City Beautification and Landscape Lighting
Planners, architects and engineers charged with responsibility of city revitalisation and beautification roles, understand the intrinsic role that lighting plays in these developments. They are faced with the design challenge of creating cohesive lighting schemes for a diverse urban landscape, whilst maintaining a responsible approach to minimising the level of light pollution impacting on our night environment. Furthermore, the sustainable design movement is gaining tremendous momentum as government agencies and industry organisations increasingly emphasise the importance of environmentally responsible building practices, including the use of innovative lighting solutions that not only reduce energy and maintenance costs, but reduce their carbon footprint.
Designers are faced with tremendous changes within the urban lighting sector. Technical and aesthetic qualities have to be combined into one single element, with optical systems offering top performance, while, at the same time, blending perfectly into the diverse architectural spaces and residential areas that make up our cities today. Both footpaths and roadways, with their differing surfaces, call for a meticulous technical lighting solution, which must never be at odds with aesthetics. As can be seen in many cities, lighting is a subtle and effective way to create identity and pride in a locale, with lighting highlighting many historic and tourist landmarks. Well designed public lighting solutions provide the essential safety to enjoy the cityscape and also deter crime and vandalism. Lighting gives ambience and provides for social interaction, creating atmospheres and impressions that create a new perception of the urban setting and encourage human social interaction. At night time, effective lighting solutions guide traffic safely through the city while creating ambience in city squares and pedestrian districts.
Recent innovations include the use of LED illumination for city beautification. Some of the world's foremost architects and designers choose the technology to light historic buildings, tourist landmarks, facades, bridges and fountains without the cost or complexity of certain conventional lighting methods. The development of LED lighting have provided solutions for nearly every lighting situation that not only enhance the area, but drastically reduce the ever growing energy and maintenance costs that councils are accountable for.
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