME high output LED Floodlight
HIGH INTENSITY LED MINING FLOODLIGHT
®
MORE
HELLA Australia introduces another first for mining
and general industrial high output lighting with the
company’s Australian designed and manufactured
HypaLUME® LED floodlight.
Suitable for both DC and
AC applications, the HELLA
HypaLUME® LED floodlight
has been designed to withstand
the rigours of demanding
outdoor and industrial area
lighting requirements.
Producing more than 20,000
Lumens output through 56
state of the art HELLA high
power colour matched LEDs
coupled with three specialised
optical distributions, the
HELLA HypaLUME® has
been designed to excel in
multiple lighting applications,
consuming far less power
compared to conventional
industrial lighting.
The HELLA HypaLUME®
consumes a mere 240W
at 24VDC, translating to a
luminous efficiency which is
close to 100 Lumens per Watt.
This means that the HELLA
HypaLUME® provides similar
light levels to a 400W metal
halide light fitting, at far less
power consumption. This
energy saving can be easily
converted to expense and CO2
reductions.
The colour matched HELLA
HypaLUME® LEDs operate at a
colour temperature of 5,700K
to provide a near daylight
environment wherever they
are used, ensuring high colour
rendering to assist with critical
work tasks and providing a
comfortable work area.
Protected from reverse polarity
and short circuit faults due
to its innovative, Australian
designed and manufactured
electronics, the HELLA
4
FOR
LESS
HypaLUME® light
emission remains
consistent across a
wide range of voltage
applications.
The Australian specially
engineered HELLA HypaLUME®
LED driver board and housing
ensure advanced thermal
management that draws heat
away from the LEDs to ensure
long operating life, which is
guaranteed by HELLA’s class
leading five year LED light
output warranty.
Completing the unparalleled
manufacturing quality of this
Australian made and designed
HELLA HypaLUME®, LED
floodlight is a UV stable,
high impact and chemical
resistant lens that protects
the LEDs from any possible
environmental damage. A
variety of bracket options
are available for HELLA
HypaLUME® mounting,
including mobile and fixed
brackets, pole and cable
suspension mounts which
cover a wide range of aiming
options.
Designed specifically for the
challenging requirements of
the mining industry, along with
general industrial requirements,
the HELLA HypaLUME® is
designed to operate over an
extreme temperature range,
ranging from -40C to +50C
with no decrease in light
output whatsoever.
There are three launch variants
of the HELLA HypaLUME®
LED floodlight which are
now available:
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Part NumberOpticVoltage Bracket
HMF2000WMOB Mobile
Wide
18-52V
More light... more than 20,0 00 Lumens from 56 High Power LEDs
More economical... low running costs and maintenance free
More efficiency... 18 to 52V DC, with luminous efficacy close to 100 Lumens/Watt
More reliability... LED requires no servicing, designed for -40° to +50°C
More Guarantee... backed by HELLA Mining’s 5 Year LED light output warranty
Less maintenance... no need for periodic lamp replacement
Less CO2/greenhouse gases... efficiency has real benefits
Less EMC... Designed to meet or exceed requirements for EMC approvals
Less colour distortion... near daylight colour rendering of 5700°K
HMF2000CMOBClose 18-52V Mobile
HMF2000LMOBLong 18-52V Mobile
Typical applications for the HELLA
HypaLUME® LED floodlights are
diverse and wide ranging, including;
loading bays, wharves, tunnels,
large equipment, warehouses
and the like just to name a
few. Any application where a
durable, maintenance free, low
power consumption light fitting
is required is a perfect fit for
this innovative lighting product.
According to HELLA Mining
General Manager, Stuart Ellacott,
“The HELLA HypaLUME®
represents the next generation
of highly efficient, yet economic
industrial area lighting products.
The light quality that each
HELLA HypaLUME® produces
simply cannot be compared with
conventional lighting based on
operating costs, service life and
light output quality throughout
each unit’s service life. In
designing and manufacturing
these LED floodlights, we
have taken into account the
feedback gained from many
sites and operators, equipment
manufacturers and lighting users
to produce a flood light that
combines real world performance
with energy efficiency.”
To find out more about HELLA
HypaLUME® and how this
revolutionary LED Flood light
can best suit your requirements,
contact HELLA Australia customer
service on 1800 061 729.
MADE IN AUSTRALIA
About HELLA
On a global basis, HELLA
employs 25,000 people with
3,800 working in research and
development. The German
privately owned company which
was founded in 1899, operates
in more than 100 countries.
HELLA manufactures and
markets Automotive, Mining
and Industry lighting along with
electronics systems and thermal
management products.
HELLA Australia is one of
the company’s Global Centres
of Excellence for the design
and manufacturing of Mining
industry products. HELLA
operates one Australian design
and manufacturing plant in
Mentone, Victoria which has
been in operation for more than
50 years, making the company
a veteran of Australian lighting
design and manufacturing.
HypaLUME® FEATURES
In excess of 20,000 Lumens at all operating
temperatures tested to LM-79-08
Sealed and tested to IP6K9K
Variety of bracket options including
Mobile Equipment Bracket, Fixed
Lighting Bracket, Pole and cable
suspension mount interfaces – with
universal aiming ability
Input 18-52V DC, 280W Max Power Draw
240W Nominal @ 24V to 52V
-40°C to +50°C operating temperature range
EMC approvals: ISO 13766, CE, C-tick, FCC CISPR25 Class 2
radiated emissions
Fully sealed LED requires no servicing
Non-stick and easy to clean PTFE surface coating
HELLA Australia Pty Ltd
HELLA Customer Service: 1800 061 729
Email: mining@ha.hella.com
Web: www.hellamining.com
Technology with Vision
Contributors
Claire Thompson
Claire has been working as a writer, editor and communicator for over 10 years. She has
extensive experience in the health, education and R&D sectors and has worked as both
a corporate communicator and creative writer. A keen reader of everything from poetry
to technical manuals, Claire approaches her writing and editing work with the belief that
everybody has a story worth telling. She is currently writing extensively on research and
technology development and commercialisation for organisations that include the University
of Technology Sydney and Gemaker. She has lived and worked in Canberra and Montreal
and is now based in Sydney.
Matthew Martin
Matthew is a Lighting and Energy Consultant at Sustainable Focus as well as a Director
of Sustainable Lighting. He has over 25 years’ experience in the electrical industry with
expertise in energy efficiency, lighting and lighting control systems. His comprehensive
knowledge of these fields enables him to accurately evaluate the functionality of systems.
Matthew has experience in broader energy efficiency solutions, project management,
project design and construction from designing and implementing energy efficiency
upgrade solutions in existing buildings and occupied tenancies across the country.
Matthew is an associate of the IES SA Chapter and has applied for Member grade.
matthew@sustainablefocus.com.au
Jake Bugden
Jake is the Managing Director of Sustainable Focus and a Director of Sustainable Lighting.
He has developed a unique approach to identifying and managing sustainability projects
that achieve real environmental benefits within corporate operations. Jake has many
years’ experience in project management including design, delivery, monitoring and
reporting. Jake has specific expertise in energy efficiency and energy efficient lighting.
He is also a highly skilled facilitator and understands the importance of developing a
strong business case for sustainability projects.
jake@sustainablefocus.com.au
Connan Brown
Connan is a mechanical engineer by training and has worked with Norman Disney & Young on
landmark projects in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Recent projects have included
targeted sustainability initiatives within a range of building sectors including: new commercial
buildings; commercial building refurbishments; healthcare; hospitality; defence accommodation;
arts; sports infrastructure and renewable energy. Connan is an accredited and practicing
NABERS assessors with extensive experience in complex NABERS rating issues in commercial
buildings. Connan is also a current Green Star Accredited Professional who has actively
managed Green Star certified Design and As-Built ratings in major commercial buildings.
Connan has developed his interest in sustainability throughout his working career and is proud
of his involvement as lead engineer on the 215 Adelaide Street project from the initial planning in
2008; through design; construction, commissioning and fine tuning which culminated in NABERS
base building energy 5 Star rating in December of 2012.
6
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
branded content – case study
AdvanQuez’s AvL LED Lamps lights up
top departmental store
AdvanLED, Tenrod’s manufacturing partner of the AdvanQuez
AvL LED Lamps has just fitted out a top departmental store in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with LED Lighting. The client in their
recent refurbishing process wanted to have their retail area the
illumination that will bring to life the beauty of their products
and give their customers the best shopping experience. As well,
they also looked to be a greener organization and so went for
the eco-friendlier and greater energy efficient LED lighting
solution from AdvanLED.
The BEFORE:
The Lighting System used before the refurbishment comprises a
mix of:
4 X 36W fluorescent square fittings
6-inch 18Wx2 round recessed fittings
8-inch 18Wx2 round recessed fittings
Halogen MR16’s (50W)
CDM (ceramic discharge metal-halides) 35W spot lights
In order to achieve a 4000K effect a mix of 6000K-6500K and
2700K lamps were used.
The AFTER:
The lamps installed for the refurbishment
included:
LED DLMM 4000K 2000Lm 27W Philips
DLMi powered Down Lights
LED SLM Track Lights 3000K 3000Lm
>90CRI 35W 24° powered by Philips modules
LED AR111 Spot Light, 22W 3000K powered
by Cree LEDs.
The Solution:
In order to achieve the best effect of lively display and natural
look of the products, the desired colour temperature of 4000K
was set for the down lighting system and 3000K for the spots.
A combination of circular down lights, track lights and spot lights
were designed by AdvanLED, built and then laid out according to
the customers floor displays requirements.
The DLMi Series LED Down Lights are powered Philips’ Down
Light Modules of sizes 6 inches and 8 inches. These are direct
alternatives to the CFL lit 1x18W, 2x18W and 1x26W ceiling
mount down lights.
The floor Lux readings are generally at 1264
Lux levels. The product display readings are
generally at 2500 to 3000 Lux.
ABOVE: Homeware Department. BELOW: Elevator Court lighting.
A total of 708 DLMM Down Lights, 745 AR111
and 1000+ Track Lights were used to cover
about 5400 square meter area.
The lighting effects were met with the
client’s great satisfaction and along with their
green objectives. The shopping experience
would now be a totally enhanced one.
To enhance the specific products displays, where CDMs (ceramic
discharge metalhalides) are often expected to do, AdvanLED
manufactures an excellent range of LED alternatives. These SLM
Series LED Spot Track Lights are powered by high quality Philips
LED modules together with a Philips driver. These track lights
not only delivers >90 CRI, 3000 Lm bright 24° spot lighting but
have the smoothing out at the peripheries due to the special light
dissipating design in the reflector cones.
Mix of light fittings used previous to refurbishment.
The floor Lux readings were in the region of 320 Lux whilst the
table Lux readings were of the order of 410 Lux
Sydney:
Tel. 02 9748 0655
Fax. 02 9748 0258
Melbourne:
Tel. 03 9886 7800
Fax. 03 9886 7799
Brisbane:
Tel. 07 3879 2133
Fax. 07 3879 2188
Auckland:
Tel. 09 298 4346
Fax. 09 353 1317
www.tenrod.com.au | sales@tenrod.com.au
8
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
ABOVE:
AdvanQuez
DLMM
series –
powered by
Philips DLMi
modules.
LEFT:
AdvanQuez
SLM
Series LED
alternative to
CDM spots
lights.
Manchester department.
RIGHT: Baby Care Products Shelves.
FAR RIGHT: SLM Track Lights.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
9
from the editor
Food (and mercury)
for thought
The Linkedin group Lighting Talk has recently had
a long, sometimes meandering discussion on
some recent research that suggests that red light
“increases alertness”; isn’t it blue light that is
supposed to do that? Are the “alertnesses” the
same or different? Does a laboratory-based effect
translate into the real world? And so on.
It’s all very interesting and so is one of the “off
topic” detours into the environmental friendliness
of LEDs. One of the most thoughtful contributors
to the discussion has been James Benya, familiar
to some readers and those who attended the last
IESANZ Lighting Convention in New Zealand. I am
going to quote from James.
“LEDs have an environmental impact. Every
LED device requires heatsinks, with approximately
0.5 kg per 10 W of LEDs. This has about 22 kWh
of embedded energy, mostly generated worldwide
by coal, the number one cause of worldwide
mercury pollution. Also, every LED die employs
gold wiring to reduce weight and size while
improving conductivity. Gold mining is the world’s
second largest cause of environmental mercury
pollution. So, before you claim LEDs to be free
from environmental impacts, recognise that
they are quite the opposite. In comparison, the
environmental impact of broken fluorescent lamps
does not even register as one of the primary
causes of environmental mercury and with a little
care we can almost totally eliminate it.”
After some heated comments on mercury
and fluorescent lamps, James added, “Reputable
research informs us that eating a meal of tuna
causes you to ingest far more mercury than you
would ingest in any way while cleaning up a lamp
breakage. As for [tuna] mercury content, it came
from coal plants, then into the food chain. I do
not dispute that mercury is a serious problem.
I dispute the claims that LEDs are free from
environmental impact.”
More argument led to “Embodied energy is the
energy expended to make a product. This must
be considered in any environmental assessment
of a system, material or product. Among common
materials, the amount of embodied energy in
aluminium is the most per unit weight. At over
43 kWh per kg almost every LED luminaire has
enough embodied energy in it to power it for a
year or more. With 48% of US electricity being
10
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
coal fired and over 80% of Chinese electricity
coming from coal, it is safe to assume that a large
percentage of those 43 kWh per kg used mercuryspilling coal, regardless of scrubbing”.
Then, after some discussion concerning other
metals in traditional lamps and luminaires,
James commented: “Because, unlike other
light sources, LEDs cannot radiate energy (ie
infrared), they require high thermal mass, low
thermal resistivity [aluminium] heatsinks. Ignoring
reflectors and other structural or aesthetic
components, heatsinks and especially their weight,
are uniquely high for LEDs. They cannot be
ignored. Fortunately, they can be recycled. But
our throwaway life style discourages it and in a
large part of the world, recycling is not a practical
option. On the other hand, the vast majority
of fluorescent lamps can be recycled and in the
more progressive states and countries, it is already
mandatory. It is a lot easier to collect spent lamps
than spent luminaires.”
After more discussion, the voice of reason
returned: “Hey everyone … we all agree that
mercury is bad. … In the US, eating ocean fish is
recommended only on a limited basis and eating
freshwater fish is no longer recommended at all.
Mercury enters the environment from coal-fired
electricity, from industrial processes and from
mercury containing waste including fluorescent
lamps. I raised the proper environmental
perspective of embodied energy so that we
understand that every light source has an
environmental impact and it includes LEDs.
“Only one light source – daylight – has mostly
positive benefits but if not properly designed,
can create air-conditioning load that is counter
productive – and mercury polluting. LEDs and
OLEDs have a chance, over their forthcoming
evolution, of reducing the mercury footprint of
lighting and this is good.
“But at present, no light source other than
daylight is free from the mercury problem or
the similar problems of other heavy and toxic
metals such as cadmium. I just wish that all the
LED salespersons would own up to the complete
environmental truth, instead of selling LEDs on
the basis of no environmental footprint.”
I hope you find this issue stimulating, perhaps
while enjoying a healthy tuna sandwich.
Warren Julian
Editor
letters to the editor
LED recall does not
affect Australia
and New Zealand
The April/May 2013 Edition of Lighting, IES Updates and
Posts Section, pg. 72, referred to a statement released by
the Consumer Product Safety Commission of America that
the Lighting Science Group had issued a recall of 554 000
LED lamps that had been sold under brand names inclusive
of Sylvania. The article refers to 68 reported incidents in
the US of fire resulting from the overheating of a specific
range of LED products.
We at Sylvania Lighting Australasia Pty Ltd wish to
clarify to your readers that the recall notice does not affect
any Sylvania branded product that is marketed for sale by
Sylvania Lighting Australasia Pty Ltd or its registered agencies
in Australia or New Zealand.
Specifically, the A19, G25 and R20 (aka PAR20) LED
lamps referred to in the article are not sold here in
Australia or New Zealand by Sylvania Lighting Australasia
Pty Ltd and are in fact products engineered for US specific
installations and applications with none of these products
being suitable for any application within the local market.
For the Australian market, Sylvania sources its LED
products from a range of suppliers. Products within each of
the ranges offered for sale by Sylvania Lighting Australasia
for the local market are stringently tested for compliance
to all safety requirements prior to being offered for sale.
Each product marketed by Sylvania Lighting Australasia
meets or exceeds the minimum safety and performance
measurements put into place by federal regulators, energy
authorities and associated business and industry groups
(inclusive of the IES and the Lighting Council of Australia).
Sylvania Lighting Australasia is proud to be able to
deliver to consumers and lighting industry professionals
alike a consistently high standard of products which
are engineered to meet the specific environmental and
performance characteristics of the Australian and New
Zealand markets.
Should your readers, customers or interested parties
have any concerns, we invite them to contact our
Customer Service team on 1300 728 988 or email us
at sylvania@sla.net.au
Duane Shore, Marketing Communications Manager
Sylvania Lighting Australasia Pty Ltd
12
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
T
hank you for the clarification
– Warren
Where can
lighting people
meet face-to-face?
You asked, “Where can lighting people meet face-to-face?”,
and you made me realise how long it has been since we
used to get together every year, and would catch up with
who had some interesting research underway and who was
putting some fresh thinking into lighting. However, in your
brief world survey of the decline in lighting conferences
you omitted to note the emergence of a newcomer whose
success has been, I suggest, quite outstanding. I refer to
the Professional Lighting Design Conventions, organized
by the PDLA. The first of these was in London in 2007,
where (I think I have these data correct) they attracted
1100 attendees from 54 countries. Since then they have
maintained biannual conventions, with Berlin in 2009 and
Madrid in 2011, and for this year it will be Copenhagen
where they believe they are on course to achieve 1500
attendees. Why are they growing in this way when others
are falling by the wayside?
While I missed the first of these conventions, I caught
the next two and I will be at the forthcoming one in
Copenhagen in a few months’ time, so let me explain why
this venue is a hit with me. The ‘Call for Papers’ issued by
the organisers in the middle of last year followed their
established pattern, making it clear that abstracts for just
70 contributed papers will be accepted, and every paper
must fit into one of four broad themes. For the selected
papers, the author enters into a contract committing him
or her to the organiser’s requirements for both the paper
and its presentation, in return for which they will receive
an honorarium of EUR500, convention registration (worth
EUR675), one night of accommodation at the convention
hotel, and a travel allowance which, for people outside
Europe, is up to EUR600. While the travel perk will leave
me out of pocket, the overall package certainly makes a
difference. However, the really big difference is in the
quality of the papers and presentations. I understand that
220 applications were received. All were blind reviewed
and so less than one in three was selected. The
convention runs for three days, comprising six
4-hour sessions, each starting with an invited
keynote speaker who addresses the whole
assembly, followed by four parallel theme sessions,
each giving one full hour to each contributed
paper. Meanwhile a trade show is operating
all hours, various special interest groups have
meetings, and of course there are the usual
welcome event, dinner, and so forth.
I am not suggesting for one moment that we
should attempt to set ourselves up in competition
with this event, but I do suggest that we should
look at it carefully and ask ourselves why they
seem to be going from strength to strength while
our conferences have become endangered, if
not lifeless, species. Of course these people are
designers who like to engage in what you describe
as the ‘fluffy’ aspects of lighting, but just think
of being able to choose between four themes of
peer-reviewed papers six times each day, as well
as a couple of keynotes. Perhaps we cannot afford
to do anything even close to this model, but I
have to tell you that over the three days of one of
these conventions there really are opportunities to
meet lighting people face-to-face.
Kit Cuttle
Havelock North, New Zealand
K
it raises some very important points in his
letter. What I didn’t mention in my editorial,
was that most of the conferences I cited were
basically funded by the paper presenters, that
is, by the “entertainers” rather than by the
“audience” – the opposite of what happens with
other entertainments. If these conferences attract
too few presenters, the conference is usually
a financial failure. That’s because the conferences
fail to attract attendees.
The success of the PLDC comes from its
organisers who are attuned to the industry’s
needs and are very effective in promoting the
conferences to sponsors and attendees. Sponsors
are more likely to support an event that attracts
good numbers of influential attendees, rather
than an “academic” conference that could be
seen as part of the publish-or-perish syndrome of
universities.
The PLDC is also effective in attracting others
to use the conference as the location for special
interest meetings, such as, education events, CIE
meetings, etc – people can attend two or three
events for a marginal increase in cost rather than
huge cost of attending them separately at different
times and locations.
Using your figures and the registration fees
on the PLDC website, their conference would
be a financial success with fewer than 1,000
registrations and if they attract the 1,500 you
mention, then it’s probably an excellent business
to be in.
– Warren Julian’
LED Category P
street lighting
Just read Lighting LED Cat P letter to the editor
(April/May 2013). This letter seems to miss one
key point about AS1158 and that is that LED is still
considered to be an emerging technology and it’s
use is cautioned by the standard, (unless AS1158
has had a recent amendment that I missed).
Local authorities want LED street lights and if
the standards cannot keep up with the technology
then the local authorities will sideline the
standards.
The LED street lighting I am currently involved
with can provide white light either warm 3000K
or cool up to 6500K, but a preference for 4000K
seems to be emerging, and this is also OK for
the dark sky guys. These fittings can provide
70+ CRI and also we now have constant flux
LED luminaires that provide further energy
savings and improved life. We are now offering
intelligent dimmable LED street lights that can
dim to lower levels in the middle of the night
either with stand alone internal controls or via a
central management system, here again AS1158
is lacking, with no mention of adaptive lighting
requirements.
More work is definitely needed as we move
into the era of smart cities and the everything
network.
I also agree with your embodied energy
concerns, which would be relevant for relatively
new existing street lights but would not apply
for say a 40 year old luminaire, which would be
considered to be at the end of useful life.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
13
Matt Flood, Business Development Manager
Traxon & Siteco, Australia & NZ
M
att, I agree that it is time for AS1158 to
reconsider its position. LED technology has
moved so quickly that a prudent statement of a few
years ago, now looks as though it’s reactionary.
That is not to say that all the issues with LEDs for
roadlighting have been solved but many have.
It is interesting that there seems to be a preference
for 4000K since, if you are trying to see humans, the
lower the CCT the better, since skin is a poor reflector
of the blue LED’s radiation in fluorescent white LEDs,
especially for non-Caucasian and tanned Caucasian
skin.
– Warren Julian
Plasmonics
and ruby glass
I found Mike Ford’s paper on plasmonics (April/
May 2013) most informative. The theoretical physics
behind the subject matched my personal lighting
design experience, collected over many years. That
was was more gained by the “try and see” method,
than realising there is a physical reason behind certain
lighting effects I was trying to achieve on certain
materials. However, sometimes they strangely just
didn’t work as expected.
The word ‘plasmonics’ alone conjurers up some
mystical effect like St Elmo’s Fire on galleons
ploughing through stormy seas or for those more
technically knowledgeable, the excitation of electrons
in high pressure arc light sources.
Mike’s paper brought to mind a number of hardlearnt facts I gained through painful experience.
Among those, I shall mention two.
zz It is almost impossible to illuminate polished
14
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
stainless steel with white light, as the steel is too
reflective and that specular reflection works like
a mirror … but yes, you can to a certain extent
with blue light, a classic example of plasmonics
showing that silver finished materials do have a low
reflectance in the areas of 350 nanometres light.
This has been used to great effect by the lighting
designer of the stainless steel ceiling in the Central
Britomart Station in Auckland.
zz Some beautifully artistic (and usually very expensive)
translucent ruby red glass bowls can be lit from
above or inside, with dramatic effect. At other
times, for some reason, it just doesn’t seem to
be successful. I now understand that with recent
advances in plasmonics that it is actually the size of
real gold nanoparticles that produce the rich red
colour of glass.
One of my early draw cards towards a career in
lighting and especially the artistic side, was my mother
(Barbara Batt 1909-2007) who in 1926, at the age of
17, was apprenticed to a big stained glass company in
London (Lowdnes & Dury). It was not the ‘done thing’
at those times for a young lady to take up a trade in a
strictly man’s world. She was later awarded the level
of Master Stained Glass artist by her colleagues.
Being brought up amongst coloured glass, I will
always remember her telling me that top quality ruby
red glass was made with real gold and that it was so
expensive, it had to be used with great economy.
To see the great rose window in Chartres Cathedral
in France is a treat and it is amazing to realise the red
glass was installed in the 12th century and is still as
bright and as “good as gold”. Through the ages, it will
never loose its aura to the destructive forces of UV in
daylight.
I look forward to the ongoing study of plasmonics
that was started by the famous Faraday all those years
ago and to see it is actively being carried forward
into the new LED technology, now that we are able
to shape nanoparticles to maximise the inherent
harmonic effects.
We can all learn from papers like this … and for
myself, it helps to explain some of my early lesssuccessful escapades into the easy pitfalls when trying
to achieve desired special “lighting effects”.
– user interface redesigned.
Imagine. A beautifully designed user
interface panel that ‘wakes up’ as you approach,
with a stunning wall-wash lighting effect and
button indicators that reveal automatically.
One-touch control of lighting, dimming and
temperature functionality. A choice of panel
facia and rim finishes, customised text or
intuitively designed symbols.
Welcome to the feature rich world of
Philips Dynalite Antumbra.*
PDL 187-7 / LIGHTING ART & SCIENCE
Osram and Siteco are also thinking about this
for the future with our LED luminaires which have
replaceable LED optical modules and drivers, so
upgrades can easily be fitted into the LED luminaire
housing as the technology improves and becomes more
efficient.
Experience
Antumbra
Geoff Waller FIES RLP
Auckland, NZ
M
ike Ford, the author responded: Thanks Geoff;
that is a very nice letter. Cheers and glad to hear
you enjoyed my article, Mike.
To find out more, or to try
the Antumbra online panel
configuration tool go to:
www.philips.com/dynalite
*Operates with Philips Dynalite
control system only.
branded content – case study
IES award winning sports lighting design
Lighting test
How the lighting of a local racecourse will set the standard for the world’s richest jockey club
Photo finish line
Long shot
The installation of an energy efficient
lighting design and control system in one
of Victoria’s most popular race courses has
gathered international interest and seen
its providers - Sylvania Lighting Australasia
and Australian Sportsvision Consultants –
receive two IES Awards: Lighting Design
Excellence for Australia and New Zealand
and the Australian Lighting Energy
Efficiency Design Award for 2013.
The Cranbourne Turf Club is a
thoroughbred horse racing Club situated
40km SE of Melbourne. Nestled in
the heart of Victoria’s biggest growth
corridor, Cranbourne is home to a large
horse population and racing community.
More than 130 trainers regularly take up
to 750 horses through their paces at the
Cranbourne Race Track. The racecourse
has long been regarded as a worldclass racing facility for day meets and in
2010 was selected as an ideal venue for
the expansion of Victoria’s night racing
program.
As a second Victorian night racing
venue, Cranbourne now complements
the existing Moonee Valley night
program in delivering more racing into
16
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
an increasingly popular wagering and
attendance timeslot on Friday nights.
The introduction of a night racing
program was also believed to be of
benefit to the broader community. The
Cranbourne racing precinct is regarded
as a major source of employment and
economic activity, directly generating
around 750 ongoing jobs. At the time of
the initial announcement of Cranbourne’s
selection as a night racing venue, local
MPs stated that the new lighting would
not only provide a boost to the local and
state-wide racing industry, but would
provide more employment opportunities
and ongoing economic benefits for
Cranbourne and surrounding communities.
requirements to meet the needs of race
broadcasters as well as patrons and to
meet energy efficiency requirements. The
principle objective was the track needed
to be lit to the required standard for
television broadcasting with the flexibility
for lights to be dimmed during nonbroadcast times.
Sylvania completed the final lighting design,
supplied the state-of-the-art lamps, lamp
control, dimming technology and Environ
control gear, aimed all the floodlights and
verified the design lighting levels.
In 2010, under the auspices of Racing
Victoria Limited, Australian Sportsvision
Consultants were engaged to design the
lighting and all associated electrical and
control systems for the project.
The lighting solution employed by
Sylvania Lighting Australasia included the
installation of a total of forty eight masts
at heights ranging between 20mtrs to
25mtrs. 750 Siteco 2kW R2 Maxi metal
halide projector floodlights were installed
and focussed to illuminate the 2200 metre
track with a total lighting load for the
system of 1.5MW.
The lighting design and consequent
installation allows the venue to host as
many as fifteen night race meetings in
the normal racing year thus ensuring that
track operators can control their lighting
The project drew on the twin expertise of
both Australian Sportsvision Consultants
and Sylvania’s expertise in designing
effective lighting solutions for outdoor
sporting and entertainment venues
with an emphasis on ensuring that
the installation also achieves optimal
efficiencies in energy consumption.
and reduces the obtrusive effects of spill
light and glare into the neighbourhood
that borders the track.
Innovative Technologies For
The control system has been able to
accommodate the varied requirements
throughout the length of a meet.
Energy Management
Sylvania’s Environ System includes the
Active Reactor, a programmable energy
management device that is applicable
to a wide range of commercial lighting
applications. For the Cranbourne
installation, the Active Reactor was used
to run the lamps at constant lumens and
also to dim the lamps as necessary. Using
the Active Reactor system, by operating
the lamps at constant lumens an energy
saving of 17% is realised, however, by
combining this with dimming an energy
saving of 33% is realised.
During the course of a night race meeting
the lights are dimmed before the first
race starts, dimmed in between the races
and dimmed after the last race finishes.
Typically the lights are dimmed for 75%
of the time during a race meeting. This
not only realises a 33% energy saving
overall but delivers a range of broader
benefits; it increases the life of the lamps
For constant lumen output, the Active
Reactor control gear was used to run all
lamps at constant lumens to produce a
constant 1200 lux on track. When not
needed for broadcast, the lights are
dimmed to 900 lux on track. This is in
contrast to the Photofinish area where
during races lighting levels are pushed up
to 3000 lux for the photofinish camera.
A Siemens custom developed PLC control
system was used to control all the
switching, sequencing and monitoring
functions of the lighting installation.
Local Development,
International Significance
The constant lumen control and dimming
of 1.5MW of metal halide lamps and the
substantial energy saving achieved of
33% over standard ballast control is of
international significance.
As one of the first instances of this
type of lighting control in the world,
the Cranbourne installation has gained
interest from some of the world’s largest
and most prestigious racing clubs.
At present, Sylvania is supplying the
Environ Control system featuring the
Active Reactor for installation at the
Happy Valley and Sha Tin racetracks of
the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which is
widely regarded as the world’s richest
racing club. As energy efficiency becomes
a greater concern across the region, it is
believed that more sporting bodies and
local energy authorities will seek similar
levels of control over their facilities to
not only save on energy expenditure but
to provide level of lighting appropriate
to a broader variety of community and
broadcasting needs.
For more information on this project or
the Sylvania Environ Control System visit
www.sla.net.au or email sylvania@sla.net.au
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
17
president’s message
An apology, an update
and congratulations
I suppose it was only a question of time before I
had to start these articles with an apology, and so
to Susan Wall & Trevor Stork I owe you both an
apology. During the post SPARC gala dinner drinks
I had a conversation with both Susan and Trevor
but principally Susan, regarding what the board is
doing. I confess to not being in the most receptive
of moods but Susan simply wanted to know what
was going on and expressed concern about a lack
of communication, a perfectly reasonable request.
So to Susan and Trevor my apologies, you were
quite right and I promise to be more forthcoming
in providing information about what is occupying
the board currently, but a little more on that later.
I cannot go any further without paying tribute
to all those instrumental in SPARC 2013, but
particularly to those on the SPARC Organising
Committee. They had all worked so very hard,
and it was a deeply gratifying to see these people
finally enjoying the fruits of their efforts at the
gala dinner which itself set a bench mark that
will be very difficult to match. Without the help
of dedicated people like this SPARC would never
occur and certainly would not have been the
triumph it was. Congratulations and thank you all
very much.
Board News
Of the issues before the board education is
the most pressing. An education forum is
planned for July to discuss the future of lighting
education. It will consist of educators and industry
representatives with members of the IES state
committee’s currently lacking any institutional
based education, namely South Australia and West
Australia. The key issues on which the forum will
focus are:
zz Review of what education standard/standards
should be adopted.
zz Examine what qualification level is appropriate
to meet the diverse needs of industry.
zz How best to deliver education to meet the
needs of the membership and industry.
18
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Education is a vital area of the society’s
activities and I can go into far more detail but that
would take far longer than my allotted column
inches. I shall report on this forum and education
more fully at a later date.
The board is also engaging in a number of
promotional exercises in bringing the abilities of
our membership to industry sectors seen as weak
in their understanding and treatment of lighting
but very influential in how it is used. These industry
sectors are Facilities Management or FM, and,
the Ecologically Sustainable Development or ESD
communities. It is the goal of the society to raise
the level of awareness in lighting application and
technology within these two industry sectors. Adele
Locke, board member from Victoria, is engaged
in providing that link with the FM community
and collectively the board is engaging in trying
to get meaningful communication with the ESD
community. There lack of a representative body for
this sector like the IES makes effective dialogue
difficult to arrange. This is an ongoing exercise that
builds on the growing recognition of MIES as a
suitable person to assess and design lighting.
There are also the more functional elements to
board activities and discussions, budgets, SPARC
and SPARC design, publications, standards, website
and so on. I do not dismiss these activities as being
in anyway lesser in nature than those outlined
above. These items are ongoing and in one form
or other are ever present but need additional
explanation to place them in the proper context
than remain to me here.
I would like to conclude by congratulating those
that received awards in the International Luminaire
and Lighting Design Awards held in Sydney at Bar
100 on Friday 7th June. This edition of Lighting
contains a feature article on the awards and I
would urge you to take the time to look them
over. Finally I would like to thank all those involved
in putting on this year’s awards, without your
help and diligence these events simply would not
happen, so thank you all very much.
It’s a Brand New Day in High Output Lighting
Barry Gull
President
IES: The Lighting
Society
Leading edge
Unmatched
Show yoUr
UnbeatabLe
Performance
Savings
true colours
Paint Finish
With no viable alternatives,
projects that require high
output solutions were left
using technologies of the
past. Today, THe eDge
HO luminaire is not only
viable for such projects its
significantly better.
Capable of saving in excess
of 50% in energy is only half
of the story. Since re-lamp
cycles required of traditional
lamp sources are alienated
substantial maintenance
saving is also possible.
With a broader spectrum
colour source and higher CRI
than traditional high wattage
metal halide lamps, THe
eDge HO luminaire delivers
more true-to-life colour
renderings critical for retail
and commercial applications.
Faded poles and fixtures
compromise the aesthetics
of any property. THe eDge
HO luminaire features
our exclusive Colourfast
Deltaguard® finish, backed
with a 10 year finish warranty
so your site will look great
for years.
Advanced Lighting Technologies Australia Inc
110 Lewis Road, Wiantirna South,Vic.3152
Australia
61 03 9800 5600
Advanced Lighting Technologies New Zealand Ltd 8 Boeing Place, Mount Maunganui
New Zealand 64 07 579 0163
Advanced Lighting Technologies Asia Pte Ltd
Block 4008, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, #04-06, Techplace 1 Singapore
65 6844 2338
www.adlt.com.au
www.adlt.co.nz
www.adlt.com.sg
Gamma LED...
there’s just no substitute!
www.gammaillumination.com
Established since 1986
LED Lighting that truly performs
Made in Australia
Lighting design awards
ENLIGHTENMENT: The Basics of Efficient Lighting
2012 Seminar Programme
Seminar Programme
> Why Attend!
The course provides fundamental lighting knowledge
and basic lighting principles that all people touched
by our industry should be familiar with. It is not intended
as a precursor to other established lighting courses but
more as an induction program to lighting for those who
require no specialist lighting training.
Australia New Zealand
> Who Should Attend
Retail Lighting Staff Sales
Representative Lighting Staff
Electrical Contractors
Facility Managers
Factory Staff
Manufacturing Staff
Wholesale Staff
> Course Outline
The energy efficient lighting course is delivered by a combination of three full day or evening face-to-face
sessions, as well as home study, assessment and revision.
IESANZ Member: A$1,100 pp
Non Member: A$1,210 pp
The IESANZ Australia New Zealand Excellence
In-house Courses (10 - 25 participants) are available on request at a cost of $995 pp inclusive of GST. If you
wish to run a course in-house, you must be able to provide a seminar room, whiteboard, screen and catering.
excellence in lighting design in Australia and New
Awards are an evolving process of recognising
Zealand. For the 2013 awards I was joined by
Peter McLean from Sydney and Geoff Waller from
Auckland, in reviewing the Chapters’ twelve 2012
Awards of Excellence. There was unanimity in the
> Contact:
More information is available at http://wired.ivvy.com/event/IESENL/
or email or call Anne Stewart nswsecretary@iesanz.info Tel: 61 2 8091 4008
THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES HAVE ALREADY HELD OR ATTENDED ENLIGHTENMENT COURSES
Advanced Lighting Technologies AECOM Aurukun Austube BCA Consultants Beacon Lighting Best Consultants
Brisbane City Council City Crompton Lighting Delta Agencies Dynamark Lighting Eagle Lighting Engineering
Technology Consultants Euroluce Lighting Eye Lighting Australia Gardens at Night Gascoigne Consultants Gentec
Lighting GHD Hella Australia HPM Legrand HS Reflections Inlite IPD Industrial Products JSB Lighting KLIK
Systems LA Lounge Lanark Trading Limelight Integration LCL Manufacturing LSI Hamilton Lighting System Lucid
Consulting Engineers Lumascape Marksloyd Lighting Australia MLIGHT Moonlight Lighting NECO Norman Disney
& Young NSW Dept of Services, Technology & Administration Pierlite Rudds Consulting Engineers Spectra Lighting
Sylvannia Lighting Thorn Lighting Pty Ltd TMK Consulting Engineers Total Energy Solutions Tower Heath Warragul
Lighting Webb Australia
Excellence Awards
Warren Julian (words)
and Peter McLean (images)
Groups: A$1,045 pp for 5 or more registrations.
Non member registrants receive a one year associate membership of IES: The Lighting Society included in
their registration. See www.iesanz.org for membership benefits
2013 IESANZ
selection of the projects for this special recognition
and for the one especially honoured with the
Supreme Brilliance Award.
All of the projects have been published in the
December 2012 issue of Lighting, so what follows are
brief descriptions and the judges’ observations with
regard to what they believe led to exceptionally fine
solutions. The successful projects are listed in the
order in which they were visited.
It certainly takes courage to have projects judged by
peers; the IESANZ thanks the entrants and designers
for all the countless hours put in to entering projects.
Those efforts enable the awards program to attract
An overwhelming characteristic of all the successful
a high level of interest both from aspiring designers
entries was the amount of research and/or
from the industry and the wider community.
experimentation that took place in the development of
the successful solutions. All went far beyond producing
a minimal, sufficient solution for the lighting problem.
Congratulations to all awardees and the IESANZ
thanks all who submitted entries, who were
recognised at the IESANZ Australia New Zealand
This indicates that the designers showed a
Excellence Awards Cocktail Reception on 7th June
dedication and a commitment that, together with
2013. The IESANZ also acknowledges the invaluable
their considerable design skills, led to the highly
contribution the Chapter judging panels for their time
successful results achieved.
and expertise each year.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
23
This is an array of light and movement named Luminous, spread
across a 2400 m2 building façade, across two buildings, home
to the Commonwealth Bank at Darling Quarter. The animated
façade is claimed to be the world’s largest permanent interactive
light display that allows artists and the community to meld
technology and light.
Mike Sparrow developed a design utilising RGBW LEDs
located between the timber internal blinds and the glazing of the
557 windows. Bruce Ramus designed the display and interactive
content. The positioning of the LED’s was critical: glare had to
be avoided for the building occupants as well as being visually
pleasing for the external viewer. As a result, the luminaires were
placed on the window-sill, facing up. When in operation, the
blinds are set at a reversed angle, best suited for the display.
The animated display is linked to two interactive consoles
located within the public domain, available to the public to
interact with the light display. The display is programmed to
provide a simple, slow, colour wash during Tuesday to Thursday.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the display gets lively and is
available for interaction during designated periods.
In keeping with the buildings’ six star Greenstar rating,
Luminous is powered by 100% renewable energy via solar
panels. It is also compliant with AS4282 – Control of the
obtrusive effects of outdoor lighting.
Judges’ Comments: This is an outstanding example of huge
permanent public light show that has a low environmental
impact but which provides pleasure to those using the parklands
adjacent to the buildings. Luminous is subtle: each window is a
The Supreme Brilliance Award
to Mike Sparrow, Lend Lease Design, and
Bruce Ramus, Ramus illumination, for the
Illuminated Façade, Commonwealth Bank,
Darling Quarter, Darling Harbour
pixel that can be white or coloured and can be dimmed. It is low
power compared with video façades and the images/patterns
are low resolution. It can be ignored or watched. It adds to the
amenity of the area.
This project is not only very good in its completed form
but it also shows what can be achieved with a good idea
and experimentation. The building’s architecture hasn’t been
compromised by the illumination system. By day, there is no
hint of what can be seen at night because the lighting system
is mounted, internally on the window-sills and the blinds that are
used to control daylight and sun penetration by day, become the
“screen” (reflective surface) at night. The blinds are timber but
their brown colour is not apparent at night. This solution came
as a result of testing. The control system, the content generation
and its interactivity also show the same experimentation and
ABOVE: The illuminated façades are across the two
buildings of the Commonwealth Bank, Darling Quarter.
RIGHT: A close-up showing that the illuminated façade is
also effective when the blinds are open.
24
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
imagination.
Suppliers: Klik Systems, Cyberpower, ELC Lighting,
ShowMedia, Coolux
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
25
Award of Excellence
Award of Excellence
to Tim Carr and Jo Black, Arup,
to Michael Sparrow, Lend Lease for
for GPT Headquarters, Level 52
the new extension to Caneland
Central Shopping Centre – Interior,
MLC Centre, Sydney
Mackay
ABOVE: One of the informal work/
meeting areas levels in GPT’s
Headquarters lit with a combination
of daylight and electric lighting.
LEFT: A workstation area where the
permanent lighting is for circulation
and surface brightness.
This is a new two-level extension to the
Caneland Centre located in Mackay.
The lighting design placed emphasis
on perception rather than purely
‘lighting to see by’. In retail it needs to
be inviting; way finding or circulation
lighting provides direction and should
not take away from the retail display.
Uplighting gives a sense of space.
There are two levels of malls; both
have filtered sunlight via voids between
the two levels. Linear fluorescent
fittings are fitted into timber beams
running along the ground level, in front
of retail outlets. Ceiling louvers shield
the sunlight from shopfronts during the
day. The louvers are located in the food
court and along malls.
The food court has 44 bespoke
Arup designed the lighting for the 3,700m2
workstations point sources produce pools of
pendants hanging in four rows along its
refurbishment of GPT’s headquarters in the
light on the floor and shadow play. The result is
length. They use two rings of LEDs, one
MLC Centre in Sydney. The atmosphere is more
a visually comfortable environment with reduced
facing up to highlight the mesh and one
business lounge than office. The curvaceous
illuminance and power usage realised through
down to highlight the filmed acrylic.
triple-height reception and front-of-house
the fundamentals of good design.
There are also recessed adjustable
downlights and uplighting from
spaces received careful consideration. The ceiling
features are the main ambient light source for
Judges’ Comments: This is a well-designed
discreetly located linear light sources.
the meeting rooms. The fundamental lighting
premium office environment that achieved good
That light, combined with the filtered
principle was to create brightness modulation,
lighting by directing it to where is needed, rather
daylight, gives a pleasant ambience.
with some working zones to be brighter and
than flooding the working plane with light. The
uniformly lit, while more relaxed, contemplative
walls and ceiling were washed with lighting,
Judges’ Comments: This is an excellent
areas were to darker and more intimate.
achieving satisfactory brightnesses directly,
example of good shopping mall lighting
rather than as a result of inter-reflection from
design. The integration of filtered
the dark working plane.
daylight, with good sun control resulted
This approach and 6 Star Green Star design
targets resulted in workstation task lighting
in a light and airy space that preovided
combined with a low horizontal illuminance
26
at desk height. To ensure that these zones
Suppliers: JSB–ACDC/Modular, 3S Lighting,
good seeing conditions without
were perceived as bright and spacious, the
Targetti Poulsen, Light Project–KKDC/Prolicht,
washing out store and food-outlet
ceilings and walls are directly illuminated. This
XAL, Viabizzuno, Danese, Mud, Great Dane,
lighting.
ABOVE: Caneland Central Shopping Centre’s
foodcourt supplements well screen daylight with
uplighting and pendants.
also provided a diffuse, uniform distribution
Euroluce–Jielde/Flos, Mooi, Dedece-Tom Dixon
of light upon the workstations. Between the
and Clipsal
Supplier: 3S Lighting
TOP: The first floor mall is daylit using shaded
clerestory windows and a louvred central skylight.
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
27
Designer’s statement: Brisbane
spaces should be naturally lit,
Supreme Court and District Court, a
have a natural feel, with a strong
high profile public development and
ambience of natural materials,
landmark building, was designed
whilst still meeting the high-level
to express the contemporary
performance specification for
values of justice and the law, and
the courtrooms in terms of light
the inter-relationship of these with
levels, security, acoustics, sun
democratic society. The architecture
protection, thermal behaviour and
aspires to reflect the values of an
visual privacy. A novel planning
open, transparent and accessible
solution freed up the exterior wall
justice system, and to possess a
of every courtroom and the top
dignity and a sense of permanence
third of the remaining three walls
to Mirjam Roos, Steensen Varming
that reflects the seriousness of the
for glazing, flooding the courtrooms
with Architectus for Brisbane
institution being housed.
with daylight, controlled through
Award of Excellence
Supreme Court and District Court,
Brisbane
An important concept in the
an innovative ventilating double
architectural design was that the
external skin of glass. As a result
the building is highly transparent,
with clear views available across the
building from one side to the other.
Judges’ Comments: The lighting
design appears deceptively simple,
employing wall mounted uplighting
and wall washing throughout
the building; it achieves both the
real and symbolic the openness,
transparency and accessibility
called for in the brief. There are no
ceiling-mounted luminaires. Local
task lighting is installed on work
surfaces for those who need it.
Suppliers: Austube, 3S Lighting,
Zumtobel Bega, and Selux
Award of Excellence
to Tony Dowthwaite, Tony
Dowthwaite Lighting Design Pty Ltd,
for the Residential Lobby, Soul –
Surfers Paradise, Surfers Paradise
Soul comprises a 77 level residential tower, rising
above a retail/restaurant complex at ground
level. The Residential Lobby is a double volume
space, with a central feature stair leading to
a mezzanine level that provides access to a
restaurant and function facilities.
The lighting design philosophy was to limit the
use of direct sources such as down lights and
develop methods of defining the space using
concealed, reflected light while being energy
efficient. The majority of the luminaires use linear
and point source LEDs. Concealed neon is used in
ceiling coffers to highlight folds in ceiling planes.
The lobby’s feature is the central stair that
wraps around one of the main structural
columns. It is a prominent element, particularly
when seen through the 7m glass wall that
enclose the space.
Judges’ Comments: The stair is dramatic (and
difficult to adequately photograph at night)
while the adjacent waiting area seating is bathed
in warm, almost domestic lighting. The walls
of both the ground floor and the mezzanine
are lit to reveal the textures and colours of the
materials. There are subtle, well-designed spaces.
Suppliers: Tec-led Lighting
and The Lighting GroupEndo and Philips Dynalite
ABOVE LEFT: A view
of the Banco Court
showing the windows
and wall-washing.
LEFT: The foyer
area is lit using wallmounted uplighting with
“pedestrian” lighting in
the central area.
28
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
ABOVE: Soul’s lift lobby creates
a warm stylish atmosphere
while providing good seeing
conditions.
LEFT: Soul’s central stair,
showing excellent use of LEDs
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
29
Award of Excellence
to Australian Sports Vision Consultants for
Cranbourne Race Track
Cranbourne is a complex of race tracks
all lit for (mainly) a night-time television
audience. The harness racing and
greyhound tracks had been previously
lit. The gallops track was lit to 1600 lux
(vertical) for television with tight control
on spill light due to neighbouring homes
and a main road. To be energy efficient,
the floodlighting is dimmed to 50%
between the races run at 30 min intervals.
The lighting is uses metal halide lamps.
Award of Excellence
to Museum Exhibition Gallery Lighting
Services for Mona “Theatre of the World”,
Hobart
Theatre of the World is Australia’s largest collaboration between
a private and public museum, with 180 works from David Walsh’s
private collection at MONA and around 300 works from the
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s collections. Jean- Hubert
Martin’s curatorial passions and his latest exhibition provided
another visual challenge and sense of provocation for visitors
to the museum. The works are displayed across 17 of MONA’s
galleries alongside special commissions and selected loans from
other important Australian and international collections.
Judges’ comments: The “Theatre of the World” exhibition shows
that outstanding lighting can be achieved through careful,
Judges’ comments: The lighting system
competent design and a suitable budget (of both time and
achieved good vertical and horizontal
money) that allowed creativity, attention to detail and innovation
uniformity and excellent containment
(particularly in providing lighting within heritage cabinets
of the lighting to the immediate track
without drilling cable access holes.. This is in indeed a world-class
area. The unique lighting control system
exhibition.
does produce significant energy savings
compared with running the floodlighting
Suppliers: Erco, Luxam Fibre Optics and Philips Lighting
at full for the whole of the race meeting:
on average, it runs at 100% for about
7 min and at 50% for 23 min in each
half hour.
Suppliers: Siteco and Sylvania Lighting
This wide shot shows the uniformity of the lighting and how well it is constrained to the track.
Australasia
ABOVE: Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre is the entry to
the exhibition superbly lit using track and fibre-optics.
The cut-off is clearly visible near the outside rail in these photographs. Glare control is also excellent at Cranbourne Race Track.
30
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
RIGHT: An example of the many heritage cases used
to display objects: custom fibre optic systems where
designed to use nanofibre optics luminaires.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
31
Carrum Foreshore Precinct – Melbourne, VIC
Kingston City Council · Andrew Lloyd Photography
Award of Excellence
to Luke Ellis, BCA Consultants, for
the External Pools, Crown Metropol,
Perth
The multi-pool entertainment area of the Crown
Metropol Perth is a 6,200m2 facility that includes
an outdoor resort style pool, kids pool, quiet
zone, vip private retreat and poolside bar and
grill. The key elements are the pools, landscape
and architecture.
The pools are formed in a number of organic
shapes and sizes, with varying depths of water,
and required lighting that accentuates the vibrant
blue finishes of the pool shells. LEDs are used for
their light control, high efficacy and maintenance
benefits.
The landscape of hard and soft materials
surround individual areas and divide the vast
space.; tree trunks and foliage canopies are lit
using a combination of in-ground up-lights and
surface mounted spot lights.
Judges’ Comments: Pools are notoriously
difficult to light successfully and unlike many
other lighting situations, there is little scope to
tweek the design during or after installation.
If the design is lacking little can be done to
remedy problems.
Suppliers: TLS-Wibre, HI Lighting, Gamma
Illumination, Lumascape, Klik Systems, Famco,
Zumtobel-Bega, Boom, Glashutte Limburg,
Mondoluce-Iguzzini, Artemide, Limelite, Lighting
Options Australia-Hunza, Emotion Lighting-PUK,
ABOVE: This view at pool level shows the stair lighting in detail, with clearly defined edges.
Big White, JC Lighting, Lanark Trading-Tovo and
TOP: Closer to ground level the design details are apparent.
Pierlite-Pierlite and Simes
32
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Systems®
NEW CATALOGUES OUT NOW
catalogues@kliksystems.com
kliksystems.com
Feature
The retrofit
equation
By Claire Thompson
A
s power costs continue to rise across
Australia, lighting retrofits are an
increasingly popular way to drive down
energy costs and refresh the look and feel
of commercial spaces. Government rebate
schemes and a flood of energy efficient
lighting technologies into the lighting
marketplace, as well as promises that an
effective lighting upgrade can reduce a
building’s lighting energy use by up to 82%,
make retrofits an attractive option.
34
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
ABOVE: 101 Collins St Melbourne – a previously dark and uninviting foyer with inefficient lighting has been retrofitted with
new lighting to create a bright and inviting feel and save 70% of lighting energy consumption. Image courtesy of Martin Saunders
FAR RIGHT:
101 Collins St Melbourne –
prior to the lighting retrofit
largely incandescent
lighting had been used
in the foyer; this has
now been replaced
with mainly compact
fluorescent and metal
halide lighting controlled
by time clock and daylight
sensing devices.
RIGHT:
101 Collins St Melbourne
– a retrofit using a
fluorescent uplight mixed
with LED downlights
enlivens the lift lobby and
saves energy.
Images courtesy of
Martin Saunders
all the potential pitfalls of a lighting retrofit into
are four main questions that consumers should
how much money is your retrofit can save
more elements of a lighting system with more
consideration before starting work. Among these
consider when considering how to revamp a
is another. Calculations should take reduced
energy efficient components. These components
pitfalls are ineffective designs that can impact
lighting installation: How much light did you start
energy costs and savings gained through
might be lamps, ballasts or control gear, versus
everything from the energy efficiency outcomes
with, where is the light going, how much light
government incentives or other tax benefits
the replacement of the entire luminaire or
and the installation’s ability to payback upfront
reaches the destination, and how do the surfaces
into account, and consider the number of years
lighting system.
costs through energy saving over time, to the
in the space look once the light reaches them?
it will take before the energy savings start to
aesthetic appearance and functionality of the
The questions speak directly to the heart
Retrofitting is the process of replacing one or
But, like any fad, retrofitting has been
gaining a momentum that isn’t necessarily
matched by the growth of effective practices
“I know of one installation that put in a cheap
repay the upfront installation costs. They should
of some of the biggest challenges of lighting
also incorporate cost of labour (design and
retrofits – whether you can recreate, or improve
installation) and ongoing maintenance fees
across the lighting industry. According to
fix linear fluorescent in their stairwell, and less
on, the existing installation by replacing
specific to the retrofit design, as well as the cost
Peter McLean, founder of lighting design
than 12 months later they had to replace them
components with more energy efficient options;
of removing and disposing of existing fittings
company Lighting, Art and Science, retrofitting
all because the lumen depreciation was so poor
and what the risks are that stand in your way.
and fixtures, and securing money to finance the
is becoming so ubiquitous that some of the
that you couldn’t see,” McLean says.
most crucial components that contribute to
When done properly, he says, retrofits can
“A lot of the installations that have gone in
the past have saved energy, but at a significant
new installation.
But there are also a variety of hidden costs
cost savings and system improvements are
achieve great things, including significant
reduction of light levels, and often at a significant
that may not be visible upfront. Equipment
now being overlooked.
reductions in energy and a positive impact
increase in glare, so that the end product isn’t
costs, for example, are not always what they
on the look and feel of space. So what do
the same lighting installation that [the client]
seem. Manufacturers have been quick to jump
feedback on lighting retrofit plans for clients. He
consumers need to be aware of when seeking
started with,” McLean says.
on the ‘equivalent’ bandwagon, proffering new,
says that in many cases, clients are being blinded
to retrofit an existing commercial space?
McLean and his team frequently provide
by the promise of energy savings, and don’t take
36
space itself.
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
According to the NSW Government, there
Selecting the right lighting is one thing, but
getting the calculations right to determine
more energy-efficient products that are touted
as replacements for existing technologies.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
37
“Manufacturers aren’t being terribly honest
This sort of logic has a clear application
in their description of retrofit products. For
with some of the newer, more energy efficient
example, one major manufacturer has on
technologies on the market, such as LEDs, which
their box for an MR16 replacement, they say
have accrued huge popularity in the retrofit market
‘equivalent’ or ‘replacement’ for a 50W lamp,
but, from a technical perspective, still lag behind
[but] they don’t mention that it’s got between
their incandescent counterparts when it comes
30-40% of the light output of a 50W lamp,”
to top notch colour rendering, particularly at the
McLean says.
cheaper end of the market. Additionally, while LED
Another place that consumers are losing
replacements may indeed save energy, consumers
money is in the transformers or fittings required
need to be aware that light levels, problems with
to support the retrofitted lamps. For example,
glare and other technical issues have the capacity
some MR16 replacement lamps are required to
to severely impact the end product.
be run on what manufacturers call an ‘approved
transformer’, rather than on the generic, low
voltage transformer that may already have
“People seem to have a different rule for LEDs,”
McLean says.
“There are installations that are working
been installed, while some replacement LED
very well – we’re using a lot of LEDs, but we’re
fittings that have been developed for GLS
using them in fittings that have been designed
lamps bear a warning that they should not be
specifically for LEDs.
used in an enclosed fitting, ruling out a large
“Part of the problem is that for a lot of the
number of bulkhead, wall light, pendant and
products on the market, there is actually very little
ceiling fittings that are commonly found in
or no technical data available. They tell you what
commercial spaces. Using a new lamp with an
the wattage is, or what it’s meant to replace, but
unsuitable transformer or fixture will reduce the
they don’t tell you what the light output is, and
performance and longevity of the lamp itself,
they don’t tell you a lot about the glare. A lot of
but installing the specialised fittings will add to
LED installations are extremely glary.”
the overall cost.
Another intangible cost is the impact of
the lighting retrofit on the physical space in
which it’s installed. According to Phil Greenup,
Greenup agrees, adding that there are still a
number of LED fittings on the market where the
lamp itself can’t be replaced.
“There are still a lot of fittings out there where
a lighting designer in Arup’s Melbourne office,
the light goes at the end of life, fades to a level
consumers must be willing to consider questions
which is unacceptable, and you can’t just get it
of colour rendering and colour temperature, as
and take the light source out of it and replace it
well as how the lighting will display surfaces
with a new light source – you have to replace the
and architectural features in a given space,
whole fitting.
before they move ahead with a retrofit. Failure
“And although you’ve saved energy along the
to consider these aspects can lead to costs of a
way, the cost of having to replace the whole kit
different kind – such as reduced sales in a retail
and caboodle at the end of life, suddenly means
space, reduced tenancy in a commercial space,
you don’t get the payback.”
or reduced patronage in a hospitality space
such as a bar or hotel.
“You might be able to achieve a lot of energy
Costs aside, LEDs and other cheap lighting
technologies also suffer from a lack of quality
controls that see cheap and inferior products
savings, but if you don’t consider the impact
infiltrating the market. The Electrical Regulatory
on the space, that’s where it falls over in my
Authorities Council (ERAC) has noted safety
opinion,” Greenup says.
concerns over a variety of lighting technologies,
“For spaces where the public is going to be,
including replacements using LED Tubes or T8/
or where the building tenants are going to be,
T5 fluorescent lamp adaptor technologies and
lighting is an important element of the branding.
modifications carried out to existing luminaires.
And if the space looks dark, dingy and awful,
This is just one example of lighting technologies
people aren’t going to feel happy to be there,
that don’t meet Australian standards but are
and they’re not going to spend their money.”
available in the marketplace.
38
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
GPT HQ –
MLC Centre
Sydney, lighting
retrofit using
warm and inviting
LED light sources
throughout the
shared areas.
Image by
Tyrone Branigan
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
39
For consumers, accepting the opportunities
and limitations of the retrofitting process, and
being prepared to engage with professionals
a lot of existing retrofit designs are currently being
done by the electricians that install them.
“Most of the installation work they do in regular
rather than taking the cheapest option available,
jobs is designed by someone else. They’re normally
is crucial to a successful outcome. Employing
just installing it, but in this case they’re coming
the services of a lighting designer who is well-
along with a proposal to design and install, and
versed in retrofitting is a valuable safety net. It’s
they’re not necessarily understanding what they’re
the designer’s job to ensure that the installation
doing or the ramifications of what they’re doing,”
is compliant with relevant safety guidelines, and
he says.
a qualified designer will look at “not just the
For lighting designers, understanding the
energy resulting, but the actual lighting quality
client perspective is a key factor to consider when
that is achieved or maintained by the end result,”
embarking on a retrofit. This means balancing
McLean says.
the client’s expectations with the aesthetic needs
“A lighting designer will get in there,
of the space, as well as finding the intersection
understand the space, understand the impact
between the practical and technical considerations
on the space of just replacing the lamps rather
of the retrofit and the potential for cost savings
than actually redesigning the lighting. They’ll
over time.
also better understand the financials and work
out bang for your buck,” says Greenup.
Employing a designer also removes the risks
“One of the keys to making this work is involving
the client, understanding the drivers,” Greenup says.
AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ!
www.rala.com.au
Lighting Art & Science for International Designers is unique. Published bi-monthly it is
the only publication totally dedicated to lighting serving the Asia Pacific marketplace.
Please complete the details
below and fax to us on:
Australia – AUD$104.65 (includes GST, postage & handling)
+61 2 9420 5152
Overseas – AUD$132.40 (includes postage & handling)
Name
Position
Company
Address
Suburb
State
Postcode Telephone
Country
Mobile
Fax
“If you don’t know what you’re aiming for, you
inherent in retrofit work that is slapped together
don’t know whether you’re going to achieve it in
by unqualified people; alarmingly, McLean says,
the end.”
Email
Website
Please let us know your industry and interests:
INDUSTRY
INTEREST




























Architect
Consultant
Council/Government body
Education
Electrical Engineer
Electrician
Facility Manager
Interior Designer
Landscape Architect
Lighting Designer
Lighting Engineer
Project Manager
Retailer
Business and Office Design
Control Systems
Energy Saving
Exterior Lighting
Hotels, Bars & Restaurants
Interior Design
Landscape Lighting
Project Management
Public Places
Retail Lighting
Who’s Who of Lighting (April edition)
Windowless Environments
Other ((please specify): ........................................................................................
Wholesaler
Other ((please specify): ...............................................................................
Payment Details (please tick):
Subscription to LIGHTING magazine to be sent within Australia – AUD$104.65 (includes GST, P+H)
Subscription to LIGHTING magazine to be sent overseas – AUD$132.40 (includes P+H)
Single copies $15 each except Annual Who’s Who at $25.00 each (plus postage P+H)
Method of Payment:
A combination of
linear fluorescent and
LED point sources
provide contrast and
illuminate the exposed
ceiling used at the
GPT HQ - MLC Centre
Sydney, lighting retrofit.
Image by Tyrone Branigan
Cheque Attached
Mastercard
Card Number:
.................................................
Name:
....................................................................................................................................................
Signature:
.........................................
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
..........................................
...........................................
CCV* #: ............................
Expiry Date: ...................................................................
(invalid without signature)......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
*CCV: We ask for this information for your security, as it verifies for us that a credit card is in the physical possession of the person attempting to use it.
Your card security code for your MasterCard or Visa card is a three-digit number on the back of your credit card, immediately following your main card number
RALA Information Services Pty Ltd (ABN 37 003 849 483)
40
Visa
MULTI COMMUNICATION SPECIALISTS
| 1A/551 Mowbray Road West, Lane Cove North NSW 2066 AUSTRALIA |
T: +61 2 9420 2080 | F: +61 2 9420 5152 | Editorial: melinda@rala.com.au | Advertising: adam@rala.com.au |
technical feature
Retrofitting choices
and case studies
opportunity with twin or even triple
the key to a suitable outcome, since
lamp luminaires reduced to single
changes in lamp position (say due to
lamp luminaires. Most buildings
reducing the number of lamps) will
prior to 2004 use halophosphor
change the luminaires light distribution.
fluorescent lamps. Minimum Energy
Many old ultra-low brightness luminaires
Performance Standards (MEPS) for
with specular parabolic louvres, to
linear fluorescent lamps , introduced
minimise veiling reflections in screens,
in 2004, mean that only triphosphor
are very inefficient.
2
lamps are now available. The benefits
By Matthew Martin
and Jake Bugden
Sustainable Focus
output (3350 lm compared with 2850
scheme is actually fit for purpose?
lm) and maintenance. Lamp-for-lamp
Retrofitting might be an ideal time to
So what is lighting
replacement would result in no energy
replace louvres with prismatic diffusers
are seeing the business case for
retrofitting?
savings result and significantly higher
to provide a better visual environment.
reducing energy consumption by
Retrofitting is the upgrading of a
light output.
Louvred luminaries are known for
retrofitting building and switching to
building’s original lighting system. It is
renewable energy. The common myth is
undertaken as a stand-alone project or
improvement. The traditional magnetic
buildings by lighting primarily only the
that being energy efficient is expensive
in conjunction with other energy saving
switch start ballasts have also been
horizontal surfaces. While prismatic
– however making commercial
projects and is usually completed while
subject to MEPS . If a magnetic ballast
diffused luminaires sacrifice some
buildings energy efficient is an excellent
the building is occupied. Retrofitting
is replaced with an electronic ballast,
horizontal performance to the vertical,
investment. For instance, the return
is different from refurbishment where
4 to 10 watts is saved per lamp and
they deliver a more pleasing visual
on a term deposit is less than 5%;
the building’s interior is vacated, gutted
the starter is eliminated along with
aesthetic for occupants. A further
while retrofitting a building to be more
and replaced, including the luminaires.
the power factor correction capacitor.
quality and suitability issue is whether
energy efficient typically has a return
Retrofitting should be preceded by
A further benefit is that average lamp
the luminaires are in the best locations.
on investment of greater than 20%. The
an energy audit that identifies the
life increases from 12,000 hours to
Are they spaced too far apart affecting
Property Council of Australia’s recently
opportunities. If an energy audit is
20,000 hours.
uniformity or too close, crippling the
released IPD Index stated that office
not possible, an experienced lighting
properties with green credentials have
professional or electrical engineer can
lamps over the now more popular T5
outperformed the broader market and
determine the power density of the
because the T5 is shorter and there may
environment, consideration of the
that those higher than 4 star made an
existing system to provide a baseline
be thermal problems, since, for example,
users and space, it is possible to deliver
average of 10.5% return.
load. Section J of the Building Code has
at 25 ˚C a 36W T8 lamp produces 3,200
lighting upgrades that comply with
recommended maxima.
lm, while a 28W T5 produces 2,600 lm.
standards and save energy. Gloomy
While retrofitting with T5 is possible
offices have been given new life and
there are more considerations required.
the lighting energy consumption has
costs is the key motivator but there
Simple retrofitting involves replacing
Control gear has also seen
3
The majority of the retrofits use T8
the cave effect they tend to create in
power density?
lamps with newer, more efficient types.
modern proven technologies, ongoing
This has become popular with some
maintenance is reduced and in some
LED products, in an attempt to cash
performance decreases due to
55% and up to 75%. So to summarise,
cases avoided. Building owners also
in on the latest fad. Unfortunately,
the deterioration of materials and
there are three key steps:
have the benefit of removed or delayed
a poor understanding of LEDs has
the collection of dust and grime.
1. Upgrade to single tri-phosphor lamp
future capital expenditure. The life of
resulted in some cases of sub-standard
Unfortunately, the recommended
lighting systems is around 30 years.
lighting. This has been exacerbated,
periodic cleaning of luminaires (ref
particularly in NSW and Victoria, by
AS/NZS1680.1 Section 12) seems to
state government rebate schemes.
be ignored even when the lamps are
However, the NSW Government Office
replaced.
quality information to assist designers1.
As luminaires age their optical
Specular reflectors can give 15-25%
been significantly reduced, typically by
and electronic control gear
2. Install a high efficiency reflector in
the luminaire
3. Clean/upgrade the luminaire refractor
A poor design or leaving some items
out will not yield the required outcome.
higher light output ratios (LOR) than
In some cases retrofitting is not the
painted ones by (for example, compare
most cost-effective or feasible solution.
luminaire in commercial buildings.
Pierlite products ET236 and ET136SRS).
Similar results can be achieved by
Consequently, cost effective retrofitting
Retrofitting luminaires with a purpose
replacing the existing luminaires with
these offers the largest savings
designed full specular reflector is
suitable new high efficiency luminaires.
Fluorescent troffers are the major
With an assessment
of the environment,
consideration of the
users and space, it
is possible to deliver
lighting upgrades that
comply with standards
and save energy.
With an assessment of the
are other benefits. By installing more
of Environment and Heritage has good
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
the existing luminaires and lighting
As electricity prices rise, organisations
Retrofitting to reduce ongoing energy
42
The foregoing has assumed that
of triphosphor lamps are higher lumen
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
43
Case studies
Flinders Medical Centre
(Department of Health), SA
This project is a $1.5 million lighting upgrade of a
125,000m2 facility incorporating hospital wards,
treatment areas and teaching facilities.
In most areas (eg see Figure 1)
the existing twin and triple lamp
luminaires were retrofitted with a
Figure 1.
A typical corridor at Flinders Medical Centre after retrofitting a 1x36W lamp, electronic ballast
and full specular Luxoflector.
single lamp, high performance full
Figure 3.
Current draw (amps) of a typical laboratory and office – before and after retrofit
from either 84W (twin lamp) or
126W (triple lamp) to 35W for a
single 36W lamp on new ECG. The
6
resultant light output is improved
specular reflector and warm start
electronic ballast (ECG) (Figure 2).
The original bodies and diffusers
as the new lamp and reflector and
cleaned diffuser are significant
5
improvements on the aged
were retained however all the wiring
and other equipment (eg lamp
luminaires.
4
Figure 3 shows the current
holders) were replaced, so they are
essentially now new luminaires. This
solution was selected as the best
draw before and after the lighting
upgrade for a typical laboratory
3
Before
After
option from an open tender. A full
sample was obtained and this was
2
Occupancy sensors were installed
effectiveness. Following the client’s
in common areas where justified.
1
Figure 4 shows the lighting and
subjected to phototometric testing
and EMC compliance.
This type of fluorescent retrofit
occupancy pattern for a typical
0
toilet. The chart shows that the
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
lighting in the toilets is often on
is economical to implement for
(62%) when the space is vacant (on
large consistent areas. The original
consumption has been reduced
power density post-upgrade is
approximately 6W/m2 in offices.
evaluated for appropriateness and
approval of the sample, it was then
with attached office. The
+ vac). Occupancy based control
Figure 4.
Lighting and occupancy for a typical toilet.
Figure 2.
Recessed wide troffer luminaires are used throughout the Flinders Medical Centre:
shown before (left) and after the retrofit with a full specular reflector (right).
was warranted.
This project is due to be
completed in 2013. Actual data at
Toilet lighting/occupancy
the end of 2011 showed:
9%
zz Annual electricity consumption
savings 900,500 kWh
1%
zz Reduction in greenhouse
28%
emissions 770 tonnes
zz Total project expenditure
$806,000 (including removal of
PCB containing capacitors)
on+occ
on+vac
off+occ
off+vac
zz Electricity cost savings $118,830
resulting in a simple payback of
6.8 years (excluding maintenance
savings).
62%
44
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
45
SA Head Office, Uniting Communities
This was a $70,000 lighting upgrade of Uniting Communities
main office in Adelaide, SA.
University of South Australia, SA
The building has five levels including a
luminaires being relocated to correct the
basement car park. Parts of the building
poor uniformity. The open office on Level 3
are over 60 years old while the third
was so poor we started from scratch. The
and fourth stories are more recent.
client was quite nervous at the changes
lighting of the City West Campus
Much of the lighting was that of the
but once the project had been completed
targets to reduce its energy consumption by
buildings and walkways (see Figure 5).
original building installations with some
was thrilled at the improved amenity
6% in 2012 and by 10% in 2020. A multi-campus
This lighting used 510 Bega bulkhead
changes over time.
and a power bill reduced by a third.
lighting upgrade was selected as one strategy.
luminaires, each containing 2 x 26W
This lighting upgrade is of the high run time areas of the three large
campuses of the University of South Australia (UniSA).
Figure 5.
This shows the façade of one of the UniSA City West buildings at night where the
extensive external lighting is featured.
The UniSA Facilities Management Unit had
There were many different fluorescent
The total lighting electricity
consumption of 161,935 kWh was
The first stage was a pilot project. Small
CFL and associated, mostly-electronic
troffer luminaires throughout the
representative areas in each of the campuses
control gear. However, these were
building. The 25 year old, 600x600 mm,
reduced to 54,200 kWh, a saving of
were selected and data logging of circuits
failing due to the heat, so ongoing
2-4x18 W types used on two levels were
107,735 kWh or $21,550 (at nominal
and consumption was undertaken to provide
maintenance was expensive (see Figure
in good condition and suited retrofitting.
figure of 20c/kWh). The retrofit
6). The luminaires are cast aluminium
The remainder were various makes of
returned a simple payback of six
area were trialled and the actual savings were
and in good condition apart from some
1200x600mm twin to quadruple 36 W
years on energy savings alone.
recorded. A report was compiled comparing
diffuser discolouration over time. They
luminaires between 10 and 60 years old.
Figure 7 shows the results of data
the findings that proved most effective,
were in a custom colour to match the
These were replaced by high efficiency
logging electricity consumption of the
providing a roadmap for the rest of the project.
buildings, so retrofit was an ideal option.
1200x300mm 1x36 W luminaires with Y19
lighting circuits in Level 1 of the Franklin
Two retrofits to replace the lamps
prismatic diffusers. This involved a room by
St wing before and after the lighting
room review and solution, often with the
upgrade.
baseline data. Relevant technologies for each
Many solutions were selected for the best
outcome for UniSA, including:
and control gear were trialled in the
zz Custom LED and fluorescent retrofit gear
pilot project. One used 1 x 17W CFL
trays for luminaires at the City West Campus
zz Fluorescent battens with integral occupancy
sensors at the Mawson Lakes Campus
zz Single lamp luminaires and occupancy
sensors in 24/7 computer barns
zz A complete redesign of lighting for the Café
(Delux T/W HE) high output lamp (1500
lumen) and matched electronic control
gear; the performance was excellent
Figure 7.
Franklin St Level 1 lighting results.
Franklin St Level 1 lighting, kWh/day
compared to the 2 x 26W, yielding 79
lm/W at a total of 19 W and an average
lamp life of 20,000 hours. The other
at the City East Campus
used a LED module with integral driver
The largest retrofit was of the external
and ZHAGA compliant socket; the
performance was very good compared
Figure 6.
These images show the control gear of the external luminaires (with diffuser removed). The heat damage to the electronic ballast
from the compact fluorescent lamps can be seen on the left. The new LED module and gear tray heat-sink was retrofitted (right).
with the 2 x 26W, yielding 70 lm/W at a
total of 16.5 W and had an average lamp
life of 50,000 hours (L70). The lower
consumption and longer life of the LED
module was selected. Thermal testing
determined that the base was suitable
for heat dissipation using a heat paste
in the installation of the new gear tray
(see Figure 6).
The external bulkhead lighting
total load of 28,105 W was reduced to
8,176 W and with 4,380 hours annual
operation, saw an energy saving of over
87,000 kWh or $10,475 (at nominal
off peak figure of 12c/kWh). The
retrofit cost $140 per bulkhead and
was expected to return the investment
within six years.
46
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Footnotes
1www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sustainbus/energyefflight.htm
2www.energyrating.gov.au/products-themes/lighting/linear-fluorescent-lamps/meps/
3www.energyrating.gov.au/products-themes/lighting/ballasts/
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
47
case study
Retrofitting a 30 year old
Brisbane commercial tower
By Connan Brown
Norman Disney & Young
Introduction
of complimentary building services
Located in the heart of the CBD, the
improvements which included: chiller plant;
commercial tower at 215 Adelaide Street has
cooling towers; pumps; fan motor variable
graced Brisbane’s landscape for 30 years. In
speed drives
2008 Norman Disney & Young recommended
and a major lighting upgrade.
a plan to improve tenant services and reduce
Of all the options accepted, the lighting
energy consumption – a plan that would
upgrade offered the highest cost per
elevate the energy rating from 2.5 to 5 National
NABERS point and high tenant risk, since
Australian Built Environment Rating System
the works had to be completed within
(NABERS) Stars and go on to claim the Award
tenant occupied areas. In an existing
for Best Sustainable Development – Existing
building, the lighting upgrade represents
Buildings at the 2013 National PCA Award.
a key opportunity to deliver a range of
A comprehensive building services upgrade
was planned and implemented
benefits in addition to the obvious energy
savings and energy ratings.
in a staged manner that included:
zz Building investigation and energy
assessment report;
zz Proof of concepts and NABERS thermal
energy modelling;
zz Detailed design, tender and NABERS precommitment certification;
The general lighting throughout the building
was original, comprising twin 36W tube
recessed troffer luminaires with clip on lightair boots mounted in a 1-way ceiling grid.
This combination introduced significant risks
zz Construction and commissioning; and
with the luminaires effectively supporting
zz Fine tuning and monitoring.
the ceiling tiles along one edge and wholly
In early planning, all elements of the
building services were investigated, including:
48
The existing building
supporting the supply air diffusers.
The lighting was originally installed with
lighting; lifts, ventilation and air conditioning
a proprietary central lighting control and
(HVAC) and water pumping. Each of the
wiring system that had been modified over
various improvement options were assessed
the 30 years of tenant fit-outs. As a result,
in terms of energy savings, benefit to the
the existing luminaires were installed with
NABERS rating, age and condition of the
a variety of different plug connections
services and value/risk to tenants. With the
and tenant control systems. To minimise
support of detailed calculations including
construction complexity and operational
NABERS thermal energy modelling the
risk to the tenants each luminaries was
client decided to proceed with a suite
rewired outside normal operating hours.
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
The energy rating
was elevated from
2.5 to 5 NABERS
Stars following
the retrofit at 215
Adelaide Street,
Brisbane.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
49
Each luminaire was calculated to
General office lighting becomes
consume approximately 90W, including
effectively ‘free heating’ and is
magnetic ballast losses. A building
undesirable in Brisbane’s subtropical
inspection and initial illuminance
climate. However, in cooler climates a
calculations confirmed that an upgrade
lighting upgrade would increase base
to single lamp T8 would be the most
building heating demands and may
technically feasible option with energy
even lower the NABERS base building
savings in excess of 50% or 50W per
rating. For this reason thermal energy
luminaire.
modelling can be critical to gauge the
net benefits for any building upgrade
T5 vs T8 technology
There is a market perception that
targeting improved energy ratings.
The NABERS thermal energy model
energy efficient lighting needs to utilise
demonstrated that the lighting upgrade
T5 lamp technology and this was a
would deliver direct energy savings to
major cause of debate during lighting
tenants of 1.5 NABERS Tenant energy
design development. 28W or even 25W
stars but only 0.3 Stars benefit to the
T5 lamps are being used in modern
NABERS Base Building energy rating.
office buildings to deliver increasingly
In addition to energy
and ratings the
lighting upgrade
to open plan office
areas reduced the
load on the tenants’
power board.
The energy modelling was also
lower lighting power consumption. What
used to as the technical basis for
is interesting is that much of this energy
NABERS pre-commitment agreement
improvement is coming from lighting
at a 4.5 Star level. This certification
refractor and reflector technology —
agreement allowed the building’s
not just the lamp. As a result, single T8
planned future rating to be advertised
Excellent lighting levels and
lamps have the potential to compete
to market prior to the works having
uniformity with low glare
with T5 luminaires, depending on the
being completed and the data
refractors
project specifics of ceiling grid, floor
collected.
The single tube luminaires were
plate and air diffusion technology. The
specified with custom reflectors and
physical characteristics of the building
Improved electrical capacity
Y5 refractors. While critical to achieving
demanded T8 luminaires and detailed
and tenant flexibility
the energy savings target, this solution
calculations showed equivalent lighting
In addition to energy and ratings, the
ensures excellent lighting uniformity and
energy consumption to T5 but with one-
lighting upgrade to open plan office
appropriate illuminances with low glare.
for-one replacement. This result was
areas reduced the load on the tenants’
The Y5 refractors have a very shallow cut
critical in establishing the viability of
power by 7-9 W/m . In addition, the
off angle, producing ceiling luminances
the lighting upgrade, since one-for-one
electronic control gear significantly
and contributing to a sense of lightness in
replacement allows the work to proceed
improved the power factor of the
the space. Tenant feedback indicated good
without any impact to the layout of
lighting system, freeing up additional
lighting levels were achieved with a strict
the tenants ceiling services or lighting
kVA capacity of up to 13-14 VA/m .
100 hour lamp burn-in policy implemented
control.
This significant boost to available
in the building. Measurements showed
electrical capacity provided excellent
that the illuminances delivered by the T8
NABERS rating system
and much improved flexibility to the
fittings were in line with expectations.
Under NABERS, lighting energy is
building tenants. Buildings of this age
attributed to the tenant and general
were designed for 5 or possibly 10W/m2
Energy cost savings
office lighting reductions do not
tenant equipment allowance that was
Using today’s electricity rates, the whole
directly impact the NABERS base
appropriate at the time but much less
building upgrade has saved $460,000 in
building energy rating. Commercial
that the 15W/m expected for premium
annual electricity costs. Put another way, if
buildings services system interactions
and A-Grade Buildings now.
the upgrade hadn’t occurred, the tenants
are complex, however, any energy
2
2
2
A flow on effect of the reduced
would be paying 65% more for electricity
saved by the lighting system reduces
lighting load is freed up cooling capacity
today compared with that of 2008. The
the internal heat loads on the HVAC
within the building HVAC system, not
energy cost saving associated with the
that directly impacts the NABERS
only saving energy but also improving
lighting upgrade contributed $100,000 or
base building rating.
building comfort and tenant flexibility.
more to this saving.
50
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
The physical characteristics of the building demanded T8 luminaires and detailed calculations showed
equivalent lighting energy consumption to T5 but with one-for-one replacement.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
51
IES c o r p o r a t e m e m b e r s
Tenant disruption during
ensure that tenants were pre-warned
Domus Lighting Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
construction
of potential disruption. The installation
ECC Lighting + Living Ltd – NSW
New South Wales
Corporate
Tenant disruption was managed through
started only after a dilapidation inspection
Gamma Illumination
New South Wales
Corporate
smart design, effective communication
and was conducted at night and in the
Harcroft Lighting – NSW
New South Wales
Corporate
and well-managed site work. The single
presence of building security guards. In
Jadecross Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
most important factor in limiting tenant
addition, drop sheets were used to protect
disruption was to provide one-for-one
desks from dust and debris from the
JHA Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
luminaire replacement; ensuring no impact
ceiling void and all floors were cleaned
JSB Lighting Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
on tenant lighting levels, on-floor wiring
prior to the first arrivals the next day.
Klik Systems Australia Pty Limited
New South Wales
Corporate
Lighting Australia Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
Opal Lighting Systems
New South Wales
Corporate
Optic Fibre & LED Lighting Solutions Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
Stramac Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
New South Wales
Corporate
or tenant lighting controls. The luminaire
supplier modelled the new on the old to
Benefits to society
Project credits
ensure that they would integrate into the
According to the Queensland government,
zz Pramerica – Building Owner
ceiling system, still providing light-air boot
and ceiling tile support in the 1-way grid.
The building manager provided tenant
zz Norman Disney & Young –
peak demand growth has a cost of
$3.5 million per 1MW, with these
Consulting Engineers, NABERS
Sylvania Lighting Australiasia Pty Ltd – NSW
infrastructure costs fuelling rampant
& refurbishment specialists
Total Electrical Connection Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
Tridonic Australia Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
Vossloh-Schwabe Deutschland GMBH
New South Wales
Corporate
Walter Wadey @ Co Pty Ltd
New South Wales
Corporate
zz Jones Lang LaSalle – Building
presentations on the good reasons for
electricity price increases. The upgrade
undertaking the works (saving energy
has reduced the building’s peak demand
and reducing greenhouse gases) and
by 1.2MVA, with the lighting upgrade
regular updates on the works. The main
contributing almost 0.35 MVA – a possible
Project Management
Webb Australia Group
New South Wales
Corporate
contractor and electrical subcontractor
benefit in excess of $1 million to the state
zz Built – Main Contractor
York Precision Plastics
New South Wales
Corporate
worked closely with building management
and electricity consumers.
zz KLM – Electrical Sub Contractor
Eagle Lighting – Fagerhult
New Zealand
Corporate
zz Moonlighting – Lighting
eCubed Building Workshop
New Zealand
Corporate
Inlite
New Zealand
Corporate
Klik Systems’s agent – Mark Herring Lighting
New Zealand
Corporate
Belltronic Lighting Solutions
Queensland
Corporate
GM Poles
Queensland
Corporate
Intralux Australia Pty Ltd
Queensland
Corporate
Klik Systems QLD
Queensland
Corporate
Lumen8 Architectural Lighting
Queensland
Corporate
Orca Solar Lighting Pty Ltd
Queensland
Corporate
Orion Solar Pty Ltd
Queensland
Corporate
Solus Lighting Solutions
Queensland
Corporate
Sylvania Lighting Australisia Pty Ltd – QLD
Queensland
Corporate
Valley Lamps & Lighting
Queensland
Corporate
Webb Australia Group
Queensland
Corporate
Eagle Lighting Australia
South Australia
Corporate
JSB Lighting
South Australia
Corporate
Klik Systems’s agent – H.I Lighting S.A
South Australia
Corporate
Sylvania Lighting Australasia Pty Ltd – SA
South Australia
Corporate
ANL Lighting Australia Pty Ltd
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
Cundall Johnson & Partners
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
ECC Lighting & Living – VIC
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
JSB Lighting
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
Klik Systems’s Agent – Southern Lighting & Distribution
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
Sonic Lighting
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
Sylvania Lighting Australasia Pty Ltd – VIC
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
Tridonic Australia Pty Ltd
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
Webb Australia Group
Victoria & Tasmania
Corporate
JSB Lighting
Western Australia
Corporate
Klik Systems’s agent – H.I. Lighting
Western Australia
Corporate
Metera Lite
Western Australia
Corporate
Mondoluce
Western Australia
Corporate
Sylvania Lighting Australasia Pty Ltd – WA
Western Australia
Corporate
and building security to complete work
and Facilities Management
zz John Outhwaite & Associates –
This benefit, in fact, approaches the
in strict accordance with a work plan to
Technology Supplier
cost of the upgrade.
The product range is now complete.
p
cts te
du d s nt s,
h
p ro l o p e i ff e re t u re r ro a c
e
e
d
c
v
es
pp
T h re d e w i t h n u f a a r a
a
e
p
e
w ste D m r cl .
s
by B LE g ou tner
CO lectin r par
re f h o u
t
wi
8300
8100
8301
8101
8102
8400
8600
8103
8401
8000
8000 Series holders for COB LEDs.
Available for all the most used COB LEDs:
Bridgelux, Citizen, Cree, LG, Tridonic, Seoul, Sharp.
Always evolving to meet the market’s needs.
52
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Financial corporate sponsors as of JUNE 2013
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
53
sparc synopsis
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects), Paul
Beale (Owner, Electrolight), Wendy
Davis (Associate Professor, University of
Sydney), Dr M. Hank Haeusler (School
of Architecture, University of NSW) and
Martin Tomitsch (Faculty of Architecture,
University of Sydney).
SPARC attracted 73 companies to
the exhibition held in the Customs Hall,
Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular
Quay: Euroluce Lighting Australia, ECC,
Southern Cross Illumination, Efficient
Lighting Systems, Thorn Lighting,
Viabizzuno, Lighting Australia, Ligman,
International Poles, GE Lighting,
Crompton Lighting, Clevertronics,
Sylvania Lighting Australasia, Concord
Lighting, Shenzhen Topband, Hanzhou
Yuzhong Gaohong Lighting Electrical
Equipment, Brightgreen, Universal
Lighting and Audio, Zhejiang Yolo
Electrical Lighting, Hella Australia,
CREE Australia, PAK Lighting,
Vossloh-Schwabe, ADM Instrument
Engineering, LSI Hamilton Lighting
Systems, EYE Lighting Australia,
Dialight ILS Australia, Gerard iLP,
Clipsal by Schneider Electric, Nikkon
Lighting, Thorlux Lighting Australasia,
Performance in Lighting,
LEFT:
A taste of the
entertainment at
the Gala Dinner
at the Sydney
Town Hall.
BELOW:
Presentation by
Emmanuel Claire
from international
architecture firm
Light Cibles
SPARC International
Lighting Event
The biennial SPARC International
Lighting Event was held in early June
as part of the Vivid Sydney winter
festival. Following a spectacular Opening
Ceremony at 7.30pm on 4th June were
two days of exhibition, speakers and
social events culminating in a Gala
Dinner at Sydney Town Hall.
The world-class Speaker Program,
held in the Cargo Hall, Overseas
Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay,
had the following presenters: Motoko
Ishii (Lighting Designer, Motoko Ishii
Lighting Design), Rogier van der Heide
(Vice-President Philips Design and Chief
Design Officer Philips Lighting), Emmanuel
Clair (Architect and Lighting Designer,
Light Cibles), John Johnson (Owner,
Lightwaves), Rick Morrison (Senior Lighting
Designer, NDYLIGHT), Tim Greer (Director,
54
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
Lighting Options Australia, Moonlighting,
Philips, Philips Dynalite, Pierlite,
Austube, Intralux Australia, HPM
Legrand, Pecan Lighting, JSB Lighting,
Tridonic Australia, Beacon Lighting,
OSRAM, Zumtobel Lighting, Sill Lighting
Australia, The Lighting Group, Verbatim,
Megaman Lighting Australia, Hangzhou
Hpwinner Opto Corporation, Xiamen
Yankon Energetic Lighting, Energy
Light, Versalux, Nanjing New-High
Jingwei Electric, International Lighting,
Jiangsu Futai Lighting, Guangzhou Jiufo
Electric Appliance, Guangzhou Lovely
Lighting, Yancheng Haolin Lighting, Beal
Pritchett, Tenrod, Suland Lighting, LED
Lighting, Lite Life LED, Domus Lighting,
Universelite, Norstar Lighting Group,
Xenian, Orion Solar, Phaeton LED,
Ariane Optoelectronics and Shenzhen
Geosheen Lighting,
Mr Bryan Douglas, CEO of SPARC
2013, said that feedback from the event
had been extremely positive. While no
attendance figures were available at
the time this article was prepared he
estimated that more than 3,000 people
had participated in the event. Five
hundred had attended the spectacular
Gala Dinner.
ABOVE:
The
illuminated
Sydney
Opera House
provided
the perfect
backdrop for
networking
and revelries
during the
Opening
Ceremony.
RIGHT:
Seventy-three
Australian and
international
companies
participated in
the exhibition.
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
55
IES U p d a t e s + POSTS
South Australia
March 2013
meeting review
March in Adelaide has come to be
known as “Mad March” because we
try to cram a year’s worth of activity
into one month. Clipsal 500, Festival of
Arts, Fringe Festival, WOMAD and the
Adelaide Cup all take place in March, so
there isn’t much time to rest.
March was no different for the SA/
NT Chapter. Backing up soon after the
success of the February meeting with the
Gerard Lighting Building tour, we were
quickly into preparations for the visit of
Dr Wendy Davis. And what a visit!
For those who attended either one
of the two Masterclasses or the evening
technical presentation (or both events),
they experienced Wendy’s infectious
passion and enthusiasm, together with
her extensive technical knowledge.
The success of these events is hard to
measure but the SA/NT Chapter now has
an influential supporter in NSW.
It’s interesting to explain how we
got to have Wendy visit us in the first
place. We read a story last year about
her in Lighting, being introduced as the
new Head of Illumination Design at
University of Sydney. On the spur of the
moment, we did some internet research
(some may say stalking), found her e-mail
address and sent her an invite to visit our
Chapter for a presentation – not really
expecting a reply, let alone for Wendy to
accept our invitation!
We did get a reply and she did say
yes (obviously). And she mentioned
in her introduction for her evening
presentation, that she’s been saying
yes to any request that we made
since her initial acceptance: “Evening
presentation?” – No problem; “Two
masterclasses?” – Yes; “Can we get a
copy of your presentation?” – Sure; “Can
we video your presentation?” – Can do.
This was a pleasant change for us in
dealing with people from interstate on
IES matters because they usually don’t
happen without delays in response or
56
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
no answer at all. And funnily enough,
this is what the Society needs; passion,
enthusiasm and involvement. And Wendy
epitomises all of these qualities.
An evening presentation and two
Masterclasses later, those who attended
were privy to Wendy’s thoughts, views
and opinions on chromaticity, CCT and
CRI relating to LEDs and there was
much to be learnt. The SA/NT Chapter
cannot thank Wendy enough for visiting
our Chapter and looks forward to her
taking up an invitation again.
For those of you who were unable to
attend the evening technical meeting,
a video of Wendy’s presentation will
be uploaded on to our website in the
near future. We will be doing this more
in the future as it provides information
for members who are unable to attend
a meeting, in particular our Darwin
members and we hope that other
Chapters follow this lead so that we can
have information being shared between
Chapters and IES members getting more
value for their membership dollars.
– words by Mick Reidy, SA Chapter
Chair; photos by Paula Furlani
South Australia
April 2013
meeting review
On a balmy night in April, 31 members
and friends of the Society were given
an exclusive look into the striking new
building on the University of Adelaide
campus named “The Braggs” (designed
by BVN Architecture). Mick Reidy
welcomed everyone in the entrance of
the new Union Theatre and introduced
Gavin Hall, Josh Hall and Aaron Grieger
from Bestec who led the tour of the
complex.
On the first day of the academic
year, the Vice Chancellor, Professor
Warren Beddington, said to those
gathered in the new Union Theatre:
“This $97 million facility, home to the
Institute of Photonics and Advanced
Sensing and a myriad of teaching
spaces is a spectacular example of how
research and learning can be integrated
seamlessly.”
Those present certainly felt that
students, present and future, will have
Chapter Chair, Mick Reidy’s Easter thank-you to Dr Wendy Davis .
The Braggs Building, University of Adelaide
an exceptional opportunity in this world-class learning and
research facility.
The Society would like to thank Bestec, and in particular
Gavin, Josh and Aaron, for organising the tour as well as their
input from the electrical/services engineers’ perspective.
– words and photo by Paula Furlani
Queensland news
In QLD, momentum is gaining for the Annual IES Awards
Dinner – the venue and date are set and the call has gone
out for award nominations. In previous years, some of the
student award recipients have gained employment in the
lighting industry – an encouraging result and great for the
future of our industry.
Earlier this year, we were approached by the Aboriginal
Centre for Performing Arts (ACPA) to assist in providing
lighting for their three-night event as part of the ‘Anywhere
Theatre Festival’. The ACPA students were performing Romeo
and Juliet and the stage was to be set outside around their
heritage listed building Leckhampton in Brisbane. With the
help of some QUT students as well as a few local lighting
suppliers (with equipment in tow) we managed to light the
set and achieved a great result. The Director and the ACPA
students were pleased and thanked the IES for its assistance.
Our ‘lighting crew’ worked under the guidance of Doug
Brimblecombe (QPAC) producing a lighting scheme which
could be set-up and packed-up each night. Thanks go to Doug;
our local lighting suppliers – QPAC, Sylvania Lighting, Inlite,
Performance in Lighting; and all the volunteers who helped
out over the three nights. The photographs show the stage
(the exterior and balcony) and the undercover carpark.
Following John Tank’s initiative, the QLD Chapter is
organising a fundraising event to support Life Fellow Trevor
Caswell, who has motor neurone disease and is confined to
a wheelchair. Trevor has contributed significantly to IES and
Events Calendar
2013
24-29 June
13th International Symposium on the Science
and Technology of Lighting (LS13)
www.lrc.rpi.edu/ls13/about.asp
Troy, New York
5-6 August
Australian Smart
Lighting Summit 2013
www.expotradeglobal.com
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Exclusive Media Partner
13-15 August
The LED Show
www.theledshow.com
Las Vegas, USA
13-16 September
Light India International 2013
www.lii.co.in/about.aspx
Chennai, India
17-19 September
Lux Europa 2013
www.luxeuropa2013.pl/en/index.htm
Krakow, Poland
24-26 September
LED Lighting Technologies
http://www.led-professional-symposium.com/symposium/
LpS 2013 - Introduction
Bregenz, Austria
Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012
were surveyed for registration and
labelling compliance during March and
April 2013. The survey covered 62 stores
of various sizes across NSW, VIC and SA
and surveyed 1271 models, covering 60
different brands. As part of the exercise
samples of product were purchased for
laboratory testing later in 2013 to verify
compliance with minimum performance
standards and performance claims.
The outcomes of the survey will assist
the Department of Resources, Energy
and Tourism determine where further
education and awareness raising is
required and provide information to
assist with further compliance activity in
this sector. A report with the results of
the monitoring survey will be released
mid-2013.”
the lighting industry over previous
four decades: as a member with
continuous service on the QLD Chapter
Management Committee; in his role as
the principal of the industry-acclaimed
lighting design software Perfect Lite;
and his recognition, throughout
Australasia, as expert in public lighting.
The fundraiser will culminate at a special
presentation in June 2013 that will
include a photographic display public
lighting entitled ‘The Good – The Bad –
and The Ugly’.
Finally, an update on the QUT Lighting
Course. After having received numerous
letters of support, QUT acknowledged
the strong industry support for the
program but announced that the current
course content will be developed into
a Continuing Professional Education
format. After the required CPD units
are completed, students may be able
to complete a Masters in Lighting. The
Graduate Certificate and Graduate
Diploma will no longer be available.
– Sonya Thie
Labelling
compliance update
David Pearson, Assistant Director,
Lighting and Equipment Energy
Efficiency Team, Appliance Energy
Efficiency Branch, Energy Efficiency
Division, Department of Resources
Energy and Tourism reports: “Eight types
of lighting product subject to regulation
regulated under the Greenhouse and
Only the western side of the bridge was lit; this view is towards the east and the Opera House.
Sydney Harbour
Bridge lit for
Vivid Sydney
Until now, Australia’s most recognisable
icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, on par
with the Opera House, has remained in
the shadows while the rest of Sydney
has shone in the annual Vivid Festival.
In the two months leading up to Vivid,
a crew of 10 have worked night and day
to lay kilometres of cable, more than
100,000 LED lights and 140 custom
high-power LED parcan lights.
The lighting was the brainchild of Iain
Reed, founder of 32 Hundred Lighting,
who had previously lit the bridge red for
World AIDS day, was technical director
behind the O for Oprah and the bridge’s 75th birthday light
show, and has sat atop the arches for countless New Years Eve
celebrations, harnessed to the arches in a halo of smoke and
blazing colour.
Lighting the bridge for Vivid was the most challenging,
requiring 2000 programmable LED batons, LED colour washes,
intelligent moving lights and software for an interactive LED
screen at Luna Park allowed people to choose from a variety of
effects, palettes and movements to create a two minute play of
colours across the bridge.
Some of the hardware required was:
zz More than 100,000 individual, programmable LED lights
contained in 2,000 x 1 m long LED tubes – making up 2km
of LED tubes;
zz 140 custom made high powered LED parcan lights;
zz Just under 1 kilometre of military-grade, tactical fibre optic
network cable;
zz 8.5 km of Cat 6 cable;
zz 14 x gigabyte network switches;
zz 3.5 km of Cee Form power cable;
zz 14 custom made Cee Form distribution units;
zz 1 kilometre of three phase cable;
zz 20,000 cable ties; and
zz 10 crew members per shift, using 12 custom made quivers
(special backpacks designed to carry the LED tubes) to get
the tubes into place.
In addition to lighting the bridge 32 Hundred Lighting
lit 10 city skyscrapers for Skyscraper Illuminati, part of Vivid’s
city lighting.
Society of
Light and
Lighting (UK)
AGM
At its AGM on 28th May
the Society of Light and
Lighting (SLL) presented
awards to members who
had made a significant
contribution to the art
and science of lighting in
the previous year.
This year’s Lighting
Dr Peter Boyce (right) accepted Warren
Award went to David
Julian’s Honorary Fellowship from SLL
Holmes, longstanding
President Iain McCrea.
member of the Technical
and Publications Committee, and responsible for overseeing
the publication of Lighting Guide 1: Industrial Buildings and
forthcoming Lighting Guide 13: lighting of building for religious
assembly. “It is through the hard work and diligence of
members such as David that this Society can maintain and
improve its technical standing” said Paul Ruffles, who
delivered the citation.
The Presidential Medal was awarded to Dr Peter Boyce
(pictured), for his contributions to the lighting industry in a
Events Calendar
2013
3-5 October
IALD Enlighten Americas 2013
http://www.iald.org/about/events/
IALDEnlightenAmericas2013.asp
Montréal, Canada
16-18 October
LED Japan/Strategies in Light
www.sil-ledjapan.com
Yokohama, Japan
30 Oct-2 November
Professional Lighting Design Convention
www.pld-c.com/
Copenhagen, Denmark
7-9 November
10th China International Forum on Solid State
Lighting
www.sslchina.org or www.china-led.net
Guangzhou, China
14-16 November
GreenLighting Shanghai Expo and Forum 2013
www.greenlgihtingchina.com
Shanghai, China
19121 November
Strategies in Light Europe
www.sileurope.com
Munich, Germany
2014
23-26 April
CIE Conference on Lighting Quality
www.teeam.org.my/news-event/malaysia-cie-nationalcommittee-news-2/
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
30 Mar-4 April
Light + Building
light-building.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/
willkommen.html
Frankfurt, Germany
1-5 June
Lightfair International (LFI)
www.lightfair.com
Las Vegas, USA
58
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
LEFT:
Sydney Opera House was the
first building to come to life with
projections by Australian creative
innovators, The Spinifex Group
BELOW:
The floodlighting on a finger wharf
is reflected in the slightly-disturbed
harbour waters — all overlooked by
western side of the Harbour Bridge
with its temporary lighting installation.
career spanning over 50 years. Professor
Dr Warren Julian, who among other
achievements created the first English
language graduate level lighting design
programme in 1979, was made an
Honorary Fellow and Peter Raynham
presented the Regional Award to
Richard Caple.
The Leon Gaster Award went to R
Leslie, LC Redetsky, and AM Smith for
their article on Conceptual design metrics
for daylighting. L Halonen, E Rautkla and
M Puolakka received the Walsh Weston
Award for their paper Alerting effects
of daytime light exposure – a proposed
link between light exposure and brain
mechanisms. These awards are made for
articles in the technical journal Lighting,
Research and Technology (LR&T) which
is available for free to SLL members.
Lighting Education Trust Diplomas
were presented to Paul Yates, Zeyneo
Erginoglu, Oliver Smithson, Daniel
Cramond, Jacky Cheung, Hazel
Brannigan, James Miles. The Lighting
Education Trust is a charitable trust
which funds public education in Lighting
and Lighting Design and Engineering.
Representatives of the SLL’s current
sponsors – Holophane, Philips,
Thorn, Trilux and Wila Lighting were
presented with Sponsorship Partnership
Certificates.
At the AGM Dr Kevin Kelly, who
was inaugurated as SLL president,
announced collaborative working,
holistic building design and proper
measurement of systems as some of
his key areas to work on. SLL is part of
The Chartered Institution of Building
Services Engineers (CIBSE) which
also promotes knowledge sharing and
collaborative working.
60
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
8100
8101
8300
8000
8102
Vivid Sydney lights
With the longest Light Walk in Vivid
Sydney’s five-year history, a record
100,000-plus visitors headed to the
harbour foreshore for the annual festival
of light, music and ideas during its
opening weekend (24-26 May).
Festivalgoers enjoyed the spectacular
Lighting of the Sails on the Sydney
Opera House, over 60 light installations
and immersive 3D projections, including
Customs House and the Museum of
Contemporary Art Australia (MCA),
the water theatre show Aquatique
International at Darling Harbour, and the
interactive touchscreen where the public
can light up the Sydney Harbour Bridge
(see separate story).
Vivid was extended to include a new
Vivid Music program at Carriageworks,
the Seymour Centre and the Overseas
Passenger Terminal, and the visiting
thought leaders, and creative industry and
business innovators involved in Vivid Ideas
provided audiences with an unforgettable
experience. The iconic 70s façade of
the Seymour Centre was illuminated by
some of the most inventive postgraduate
students of Illumination Design at
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of
Architecture, Design and Planning.
There seemed to be a move away
from physical light experiences to largescale projection and floodlighting events.
Perhaps, this is a result of the huge cost
involved in complying with “worst case
scenario” safety requirements. A number
of people who experienced those
problems and cost in 2012 shied away
from entering in 2013.
However, Vivid’s light shows were
great and aided by benign weather in
the first week, attracted many people.
Photographs of the more spectacular
elements are shown here. The images
are courtesy of Vivid Sydney and more
can be seen at their media website.
CommerCial
& industrial
light Fittings
•
•
•
•
•
•
LED ExtErior
FLooD, ArEA, SportS & StrEEt
inDuStriAL & CommErCiAL
CAnopy & pArking
SECurity & AmEnity
FooD inDuStry & inFrAStruCturE
t 03 9800 5600
e sales@adlt.com.au
w www.adlt.com.au
110 Lewis Road
Wantirna South
VIC 3152 AUSTRALIA
COMBRITE RANGE OF
LIGHTING CONTROL GEAR
l
l
AustrAliAn FAmily
OwnEd COmPAny
LED lighting
Commercial
Architectural
Industrial
roadway and street lighting
Flood and Area lighting
Bollards
Wide range of Spheres
14 Leighton Place, Hornsby NSW 2077
Ph: (02) 9477 7716 • Fax (02) 9477 7732
E: sales@coloniallighting.com.au • www.coloniallighting.com.au
l
l
l
l
l
l
Electronic Ballast for T5 and T8 lamps
Electronic Ballasts for compact lamps
Dimmable Electronic Ballast 1-10V and DALI
Electronic HID Ballast 20W-250W to suit Metal
Halide and High Pressure Sodium Lamps
LED Drivers – Constant Current and
Constant Voltage
Emergency Lighting inverters
Australian and International Approvals
EMC Compliant
Comm-Chem materials Pty ltd
5 Spireton Place Pendle Hill NSW 2145
Ph: 02 9896 5466 Fax: 02 9896 5010
www.commchem.com.au
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
61
LIGHTING
r E s o u r c E
G u I d E
1065
LED
DOWNLIGHT
M A N U FA C T U R E D I N A U S T R A L I A
MINIMISING YOUR POWER CONSUMPTION
M A X I M I S I N G I L L U M I N AT I O N F O R S T R I C T B C A S TA N D A R D S
LED PROFESSIONAL SERIES
Profiling companies
& lighting solutions
Book your listing now
Profiles available in all these 5 editions of Lighting
February/March | June/July | August/September
October/November | December/January
Contact Adam Cail | Tel: +61 2 9420 2080
adam@rala.com.au | www.rala.com.au
B O R N TO P E R F O R M
30W – 60W
Industrial, Commercial,
Residential, Retail


••

Architectural,
Landscape

••

l Lighting•• package
specialist




l Lighting ••project
specialist

••

l 40 Years lighting experience

••

l SAA ••& EMC
compliant product



l Member Lighting Council
of Australia
l
l




1/19 Macquarie Drv, Thomastown, Vic 3074
PO Box 24 Sth Morang, Vic 3752


T: 03 9464 6642


F: 03 9464 5504


E: info@designlite.com.au
Unique square
Double Batwing
light output


www.designlite.com.au
Efficient Lighting Systems
VICTORIA
PO Box 391, Bentleigh VIC 3204 | Contact: John Daykin
T: +61 3 9553 2330 | F: +61 3 9553 2335
M: 0408 542 805 | E: dasco@bigpond.net.au
SYDNEY
5/43 Leighton Place, Hornsby NSW 2077 | Contact: Ned Kacavenda
T: +61 2 9476 6966 | F: +61 2 9477 1339
E: Sydney@dascolighting.com.au
With over 20 years of experience in manufacturing light fittings,
ELS knows what is required to make quality products.
ELS is also the Australian distributor of Ligman exterior lighting
products and Spittler interior lighting products. This diverse
range offers top quality, energy efficient, SAA and EMC approved
products suitable for all Australian installations.
www.dascolighting.com.au
Agent for: Architectural Lighting Products
62
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
39 Tinning Street Brunswick VIC 3056
PO BOX 5084 Moreland West VIC 3055
P: 03 9222 5522
F: 03 9222 5521
E: info@elslighting.com.au
www.elslighting.com.au
HEAD OFFICE & MANUFACTURING
42-46 Scrivener St, Warwick Farm, NSW 2170, Australia
Tel +61 2 9822 7333 Fax +61 2 9822 7399
info@gammaillumination.com
www.gammaillumination.com
NSW (02) 9822 7333 / VIC (03) 9801 7777 / QLD (07) 3806 4466 / SA (08) 8260 1444 / WA (08) 9377 1322 / ACT (02) 6241 1388
June/July 2013 | LIGHTING MAGAZINE
63
PTY
LTD
commercial & architectural lighting
SpecialiSing in
n leD DiSplaY FiXTUReS
n leD ReceSSeD lUMinaiReS
n MeTal HaliDe lUMinaiReS
n Bca cOMpliance
n ligHTing planS
n ligHTing SOlUTiOnS
You need to know
Contact Hugh Rabone
Phone: +61 (0)2 9634 6244 Fax: +61 (0)2 9634 3422
Mobile: +61 (0)406 754 724 Email: hugh@norlight.com.au
Unit 14/7 Hoyle Ave, Castle Hill NSW 2154 Australia
www.norlight.com.au
LIGHTING
We have been a leading manufacturer of architectural linear
lighting in the Australasia region for over 30 years. Our five
system families, in-house design and custom-made fittings to
client order are now reaching a broader international market.
Products & Services: Our award-winning 85 Beam and Multibeam
luminaires joined Ledpod rail and the robust new IP66 outdoor
family, to become our most popular fittings in 2012.
r E s o u r c E
Contact: Cliff Hadley,
International Sales & Marketing Manager
Unit 2, 2 Southridge Street,
Eastern Creek, 2766 NSW, Australia
Phone: + 61 2 9851 3300
Email: info@kliksystems.com.au
www.kliksystems.com.au
G u I d E
Profiling companies &
lighting solutions
Book your listing now
solutions, products and services
for the lighting industry
Contact Adam Cail | Tel: +61 2 9420 2080 | adam@rala.com.au | www.rala.com.au
Philips Lighting
See what light can do
Philips Lighting is a global leader in lighting, providing a unique
combination of technologies which include lamps, optics,
luminaires, controls and accessories.
Sales/Service toll free 1300 304 404
Project Quotes 1300 915 468
lightingquotes@philips.com
www.lighting.philips.com.au
PROJECTORS \ IN-GROUNDS \ BOLLARDS \ LIGHT COLUMNS \ POST TOPS
C
l
l
l
l
l
l
Lighting Magazine
Lighting eNewswire
Lighting Suppliers Directory
Lighting Product Showcase
Lighting Interactive
Exclusive Email broadcasts available
Contact: Adam Cail
adam@rala.com.au
M
LOFOOT
Lighting Magazine is the Official
publication for the IESANZ
Illuminating Engineering Society of
Australia and New Zealand
Y
Available from:
CM
MY
CY
CMY
Lighting Options Australia
50 Kent Street, CANNINGTON WA 6107
P: 08 6142 4977 M: 0410 575 180
E: ben@lightingoptionsaustralia.com.au
W: www.lightingoptionsaustralia.com.au
64
K
A PHILOSOPHY IN LIGHT
Proudly published bi-monthly by:
RALA Information Services Pty Ltd
Multi Communication Specialists
1A/551 Mowbray Road West, Lane Cove North NSW 2066, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9420 2080 | Fax: +61 2 9420 5152
LIGHTING MAGAZINE | June/July 2013
The Lighting Society
Night Blossoms
at Pyrmont
Vivid Sydney 2013