THINKLIGHT 2021

The environmental impact of buildings has become increasingly apparent. Many organizations recognize the value of green buildings and sustainability as part of their responsibility to more than just the bottom line. Green or sustainable practices within commercial buildings produce healthier and more resource-efficient models of operation and maintenance. 

Lighting design can be the difference between effective infrastructure and missing the mark. Good lighting design brings many benefits including the prevention of night-time road accidents, the provision of a safe environment for both motorized and non-motorized users. Innovations such as adaptive lighting, the application of LED light sources and control systems can reduce energy and carbon costs, while ensuring correct lighting performances.

With lighting equipment accounting for a good portion of a project’s FF&E costs, budget frequently drives healthcare lighting programs. At the same time, healthcare organizations realize that successful designs can pay off. For example, proper lighting can potentially improve patient satisfaction surveys—and, subsequently, reimbursements tied to those surveys—by positively influencing patients’ perceptions of their environments. 

Lighting appliances and the IoT ecosystem converge in several areas: health and wellness, lighting systems with advanced sensing, optical communications, and location services. Moreover, such lighting systems require the use of wired and wireless connectivity to be connected to the Internet. However, as the world of standards and protocols is evolving, manufacturers and lighting solution experts need to adapt the products to lighting market tendencies especially when it is combined together with the IoT environment and advanced lighting control systems.

Lighting is one of the most underrated components in designing an establishment, despite having a significant effect in enhancing customer experience. Restaurants, hotels, convenient stores, and even barbershops have been utilizing lighting design to drive customers to their business. For retailers who haven’t invested yet in their lighting design, this is the time to understand how it affects brand perception and more.

The actual lighting fixtures a the hotel setting are often disregarded because people’s focus shifts to the architecture, the furniture, and the overall design of the place. But that’s the beauty of lighting. It can bring the best out of anything without stealing the spotlight. Customer preferences in hotels and restaurants change and you have to keep yourself updated if you want to stay relevant.

The right outdoor architectural lighting can transform a space. It enables us to use public spaces at night and can turn a dark and dingy thoroughfare into a brightly lit hub of activity. Lighting provides safe, appealing places to congregate. In busy cities, the need for open, public space continues beyond daylight hours. But more than that, well-designed lighting schemes create safe, welcoming areas to pause, rest and congregate.

Finding the value of darkness in the City of Lights might seem a contradiction, however it is very important.  With so many sources of light around us, darkness has become a scarce resource. The main goal of the session is to share with the audience, the way light pollution affects our environment and what we can do to help it improve.