When it comes to indoor lighting, we are already aware that its conditions are different than that of outdoor lighting. Applications and technologies that are available in one are not necessarily applicable in the other, at least not right away [...]
AUTHOR: Jean-François Duquette | CATEGORY: Design
February 15, 2011
What is good for the inside, also suitable for the outside?
AUTHOR: Martin Mercier | CATEGORY: Technologies
February 10, 2011
LED lamp: How do I have to die?
New technologies in outdoor lighting, such as LED lamps, redefine the way we work, and also the way we need to think about outdoor lighting. And one of the things we now have to think about is how to best plan the ideal end of life of such lamps [...]
AUTHOR: | CATEGORY: Sustainable Development
February 8, 2011
Being Green. For Real! Part 2.2: The community
We continue our series on sustainable development, this time by looking at how initiatives such as ours, as far as the protection of the environment is concerned, can have a real impact on the community we serve [...]
AUTHOR: Jean-François Duquette | CATEGORY: Design
February 3, 2011
Designing around people
The streets as we know them in North America were designed around cars. Whoever has been in Europe knows that it is not the case there. Because of their age, cities and their streets in the Old Continent were built around pedestrians [...]
AUTHOR: | CATEGORY: Sustainable Development
February 1, 2011
Being Green. For Real! – Part 2.1: The Actions
In part 1 of this series on sustainable development, we explained why and how Philips Lumec decided to take action when it comes to responsible environmental practices. In this part 2, we will examine few of the results obtained by our company in this endeavour. Will follow in the next parts of this series the impact on the community and also on the industry itself [...]
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