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LIGHTING IS DYNAMIC LIGHTING IS EMOTIVE LIGHTING CAN INSPIRE, ENGAGE AND MOTIVATE

Established in 1991, FUTURE Designs is a UK based designer and manufacturer of high quality luminaries and bespoke lighting solutions, with a proud heritage of meeting the exacting demands and requirements of clients, designers and engineers in all sectors of the property and construction industry.

Supported by a carefully managed programme of research and development, FUTURE Designs is committed to the very best in lighting solutions from concept through to installation and after sales service.

FUTURE Designs understands that good energy performance is critical financial management for building owners and occupiers in these times of ever increasing energy costs and the introduction of carbon taxes.

FUTURE Designs is an LED specialist, constantly investing in development and innovative products by the productive and efficient use of materials.

We design, engineer and produce our products to fulfil one desire: MAKING LIGHT WORK.

DAVID CLEMENTS Managing Director

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIGHT AND LIGHTING

Looking Back and to the Future

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This is a light hearted look at the history of light and its impact on the human race.

Hopefully it serves to illustrate that, for tens of thousands of years, man jogged along from prehistoric times; through the Romans, the Middle Ages, building churches, fighting wars across countries and continents, believing in God in various guises and generally getting on with whatever life meant for them.

The Industrial Revolution and the Victorians, changed all that!

Around 1880 electricity was developed and became the catalyst for change, the effect of which, good or bad, continues to have a global impact on life today.

Lighting, be it domestic or industrial, has changed the way we live and work, and its development continues to do so.

From their early invention tungsten filament lamps and fluorescent lamps were continuously developed for better quality, longevity and functionality as demand and requirements in terms of design, architecture and energy consumption required.

New lighting is now driven by Solid State Technology. LED is here, despite some doubters, it is here to stay and will replace old technology, as once the tungsten lamp did to the candle.

BRIAN TEALE C.Eng. FCIOB, MCIBSE Non-Executive Director

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

In the Beginning, “let there be light”

• The sun

• Man

• Early light sources

The Philosophy of Light

• Lighting, architecture and culture

Electricity & The First Electric Lamp

• Electric light sources

A Basis for Lighting Design

Lighting and Sustainability

Epilogue

Appendices

• Milestones in lighting

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“In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the earth was without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said let there

be light and there was light, and God saw that the light was good and he separated light from darkness.”

Genesis 1:3-4

IN THE BEGINNINGLet there be light

Well that’s what it says in the Old Testament, and updated in the 1611 version of King James Bible for English churches.

A different take on the somewhat flowery wording was imagined by Alistair Cooke in his acceptance speech for the ‘Best Speaker of the English Language’ in 1998. He suggested a U.S. Government representative version of Genesis 1:3-4 might be:

“The Supreme Being mandated the Illuminance of the Universe and the directive was enforced forthwith.”

There’s only one American word for it…… Awesome!

The Sun

About 4.5 billion years ago, the sun was formed from a swirling nebula, a huge cloud of gas and dust and through the process of thermonuclear hydrogen fusion, known as the nebula hypothesis, the sun began to shine.

Hence the Big Bang Theory.

The sun, which is 864,000 miles in diameter and 93,000,000 miles from earth, provides 100,000 lux of illumination on the earth’s surface in mid summer.

The sun has been the primary source of light for the human race for over 200,000 years and is expect to keep going for another 30 billion years.

This compares with life of a fluorescent at 20,000 hours and LEDs at around 50,000 hours.

Lamp manufacturers take note!

“Solar energy would have been here by now, but for one

problem, the utility companies can’t work out how to run a

sun beam through a meter.”

(Anon)

Early Light Sources

Prehistoric man used primitive lamps to illuminate his cave. Made from naturally occurring materials such as rock or shells, they were filled with animal or vegetable fat and had a fibre wick. Early man also realised that a reflector would help direct and intensify light. Animals were also used as lamps, oily birds and fish were threaded with a wick to produce a working lamp.

There are also records, in the West Indies and Japan, of using fireflies in primitive cages producing light through the process of bioluminescence. No flies on those guys!

Around the 7th Century the Greeks started making terracotta lamps to replace hand held torches. The word lamp is derived from the Greek word ‘lampas’ which means torch.

As time passed, materials such as pottery and alabaster were used and wicks were added to the lamp to control the rate of burning. Lamp design developed, but still with the same basic technology.

The invention of the candle dates back to around 3,000 BC, they were used in church rituals from around 400 BC. The best were made from bees wax and became an important part of Christian religion since the bee was regarded as a symbol of purity. Relatively few candles were used in homes until about the 14th Century.

Centuries would pass before the next revolutionary change in lighting would occur; the invention of the first electric lamp.

Man

Homo Erectus probably discovered fire by accident from lightning bolts hitting trees and shrubs and this constituted early man’s first use of artificial lighting; the burning stick torch was the first portable lamp.

The discovery that tying a bundle of sticks together gave a brighter and longer lasting light meant that man could now learn to control fire, and this discovery has had a profound effect on civilisation. The ancient Greeks worshipped Prometheus, the fire bringer.

Man must have been using fire to provide light, demonstrated by the early paintings found in caves at Lascaux, France, far beyond the reach of daylight.

Pythagoras (c 580BC) put forward the Particle Theory of Light. This assumed that visible objects put out a steady stream of particles that bombard the eye. He suggested that:

“Light consists of rays travelling in straight lines from the eye to an object and the sensation of sight is when the rays touch the object.”

Plato (c 430BC), a Greek philosopher who was born to an aristocratic family and created the Platonic School, complicated the theory of light by suggesting that vision was produced by rays of light that originate in the eye that strike the object being viewed.

Aristotle (c 390BC), a Greek scientist and philosopher and a pupil of Plato, had a different theory of light and concluded that light travels in something like waves.

Euclid (c 330BC), a Greek mathematician who followed the teachings of Plato, describes the behaviour of light in his book on optics, ‘The Twelve Postulates’, which stated: “The rays emitted by the eye travel in a straight line.”

He concluded that the speed of light must be very high, because you can close you eyes making things you are looking at disappear and when you open them again even the distant stars appear instantly.

To get a practical idea of the speed of light, try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on!

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIGHT

An excellent example of the integration of daylighting with architecture is the Pantheon. The building, which is still in use today, was constructed during the 2nd Century AD in the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. This building has an oculus, an eye in the ceiling that provides the only natural daylight into the structure.

Roman houses used central courtyards with rooms facing outwards to capture daylight into inner spaces. Public buildings used atria to bring light from the top and sides.

Modern day buildings capture the same concept for deep plan commercial offices, a good example of which is the Barclays Tower at Churchill Place, Canary Wharf; a complete south elevation of atria space over 31 floors, also using artificial lights from the FUTURE Designs range of specially designed luminaires.

The speed of light is 300,000 km per second and if you could travel at that speed or more, it would be Back to the Future.

From the earliest Roman times (400BC – 80AD), light became part of religious ceremony. In the pagan temples of Rome, the Vestal Virgins tended the “ever lasting light”, apparently any who broke their vow of virginity would be buried alive.

Lighting, Architecture and Culture

The design of early Roman and Greek buildings, used natural light to emphasise form and structure. Most Greek temples were orientated to the east to illuminate the statues within through the doorways at sunrise. The Greeks built open-air theatres and used natural daylight and lanterns for scenes set at night. The Minoan palace at Knossos on Crete (c1700-1300BC) was built mostly underground with light well shafts to bring in natural daylight.

No one really discovered electricity. For centuries scientists knew about lightning and static electricity but couldn’t figure out how to use it.

Benjamin Franklin experimented in 1752 with a kite in a lightning storm, a seemingly dangerous experiment. Hence the expression “go fly a kite” for something unlikely or futile!

Allesandro Volta, an Italian scientist, invented the first electric battery, the forerunner of the batteries we know today, and proved that a wire would glow when an electric current passed through it, and laid the foundation for the invention of the electric light bulb.

Heinrich Geissler a German glass blower invented an early form of fluorescent light tube.

Around 1879, Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb. It used DC, direct current, which could only be transmitted over short distances. Whilst Edison did not invent the electric filament lamp, he was the first to successfully market incandescent lighting.

Two years after the first incandescent lamps left Edison’s workshop, the Steamship Columbia was fitted with a 1,000 of them each with an average life of 100 hours. What a money spinner!

ELECTRICITY AND THE FIRST ELECTRIC LAMP

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian inventor living in the USA, invented AC alternating current which made it possible to transmit high voltages over long distances. A business man named George Westinghouse agreed to finance some of Tesla’s ideas, and they went on to win the bid to provide electricity to the World Fair in Chicago in 1893.

Thomas Edison developed the first economic all practical system for generating electricity in 1882.

The first electric lamp, the Carbon Arc Lamp was demonstrated by Sir Humphrey Davy, an English chemist, in 1801, but could only be used outdoors. People still used gas lights and candles to light homes and offices.

Electric light became popular only after the incandescent light was developed by Sir Joseph Swan in England in 1860 and Thomas Edison in the United States.

In 1880 Edison patented his invention and subsequently made it the commercial success it is today.

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Thomas Edison

“Oh, so Edison invented it? Please continue... your ignorance is rather entertaining.” Nikola Tesla

Electric Light Sources

Light is “visibly perceived radiant energy”. Visible light is a very small part of the electromagnetic spectrum and ranges in wavelength from 380 nm to 780 nm.

A nanometer, nm, is one billionth of a meter. (Always useful to know for the pub quiz night!)

A few lighting metrics:

LUMEN The lumen is the unit measure describing the quantity of light emitted from a source of light.

WATT A watt is the unit of power denoting the rate at which electricity is used.

LUMENS per WATT Put the two together and you get lumens per watt, also called efficacy (not efficiency), it’s a measure of how effective the light source is of turning the watts input to light output.

Quantity of light is evaluated in illuminance. It is the amount of light in lumens, on a working plane or room surface. It is measured in lux (lumens per square meters) or footcandles (lumens per square foot) in old money.

INCANDESCENT LAMPS The incandescent lamp dates back over one hundred years, essentially it produces light when an electric current passed through a coiled tungsten wire causes it to glow or “incandesce”. They are initial low cost, good colour rending, dimming is easy and there are a wide variety of wattages, shapes, and colours.

REFLECTOR LAMPS Designed with built in reflector to collect and focus light from the filament giving simple directional characteristic to the beam. Not a very efficient lamp and not widely used today.

PAR LAMPS A more efficient commonly used reflector (Parabolic Aluminium Reflector), also known as the pressed glass reflector lamp and suitable for use outdoors in all weathers.

HALOGEN LAMPS Tungsten halogen lamps are basically incandescent lamps that operate at higher pressure and temperature, producing a whiter light and have a longer life.

The halogen gas in the lamp significantly reduces the deposit of evaporated tungsten onto the glass build and hence no blackening effect and more light.

Infrared reflective coating applied to the lamp increases the lamps efficiency by redirecting infrared energy back on to the filament, and improves the output heat to light output ratio to 82% – 18% compared to the 90 – 10 ratio of a standard lamp.

LUMINAIRE A word, taken from the French, used widely by the Engineering Community, but also called a lighting fitting, is meant to describe a complete lighting unit consisting of metal housing, control gear, lamp, reflector, lens, electrical connection wiring.

Remember light fittings have lamps not bulbs. Bulbs grow in the ground!

Q. “How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb.”

A. “Since they never really change anything without first appointing a study committee, it can take any number from 6 to 12.”

LAMP LIFE VS. LIGHT OUTPUT Lumen values decrease over time as the incandescent lamp is operated, called lumen depreciation at around 70% of the rated life of the lamp. So if the lamp was rated at a 1000 hours, then light output would start to drop at 700 hours.

On average a person spends more time in the work place, than on any other activity. Well almost, this depends on how well you sleep!

The hours spent at work vary but generally continue to rise with the increase in work load, particularly in the service industries and office workstation environments in technology and finance related businesses. In the “office work” environment, productivity, efficiency and staff satisfaction of the work place are high priorities.

We experience our environment first and foremost through our eyes. Too much or too little light, glare or distorted colours and images, distracts our attention and causes visual fatigue.

Appropriate lighting design solutions are essential to support these needs and contribute in providing a visual and psychologically satisfying working environment.

Designing lighting for office environments needs to take care of the nature of the business, the working methods, open plan and cellular office configurations and the way staff work and interact with colleagues in collaboration and meetings.

Almost everyone uses computers in one form or another in the work place today, together with screens and interactive video conferencing facilities. Lighting designed with fittings and controllable light source that eliminates unwanted reflections on screens is essential.

A BASIS FORLIGHTING DESIGN

Illuminance The greater the illuminance, the stronger the visual stimulation and the easier to see and work. For reading, writing and general office functions around 500 lux is suitable, for drawing or other visually demanding tasks 700 lux would be preferable.

If desirable, lower levels of ambient illumination can be supported by task lighting, and can often provide the optimal condition for certain tasks and functions.

Getting the correct light distribution with variations in brightness and contrast, emphasises space zones, gives a livelier appearance and prevents the overall space from appearing monotonous.

Glare when not properly controlled, is a disturbing side effect of poor lighting design and incorrect product selection.

Luminaries with direct and indirect lighting components, good colour rendering, allow easier free arrangements for office configurations and flexible furniture locations creating a more agreeable and productive working environment.

Good lighting design and product selection, integrated into the interior design for a working space is essential to achieve an attractive and productive working environment, that supports the functional needs of a building in terms of energy and maintenance costs and reducing impact on the environment.

Light with great architectural and interior design creates

great environments, providing space and an experience

for people to enjoy.

Sustainable building design considers the long term effect that man made materials have on the environment and involves creating and using more efficient models for construction, renovation, operation and maintenance of buildings by:

• Efficient use of energy, water and other resources

• Protecting occupants health and improving employee productivity

• Reducing waste, pollution and environmental damage

Daylight is an important element of sustainable design in terms of architecture, aesthetics, energy issues and benefits to occupants.

Sustainable design is an integrated, collaborative process requiring a change in traditional roles and relationships with architects, engineers, lighting designers and manufacturers. By including lighting design requirements and product selection at the very outset and concept designs of a project, green design goals can be best achieved.

During each stage of design, lighting design and product suitability can be addressed and guide overall building performance considerations

Sustainable design is now a mainstream requirement in construction practice.

LIGHTING ANDSUSTAINABILITY

As energy costs rise, the price premium for green building products will fall in comparison.

LED lighting design and products are now at the fore front of energy efficient design, reducing carbon emissions and contribute to high performance green building standards.

Recent studies undertaken by FUTURE Designs on large commercial office building can show a energy reduction of 50% by replacing Fluorescent light with Solid State LED light and capital payback periods of 2 to 3 years.

Building performances are now rated by their LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and BREEAM (Building Research Establishment.

Establishment Assessment Methodology scores, providing building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fit out, significantly benefiting commercial building owners, and users.

So can LED save the world? Unlikely but a nice thought. That said, according to distinguished academics a massive reduction in power consumption of maybe 20% of global electricity could be achieved using LED technology. This in turn would mean burning significantly less fossil fuels, with a corresponding reduction in the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and hey presto reducing carbon levels. Driven by burning coal, oil and gas for energy carbon dioxide levels are now 143% higher than before the Industrial Revolution, with a global average of 397.7 parts per million.

This annual average is likely to pass 400ppm in 2016. Average global temperatures are now likely to reach 1C above pre-industrial levels for the first time, half way to the critical 2C. At that level, scientists warn, that there is a risk of catastrophic damage to sea levels, food production and wildlife.

“Time is running out” says WMO Secretary General Michel Jarraud, ‘“We have to act now to slash greenhouse gas emissions, to have a chance to keep the increase in temperature to manageable levels.”

We humans are driving our climate into uncharted territory because we are now above the tipping point of 1C.

EPILOGUE The key benefits of using LED

• Switching to LED offers a considerable decrease in power consumption.

• Switching to LED offers a significant decrease in carbon emissions.

• LED offers a substantial increase in lamp life with comparable lumen output.

• LED offers reduced cost through high efficiency, long lamp life, longer between maintenance cycles.

• LED offers improved safety through solid state technology, low radiant heat, no UV/IR radiation and no mercury chemicals to dispose.

Clearly LED technology on it’s own cannot save the world, but to paraphrase Neil Armstrong, July 20 1969.

Changing to LED technology may be one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind.

• 70,000 BC. Hollow rocks or shells filled with moss or similar material soaked in animal fat and then ignited.

• 4500 BC. Oil lamps begin to appear.

• 3000 BC. Candles were invented, still the primary light source in to the 17th century.

• 900 BC. Muhammad ibz Zakariya Razi invented the kerosene lamp.

• 1792 William Murdoch began experimenting with gas light and produced the first gas light. Nothing more than narrow apertures at the ends of pipes, ignited.

• 1841. Arc lighting used as experimental public lighting in Paris.

• 1854. Heinrick Gobel invented an incandescent lamp, by passing an electric current through a carbonised bamboo filament inside a glass build.

• 1876. A E Becquerel coated electric discharge tubes with luminescent material and developed later in fluorescent lamps.

• 1878. Sir Joseph Swan patented the incandescent lamp.

• 1879. Thomas Edison patented the carbon thread incandescent lamp.

• 1893. Nikola Tesla displayed fluorescent lamps and neon lamps at the World Colombian exposition.

APPENDICES Milestones in Lighting

• 1909. William Coolidge developed ductile tungsten wire making the ‘modern’ incandescent lamp possible.

• 1926. Edmund Germer patented the fluorescent lamp.

• 1962. Nick Holonyak Jr. developed the first practical visible spectrum light-emitting diode. The LED.

• 1976. Edward Hammer (General Electric) invented the CFL, compact fluorescent lamp.

• 1981. Introduction of compact fluorescent lamps and became very popular.

• 1989. New generation electronic ballasts for fluorescent lamps begins the large scale retro fit of older technology T12 fixtures to new T8 technology.

• 1995. Introduction of Electronic T5 fluorescent systems and associated new luminaire designs.

• 1999. New break through in LED technology improved efficacy and colour, brings prediction of LEDs replacing traditional general lighting.

• 2013/14. FUTURE Designs replace traditional fluorescent luminaire manufacturing to total Solid State LED manufacture.

• 2016 and beyond. Predicting the future. LED as a lighting product will eclipse fluorescent fittings in 3 to 5 years.

2014 NOBEL for Blue LED that revolutionised Lighting

The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, for their invention of diodes that emit blue light which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources to be achieved.

As is well known, LEDs are devices that emit light when subjected to an electric current. Green and red versions have been around since the 1950s, but creating blue-emitters was a technical challenge that stumped industry for decades.

Their success has opened the door to white LEDs which can have efficiencies of 20 times those of conventional lamps.

Wolfgang Schnick, Ludwick Maximilian University of Munich: “The development cannot be estimated too highly and will help save up to 20% of the global electricity consumption.”

The Nobel committee declared: “Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th Century, the 21st Century will be lit by LED.”

Commercial development of growing gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs on silicon substrates continues apace.

It has been speculated that the use of six inch silicon wafers instead of two-inch sapphire wafers and epitaxy manufacturing processes could reduce production costs by up to 90%.

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ReluxOur lighting design package, enables us to simulate environments within the software and prepare best practice calculations based upon the exact photometric data from our extensive range of luminaires to suit the space and the tasks performed therein.Key benefits include visual representation of the space and producing easy to read lighting reports which comprise full illumination data, power consumption, uniformity and luminaire types & quantities.

SolidWorksA product development tool which enables us to design a luminaire for manufacture and create a 3D model so that we can analyse the product aesthetically and ensure it is fit for purpose. Enabling us to reduce the amount of samples and the associated issues with the environment. We are also able to provide BIM ready models of our luminaire range.

PhotopiaA key development tool, Photopia enables us to design and photometrically test a luminaire via a 3D software programme without having to manufacture. The fundamental benefit is we can design a product for and develop it without producing samples and the associated issues with the environment.

AutoCADAn industry standard technical drawing package which enables us to effectively compile drawings and luminaire layouts. We are able to provide full lighting layout details within building plans, co-ordinating these layouts with other ceiling-mounted services.

We run LED technology presentation and CIBSE CPD courses. In these presentations we give an update of the latest technologies, trends and challenges. We can tailor these presentations to your exact needs. Please contact the FUTURE Designs team to arrange.

Final Installation

Concept Render

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Design Capabilities & BIM Readiness

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We start considering the environment well before the lights go on

At FUTURE Designs we recognise that good energy performance is sound financial management. We have always produced high efficiency, low energy luminaires but we are constantly striving to do even more. Giving you useful light in the right places for lower energy input is our aim and we do this with not just highly efficient luminaires, but efficient control systems, dimmers, presence and daylight detectors.

Reduced energy use means lower carbon emissions for the entire life of the product. We have also continually work towards creating less waste and fewer emissions in our manufacturing process.

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entResponsibilityWe are fully committed to taking responsibility for our products, designing for low impact and low waste manufacture and designing for dismantling at the end of life. The primary elements of steel, aluminium, glass, plastic and copper can be recovered and re-used. With this in mind we are constantly striving to increase the percentage of components that can be recovered.

LumicomFUTURE Designs is proud to be a member of Lumicom.Lumicom is a non profit initiative from LIF (Lighting Industry Federation) working under the Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS) for the WEEE directive.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Directive (WEEE)WEEE is a regulation which governs the safe collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of electronic products. As a registered member of Lumicom we can ensure that we adhere to the directive and ensure that our products are ‘Reused, Recycled & Recovered in an environmentally friendly way.

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BACKGROUNDClimate change is perhaps the most significant global environmental issue. Its effects increasingly impact society and the individual.FUTURE Designs aims to play its part in reducing dependence on fossil fuels and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for both ourselves and our end-users and contribute to a more sustainable society.

SUPPLY CHAINWe work with our suppliers and with the distribution and installation service providers to minimising the environmental impacts of the materials, products and installation.

MATERIALS USE & PRODUCTION EFFICIENCYOur designs are based on readily recycled materials including steel, aluminium and copper. Our manufacturing processes are engineered to minimise the materials and maximise the yields obtained. This both reduces the material inventory and the consequent wastes generated. We make to order, which maximises resource efficiency and eliminates waste. Our quality and records system allows us to repeat short production runs on demand, eliminating requirements for stock-holding and potential obsolescence.

OUR PRODUCTSWe take environmental responsibility for the goods we supply. We are committed to design, development and specification of lower impact products. We can reduce power consumption and hence carbon footprint for end-users by optimising lux levels, selecting high efficiency designs and improving lighting layouts. Within our range of products we have some of the highest lighting efficiency rated products (achieving carbon trust A rating), With the introduction of the WEEE directive we are designing in improvements in the ease of dismantling and recycle-ability of products at the end of their life.

CARBON EMISSIONSWe are committed to reducing the direct carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of our products. We have developed an energy management action plan to reduce our consumption and to source cleaner supplies. We manufacture in the UK, which minimises the emissions associated with the transport and delivery of our finished goods.

DESIGNWe work with specifiers on the best sustainability options including high efficiency lighting and effective lighting layouts. We have our own designers and software tools for both luminaire design and layout planning.

COMPLIANCEWe are committed to complying with all applicable environmental legislative and other requirements. To meet our obligations under the EU WEEE directive, we are members of the Lumicom compliance scheme, which funds the costs of the collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of luminaires at the end of their life cycle.

FUTURE DESIGNS HAS BEEN A MAJOR SUPPLIER FOR OVER 20 YEARS

PERFORMANCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE

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LED is fast moving and ever changingSpeak to us about the latest LED innovations and our vibrant range of lighting.

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HEADQUARTERS The Lighthouse, Fircroft Way,

Edenbridge, Kent TN8 6EJ

HQ +44 (0)1732 867420

LONDON Unit 401, Wharfside Point South,

4 Preston Road, London E14 9EL

LDN +44 (0)20 7515 3763

DUBAI Office 4C Level 4,

Union National Bank Building, Khalid Bin Waleed StreetBur Dubai, PO Box 71074

DUB + 971 4 3858199

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25 years mastering the magic of light