Lighting up your project
From how daylight impacts the design of a façade to how to seamlessly blend natural and artificial light, our experts are on hand to share their expertise with your project team.
Lighting design
Lighting is the key to bringing a building to life. It can create atmosphere in a restaurant, zone workspace in an office or lead passengers through a railway station or airport terminal. And it’s not just for buildings, lighting greatly enhances outdoor public space too.
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Light as a design tool
Finding the perfect balance between daylight and artificial light is an essential element in the building design process. By considering the building’s use, user comfort and how light enters during the day and throughout the year, our team of lighting design experts can transform a new or existing building. Our tailored concepts combine lighting design with the correct specification of daylight systems and lighting products.
From the start of a project, we work with architects and interior designers to understand how daylight will enter a building and how it can be combined with artificial lighting. Our background in engineering and experience in complex projects helps us translate vision into reality, working with the whole project team to refine your project’s look and feel.
We can also give a new lease of life to an existing building, with innovative lighting concepts and design. Making the most of natural light and working with current luminaires and fittings, where viable, or with carefully selected replacements, to improve user comfort and refresh the ambiance.
In the outdoor space, lighting supports orientation and provides security, allowing people to continue to explore the city after dark. Our public spaces lighting designs are designed to balance the needs of people outdoors.
Independent consultants or part of an integrated team
We can operate as part of a full service offering from Royal HaskoningDHV’s experts or as independent consultants working with a third-party project team.
Getting the ambience right
We use our understanding of visual ergonomics, biological impact and user experience to design lighting concepts that meet your needs and the vision of your design team.
Transforming public open space with light
We don’t just use our lighting expertise for buildings, we design schemes that enhance urban spaces, making them more accessible after dark and improving user experiences.
Using light to define or guide
The way we use communal workspaces gradually but constantly changes. Hybrid working models have seen the office evolve into a hub for collaboration and interaction, driving innovation in workplace design.
Lighting can play a huge role, helping zone workspaces and creating a pleasant atmosphere for creative or social interaction. This must be balanced with lighting for traditional office working areas. The right lighting concept can make the difference between a vibrant and productive workplace and one that users would rather avoid.
Light also has a key role in wayfinding. Light can guide users through both indoor and outdoor spaces such as helping passengers navigate a railway station, airport terminal or urban area. Light can be combined with traditional wayfinding techniques like signage or materials selection. This creates a reassuring and easy-to-follow route for users contributing to their well-being and enhances their journey.
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Sustainable lighting is about more than the right bulb
Progress in luminaire design and manufacture has tended to be the focus of improving sustainability in lighting. But there is so much more that lighting can help achieve when it comes to meeting environmental goals. For example, designing lighting scenarios which only use light when, and where, it is needed. This not only has a positive impact on energy use but is also fundamental to achieving the intended atmosphere.
As independent consultants, we don’t sell light fittings, we design creative lighting concepts. With our in-depth industry knowledge and access to the latest market innovations we can assess and compare luminaires and fittings against your requirements and select the product which is most suitable for the intended design – cutting both costs and carbon emissions from your lighting plan.
Lighting design for life
Whether travel, work, leisure activities such as watching sport or visiting museums, or healthcare needs, the impact of light is inescapable. Getting the light right enhances the experience of users and visitors, helping improve productivity, engagement, and wellbeing. If you think we can help bring your project to life, get in touch.