Lighting in the NHS is often over five years’ old, on 24 hours a day, and based on inefficient technology. However, now LEDs and smart controls can deliver dramatic energy savings – while improving the environment for staff and patients alike.’
So say the organisers of LuxLive 2013, reportedly the UK’s biggest lighting exhibition, being held from 20-21 November at Earls Court, London, and free-to-attend (to register for a free pass, visit: www.luxlive.co.uk/register)
‘Organisers, Revo Media said: “There’s a revolution going on in healthcare lighting: by replacing old inefficient schemes with modern alternatives, NHS and other healthcare facilities can slash their energy bills, and reduce their CO2 emissions, while ensuring a suitable environment for diagnosis, treatment, and patient recovery.
“Last year estates managers and engineers from many of the UK’s NHS Trusts attended LuxLive. The event is a ‘must attend’ for anyone responsible for the lighting and energy management of hospitals and other healthcare centres.”
LuxLive will bring together ‘the world’s leading manufacturers of low energy lighting for healthcare’, including Philips, Cooper, Dextra, Tamlite, and Trilux, featuring over180 exhibitors.
There will also be 70 hours of free-to-attend talks, looking in depth at some of the best exemplar projects, ‘drilling into key technologies’, and debating problems faced by the sector in a dedicated panel discussion.
The organisers say: “The following are some of the highlights on 20 November for those responsible for lighting and energy management in hospitals and across NHS estates:
• LightingTalk Live: How can we tackle outdated lighting in the NHS? The NHS has a massive estate of buildings and facilities UK-wide, much of it with outdated and inefficient lighting that is no longer fit-for-purpose. What is the best way to go about addressing this, and what are the priorities? Panellists include Anthony Wiffen of the Royal Marsden Hospital, Bill Dickson of the Princess Alexandra Hospital, and Andrew Bissell of Cundall4Light.
• Healthcare: lighting for the patient. Andrew Bissell of Cundall4Light will explain the results of innovative lighting installations at Barts Health Trust.
• Healthcare project uncovered: Musselburgh Primary Care Centre, East Lothian. Find out how the lighting of this £20 million, 6,300 m2 centre – which incorporates three GPs’ surgeries and 15 primary care departments – helped the project achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent ‘rating.
As well as a series of healthcare-specific sessions, LuxLive will feature an extensive array of interactive sessions including product demonstrations and debates.
A Lux Cool Wall will be make its inaugural appearance, with leading lighting designers and manufacturers ‘passing judgment’ on the stand-out luminaires made possible by LED and OLED designs, and discussing how to maximise the design possibilities of solid state technology ‘to give specifiers new solutions to old problems’.
Lighting Spy, meanwhile, will be ‘exposing the worst excesses of lighting energy waste in the UK – by visiting new and existing projects and checking’. The organisers add: “But he won’t just criticise – his team will propose alternatives that will save energy and improve the quality of the lighting.
An extensive programme of sessions in the Eco Lighting theatre will including a keynote address by the inventor of the blue LED, and the man who (the organisers say) ‘single-handedly created the LED revolution’, Shuji Nakamura of Soraa, who will give his view of the future roadmap of the transition to LEDs, including the possibilities created by gallium-on-gallium technology.
