Lighting the Way to a Greener Future With Sustainable Lighting Solutions
In a rapidly evolving world with climate urgencies, tackling sustainability has never been more important. At Mount Lighting, we are on a journey to address the sustainability of our products and processes. From product conception to post-installation maintenance, we approach sustainability as a principal concern, with a focal point of the business being initiatives […]
Lighting Solutions for CAT A, CAT A+, and CAT B Fitouts
Lighting is a fundamental component of all spaces, but artificial lighting can influence the perception of a room. Ensuring you have an appropriate lighting solution for your type of fitout is crucial to utilise an area best, whether that’s overhead and task lighting to support human-centric working environments or using accent lighting to highlight […]
DALI vs Casambi
Lighting control systems are popular for many reasons, with the endless list of benefits it provides their users, from future-proofing a building to modern and attractive designs to the cost advantages it poses. Both DALI and Casambi are popular choices when it comes to choosing a lighting system. DALI lighting control systems have been […]
Visit Spacestor’s New London Design Centre
The team at Mount Lighting are excited to announce that we have once again partnered with Spacestor at their newly designed showroom in the heart of London’s design district at 48-50 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 3HP. This collaboration comes just in time for Clerkenwell Design Week from 23-25 May 2023, where some of the […]
Casambi Wireless Lighting Controls – The What, Why, Where and How Guide
What Is Casambi? Casambi is a smart, wireless lighting control system that is used for varying individual or groups of lights for effect and best efficiency. This wireless lighting is revolutionary for utilising space intelligently and creating the desired ambience. The “ambi” in Casambi even stands for ambience. Casambi Lighting can provide your clients […]
Attracting Employees Back To Work
Where are you reading this post from now? Are you at home? At work? Perhaps you are in the office? Where once we could assume the majority of workers would be on-site for their jobs, our post-pandemic world has left us with a rather different working landscape. COVID-19 has forced us to adapt […]
LED Lighting: Green, Efficient & Sustainable
The switch to LED lighting was a “lightbulb moment” for global governments in the mid to late 2000s. Following examples set by Venezuela and Brazil, the EU (which included the UK at that time), Australia and Switzerland began to deescalate the production of inefficient light bulbs in 2009. Last year, EU legislation changed, removing […]
SWITCHDIM INTELLIGENT LIGHTING CONFIGURATION GUIDE
Looking for information on how to wire up SwitchDIM, or for a SwitchDIM configuration guide? You’re in the right place! What Is SwitchDIM Lighting? Sometimes known as Touch Dim, SwitchDIM is a brand of Tridonic. Cost-effective, easy to use, and effective in a wide variety of situations, it offers simple yet powerful lighting […]
DIMMING TYPES EXPLAINED
DALI DALI stands for Digitally Addressable Lighting Interface. DALI is a recognised standard employed by all ballast manufacturers that offer DALI ballasts. This system assigns an individual address to each luminaire i.e. 001, 002, 003 and so on, allowing control of each individual luminaire. All luminaires can be controlled from a central desktop PC, and […]
Could better office lighting boost your workplace productivity?
As you read this, take a look around yourself. How many sources of light can you see? Are you surrounded by artificial lighting or is your space predominantly flooded by natural light? How do you feel as you look at the lights around you? How do you feel when you look away from them? […]
Lighting Design: 5 Tips for Interior Designers
The modern commercial environment is driven by appearance which means that lighting design has become much more than just ticking a few lux level boxes. In fact, ceiling lighting design is now an essential part of the commercial design process for refurbishments and new fit-out projects. This contemporary approach to lighting design has […]
How Did Daylight Saving Time Begin… and Is It Even Necessary Today?
Always a controversial subject, the changing of the clocks to Daylight Saving Time in Spring and Autumn has caused joy and annoyance in equal measures ever since its inception over 100 years ago. There are many who feel ‘robbed’ of an hour of sleep in Spring and then rejoice at the thought of an […]
How Lighting Can Affect Workplace Productivity
For years, successive governments (and frustrated business leaders) have wrestled with a vexatious challenge that affects the entire country: workplace productivity. The technology-driven increase in productivity of past decades has slowed dramatically and the UK has fallen behind other developed nations on the productivity scale. While there are many factors that can affect how […]