DIALux evo is the world’s leading software lighting design software. More than 750,000 professional users worldwide – including engineers, electricians and lighting designers – plan, calculate and visualise light for indoor and outdoor areas with DIALux evo. DIAlux evo training is essential for the worldwide standard in lighting design software and the forthcoming Lighting Association Ireland...Read More

LAI has had a very successful year and looks forward with confidence, notwithstanding the unpredictable impact of world events, to an equally-successful 2023. The incredible pace of lighting technology developments continues unabated and, while it brings with it many advantages and opportunities, the challenge lies in ensuring that lighting specifiers, designers and contractors understand and...Read More

CIBSE colour logo (CMYK)Two new CIBSE lighting guides are now available. One is LG22 – Lighting for control rooms (2022). Control rooms can be complex, having many operators with their often extensive arrangement of screens around them and perhaps large overview screens on walls in front of them. Many rooms operate 24 hours a day,...Read More

The Mater hospital, a centre of excellence for cardiac care and one of Ireland’s leading private cancer centres located in North Dublin recently underwent a retrofit of ROBUS fittings. When upgrading their lighting system, they took advantage of our leading smart commercial technology and installed ROBUS LINX. ROBUS LINX is a self-healing, smart lighting control...Read More

LG22 – Lighting for control rooms (2022)  Control rooms can be complex, having many operators with their often extensive arrangement of screens around them and perhaps large overview screens on walls in front of them. Many rooms operate 24 hours a day, some monitoring and controlling safety-critical operations. For these reasons establishing the geometry between...Read More

In an industry first, Willie Duggan Lighting has won an award at the prestigious LIT International Lighting Design Awards for its external lighting of Carton House, Co Kildare. It also received an honourable mention for its work on Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. Willie Duggan Lighting is a family-run Irish lighting design company now over 80 years...Read More

Today, light pollution is one of the fastest-growing forms of pollution on the planet. It is growing at a rate twice that of the population growth. That yellow/white hue which bleeds from a distance into the dark night sky is a familiar foe with 99% of the population in Europe and North America, writes Aimee...Read More

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...Read More

We are now less than one year away from the restriction of several widely-used mercury-containing lamps in the EU. The 2019 EU eco-design rules for light sources and separate control gears, and the 12 RoHS Delegated Directives published in February 2022, will impact the placing on the EU market of compact and linear fluorescent lamps...Read More

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as Global Goals, are a set of 17 integrated and inter-related goals to devised to end poverty, protect the planet and create a more sustainable future for all. This publication focuses on the SDGs where LightingEurope believes lighting makes a major contribution to achieving the targets set...Read More