Lighting Force Ltd

We see ourselves as the interpreters from the creative team to the technical team; we interpret your conceptual vision and translate that into a package for installation. In the right hands light compliments, dramatises, and inspires, but while architects and interior designers know the effect they want to achieve, it takes a specialist to know how to achieve the effect.

Hospitality Lighting Design
Hospitality is really a combination of corporate design and high-end residential design; the design needs to have the brand-stamp all over it, yet make all guests feel like they are at a home-away-from-home. We have worked with leading interior designers, architects and hotel groups internationally to deliver efficient lighting designs that complement the designer's vision and comply with brand and international standards.

Residential Lighting Design
Good lighting design is essential to any building. Whether you are investing in a refurbishment or new build, you will want your designer's work presented in the best possible light. Good lighting design can bring mundane spaces to life and, conversely, bad lighting design can make great architecture look mundane. Employing a lighting design professional is an inexpensive way to get the absolute best value from your architect or interior's design.

Corporate
Corporate premises speak volumes about your company's image. The lighting needs to proclaim your brand, light the workspace efficiently and provide a safe and comfortable working environment. Designing corporate lighting requires different approaches to a variety of areas with different functions such as an entrance lobbies and receptions, work-spaces, meeting rooms, break-out spaces, and car parks. The Lighting Designer's skill is to make all of these areas work together to present an homogeneous design that projects a strong brand image.

Retail
We have successfully worked with retailers with strong brand identities. First and foremost, it's your product going out of the door that is paramount. Blanket lighting-level techniques are inefficient as well as self-defeating. Imaginative lighting doesn't just create contrast and theatre, making your retail environment a desirable destination, it saves energy, maintenance costs and downtime.

Public Areas
From airport and railway concourses and platforms, to parks and urban environments, lighting has a multitude of responsibilities; safety and security finding your way from A to B, avoiding light pollution, and aesthetics.

Facades and monuments need contrast; our well-balanced designs emphasise features and texture to give depth and fascination to the picture.

Exterior Lighting
When it comes to exterior lighting, be it gardens, facades, car parks, or urban landscapes, less is more. Gardens should be a journey from one point of interest, with a pause before being lured to the next - and lighting is the eye-catcher that pulls you on.

Heritage
Everyone gains a deep sense of satisfaction from helping to enhance and revitalise a piece of our heritage. We can apply modern technology and techniques in a sympathetic way to enhance heritage buildings and provide safe environments without compromise.

Energy Saving
Today everyone needs to be energy conscious; the only thing increasing faster than the number of energy regulations is the cost of energy! The role of the lighting designer is to interpret these regulations without sacrificing aesthetics and utility.

Boutique and Spa
We all enjoy being pampered; the well-being and bliss of the perfect environment that is 'all about you'. In some ways the brief is so crystal-clear, but the implementation is where specialist skills are required. What other environment is so single minded in its purpose, but so varied in its environments; wet areas, dry areas, transitional areas, and complex controls.

Working Methods
There are many ways that our clients can choose to utilise us:

• Full and detailed 3D modelling and lighting calculations, with video walkthrough
• Detailed presentations illustrating the concepts and luminaires
• Full electrical schedule of luminaires, with datasheets
• CAD, circuit diagrams, and control philosophies
• Simple modelling to 'prove' the design and ensure sufficient light levels
• Emergency lighting calculations
• Bespoke luminaire designs
• Energy payback calculations
• 'Short burst of input', concepts and direction in a quick workshop meeting
• Problem solving, late-stage 'fixing', and value-engineering

Specials
There are times when nothing will really do the space justice, other than bespoke features. Then we get out the pencil and paper; what's it for? What makes it special? What does it relate to? We started 30 years ago in realising special lighting features for architects and it's something we hold dear to our approach.