Mike Stoane Lighting completes fourth project in Scandinavia

In a reversal of the trend, while Scandinavian design is being imported en masse to the UK, Mike Stoane Lighting's fittings, designed and manufactured in Scotland, are being successfully exported to Scandinavia.

Universal Fibre Optics in 'Hospitalworks'

Universal Fibre Optics were pleased to work with lighting designer Hansjorg Schmidt to provide an unusual and striking lighting feature for the theatre production, Hospitalworks.

Lighting up Hexham

An impressive new interior lighting scheme has recently been completed at Northumberland's Hexham Abbey using fittings from Light Projects.

New Appointment at Weblight Limited

Weblight Limited, the UK's foremost lighting maintenance company is thrilled to be joined by Chris Swann as Business Development Manager for the FM sector.

Hyatt Grand Opening with Robe

Over 100 Robe ColorSpot 170 moving heads and Anolis Arcsource RGB LED fixtures have been installed in the newly refurbished banqueting and ballroom facility at the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne, Australia.

PixelLines Light Temple for 10th anniversary celebrations

The amazing BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (temple) in Neasden, North West London celebrated its 10th anniversary in grand style this year - via illumination of its immense marble and limestone exterior with JTE PixelLine fixtures.

E\T\C UK - Tattoos Edinburgh

Large format projection specialist E\T\C UK is supplying spectacular projections for the 2005 Edinburgh Military Tattoo. It's the first time this stunning visual medium has successfully been incorporated into this world famous event.

Mike Stoane Lighting Tenth Birthday Party

The Mike Stoane Lighting tenth birthday party on August 12th was a resounding success. There was the chance to try out the go karts and the dirt bike, and the King Kong bouncy castle was popular with both adults and children, although the kids had a lot more stamina than their parents! Music was provided by a great live band with Doug Hamilton from LDPi on drums.

LightingDirectory.com appointed as official online partner for ARC06

The organisers of ARC06, the second Architectural, Retail and Corporate Lighting Show for the UK have announced that LightingDirectory.com has become the official online media partner of the event.

Fagerhult Lighting Invites You to Create a Cow

Fagerhult Lighting, a leading lighting manufacturer, are holding a competition to design their entry in an art exhibition with a difference, the canvas is a life-sized fibreglass cow!

New Lumos Drive 216 in Science Museum Roof LED installation

Architectural lighting specialists i-Vision have designed, specified and commissioned an eye-catching LED lighting installation in the new steel roof structure of the Energy Hall at London's Science Museum.

Osram light for the underground station at the Allianz arena

Osram has installed 150 Endura lamps in the 14 support pillars for the roof structure over the Fröttmanning station at the new Munich football stadium. The luminaires are hidden from the view of passengers. They shine upwards to the roof, which then reflects the light back down onto the platforms, resulting in uniform illumination.

EX-OR Helps Berkeley Homes Meet L2 Building Regulations at Landmark London Development

Automatic lighting control from Ex-Or Ltd is being installed in Berkeley Homes latest prestige apartments development in the heart of London. The LightSpot presence detectors will dramatically cut energy costs and ensure regulatory compliance to the current Approved Document L2 of the Building Regulations (conservation of Fuel and Power).

Lighting Leeds at Lower Cost

Leeds City Council is reducing energy costs on festive lighting by replacing conventional incandescent lamps with Megaman 4W coloured 'golf ball' compact fluorescent lamps.

LEDs Headline at Historic Theater

Sunbursts on the Bardavon Theater's marquee erupt with the warm shades of sunset while white light races around the listing of featured performers.

Design top of the agenda at DW Windsor

DW Windsor Lighting is delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Jankowski into a newly created senior position with immediate effect.

i-Vision effervesces at Bollicini

Architectural and feature lighting specialist i-Vision has designed and installed a stylish lighting scheme at Bollicini in Chester – blazing a trail as the town's newest, trendiest and most stylish modern Italian restaurant.

E\T\C UK Commemorates World War 2 in Portsmouth

Large format projection specialists E\T\C UK – fresh from its dramatic projections onto Buckingham Palace last week for the 60th and final MOD Commemorations of World War 2 – also beamed giant images onto Portsmouth Guildhall for "Portsmouth Remembers". This was a one off evening of images, words and song staged in Guildhall Square to commemorate the ending of hostilities in 1945.

New online service from Luxo

Customers registering with Luxoonline - Luxo's new online service - during August will be entered into a draw for a luxury weekend break in Venice – the winner will be announced in October.

Recycling is the only way forward for discharge lamps

New and forthcoming legislation will make it virtually impossible for organisations to dispose of discharge lamps, other than through the recycling route.

A Compact Solution from Whitecroft Lighting

Whitecroft Lighting has supplied around 10,000 special compact fluorescent luminaires for use in offices at 30 Gresham Street in the City of London.

Metropolis supplies customised LED fixtures to Sportsman Casino

Metropolis AV has designed a colourful new architectural lighting installation, including some specially customised LED fixtures, at the new Sportsman Casino in Old Quebec Street, central London.

Freemans Meadow offers new HORIZON

The stunning new land mark development of Freemans Meadow provides an exceptional new concept in living to the waterfront in Leicester.

Cooper lights the way at Nottingham tram depot

Cooper Lighting and Security has supplied a variety of robust industrial luminaires for the maintenance depot of the Nottingham Express Transit tramway.

Lady Lever in the Spotlight

Set in the attractive garden village of Port Sunlight, the Lady Lever Art Gallery holds one of the most beautiful collections of fine and decorative arts in the country.

Tenth birthday celebrations for Mike Stoane Lighting

Mike Stoane Lighting celebrate their tenth birthday this August. The company, which started life as just one man operating out of his lock up, now employs twenty and has recently completed projects at St Paul's Cathedral, Gothenburg Museum of World Culture, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters.

Safety first for new Fire Precaution project at The Ipswich Hospital NHS

A new Fire Precaution project is being installed at The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust which offers a monitored emergency escape lighting facility and complies with all necessary regulations. The existing system is being replaced by Fagerhult's new LED emergency lighting system called emLED which uses the 2w high output Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamp.

Simmtronic Lighting Controls Employed at Marks & Spencer HQ

Simmtronic has supplied the complete lighting control system installed in Marks & Spencer's new HQ at 1 & 2 Waterside, Paddington Basin, having initially successfully fulfilled the lighting controls contract on the building shell and core.

Robe Goes Underground in Atlanta

Robe moving lights have been specified and installed at several clubs and venues in Kenny's Alley at the landmark 'Underground Atlanta' retail and entertainment complex.

Sugg helps to Restore Nunsmoor Park's Edwardian Heritage

Sugg Lighting has supplied 12 Windsor frame lanterns, integrated into cast iron arches, as part of the restoration of Nunsmoor Park in Newcastle.

TridonicAtco Give County Hall a Step Up

LED light heads from TridonicAtco have been used in the creation of a stunning glass staircase at The County Hall – Riverside Building, a building with an interesting history previously being the home of the LCC and the GLC.

Light steps ahead for Royal Victoria Infirmary new ward

The newly refurbished Pre-natal assessment ward was re-opened in April at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle, thus bringing the ward design firmly into the 21st century, according to the trust.

Universal Fibre Optics Launches New Brochure

The new Universal Fibre Optics brochure has been designed to illustrate and explain the many types of fibre optic lighting as simply as possible while still providing in-depth technical specifications.

Robe Lighting at the Falkirk Wheel

Studio Due architectural fixtures and Robe moving lights and control were specified and installed by Glasgow-based SSUK in a new permanent lighting installation at the Falkirk Wheel. The fixtures and control were supplied by Robe UK.

Holophane Lights up the Palace of Art

A combination of Holophane's column mounted amenity lighting luminaires, compact floodlights and in-ground luminaires have been used to create a visually stunning nightscape around the Palace of Art in Glasgow.

Venture Brightens the National Galleries of Scotland

As part of a new initiative from the National Galleries of Scotland, Venture Lighting has supplied its Metal Halide lamps for use in specially designed luminaires from Sugg Lighting, surrounding both the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Building and the National Gallery of Scotland.

LIGHTING CONTROLS – LEARNING TO MAKE LIGHT WORK

For the past 20 years Ex-Or Ltd, European leaders in lighting management, have been helping schools around the UK to dramatically cut costs and save energy by eliminating wasteful use of lights.

It's a Beautiful thing for Robe

Lighting designer/director Martin Kubanka specified over 50 Robe Show Lighting moving fixtures in his design for the final of the Slovakian Miss Universe qualifier – as Robe showed once again that it is the first choice of moving light for leading TV productions.

JBL VerTec - Créme de la Cream

JBL Professional's integrated line array loudspeaker system, VerTec, was specified by Concert Sound for Cream's recent reunion shows at the Royal Albert Hall. Performing together for the first time in nearly 40 years, apart from a brief re-emergence in 1993, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker received much critical and public acclaim.

Adrian Kitching joins Illuma Lighting

Illuma Lighting has recently appointed Adrian Kitching as General Manager of its great value 'Dot Lighting' brand, which was introduced in June 2004. Adrian will report directly to Colin Gordon, Illuma's Managing Director.

Celebrity designer, Diarmuid Gavin, specifies DW Windsor for show garden

Following a chance meeting in Covent Garden whilst Diarmuid was there filming a new series for the BBC, scheduled to be shown this Autumn, Diarmuid asked DWW to supply benches and planters for his show garden at Urban Gardens held at Olympia on 6-8 May 2005.

Scolmore's New Easy-to-use Website

Scolmore International's new website provides an easy-to-use tool for exploring the company's CLICK and Polar ranges of wiring accessories, circuit protection, ventilation and lighting products. New ranges are highlighted on the home page, with additional clearly-defined links to all product areas.

ILLUMINATED BOOTS - Chaos light flagship store

Lighting design consultancy, Chaos Design Consultants, have just completed the installation of two large lighting features at the new Boots flagship store in Oxford Street, London.

Holophane Make an Exhibition of itself at the Building Centre

Following the success of its permanent site at the Building Centre in Store Street, central London, Holophane Europe has added some recently launched luminaires to the display.

HSL and their Amazing Technicolor Service

Blackburn-based HSL has supplied the lighting rig for the hugely popular long running Bill Kenwright UK touring production of "Joseph & His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat".

Robe and Joel Young Light Rocky Horror Show

The Laboratory Theatre on the campus of the University of Arizona is using Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs and ColorWash 1200E AT fixtures to great effect.

Scolmore Creates Right Ambience for Wrightington Hotel

An extension to the Wrightington Hotel and Country Club, near Wigan, has used a wide selection of CLICK light fittings from Scolmore International in bedrooms and general circulation areas.

Megaman Illuminate Eco Friendly Tree House

Megaman's 7W GU10 lamps are being used within Tree House, a radical self-build project in Clapham, South London. Due for completion in late 2005, the house is being built to the highest design specification and will be the most eco-friendly dwelling of its kind in Britain.

Osram Opto Semiconductors files action for patent infringement against Citizen

Based on its conviction that Citizen is infringing fundamental patent rights, Os-ram Opto Semiconductors has filed action against the Japanese LED manufac-turer Citizen Electronics Co., LTD. at Dusseldorf Regional Court. With this move, Osram intends to enforce its patents for the manufacture of Light Emit-ting Diodes (LEDs).

Concepta highlights the new Saab range

One of the North's largest Saab dealerships has refurbished its main Harrogate showroom using the new Concepta 70W CDM-TC metal halide spotlights from Illuma.