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Category Archives: LED and lighting
The Highs and Lows of Retro Fit Energy Saving Lighting
It started with a crash course with Lighting Services, looking at colour rendering, (the ability of a light source to reproduce and enhance the colours faithfully in comparison with natural light source), the importance of the correct beam angles, the … Continue reading
Discovering hot lights and pipes!
We have a thermal imaging camera which we use for a number of different reasons, but mainly to work out the areas of greatest heat loss in a building and, therefore, where to target our resources for energy efficiency improvements. … Continue reading
Posted in energy efficiency, LED and lighting, Regions, South East, uncategorized
Tagged energy, energy efficiency, Jane Fletcher, LED, Lighting, pipes, Polesden Lacey, thermal imaging
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A brighter future for Midlands properties
The Trust in the Midlands was successful in securing funding of £31,000 from the Arts Council England to replace tungsten and compact fluorescent light bulbs in our registered museums with LED lamps. We have now replaced over 1,800 light bulbs … Continue reading
Posted in energy efficiency, LED and lighting, midlands, Regions
Tagged Arts Council England, Charis Fowler, lamp, LED, light bulb, Midlands, museum
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LED tube vs Flourescent tube…NT environmental work at the movies.
We’re commissioning a series of videos based on the work at the Hafod y Llan Snowdon farm (see the Youtube page) We also have a Camera man following the hydro build over the next year. Been involved in too many … Continue reading
Our own light bulb moments
In a previous post, I outlined our London and South East Energy Efficiency Project and mentioned that one of the initiatives has been to roll out LED lighting to non-showroom areas. This has proved to be an astonishingly difficult project – but one that … Continue reading
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Tagged efficiency, energy efficiency, environment, environmental, Jane Fletcher, LED, Lighting, National Trust
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The incandescent is dead long live the new incandescent (LED)
When Iain from heritage lighting showed his latest development in LED bulbs a couple of days ago I felt a eureka moment. With so much complaining about the demise of the incandescent and the views held around the CFL bulbs. The … Continue reading
Posted in LED and lighting, Wales
Tagged Fit for the future, GLS LED, Keith Jones, LED, National Trust, National Trust Blog, sustainability, Wales
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LED – Next generation bulbs fitted at Plas Newydd
I spent a really interesting morning at Plas newydd yesterday with David the House manager and Iain from Heritage Lighting fitting the latest generation of LED … Continue reading
