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UK Lighting Regulations for Businesses: What You Must Know

Is ensuring that your business meets UK regulations just about compliance? Or do they realise it’s for their own benefit? What benefits, you ask? For starters,...
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How to Audit & Retrofit Commercial Lighting (Step-by-Step)

Word on the street is your lighting system’s seen better days. Half your fixtures buzz louder than your staff, the corridors resemble a dungeon,...
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Smart Lighting in Commercial Spaces: Automation & Controls

Lighting has come a long way. It is no longer just about switching a bulb on or off or replacing tubes when they fail. If...
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Industrial & Warehouse Lighting: Strategies for High Ceilings

This might go without saying, but lighting a warehouse or any industrial facility isn’t the same as lighting an office. Mounting heights alone can soar...
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Retail Lighting That Sells: Techniques for Shops & Showrooms

If you walk into a store and you immediately gravitate towards a certain brightly-lit display, product, or area, chances are that’s not a coincidence. Retail...
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Smart Office Lighting: Designs that Boost Productivity & Comfort

Did you know that if you have coworkers or employees who are consistently grumpy, consecutively hit the lowest productivity marks, or frequently experience migraines,...
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Fluorescent and Halogen Lighting – The Mid-Century Leap Forward

Not to be the bringer of bad news, but the incandescent (Edison) bulb, after its invention in 1879, did not burn bright enough to...
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The Phoebus Cartel – How Lightbulb Manufacturers Tried to Control the World’s Lighting

“They don’t make them like they used to.” A line we’ve all heard countless times from the older generations. It implies that products now easily...
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The Invention That Changed Everything – Edison, the Incandescent Bulb & the Lighting Revolution

Imagine being a lamplighter in the late 1870s, and some inventor from across the world, whom you haven’t even heard of, develops a light...
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How LED Lighting Reduces Energy Consumption

You know how, when technology advances, everything becomes smaller? Think computers and phones. Early computers were as large as a room. Now, even your...