SECRETARY’S COLUMN

FROM THE SECRETARY

As you can imagine, following the government advice in mid-March regarding coronavirus, CIBSE did not delay in postponing events and encouraging staff to head home with their laptops. We have very good systems in place including Office 365, Microsoft Teams and 8x8 telephones to enable home-based working. In a way it is business as usual but in a different environment and without face-to-face communication with colleagues and members. The situation has, however, encouraged us to pick up the phone more often instead of sending emails.

For me there is little change, my working week before was pretty much split 50/50 between home and Balham. All face-to-face meetings have stopped and regional events postponed until further notice. All of the SLL committees are still meeting via Teams software and I thank them all for their continued support of the society. We will host more seminars online via webinars. On 12 May Kristina Allison and Katerina Konsta will present and discuss their alternative route to CEng (see p8). Details will be emailed to you soon and we may also be bringing the SLL LightBytes to your laptop. The LG2: Lighting for Healthcare Premises webinar hosted in April can be seen on the CIBSE YouTube channel.

This year’s annual general meeting will not take place. As a division of CIBSE (which is the legal entity), there is no legal requirement for the society to host an AGM although it is a good opportunity to review the previous year and look forward to the next. CIBSE will host a virtual AGM, which is required under the royal charter and by-laws. We do, however, intend to say thank you to current president Jim Shove, who has had a great and busy year directing us, BRENDAN KEELY BKEELY @CIBSE.ORG and to welcome the new SLL president, Bob Bohannon, on 21 May. Notification of the SLL officers sitting on the council and executive for 2020-2021 has been sent to you separately, and we will email all members a link to the 2019 Annual Report on 21 May.

Twitter: @sll100 Strange times. I hope you are well, mentally and physically, and the changes due to Covid-19 are not drastically impacting your life and work.

In the current climate of uncertainty CIBSE is committed to doing all it can to support our members and to provide access to the professional networking, knowledge and CPD provision that our members and others will need even during the present restrictions on work and gatherings. The regions, divisions and groups are a key element of that and we are keen to support their activities virtually as best we can.

With many of you working from home your benefits of membership have never been more important. You have access to all of the SLL publications online through the CIBSE Knowledge Portal. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, just log in and they’ll be there.

We have again partnered with Clarion for this year’s Lighting Design Awards and LuxLive. Although the date of the Lighting Design Awards has changed from its usual May timing to 22 September, we are looking forward to both events and hope to see many of you there. Good luck to all who have been shortlisted.

We do look forward to the situation settling down and to a time when we are back to normal. Normal seems a wonderful place right now.

Thank you all for your support for the society.

‘With many of you working from home your benefits of membership have never been more important’

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SECRETARY’S COLUMN

NEWS

END OF LIGHT ISSUE What is the circular economy and why is it Important? John Bullock explains

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CHANCE TO CHARTER A NEW COURSE Katerina Konsta and Kristina Allison look at taking the alternative route to gaining chartered engineer status through CIBSE

WELL MEANING The focus in the workplace is now firmly on health and wellbeing. But do we know what lighting for health is or how to achieve it? asks Andrew Bissell

DIRECTION OF TRAVEL Iain Carlile looks at three of the most recently published LR&T papers on the lighting of roads and train stations

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EVENTS

COVER: University of Sheffield concourse by Arup, winner of the Surface Design Awards (Light and Surface Exterior) 2020