Leading low-energy lighting specialist Aurora Lighting has opened a unique educational facility in north Dublin:
Aurora Lighting’s new Dublin centre features, among other things, an interactive facility giving lighting designers, electrical contractors and product specifiers the chance to ‘road test’ and understand the very latest technologies.
Taking the company’s popular Aurora Lighting Experience display (ALEX) at its UK headquarters one step further, the Dublin Showroom offers customers an invaluable opportunity to see the effects that a variety of light sources, colour temperatures and optics allow. Customers can also learn about the technology that makes these forward thinking products possible.
The facility will have two areas. The first area is dedicated to Aurora’s low-energy lighting ranges Luna and Ledzworld, while the second area will display the ranges of lighting fittings, power supplies and controls. This second area is due to be opened in the autumn – round about the time that this issue of WireIN goes to press.
See different lighting effects and applications
The low-energy lighting area, open now, contains a specially commissioned projector that allows customers to view 3-D images of completed retail, residential and commercial projects showing the different lighting effects and applications that can be achieve with modern light sources. With scenes continually updated, the latest projects from all over the world can be accessed along with technical data to aid in identifying the products used.
The showroom also includes a demonstration area for the company’s Luna and Ledzworld lamps. Customers can examine the colour temperature and light output of low-energy replacements for halogen and incandescent lamps.
Aurora project director Des Duignan said: “The Dublin showroom will be an invaluable training centre here in Ireland, where the industry can get up close and personal with the products they are specifying for their projects.
“There is so much misinformation around low-energy lighting. This centre will enable customers to see state-of-the art low energy products in action, understand the technology and get to grips with the technicalities of low-energy lighting.”
He continued: “A low-energy retrofit means matching the existing set-up in a building like for like. That’s why at Dublin, customers will be able to compare Aurora’s low-energy equivalents with the usual suspects. They won’t have to take our word that we’ve developed low-energy technology that matches the colour temperature and output of Incandescent and halogen lamps. In fact they’ll see it with their own eyes.”
See the cost-effectiveness of low energy lighting in Dublin
The Dublin facility itself shows the effectiveness of low-energy lighting. Even with every light switched on, the showroom displays would run on 400W, and the rest of the 6,500ft2 facility would run off just 1.5kW – in fact, less than your fridge at home.
Visit www.aurora.eu.com contact Des Duignan on 00353 (0) 87 694 1964, email
des.duignan@aurora.eu.com or Shaun McSherry on 00353 (0) 87 915 3528, and email shaun.mcsherry@aurora.eu.com
Visit Aurora, by appointment only, in North Business Park, Finglas, Dublin, off junction 5 of the M50 motorway.
