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Civic spaces, where longevity and wellbeing matter as much as output.

Smaller budgets for new schools, without a drop in what is expected.

Lighting that calms the patient and still serves the clinician.

Poor light costs headaches, fatigue and, eventually, morale.

Close to 30,000 luminaires on New Zealand networks since 2007.

Conservation on one side, display on the other, and light in between.

Light is what binds design, layout and branding into a place people stay in.

Blue-rich by day, warm and low by night. SkyBlue puts the 490nm signal back.

From the data hall to the perimeter, planned as one system.

Light only where it is needed, in a colour that does the least harm.

The customised Energyline system, now at 44mm.

A nutrition label for building products — and how it differs from TM66.

The New Zealand high bay that halved the power of what it replaced, ten years on.

It governs around 60% of what your body does, not just sleep.

A light-tight join made with a drill and a hex bit, in seconds.

The eye has five photoreceptors. The industry engineered most of them out.

Lit by a door and a hole in the roof, and still worth studying.

AT, M30, Green Star, WELL and MoE — what each approval actually certifies.

90,000 hours at work, and 40% say they never get enough daylight.

Our standards still rest on a discovery from 1924. They should not.

The falling Wellington streetlights were not the lamp. Here is what failed.

One luminaire, reconfigured by add-ons to suit very different streets.

Cars built from engine rocker covers, racing in Woolston.

A night in Punakaiki, watching what our streetlights do to a seabird.

A beer named after a bird that breeds in one place on earth.

Good people are leaving the country, and the lighting industry with it.

W/m² is finally being replaced. The draft is open for comment.

What COI means, and how to light a patient room to the standard.

The last of three years of beers brewed in memory of an office dachshund.

Light as something the body needs, not just something the eye uses.

An anti-ligature luminaire, designed here for mental health and secure units.

Why the outlets beside a hospital bed are better run vertically.

Two ideas about reconnecting buildings to nature, and where they meet.

A patient turning blue is only visible under the right light.

Extruded in New Zealand from high recycled-content aluminium.

Two digits: one for what gets in, one for water. Here is the rest.

A quiet ale, and the assumption that it must have been made offshore.

A living wall needs light it can photosynthesise under, not just look good in.

300 lux suits most indoor sport. Squash needs 500, and here is why.

78 engineers and designers told us how they really calculate them.

In a fire, the cable inside the fitting matters more than you would think.

Lighting control over Bluetooth, on a network the building cannot reach.

Ten dead insects by Christmas, and the Revalos beside it had none.

Wireless connectivity carried on light, and the start-up building it.

Our first post, written on the way home from LuxLive.

There is no such thing as a Green Star product. There are tools that help.

Made here means more than the last step happening here.