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AT THE FRONT Retail food operators are replacing grocery shopping tedium with new salesstimulating visual and interactive experiences.
SSL PROJECT Sonos’s flagship boutique used light effectively to transform the ambiance and enrich the sensory experience in its listening rooms.
SSL PROFILE Ethereal illusion: BIG Architects lauded for design on 2016’s edition of London’s annual Serpentine Pavilion, a 3D wall that has been “unzipped.”
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07 DOE Forecast
05 LED Insights
Energy savings from LED will top 5 quads annually by 2035—so says DOE in the seventh edition of the biennial report.
Designers need to start selling productivity over energy savings as the bottom-line differences are significant. By Jim Crockett
The Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Sabres are among the latest sports teams to adopt LED.
Copper and Tinker Toys best describe what’s hot in products.
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18 Market Setting Feature: The Beat Goes On
40 White Pages Specifying lighting to better integrate with BACnet.
Five key factors are shaping lighting. New information, ongoing discoveries, shifts in economic and market movements, and energy policies may change the balance between these forces, but will not change the tune. by Kevin Willmorth
24 At the Front: Gleeful Grocery Today’s food merchants understand that stodgy, traditional spaces result in stagnant shopping and sales. Savvy shops are adding a more luxurious touch with the accent on lighting. by Vilma Barr
42 Advances A new spin on office overhead illumination; decorative; dimmable, high-color rendering sources; task lighting.
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30 Featured Project: Listening with Light Illumination for Sonos’ new New York City flagship features lighting completely in tune with its high-tech audio pods. by Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
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Too often, quality lighting initiatives are torpedoed by tight budgets. It’s time to turn the tables on bean counters and value engineers.
environment experts she spoke to at NeoCon, the industry’s top interiors show, are finding the concept of “play”—just a sort of non-computer casual free time—is a critical component to enhanced office productivity. Both studies poke a pair of personal sore
I accrue a lot of newsy nuggets that, individu-
spots—dissatisfaction with the overall illumi-
ally, lack the gravitas to make a notable story.
nation/daylighting of spaces combined with
However, if I’m patient enough, a random ingre-
a lack of dimming control and task lighting. I
dient will come along that allows me to make a
had a long conversation about the latter with
satisfying stew. In this case, the meal might help
Kevin Willmorth and another lighting designer
ease the hunger associated with a clients’ non-
friend—both rolled their eyes when I asked why
appetite to incorporate better lighting.
we’re not seeing more of it given the novel task
The missing “ingredient,” in this case, relates
sources exhibited at NeoCon. Willmorth says it’s
to a new DOE study about nurses’ attitudes
a matter of budgets and designing only for core
toward lighting—or more accurately, the lack
and shell vs. tenant spaces. A strategy design-
thereof. Overwhelmingly, the study found an
ers might want to pursue, he says, is convincing
unsatisfied desire for more local control, specifi-
operators to switch lighting to the FF+E budget.
cally an ability to dim when it came to interact-
Good luck with that, wishes my other friend.
ing with patients during the night. When this
Granted, we’ve all heard the “blood from a
option isn’t available, most nurses default to
stone” argument, but a third item from my nug-
turning on the lights in the adjacent bathroom,
get collection—a Legrand white paper assessing
or using a flashlight.
the state of high-performance buildings—made
With so many discreet LED products on the
a spot-on point designers should heed, and that
market, including color options like amber, the
is to adopt to the $6 vs. 6-cents rule. The paper
fact that the following is this nurse’s wish, is
noted most organizations follow the “3-30-300”
unacceptable. “I love having options of lighting.
rule, which states they typically spend $3/sq. ft.
To be able to sneak in at 4 a.m. and turn on a
on annual utilities, $30 on rent and $300 on pay-
tiny light which does not shine on the family or
roll. According to this formula, improving energy
patient as they are sleeping, is amazingly won-
efficiency by a modest 2% yields an annual sav-
derful to have. Otherwise, us night nurses use
ings of 6 cents/sq. ft. However, if productivity is
the light from the IV pump.”
raised 2%, it’s a $6/sq. ft. gain.
It’s ridiculous that someone simply cannot do
If that doesn’t get the attention of recalci-
their job because basic building-level technology
trant clients, like Teddy Roosevelt, it might help
is not there—and we’re not even talking about
to carry around a big stick, perhaps a ruler, to
patients’ experiences in such situations.
deliver one’s lighting metrics message.•
The nurse study tied nicely with research commissioned by Staples regarding generational preferences in offices. Obvious findings: everyone wants more daylighting and everyone would like healthier food around in break areas. That said, one of the most interesting pieces in the
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Breaking Down 5.1 Quads of Savings DOE: FIVE QUADS OF ENERGY COULD BE TRIMMED ANNUALLY IF LED EMBRACED
Turning Down Lighting Energy Use No-LED Scenario
5.1 QUADS IF DOE TARGETS ARE MET
Energy savings from LED lighting will top 5 quads annually by 2035. So says DOE in the seventh edition of the biennial report, Energy Savings Forecast of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination Applications. The latest report uses an updated 2016 U.S. lighting market model and extends the forecast period to 2035 vs. the 2030
DOE Goals Scenario
limit used in past reports. That huge energy savings, is of course, if everyone adopted LED across the board. While that’s somewhat outlandish, DOE says what more inconceivable is that if this happens,
ABOVE: From 2015 to 2035, a total cumulative energy savings of 62 quads is possible if the DOE SSL Program Goal for LED efficacy and connected lighting are achieved—equivalent to nearly $630 billion in avoided energy costs.
solid-state lighting will not simply slow the rate of growth in energy consumption for lighting, it will in fact, turn the consumption curve down. That curve, DOE notes, will keep going down through the extended forecast period. Annual savings by 2030 previously had been estimated at 4.5 quadrillion BTUs (quads), meaning maximum adoption would have cut lighting
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energy use in half compared to where it would have been if SSL had not entered the market. The newest projection steps up that estimated savings to 5.1 quads by 2035, representing a 75%
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lighting will have tremendous growth over the remainder of this decade, reaching anywhere from 25% to upwards of 80% of lighting sales by 2020. DOE estimates that LEDs, conservatively, will constitute about 30% of U.S. lighting installations by 2020, which is on the conservative side
ABOVE: The Current SSL Path scenario indicates LED lighting stock will experience rapid growth across all sectors. The residential sector is projected to dominate in terms of total LED lamps and luminaires installed.
compared to other forecasts. Regardless, the anZ
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nual energy savings in 2020 estimated by DOE is substantial, topping 1.5 quads if DOE targets are met. LED products, DOE believes, will dominate every general lighting niche. By 2035, LED lamps and luminaires are anticipated to hold the majority of lighting installations in each of the niches examined, comprising 86% of installed stock across all categories. In 2015, LEDs represented only 6% of installed stock. By far the biggest energy savings will come from four product categories plus connected lighting technology. As shown in the figure, most of the 5.1 quads of projected energy savings by 2035 will be attributable to two commercial lighting applications (linear and low/high-bay); one residential application (A-types); and one that crosses both residential and commercial (directional). Connected lighting and other control technologies will be essential in achieving these savings, accounting for almost 2.3 quads of the total.
Updated Model The lighting market model used in this year’s report is more finely calibrated
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since it incorporates additional years of historical LED market share data. The enhanced model will be used not
With HDTV changing the game as far as broad-
extreme efficiency and exceptional color render-
only in future Forecast reports, but
cast quality is concerned, many stadiums and
ing. The work is part of a $125M modernization
also in DOE’s biennial market-snapshot
arenas have been switching to LED illumination,
of the facility, where Cree CXB Series high-bay
report, Adoption of Light-Emitting Di-
as they’re finding it’s better suited to HD. In turn,
lighting were installed in concourses adjacent
odes in Common Lighting Applications. Applications
a number of sports facilities are branching out
to the Cree LED Lighting gate. The benefits of
including the Cleveland Browns, who recently
the CXB Series include improved visibility and
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that is now being illuminated by Cree’s LS Series
costs and improved aesthetics. Cree will be the
LED surface ambient luminaires, which are also
exclusive lighting partner of the Browns as part
enabled with Cree’s TrueWhite technology for
of the agreement.•
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ARENAS: FIRST NIAGARA CENTER, BUFFALO
Sabres Have No Clash with SSL First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY, home of the NHL’s Sabres, recently installed EATON’s Ephesus sports LED lighting and controls system just in time for the new season. The system enhances the viewing experience for spectators while reducing energy use by as much
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said Michael Gilbert, the Sabre’s vice president, Administration. “We’ve seen firsthand how Ephesus can improve visibility both on the ice and in the arena bowl.” The system features Arena Pro luminaires with color temperature tuning capabilities and a wired DMX control system that will interface with the arena’s existing control system. The LED system is the only one available with 100% dimming capabilities. Despite involving significantly less fixtures than the previous system, the new lighting provides optimal illumination that’s more
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ABOVE: The Sabres opened with the new lighting against the Ottawa Senators, which was the first NHL team to install Ephesus in 2014 at the Canadian Tire Centre arena.
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KICKSTARTER LAUNCH: LIGEO
The Tinker Toys of Lighting? The Vode RaceRailTM suspended LED is remarkably adaptive. With rails that rotate infinitely and lock at any angle, and drivers that can be placed 100 feet away and dim to 1%, it’s more than OK.
Some really novel LED luminares are hitting the market. Below is LIGEO, an insanely easy to assemble lighting system from Germany, created by Heike Bedoian and Dietmar Dix, that allows the user to construct virtually anything one could imagine. The product has been launched as part of a Kickstarter program, and is available in both white and RGB. A video of the product, in fact, can be seen on Kickstarter.com, simply search for LIGEO.
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NEW LIGHTING PLAYER: DYSON
Engineering Customer Crossover
Dyson—certainly known for its revolutionary vacuum cleaners on the residential side, is making a big push to more things commercial, starting with lighting. Last year, through Jake Dyson Products, a separate operation, the company forayed into task lighting with the CSYS (pictured
“HEAT PIPE TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS FOR POWERFUL LIGHT PRECISELY WHERE IT’S NEEDED. THE CUSTOM LENS TAKES A SINGLE LIGHT SOURCE AND CREATES A TARGETED PYRAMID OF LIGHT OVER THE TASK AREA.”
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BOOK REVIEW: LIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE—THE INTANGIBLE MATERIAL
Light as the Central Theme in Architecture Elisa Valero Ramos Principal, Elisa Valero
from Past to Future. The layout is lively and
ity and we have to learn to use it properly, with
Ramos’ narrative style is both conversational
intelligence, sensibility and always with respect
and informative, as if she were taking you on a
for natural lighting. More light does not neces-
tour of her favorite places. Of the Pantheon, she
sarily mean better light.“
writes: “The combination of direct, reflected and
On her experience with LED: “It’s a revolution
diffused light with actual, reflected and inverted
in the lighting world. Things are changing quickly
Elisa Valero Ramos is an architect who occupies
shadows patterns its walls with extraordinarily
and we are learning everyday. Just as an exam-
a small office in front of the Alhambra, Granada,
beautiful effects.”
ple, take chromotherapy in pediatric hospitals.”
Spain. From this base, she draws on her love and
In her introduction to part three, Ramos states
understanding of natural light as applied in the
we can only properly speak of architecture as
built environment for her book.
an art when we are able to turn light into an instrument that shapes and individualizes space,
Light in Architecture—The Intangible Material, from RIBA Publishing, is the culmination of
“returning it to the universality of cosmic laws.” For the section on natural light in a contem-
“I AM NOT INTERESTED IN STYLES, BUT ARCHITECTURE ROOTED IN THE EARTH AND ITS OWN TIME.”
Ramos’ observations
porary architectural project, Ramos comments
of masterful utilization
the most important element in planning spaces
of natural light in the
with good lighting is not the adaptation of so-
Europe, there are just a few schools of archi-
built environment. “At a
phisticated technical systems, but taking up the
tecture with specific courses on lighting, but
moment in our culture
challenge of taming natural light: “the intangible
sensibility to light is present in all good projects.
when noise is enormous-
material that is supplied free of charge and
Controlling the way in which light passes from
ly dense, I have chosen
which is used to build space.”
the outside to the inside is like constructing a
an architecture that acts in silence, serenely and
Catching up with the author, she had a
without drawing attention to itself,” she explains.
number of other interesting takes. On SSL:
Ramos began her career in Mexico with the restoration of Felix Candela’s work, “Los Man-
On lighting education for architects: “Even in
framework that supports the whole project.” On working in Spain: “Here, architecture is
“New technology permits quite complex lighting
constructing shadows in the search for appropri-
systems. There is much more room for creativ-
ate lighting. It is a joyful and delicate task.”•
antiales” and wrote her first book while at the Academia de España in Rome. Light in Architecture is her seventh, beyond numerous studies and research projects. “My ties to the art world began in my childhood. My mother was a painter and I discovered the world through her intense gaze and palette,” she says. “I am interested in living space, landscape, sustainability, precision and an economy of expressive resources. I am not interested in styles. I am interested in architecture rooted in the earth and in its own time.” A professor of Architectural Projects at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Granada, her new book is divided in three parts, The Role of Light in Architecture; Working With Light in Architecture; and Light in Architecture
RIGHT: A studio in Calle Belén; new space lit naturally from above in la casa de Placido Arango, Madrid.
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SCHOOLS: FLIEDNER H.S. DUESSELDORF, GERMANY
T8 Abatement Classrooms in Theodor Fliedner High School in Duesseldorf, Germany, were in need of a major renovation. Traditional T8 fluorescent troffers were replaced with “three lines of light” in the ceiling that provide a bright and even illumination of the horizontal and vertical surfaces. The new light lines are the XOOMINAIRE 4262 luminaires with a luminous flux of 2,200 lumens per meter at 4000K. The installed luminaires are flush with the ceiling beam and run elegantly between the white ceiling panels, giving the impression of a modern ceiling grid. The white ceiling panels reflect additional light and make the room appear brighter. Through this interaction between architecture and lighting design, the classrooms are enhanced, and there is a welcoming and open atmosphere.•
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Pixel-Perfect The debut installation of NanoLumens’ Outdoor Gallery Series at the American Airlines Arena in Miami takes advantage of the solution’s durability, curvability and extremely small pixel pitch, which enables clear displays even in up-close viewing in daylight conditions. “The vast majority of outdoor display products are intended for long distance viewing,” says Robert Cross, director of research and development for Nanolumens. “By reducing our pixel pitch from 4mm to 9mm, we’re able to bring the display closer to the viewer. The project also had to address extreme environmental concerns, including corrosion, high temperatures and hurricane-force winds. • ABOVE: The Outdoor Gallery Series can be tailored in any size, shape or curvature.
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In music, a quintuplet is a
When markets are dis-
Initially, the introduction
group of five notes played
rupted, which has been the
of solid-state technology
in a time value normally
case in lighting since the
could not be heard over the
given to three of four.
introduction of LEDs, the
strong steady rhythm of
The effect is a change of
regular rhythm of activity
the industry. As the tech-
confusion of rhythm, that
is upset, often including
nology improved, its beat
results in a unique result,
the introduction of extra
became stronger. Then, as
that can sound busy or out
beats that are new and out
it came to synchrony with
of step with the underlying
of step.
the market, it was heard.
regular rhythm.
Slowly, but certainly, the regular rhythm of lighting is giving way, to a new more complex beat.
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By Kevin Willmorth, editor
The following is a sum-
01_LIGHT SOURCES
Within five years the linear
mary of five key factors
LED technology is well on
fluorescent lamp will be
shaping lighting. New
its way to delivering effica-
well on its way out, leaving
information, ongoing
cies north of 200lm/W. This
few areas where LEDs will
discoveries, shifts in eco-
eclipses every other light
not have a foothold.
nomic and market move-
source, and is replacing
ments and energy policies
halogen, incandescent,
ticipated, is still behind
may change the balance
compact fluorescent,
LED. With half the life and
between these forces, but
induction and low wattage
efficacy, OLED is unlikely
will not change the tune.
HID. Continued improve-
to catch LED technology in
ments in LED manufactur-
utility, efficiency or utility
ing will push LEDs beyond
any time soon.
OLED, anxiously an-
260lm/W.
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However, for specialty applications and display
fighting for attention. Meanwhile, the combined
advanced technologies will follow, as will demand
(active matrix), OLED offers enough differentia-
infrastructure of line voltage lighting in existing
for stronger standardization.
tion to justify its existence. However, LED-based
buildings and proliferation of products readily
edge lighting and film arrays will erode some
available with line power plus low voltage wired
and need for everything to be connected to
of the target OLED market, until it can fulfil
controls in not easily dismissed. The need for
everything are still being sorted out. Large-scale
its promise of low cost. The use of OLED as a
wired support of 0-10V, DALI, DMX512A and Line
operations will lead demand. However, for exist-
replacement to fluorescent troffers in general
Voltage dimming are likely to remain a factor for
ing small tenant commercial, small business, low
illumination is unlikely for some time.
the next five years.
density, small area applications, the answers and
LEP (light emitting plasma) offers extremely
Until there emerges a strong, widely available
The questions of network security, cost-benefit
needs are so diverse, it is unlikely that there will
high intensity well suited to applications where
standard for interoperability within and between
high output HID are used, such as 750W Metal
wired, wireless, PoE, that manufacturers can
Halide in sports lighting. However, as LED costs
include in an open platform, with supporting
vs. new LED fixture battle, the dynamic differ-
come down, the use of arrays of high power LEDs
commissioning entities to ensure installation is
ence between existing operating structures
will likely limit the market for LEP.
painless, there will be no significant revolution
and new construction is a factor that will weigh
from the current wired controls technologies.
heavily against advancement of technologies
the answer to the market demand for light sourc-
That said, as market demand for connecting
that demand replacement of existing products
es requiring less thermal management, operation
lighting loads over broader networks, integration
outright. Budgets are tight, energy costs are low
on high voltages, while delivering a compact and
of IoT (Internet of Things), and human feedback
and lighting decision maker motivation is too low
intense light that is optically controllable. The
interfaces grow, the pressure to bring more
to change the slow pace of adoption.
On the far horizon, carbon nanotubes may be
emerge a single large-scale universal solution. Just as it has been with the retrofit LED lamp
demand for these attributes exists, so it is just a matter of time before someone finds a way to satisfy it.
02_CONTROLS INTEGRATION The growth in BAS (Building Automation Systems) and codes demands lighting to step beyond simple switches and dimmers. The integration of controls into communications networks, data collection and building “vision”
LIGHT SOURCE EVOLUTION
A number of novel sources, including carbon nanotubes and OLED, are on the horizon. OLED won’t replace LED, but for specialty applications it offers enough differentiation to justify its existence. Pictured are Acuity’s Trilia fixtures installed in the Irondequoit Library in the Rochester Public Library.
systems further expand the need for sophisticated controls integration. The interest in controls has created a veritable flood of products, protocols and components into the market. This has stressed existing standards to their breaking point. Further, a lack of robust universal protocols has resulted in a confusing mess of proprietary solutions, patched and adaptive interfaces, and conflicting approaches. Wireless technology presents a very attractive alternative to wired controls connectivity. Recent improvements in hardware and software have improved wireless reliability, making it a viable approach. However, PoE (Power over Ethernet), which combines power distribution with controls integration, makes wireless control of hard wired products unnecessary. Powerless controls (energized by kinetic or light energy coupled with wireless interfaces), and light wave communication (where lights flicker to send and transmit information and control data) are also
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03_HUMAN FACTORS AND WHITE LIGHT
There is an expanding demand for products that support the underlying concepts of human-focused lighting response and enhancement, including use of color tuning and quality rendering and color temperatures. Pictured is the Museum of World Cultures in Barcelona who artifacts are set off with ERCO’s Optec and Pollux fixtures.
The inclusion of human factors and the effect light has on individual health and well-being has grown in interest to the point it now attracts the attention of researchers and practitioners alike. Unfortunately, there are conflicts in interpreting research, inclusion of anecdotal “study” results, conflicting objective research and questions of applicability of investigations completed using obsolete technologies. In spite of the confusion, there is an expanding demand for products that support the underlying concepts of human focused lighting response and enhancement. Demand is growing for white light tunable products, ranging from 2700K to 6500K CCTs, blue light enhancement, simple-to-program software and local individual control. This has created a chicken-egg dilemma. Manufacturer investment required to deliver the desired effects and interfaces are significant. Yet, current market demand is comparatively small. For this reason, very few offer the additional dimension of color tuning, other than using redundant dimming functions to control color, which is imprecise. Yet, without available effective controls and supporting white-tunable products to connect to them, there is little opportunity for these concepts to balloon into a significant demand. Over the next five years, there will be an increase in available products to fill the demand for white tuning. However, without a uniform standard as to how this is to be accomplished, it is unlikely there will be widespread availability of products to apply this technique across more than a few targeted applications, such as open offices, classrooms or healthcare facilities. Manufacturing, retail, and small-tenant spaces will likely never see this applied beyond a few special task lights or other easy to apply products. On a far simpler level, application of lighting qualities (CRI and CCT) to improve visual performance, adjustments to lighting to improve visual comfort, and enhancements in task/ambient light relationships can be applied immediately. These can be deployed with new or retrofit lamps, small changes in light fixture placement and other methods scaled to customer budgets and end user needs. Addition of local controls using simple wireless modules installed in fixtures can also be deployed incrementally.
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04_LIGHTING QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS
The issue of standardized componentry still
The qualities of solid-state lighting performance,
makes a great deal of sense. However, over the
from uniformity to color accuracy (fidelity and
next five years, as service life improvements
saturation) has improved significantly over the
continue to increase, support for widespread
last three years. Currently, high quality LED
implementation for modular light sources is
products deliver greater color consistency and
likely to be hit and miss. Demands made today
higher color fidelity, produced under far tighter
for modular holders or LEDs with standard-
definitions than the outgoing fluorescent tech-
ized footprints will not provide any certainty
nology. 90CRI is beginning to replace 80CRI as the
that a failure will be addressable in the future
new minimum color standard, while uniformity
with a simple LED swap. Modularity does play a
is being addressed by LED component producers
significant and positive role in addressing early
with tighter bin controls.
warranty failures and minor field adjustments
While most current LED products mimic con-
during project initialization.
ventional products in terms of glare control and visual brightness, this too has begun to change.
00_DISRUPTING THE NORM
In the next five years, there will be a significant
There has been a recent explosion of disruptors
improvement, as manufacturers seek market
affecting the lighting industry. The five under-
differentiation, much like what occurred in the
lying factors outlined here will continue to in-
fluorescent business when strip lights gave way
crease in intensity at a rhythm and pace all their
to lensed troffers, then to louvered products,
own. This ensures the advancement of solid-state
then linear indirect. There are already signs of
technology over the next five years continues to
this transformation, with equal attention being
thrive and shape the new face of the industry.•
paid to both efficacy and visual comfort as marketing bullet points at recent trade show product launches and awards presentations. 05_MODULAR COMPONENTS Over the last 10 years, modularity of light sources and LED holders has attracted mixed attention. The concept of a universal light source footprint, that can be replaced at some point in the future, makes a great deal of sense, and “feels” right. The Zhaga Consortium has invested a great deal of time creating just such standardization. However, experience has shown that there are two other factors, beyond mechanical, at work.
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As new LEDs are introduced, it is common for drive current and voltage differences require the driver for that LED also be replaced. This reduces the value of a modular footprint, as LED replacement now requires rebuilding the entire fixture, which involves the complex problem of sourcing a new driver that fits the mounting location (for which there is no standard), delivering the new
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current and voltage range required to suit the new LED, and finding suitable expertise to apply the repair at a reasonable cost. Further, the life of current LEDs is so long, that the failure point will likely be the driver, making the standard light module irrelevant.
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Support for widespread implementation for modular light sources is likely to be hit and miss. Pictured, attendees at the LED professional Symposium+Expo in Bregenz, Austria examine some of the latest optics and drivers.
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By Vilma Barr, contributing writer
SMART SHOPS Purveyors of consumer food products are commissioning new structures and interiors that flaunt the “wow” factor in an increasingly competitive market. By once relentlessly adhering to predictable store design policies, it was hard for customers to discern the interior of one chain from another. To build sales volume across new platforms, enhanced in-store customer experiences, both visual and electronic, have been widely adapted with success by apparel, shoe and accessories retailers.
C
TREND | Corner-Store Redux
Photos: Courtesy, Landini Associates
Zehrs, Barrie, Ontario, Canada Zehrs in Canada supports the philosophy that there’s a new and improved place in the food retailing firmament for the familiar layout and merchandise presentation techniques that have characterized supermarkets for decades. Upgrades in lighting, display fixtures and signage are evident yet subtle. Architect Mark Landini of Landini Associates, describes it as “unashamedly mainstream.” The target market for Zehrs is suburban and affluent. Designed in a “Neighbour” format, the interior brightness visible through the glass façade welcomes shoppers and communicates a positive shopping experience inside. Landini exchanged a previous palette of primary colors for neutrals and natural materials such as wood barrels and exposed brick walls. Concealed lighting behind the header that identifies product groups creates a mid-layer of light to balance the overhead illumination. According to Landini, “Dwell times and basket sizes have increased.”
COMFORT FOOD SHOPPING Located in suburban Toronto, Zehrs bases its appeal as a casual grocery store that has expanded with a new upscaled environment that still maintains its casual neighborhood image. Improvements include LEDs used for high bay fixtures, track lights and recessed awning light.
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TREND | Fantasy Food Retail
Market Hall, Rotterdam Entering Market Hall in Rotterdam is comparable to the wonderland Alice found herself in at the bottom of the Rabbit Hole. Combining 100 food retailers, 200 living units, leisure activities and parking below, the $196 million, 137-yard-long arc/shed-like structure is sited in the heart of the city’s Laurens Quarter. Designed by the architectural firm MVRDV, the colorful mural-covered interior functions by day as a traditional covered central food market hall. In the evening, it is an illuminated public space with restaurants, clubs and meeting areas. On the upper levels of the arch, living areas of the apartments that require natural light are on the outside of the structure; kitchens, dining rooms, and storage spaces look onto the interior market vista. The 119,000-sq.-ft. mural was created by two Rotterdam-based artists, Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam.
PUBLIC BEACON During the day the hall serves as a central market, and after hours the hall becomes a covered, well-lit public space.
Photos: Courtesy, MVRDV Architects
D Now, once oft-replicated stodgy store interiors are being
Running a profitable supermarket requires keen atten-
selectively replaced around the industry to establish a
tion to costs and logistics. Collectively in the U.S., food
lively, contemporary and artfully-illuminated approach to
chains rang up more than $638 billion in sales in 2014. A
food shopping. Merchants rejecting the policy of sameness
typical supermarket stocks more than 42,000 items,
are placing their bets on the “Good Design is Good Business”
although some specialty chains like Wegmans offer close
mantra to encourage traffic and upgrade their image. “The
to 70,000 SKUs.
top trends for 2016 indicate that shopping patterns are
Close montoring of expenses is a critical on-going effort
changing,” says John Karolefski, who writes the GroceryS-
by operators. Chains such as Meijer’s cut operating costs for
tories.com report. “Look for grocers to get creative and
coolers and other equipment in half by replacing fluores-
enliven what has been a mundane chore,” he advises.
cent lamps with LEDs. In tandem with strict cost control
Accelerating the trend has been aggressive merchan-
practices is changing the role of food shopping in the minds
dising by electronic order-and-delivery services, and the
of consumers, from let’s-get-it-over-with, to creating enjoy-
multi-product broadening of selections offered by the mega
able, even fun, experiences. In the past decade, merchants
mass-merchants such as Costco. The supermarket business
who have successfully carved out a singular marketing
is a low-margin industry, typically ranging from 1% to 2%.
niche engaged teams of talented designers to apply fresh
Natural, organic and gourmet food markets enjoy higher
motivational thinking. Their assignment is to attract more
averages from 3.5% to 6%. Recent figures from 2012, Whole
customers into their stylish food retailing destinations,
Food’s show a net profit margin was close to 4%; Fresh
keep them longer once they get inside, and ultimately boost
Market’s was in the 5.6% range.
the bottom line.
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TREND | Department Store Specialty Stores
Harrods Wine Store, London Harrods in 2011 moved its wine selection from its famous ground level Food Hall, a must-visit tourist destination since 1902, to an upper floor. Interior design and lighting was by Lighttechnica. A circular theme for the free-standing display fixtures for its 2,000 wines, 200 champagnes and 500 spirits, was repeated in the large central illuminated cove. As LEDs were not in general commercial use at this time; T5 overlapping light strip cove lighting and metal halide downlights and accent lights were installed.
WINE IN THE ROUND The department’s elegant layout and product presentation created increased traffic and popularity that has prompted Harrods to move the department again, this time to a larger 7,000-sq-ft space on the basement level.
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Rokkeven Shopping Center, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
bike path, or courtyard.
A complete renovation of the Rokkeven Shopping Center in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, located 10 miles north of Rotterdam, created a dynamic visual unity between a main corridor, called Vers (Fresh) Passage, and the individual shops. Architect Arjen Reas was challenged to change a dim, dead-end walkway into a cohesive path with its own architectural integrity extending to the vendor spaces. Reas created an overhead slat structure that unifies the space and encourages shopper exploration. LEDs, rated at 3000K, were installed throughout the project. Above the walkway are 40W strips, 45W panels, and 12W minis. In the 2,400-sq.-ft. Butchershop Reas, (operated by a member of the architect’s family) the overhead directional slats with integrated lighting continue the Center’s dominant design theme. A sculptural curved white front counter invites shoppers inside. Ambient and accent illumination is provided by the same LEDs as used in the walkway.
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OPEN SPACES Arjen Reas created an overhead slat structure that unifies the space and encourages shopper exploration.
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TREND | In-Store Dining
Eataly, New York When the 50,000-sq-ft Eataly opened at Twenty-third Street and Broadway in New York’s Flatiron District in 2010, it caused a sensation with its were more than a dozen places to dine, plus a mind-expanding array of foodstuffs from around the world for sale. Media reviewers commented, “The Eataly model aims to be all things to all food lovers.” Dining accounts for approximately half of the sales volume generated by the more than five million visitors. In 2016. Eataly opened a second Manhattan facility on the third floor of 4 World Trade Center in the city’s financial district. Eataly, founded in 2007 in Turin, Italy, operates 31 stores around the world. Carlo Piglione is Eataly’s in-house architect.
Photos: Pablo Enriquez
EAT IN At Eataly, dining accounts for nearly half of the sales volume generated by the millions of visitors in 2016.
FOODS FROM AROUND THE WORLD With an array of foodstuffs from around the world, New York’s Eataly allows visitors to hop from restaurant to restaurant—with more than a dozen places to dine—in the marketplace, and be a part of the “Grand Tour, 21st century-style.”
ATTRACTIVE MERCHANDISING At 60 percent fresh fare, Fresh St. Farms is designed with an environment that emphasizes the local producer connection with the shopper.
TREND | Personal Environments
Fresh St. Farms, Surrey, B.C., Canada Fresh St. Farms is an 18,000-sq-ft renovation of a previous lackluster food store. King Retail Solutions instituted a total gutting of the interior to create an informal open plan space that fits the shopping patterns of the multi-ethnic community near Vancouver. The effect achieved, the designers point out, is … “a little bit farmer’s market, a little bit street market, and very much authentic.” Displays are low- profile to emphasize the open-air, “farm-to-fork” merchandising approach. Natural light from windows and the rolled-up “garage-door”-like façade is combined with high-performance LED fixtures. Downlighting is provided by RAB Lighting’s 13W VXLED; B-K Lighting’s ArtiStar surface fixture; and Gotham’s six-inch incite cylinder.
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F§ATUR§D PRoj§Ct
Sonos Store New York, New York
Listening with Light
Architects: Partners & Spade and Rollmann Architects Lighting Design: Dot Dash (Christopher and Brian Cheap) LED Lighting fixtures: Light Lab; Rosco Custom LED Fixtures: 1212-Studio Text: Ellen Lampert-Gréaux Photos: Courtesy of Sonos The Challenge: To effectively use light to transform the ambiance and enrich the sensory experience in the listening rooms at Sonos’ new flagship boutique in SoHo. The Solution: The designers at the architectural lighting design firm Dot Dash employed a combination of custom-designed RGBW fixtures and adjustable beam accent lights, all DMX addressable, to create a dynamic environment in the listening rooms. The DMX control allows the lights to be synched to the audio/visual experience in each room providing visual cues to help illustrate the capabilities of the high-end sound system. An unusual boutique has opened
room has a distinctive, home-like
at 101 Greene Street, in New
environment to evoke the notion of
York City’s fashionable SoHo, but
listening to music in every room of
rather than stocking its shelves
your house.
with haute couture or fine-tooled
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“We began work with Partners &
leather goods, this chic emporium
Spade very early in the concept pro-
is the new flagship store for Santa
cess, as the lighting was an integral
Barbara-based Sonos, a high-end
feature of the store concept,” recalls
sound system manufacturer.
Christopher Cheap, principal at Dot
The boutique showcases Sonos’
Dash. The lighting within the listen-
network of wireless (Wi-Fi enabled)
ing rooms transforms the environ-
speakers in a series of listen-
ment, filling the space with color to
ing rooms within the store. Each
enhance the user experience.
‘TUNED’ LIGHTING
The Sonos flagship store in SoHo reflects the different rooms in a home, with a series of LED-lit listening pods fine-tuned to way people actually listen to music.
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surround sound,” notes Cheap. The
ing is designed to emphasize
rooms was envisioned to create
The lighting in the listening
animation of the lighting within
the architecture of the listening
a dynamic experience while also
the rooms helps to illustrate this
rooms and highlight the product
highlighting the product. To accom-
flexibility and key design com-
displays. Dynamic white, linear
plish both functions, two fixtures
ponent of the Sonos system by
fixtures recessed between the
were required—a fill light to pro-
highlighting the elements as they
ceiling louvers echo the angle of
vide the dynamic color changing/
are featured. A proprietary Sonos
the listening rooms to emphasize
white capability and an accent light
control system allows each fixture
their alignment, which is repeated
to spotlight the product and ensure
to be independently addressed via
throughout the store’s geom-
the speakers remained the hero
DMX so the lights are synched to
etry. Supplemental accent lights
within the highly stylized interiors.
music and video in each room.
employing Soraa LED MR16 lamps,
Outside the listening rooms,
highlight the exterior of the rooms
“In each room, you can listen to the speakers one at a time, or as
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the environmental store light-
LIGHTING IN THE PODS TRANSFORMS THE SPACE, FILLING IT WITH COLOR TO ENHANCE THE MUSIC.
to reveal their shape which recalls
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ENLIGHTENED PLACEMENT
Crisp LED lighting accents the shelves of Sonos loudspeakers featured in the listening rooms, where Light Lab track heads peek through the louvered ceilings.
the simplest icon of a home. The
Voeten, trading sketches to develop
within a week. “We even added
custom louvered wood ceiling
inside the store transforms with
the design intent for the fixtures.
the LEDs and optics to the 3D
conceals a track system above that
colored light from the listening
1212-Studio then developed the
printed models to quickly evaluate
allowed the design team to set the
rooms and the double height wall
custom-fixtures based on Dot
the design,” Voeten adds. “The 3D
most effective lighting strategy for
of speakers at the back of the store
Dash’s concepts.
printed fixtures helped in the
the flagship store so the lighting
to ensure the store is an eye catch-
design could be streamlined as it is
ing beacon from the street. “The
us asking for a small—within 2.5-in.
beginning and confirmed the
rolled out to other cities.
biggest challenge was creating the
in diameter—RGBW fixture and an
dimensions, form, and fit func-
custom fixtures we needed for the
aimable white fixture,” says Voeten.
tions. 3D CAD models are great but
product displays “can shift from
listening room, with a balance of
From Dot Dash’s drawing, which
having a tangible model provides
cool white during the day to a very
technical requirements and aes-
contained the outline dimensions
answers right away.”
warm light at night,” notes Cheap,
thetic goals,” explains Cheap.
and were the basis for the solu-
Dynamic white LED panels at the
“to balance the abundant daylight in the space.”
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After hours, the ambient lighting
To do so, Dot Dash collaborated with 1212-Studio, led by Tommy
“The lighting designer came to
communication right from the
The 3D printed models quickly
tion, 1212-Studio designed 3D CAD
turned into aluminum prototypes
models, and 3D printed the models
machined from solid material in
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1212-Studio’s shop on their CNC machines. “The lighting designer wanted the RGBW fixture slightly smaller than the white gimbal fixture, all in proportion, so we created a fixture size-study for the gimbal fixture to keep the size as small as possible with a maximum aiming angle of 80-90 degrees in all directions. This study was important to make a final decision on the gimbal size and to stay within standard off-the-shelf optics,” Voeten explains.
DUMMY HOUSINGS WERE MACHINED FOR THE CEILING PANEL MAKER TO VERIFY THE FIXTURES FIT. The fixtures have two spring clips, so they can clip into the ceiling boards. “We machined dummy housing for the company that made the ceiling panels to verify the fit of the fixtures. This was important since each pod has a different ceiling finish and/or material. The dummy models helped the fabricator to verify the holes, and in addition, they made a template for us as well, to keep checking tolerance during the manufacturing process,” says Voeten.”
COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE
The lighting designers at Dot Dash collaborated with 1212-Studio in the creation of custom-designed LED fixtures that add color, flexibility and drama to this unique retail experience.
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Each fixture has a micro dipswitch
select a specific color for the white
3500K white LED to allow the maxi-
the Sonos brand in a competitive
on the back for individual address-
fixtures for the gimbal and the
mum range of color temperatures.
market.” The listening rooms were
ing, and traditional binary address-
compactness of low-heat gen-
The neutrality of the white chip
pre-fabricated by Showman Fabri-
ing is used to give each fixture its
eration with the full control of the
also meant the accent lights, which
cators, who installed the lighting,
each individual address. “The fix-
intensities. In addition, the color
are static white, would not aversely
including Rosco LED Litepads in
ture has only two connectors: one
temperature of all the white LEDs
affect the perception of the colored
the cellar listening room.
input and one output for easy daisy
was very important. “We selected
lighting from the fill lights.
chaining of power and data. Power
3500K for the white in the RGBW
and data are bundled within one cable for easy installation,” Voeten
It was important for Sonos to
In the end, the LEDs add color,
make a splash as they settled into
fixture and 3500K for the white
drama and flexibility to the project.
their first “home” or flagship store
gimbal fixture. Even the custom
“We are proud of the overall suc-
in SoHo. Sound guru Gilles Martin
continues. “Our choice of LEDs
RGBW tape that resides under the
cess of the entire store and the
fine-tuned the sound in the listen-
allowed for full control of intensi-
shelves and coves has a 3500K
cohesive approach to the lighting,”
ing rooms, and the designers at Dot
ties and color and full integration
white LED package in addition to a
says Cheap. “People seem struck by
Dash provided equally excellent
within the experience,” he adds.
RGB LED package,” says Voeten.
the experience of the store, which
lighting, making the overall experi-
This was in keeping with the
accomplished the goal of creating
ence much more than just another
lighting designers’ selection of the
a unique experience that features
high-end boutique.•
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ETHEREAL ILLUSION EXECUTED PRECISELY FADES SERPENT SHELL INTO THE NIGHT SKY SERPENTINE PAVILION London, England
The 2016 edition of London’s annual Serpentine Pavilion is a 14-meter-high sculptural structure designed by Copenhagen/NYC-based architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Since 2000, the grounds outside the Serpentine Galleries, the event’s host, have become an international site for architectural experimentation and has presented projects by some of the world’s greatest architects. BIG’s entry takes the form of a wall created from stacked, open-ended rectangular boxes. The wall appears “unzipped” to form two sinuous strands that bulge apart to form a central cavity. It is a fascinating, 3D environment, featuring many dichotomies that allow the space to be experienced in many ways. Fabricated from pale-green-toned translucent fiberglass, it appears linear and yet curvaceous, modular and yet sculptural, and substantial yet insubstantial, depending on the vantage point. As the sun tracks across the sky it creates dynamic shadow play, with the movement of people adding to the optical effects. As daylight fades, the pavilion is enhanced by lighting that tapers softly from the bottom up to reveal the undulating form. The structure’s nighttime appearance was very important to the architect. “It was important for us that the lighting at night would enhance the geometry of the structure and be coherent with the perception of the pavilion during day time,” says Maria Sole Bravo, senior designer at BIG. The firm worked with Zumtobel, an event sponsor, and more specifically their UK-based brand acdc Lighting, to execute the lighting. BIG
ABOVE: A fascinating 3D environment featuring dichotomies that allow the space to be experienced in many
ways, the illumination of BIG’s creation, executed by Zumtobel, delivers the light levels required for functional use of the space, while keeping the visual presence of the lighting equipment, provided by Zumtobel’s UK brand acdc Lighting, to an absolute minimum.
envisioned a glow from the base, with light grazing up the walls to emphasise the textural form; it would then gradually dissolve the structure into the dark sky. To preserve the purity of the lines, BIG requested all lighting equipment to be
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THE CHALLENGE: Invisibly illuminate this translucent structure created by BIG Architects for the 2016 London Serpentine Pavilion. Preliminary modeling, however, revealed the structure could not be solely lighted with uplights alone. THE SOLUTION: BIG worked with Zumtobel to add minimally invasive spotlighting where appropriate—mainly behind seating areas. The wide selection of beam angles and distributions available with the selected fixture—acdc PLAZA 20—was essential to customizing the design to suit the complex geometry. The lockable bracket with marked angle increments was also invaluable for on-site focusing and adjustments, ensuring that once commissioned the lighting would remain fixed in place. PROJECT CREDITS:
Architect: BIG Lighting Design: Zumtobel
FADE TO BLACK The fiberglass boxes become thinner higher up in the building, making the structure more translucent. Following that same expression, the lighting from the ground makes the lower boxes brighter and allows the top of the structure dissolve in the darkness.
Photos: Zumtobel
Following trials of several arrangements of
during day time,” says Sole Bravo. “The fiber-
floodlight locations and optics it was clear the vi-
glass boxes become thinner higher up in the
concealed—ideally on the floor behind the perim-
sion could not be achieved by uplighting alone. In
building, making the structure lighter and more
eter seating near the structure’s bar and cafe. As
consultation with BIG, it was agreed that supple-
translucent. Following that same expression, the
local advisors to the Serpentine Gallery, multi-
mentary high-level lighting was necessary. The
lighting from the ground makes the lower boxes
disciplinary firm AECOM provided the technical
challenge evolved into determining the best
brighter and allows the top of the structure
brief for the lighting. A minimum of 100 lux was
possible combination that would allow spotlights
dissolve in the darkness. Zumtobel and acdc’s
required on the floor; 200 lux on the bar, and an
that would limit visual impact.
installation achieved that effect successfully by
average of 10 lux needed to be established on a clearly designated exit route for emergencies. The Zumtobel team in Dornbirn, Austria
carefully placing and orienting each one of the
Achieving the ‘Glow’ Effect The final solution uses acdc PLAZA fittings in
luminaires.” The careful design of the uplighting achieves
produced several simulations and calculations
two sizes with 3000K warm white LEDs. PLAZA
70 lux on the concourse, and is boosted by a
to clearly define their design challenge. Material
20 fittings with elliptical and wide beam angles
series of PLAZA 10 spotlights. Eight of these
samples of the cubes were measured to evaluate
are distributed behind bench seating. The ellipti-
fixtures provide the required supplementary
how light would interact with fiberglass mate-
cal beam helps to create an even wash on the
general lighting and concentrated extra light on
rial. The transmission proved to be less than 5%
structure while limiting glare. The wide beam
the bar inside. These are maintained in emer-
for the base layers. This meant that there would
uplights point outward toward the structure
gency, to which a further five pieces are added
not be enough light passing through the cubes
to smooth and extend the effect. These fixtures
to achieve the required 10 lux, which boost the
to create the external glow BIG envisioned. In
also provide light to the inside faces of the cubes,
light levels at the exits. The scheme is competed
addition, the open cellular nature of the struc-
which creates the illusion that the Pavilion is
by 25 low-level PLAZA 10 spots beneath the
ture naturally reduced the amount of reflected
glowing when viewed externally.
bench seating. The spots occupy a tiny 100mm x
light back onto the concourse and bar, while
“It was important for us that the lighting at
138mm space for a truly minimal presence, yet
the inward sloping physical form increased the
night enhance the geometry of the structure and
deliver a punchy 731 lumens while consuming
likelihood of glare affecting visitors.
be coherent with the perception of the pavilion
only 10W of power.•
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By Scott Ziegenfus, Government and Industry Relations Manager, Hubbell Lighting
Specifying Lighting to Integrate with BACnet Lighting and other key system communication with Building Management Systems is entering a whole new territory.
As an architect associated with any kind of high-performing or
narrow their scope to do exactly that. For example, a workstation can
intelligent building you’ve heard of BACnet, and you probably know it’s
concentrate solely on a traditional HVAC-based device profile and that
related to a building’s automation system. The latter, of course, being
would be perfectly acceptable. However, if that workstation wants to
the key to integrating and controlling multiple systems—mostly HVAC,
be everything to every system—lighting, access control, life safety—it
but sometimes security and lighting too. With the advent of LED, and a
can also do just that.
round of digital innovations, the intelligence of lighting technology has ramped up, making it critical to understand how each system relate
This does not mean that traditional operator interfaces can’t control
to the other. This is particularly challenging, as to date, assuring that
access control or lighting—but rather only access control or lighting
specifications effectively communicate the owner’s intent as to how
systems that have adopted the traditional-HVAC based BACnet objects
systems like lighting should work in a controlled environment has been
and services, and not implementing the advanced industry-specific
a source of frustration and disappointment. The good news is that a
objects and services made for the needs of access control or lighting.
fundamental shift is happening to make specification easier without the need for a PhD-level understanding of BACnet. The solution lies in
A major, but unexpected, benefit of the family concept is that it makes
a brand new “family” approach to device profiles.
it easier for lighting and access control systems to use BACnet as its primary protocol regardless if they are connecting to a BMS.
The “families” concept—actually not so new—adds special functionality in devices like gateways and routers. The original revision divided device profiles into two families: operator interfaces and controllers. A third family, “Miscellaneous,” was added to include routers, gateways and broadcast management devices. This families concept was so totally new—where a physical device could support multiple profiles— that it was soon realized such an application could be expanded to
Think of it as a restaurant where the menu allows you to order from each column to have exactly what you want— choosing any or all. In other words, if a workstation wants to be everything to every system, it can.
include device profiles designed for other building systems like lighting. Currently in the public review process, new families of lighting operator interfaces, lighting controllers, and of lighting control
A lighting system, for example, can have its main software display
stations have been added. The new landscape for device profiles
as a form of “Lighting Operator Interface.” Lighting keypads or
categorized into families looks like this:
touchscreens can be a type of “Lighting Control Station.” The distributed controllers and processors for DALI /DMX/0-10/etc., can all
Traditional Operator Interfaces
be a type of “Lighting Controller.” This concept opens BACnet to be the
Lighting Operator Interfaces
fundamental open protocol to be used by all building systems and lets
Life Safety Operator Interfaces
systems like lighting more easily adopt BACnet as its primary internal
Access Control Operator Interfaces
protocol. This should make BMS integration seamless and intrinsic.
Lighting Control Stations Traditional Controllers
What can you do to support this inclusive approach?
Lighting Controllers
Add to your specification that devices must either conform to the new
Life Safety Controllers
system-specific device profiles or provide that they can achieve the
Access Control Controllers
same sequence of operation using traditional BACnet device profiles.
Miscellaneous
This new approach will help create a single protocol for all building systems. Allowing BACnet in each system, and between systems,
Think of it like going to a restaurant where the menu allows you
should lead to seamless control. •
to order from each column to have exactly what you want. You can choose any or choose all. This allows those systems that want to
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Troffers From a Different Angle Facetta 2-ft.×2-ft. recessed luminaires add new depth to the previously flat troffer landscape, with a design based on a prism’s faceted angles. The Focal Point fixture’s lens is shaped into a 45-degree convex “fold,” providing general illumination while enabling standalone or grouped installation that can create a visual highlight in an open office, conference room, corridor or hospital room. Delivered output from 1000 lumens to 4000 lumens can be specified, with efficacy ranging from 114 to 122 lumens per watt. Visit www.focalpointlights.com or Circle 291.
The hottest issue in lighting is controls and controls integration. The growth in BAS (Building Automation Systems) and codes demands lighting to step beyond simple switches and dimmers.
DIM ENSIONS 1 Cubist Illusion Visual perspective is forced to work overtime, in an entertaining way, with the new NECKY ceiling- and wall-mounted fixture. The Axo Light luminaire features a washable white, elasticized fabric cover stretched over a white aluminum frame. Visit www.axolightusa.com or Circle 292.
2 Sporty Solution
DIMMABLE LED PENDANTS
Recently installed in the home of the Tampa Bay 1Lt x 21.6w • 80CRI LED • SSL • 3000k • 2160Lm (Nominal) Buccaneers, the ultra-high output Stadium 1500 field-lighting fixtures from Sportsbeams produce Aupcentral beam of LED light is gloriously to 200,000 lumens each, using 1,500 watts, so venues require fewerstacked fixtures. acrylic slices, splayed through Visit www.sportsbeams.com or Circle 293. evoking a phenomenal holographic effect.
3 Sharp Design
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Product Introductions
Bringing Spice to Light Soraa’s GU10 VIVID Series LED lamps feature an industry-leading color-rendering index of 95 and deep red (R9) rendering of 95, along with a tightly controlled beam spread that focuses visual attention on interior surfaces. Shown here as they were recently installed in Sydney, Australia’s well-known Spice Room restaurant, the lamps provide flattering illumination of food and diners, alike. Visit www.soraa.com or Circle 295.
LED is on its way to delivering efficacies north of 200lm/W. This eclipses every other light source, and is replacing halogen, incandescent, compact fluorescent, induction and low wattage HID.
ONE SWITCH AWAY FROM ANYTHING.
4 More Light in a Smaller Package
CXA2 High Density arrays are sized as direct replacements for Cree’s CXA products, but with the benefit of significantly higher lumen output, allowing for new form factors in track lights, downlights and replacement lamps. Visit www.cree.com or Circle 296.
5 Solve Your Control Issues
The NX Fixture Controller from Hubbell Control Solutions works with interior and exterior luminaires, offering both standalone and networked control features. Visit hubbell-automation.com or Circle 297.
6 Sharp Design
The Tecton continuous-row LED lighting system from Zumtobel brings modular flexibility to a range of lighting applications, offering plug-and-play Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc. is Panasonic’s Commercial Lighting division for North America. With over 69 years in options for batten and spotlight luminaires. Tecton business, we offer a comprehensive product line and full lighting control strategy for almost every application imaginable. features a 7-pole current-conducting section in its base that enables easy connection and control for For more information, visit www.unvlt.com or call 1.800.225.5278. compatible fixtures. Visit www.zumtobel.us or Circle 298.
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Let Your Ideas Take Flight With the Flight Track system from Bruck Lighting, designers can create free-flowing light displays to fit any space or application. The bronze or matte chrome sections can be joined together for longer systems, with custom curves and spiral shapes available. Mounting options allow for both semiflush and suspended-track installations. Visit www.brucklighting.com or Circle 299.
The inclusion of human factors and the effect light has on individual health and well-being has grown in interest to the point it now attracts large audiences at trade conferences.
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The Luxeon Stylist Series offers LEDs engineered to meet the needs of specific retail applications. CrispColor offers a higher color gamut for vibrant colors in fashion displays, while FreshFocus LEDs provide five lighting approaches suited specifically for food. Visit www.lumileds.com or Circle 300.
2 Better Distrubution The Solite lens is a new optic option for Evoke 4.75-in. and Hornet 3.5-in. downlight families from Amerlux, and it’s designed for more even light distribution across a ceiling. Its ultra-clear glass features a diamond pattern on one face, while the opposite face is smooth, ensuring minimal glare. Visit www.amerlux.com or Circle 301.
3 Warm-Up Plan Inspiration in the palm of your hand!
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D2W—or dim to warm—technology now is available as an option for a number of Eaton LED fixture lines, including the Portfolio family and the Halo ML56 LED series. Full-power 3000K illumination can be dimmed down to 1850K as output is reduced. Visit www.eaton.com/lighting or Circle 302.
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Survey Says Fire Farm designers turned the naming of its new line of task lighting over to its customers, and launched the newly christened Squig fixtures at Chicago’s NeoCon in June. These highly articulated versions of the classic gooseneck lamp can be ordered in four configurations – a freestanding table lamp, a clamp-on task lamp and singe- and triple-headed versions that can be wall- or ceiling mounted. Five colors are available, including black and white, along with the nickel silver, smoke and cashmere copper finishes voted into production by NeoCon attendees. Visit www.firefarm.com or Circle 303.
The qualities of SSL performance, from uniformity to color accuracy (fidelity and saturation), has improved significantly over the last three years.
4 Cleanlined Contemporary
ANOTHER PERSON’S DARK SPACE IS OUR BLANK CANVAS.
The CWW wall-wash luminaire from Columbia Lighting features a slim profile and a range of customization options. Designers can choose from four LED color choices, six lumen packages and multiple driver selections. Visit www.columbialighting.com or Circle 304.
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6 Built-in Sensor Intense Lighting has added new, smaller 4-in. models to its Gravity line of downlights, adjustableangle fixtures, wall-wash units and architectural cylinders. Features include a selectable collar that can be adjusted to fit a range of ceiling thicknesses and a high-lumen/shallow-frame option. Visit www.intenselighting.com or Circle 306. PUBLIC PASSAGE | MUNICH, GERMANY | LIGHTING DESIGN, PFARRÉ LIGHTING DESIGN | © ANDREAS J. FOCKE
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NEXT ISSUE: Goodbye 2016—we’ll see you in February where we’ll be taking a look at strategies for lighting really large spaces, as well as illumination strategies for core and shell projects, where a tone for lighting for interior spaces can be set from the beginning. In the Market Setting Feature, we’ll revisit the topic of human health with a look at the WELL Building Standard and lighting’s role in human health and productivity.
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The Death of the Sketch In those days, my drafting boards were lighted
Having labored for hours delivering graphic arts the ‘old-fashioned’ way, I openly embrace the creativity, time savings and collaboration digital 3D delivers.
where tinkering with a design happens just as it
with halogen lamps, and I basked in their warm
did over the paper sketch. These new sketches
glow—often late into the night—because every-
can be employed to develop 3D models, and are
thing took so darned long to complete.
instantly shared with everyone. Just as we now
Those were great times, where the love of
use LEDs in many ways like we did halogen, just
hard work, art and craft contrasted with pain-
using less energy and without the burn hazard,
fully slow processes and mistakes or changes
we use digital platforms to explore design.
requiring hours of rework. I remember meet-
Part of experiencing life is investing in the
I recently read an article sent to me by a fellow
ings where good ideas were set aside to avoid
new, while maintaining perspective. Like the
designer, that was primarily a Michael Porter
re-drawing. Unfortunately, expectations raised
ideas we could never quite make work in the
lament over the advancement of 3D design using
by those magical hand sketches, done with such
past guiding us to what we can do with solid-
computers, displacing the process of sketching
wondrous collaboration—were so distorted they
state technology. Dreams of active color wash-
on paper. My initial emotional response was
frequently fell apart when put to scale.
ing, white-light tuning, controls that respond
“yeah, no kidding.” I started my career in graphic arts before
Just like the incandescent and halogen
to time of day and mood of occupants guide us
lamp were displaced by fluorescent and HID
toward what’s next. I won’t forget drawing with
computers “transformed” that profession. I
when large scale spaces were put under light,
my hands, but I don’t feel a loss for its being dis-
hand-drew everything, including fonts and illus-
hand sketches and drawing have given way to
placed by technologies that enable me to explore
trations. I set pages on lay-up boards, and
superior processes of 3D design. Once you get
beyond the bounds of paper sketches. I’ll cer-
cut/pasted yards of text line by line. I had a
into thinking 3D, it is liberating and miraculous
tainly draw on experiences of working around
big rubber-cement “booger” on my table, and
for those who once spent days re-drawing and
the weaknesses of past lighting technologies
callouses so tough a surgical knife (cooler
re-sketching to “see” each additional perspec-
while I work around the weaknesses of current
than X-acto) couldn’t cut them. Those days, we
tive. The real kick in the old-schooler’s teeth,
products. Lighting and design will continue to
sacrificed for art. When I entered lighting, CAD
though, is rendering running the gamut from
be transformed with fresh capabilities. We just
technology was not yet off the ground, so I spent
cartooning to full-blown photo realism. It’s an
need to remember; the present is rarely as won-
my first years designing and calculating by hand.
inherent feature of 3D design. Now, 3D printers
derful as nostalgia and our sketchy memories of
I took a lot of pride in my drawing, especially the
deliver objects that can be picked up and played
the past.•
lettering—a tough art form. I was also involved
with, at a fraction of the effort and with far more
with Interior Design, where we did thousands of
accuracy than balsa and foam. These were all
sketches, from onion-skin cartoons to pen-and-
fairy-tale wishes when I started in design. I also
ink rendering. For 3D representations, we cut
haven’t been fried by a halogen lamp in 10 years.
acres of foam board, poster board, paper and
I get the nostalgia of the lost art of sketching.
films to create scale models. These took days to
However, the reason it’s dead is because it was
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
build. I even lighted models using model railroad
inefficient and delivered sub-standard results.
Kevin Willmorth, a lighting expert and fixture designer,
lamps. Later I made product models using balsa,
There are many meetings where collabora-
has been instrumental in helping create a vision and
foam, Bondo and metal.
tion now occurs online, over a common screen,
mission statement for Architectural SSL.
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A r c h e Ty p e X A d v a n t a g e ®
Fewest Fixtures wins… With ArcheType® X, not only do you get cost savings from improved efficiency and uniformity, there are thousands of dollars in savings per pole eliminated because of the reduced cost of trenching, wiring, controls, sensors, installation and maintenance. 5 Traditional Fixtures
4 Type X Fixtures
For the same size parking lot Type X requires only 4 fixtures.
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