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 deliver efficient lighting designs to complement the interior designer's vision, work to brand standards as well as regulations and work to the project budgets.

Hi-End Residential
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.

Corporate
Either your HQ or subsidiary premises speaks volumes about your company; lighting needs to proclaim your brand, however also efficiently light how you go about work. This is not about a single area, but a variety of spaces with different functions such as an entrance lobby and reception, work-spaces, meeting rooms, break-out spaces, and car parks, which are all linked together with sophisticated lighting controls.

Retail
We have successfully worked with retailers with strong brand identities. First and foremost, it's your product going out 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, it's also a good use of energy, making your retail environment a desirable destination.

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.

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 the existing architecture.

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.

Video Walkthrough
In addition to static presentations and other documentation, we can also provide walkthrough videos when commissioned to produce realistic and decorative lighting models. These aid understanding of the effect the lighting design will have when installed, especially with our international clients who will have less direct contact with us, when we would show them our models in person.

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.