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On Wednesday, 28. October, 2009 and prior to the three-day Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC in Berlin, the PLDC team will be staging a one-day forum dedicated to urban planners and decision makers at local government level.

The forum will comprise lectures on Urban Lighting Strategies: What they are and what benefits they incorporate; reports on Urban Lighting Solutions that demonstrate the economic and social benefits of designed lighting schemes; real information about Energy Issues: What is energy efficient lighting, which technologies are sustainable and what perspectives do LEDs offer?

The CPF will also offer a first-time-ever opportunity for public clients to meet lighting consultants and designers in a unique Client Meets Designer format.

Please go to calendar for further information or visit the PLDC website.

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The Architectural Lighting Fundamentals, ALF are now available for download!
Please go to 'Education'

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PLDA team up with the Scottish Design Awards to introduce a new category - Best Lighting Design. Judged by a panel of PLDA experts the category has been established specifically to reward lighting designers.

Peter Veale, director of Firefly Lighting Design, Deborah Whythe, an associate designer at Lighting Design International and Rob Honeywill, an architectural lighting expert with Maurice Brill Lighting Design Ltd, have judged the inaugural lighting category. Certain to become a recurring Scottish Design Awards favourite.

The nominations have been announced and in the running for a coveted Scottish Design Award are; Kevan Shaw Lighting Design for Aspire Zone, Aspire Tower, Speirs and Major Associates for Giorgio Armani SpA, Armani Ginza Tower, Tokyo, Japan and Speirs and Major Associates for Department of Municipalities and Agriculture, Abu Dhabi.  The Winner will be announced at the awards ceremony in May.

For further information please see here.

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We are delighted to inform you that the new President, Mr. Martin Lupton, has taken office as of Saturday, 25. April, 2009.

It is also a pleasure to inform you that Jean Sundin was elected by the voting membership to take over from Michael Rohde as the new Director for Education. 

Tapio Rosenius was elected to remain as the Director for Membership for another period.  

We are sure that our new president as well as the new Directors for Education and Membership will do their best to serve the association and help to move forward to become a global organisation!

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The City of Paris and the Comité Champs-Elysées invite to tender the illumination on the entire Avenue des Champs-Elysées (the “Lightings”).

In 2010  the Comité Champs-Elysées has decided to introduce a tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) in order to choose:

(i) an offer for the artistic conception of the Lightings (Creation lot) ;
(ii) an offer for the technical implementation of the Lightings (Installation lot).

For further information please see here.
(English version on page 5)

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On 14. March, 2010, the international conference CIE 2010 "Lighting Quality & Energy Efficiency - Challenges and Opportunities" will take place at Hilton Vienna (Vienna).

This time it will be highlighting:
• Surveys of experimental projects
• Lighting techniques & scenarios
• Integrated approaches in Lighting Design
• Lighting quality criteria
• Future possible lighting schemes
• Methods to compare lighting installations
• Case studies of energy-efficient lighting
• Review of energy-efficient lighting controls systems

The Call for Papers will end on 16. October, 2009. If you want to register for the event please go to the official website.

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The conference programme for PLDC 2009 has been fixed and is available at www.pld-c.com

Interest in the PLD Convention continues to grow. The organisers are reckoning on more than 1300 attendees of which 300 tickets are already allocated!
PLDC Head Office has agreed on special rates for participants at different hotels and is also collaborating with youth hostels near the convention venue. Please visit the official PLDC website for more information or contact Ms Louise Ritter at lritter(at)via-internet.com

We hope to see you in Berlin!

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

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PLDA design members Natalie Bell from Kevan Shaw Associates and Aniket Gore from Maurice Brill Lighting Design recently received Young Lighter of the Year Awards at the ARC show event held on 4th February. All finalists of the Young Lighter Competition received a certificate as 'Young Lighter of the Year', £300 and a copy of the new SLL Handbook from the Society of Light and Lighting.

The SLL also awards prizes to especially gifted designers in conjunction with other associations.
Natalie Bell was awarded £250 by the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers for the Best Presented Paper and Aniket Gore £250 by the Institute of Lighting Engineers, ILE for the Best Written Paper.

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On the official website of the New Zealand Government the following news can be read:

Light bulb ban ended
Energy and Resources Minister, Gerry Brownlee, has told Parliament today the ban on traditional light bulbs is being lifted. "This government has real concerns about telling people they have to move to energy efficient light bulbs by decree," he said. "It has been well signaled and will come as no surprise that the government is lifting the ban on traditional or incandescent light bulbs," said Mr Brownlee. "We are committed to energy efficiency in the home and efficient lighting has an important role to play in helping us reduce the amount of energy we use, but this Government believes it is a matter of consumer choice. People need good, credible information about the different lighting options that are available to them, and then they can decide what is right for them in their homes. Lifting the previous government's ban on incandescent light bulbs simply means we are allowing their continued sale, and I am confident the consumer trend to energy efficient bulbs will continue," said Mr Brownlee.

 

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The European Commission has sent a briefing to the European Parliament regarding the planned legislation for effectively banning all incandescent (non-directional; they’re next) and most Tungsten Halogen lamps by September 2012 – that’s less than four years down the road.

The European Parliament has until march 15 to reject the document as a whole (they apparently cannot legally demand partial amendments). If they don’t reject it, the document will be automatically adopted by the EU commission in early April and become law.

After that, the process is totally irreversible.

PLDA is fighting this ban in various ways, predominantly through Kevan Shaw, PLDA Director for Sustainability and Gad Giladi, FPLDA. We have already sent indivualised letters to each chairman, substitute and member of the ENVI (Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) committee. 

Now we need your support. We would ask you to personalise the letter with the help of the Excel list (both can be downloaded below). In this Excel list are all names of the Members of the European Parliament, the indication of their Group within the European Parliament, their postal address and their e-mail address (at least in most cases). The names are sorted by country.  

We would ask you to send the personalised letter with the two attachments to the members of the European Parliament from your respective country!

Please support us with this important issue. This should be a convincing message requesting he/she votes to reject this paper.

The text in your e-mail could be like this: 

Dear Mr./Ms. …,

Please find attached a letter in English/German/Italian/French written by Mr. Kevan Shaw, Director for Sustainability of the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association, PLDA in which he defines the Association’s standpoint on the proposed measure to phase out the incandescent lamp.

As a Lighting Designer and member of PLDA I would ask you to read this letter carefully, which I trust addresses all our concerns clearly but succinctly.

Should you have any questions, comments or should you need further information from Mr. Shaw or from the association, please do not hesitate to contact PLDA Head Office at info(at)pld-a.org. 

Kind regards,

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Thank you very much for your support!

Downloads:
1. Addresses of the MEPs
2. European Parliament letter
3. Attachments

 

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