The challenge with better lighting is that it just doesn’t happen – it must be designed. With better lighting being key to achieving the twin goals of improving energy efficiency and indoor comfort and wellbeing, specifiers – including lighting designers, installers and architects – must play a central role in driving the European Green Deal...Read More

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

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

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

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

LAI Golf Outing For the return of the LAI annual team golf outing LAI has chosen Shannon Golf Club. Shannon’s 6,763-yard course has been tested by golfers from all over the world and is now firmly established as one of Ireland’s premier parkland courses. It is also a beautiful setting with the course’s par three...Read More

Gay Byrne, EIFI President and LAI delegate, with Lionel Brunet, President, LightingEurope; Ourania Georgoutsakou, Secretary General, LightingEurope and Gavin Edwards, Vice-Chair, LAI Two Lighting Association Ireland (LAI) delegates – Gay Byrne and Gavin Edwards – attended the recent LightingEurope General Assembly dinner and conference. The occasion also featured the LightingEurope 2021 and 2022 President’s Awards...Read More

Gabriel Byrne, Lighting Association Ireland (LAI) delegate to LightingEurope, was elected to its Executive Board during the recent general assembly in Brussels. On his election Ourania Georgoutsakou, LightingEurope Secretary General, said:  “Gabriel’s long experience in lighting, both as a company owner and as a leader of industry associations, will be of great value to the...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