School balances lighting and acoustics

A Scottish school has balanced low-energy lighting with high acoustic absorption in its ultra-modern classrooms.
An innovative ultra-minimalistic LED luminaire has been installed in the library of a Danish university.
A sophisticated combination of natural light, energy-efficient LEDs and controls have helped the new Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London to achieve a Breeam ‘Excellent’ rating.
The £55 million Faculty of Business and Law at the University of the West of England has opened with high-efficiency lighting, a sophisticated controller and a central battery system.
Lansbury Lawrence Primary School is on track to significantly reduce its annual energy use following an upgrade to LED lighting financed by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Carbon Offset Fund.
A brutalist concrete viaduct at the University of Sheffield has been transformed into a colourful gathering space for students thanks to an innovative lighting scheme.
A fully autonomous wireless Bluetooth mesh technology is being used to control the lighting at a third-level college in Poland.
A library in China is using over 7 kilometres of LED tape to illuminate its books.
A primary school has invested in dynamic colour-tuning LED lighting to boost the concentration of pupils during the notorious afternoon lull.
The lighting at the new campus of the National College for High Speed Rail at Doncaster had to match the school’s ethos of quality engineering and incorporate the latest optical, electrical and control technology.
An innovative outdoor lighting installation triggered by wireless motion sensors has been unveiled on the campus of the Royal Holloway university in London.
The first loan from a Government pilot programme has funded an upgrade of 12,000 luminaires across 12 academies in England.
A secondary school in Scotland is trialling the delivery of the internet using its lighting.
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A sophisticated lighting installation with a range of state-of-the-art technologies such as Bluetooth Mesh has been unveiled at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, parts of which date back to 1487.
The world’s smartest university has become a showcase for IoT lighting – and there isn’t a light switch in sight.