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Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) VS TM66

Understanding Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and their difference from TM66 for Architects, Designers, and Developers.
What is an EPD?

An ...

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The Revalo Story

Over two decades ago, Ralph and Nelson embarked on a transformative journey in NZ manufacturing. They created what was then the High Bay equivalent of...

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Meet The Team: Derek

Name: Derek Colley

Role: Commercial Lighting Specialist

How many years have you worked in the lighting industry:
Almost 1.5 years.

The biggest m...

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5 things you need to know about circadian rhythms

The circadian rhythm is the bedrock of your well-being. But it's often overlooked. Here are five things you should know about your circadian rhythm.
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Meet The Team: Wendy

Name: Wendy Gannon

Role: Lighting Design

How many years have you worked in the lighting industry: Almost 8 years.

The biggest misconception about...

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What is Accu-Join?

Accu-Join is a unique joining system to speed up installation, guarantee light-tight joins for continuous uninterrupted light and maintain ingress pro...

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Meet The Team: Donna

Name: Donna Julian

Role: Sales Lighting Specialist / Team Leader Auckland

How many years have you worked in the lighting industry: Approximately 3...

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Visible Light Spectrum and Circadian Rhythm Energylight v2

What is wrong with the LED Spectrum?

The LED spectrum is the pinnacle of lighting technology based on research conducted in 1924, nearly 100 years ago. If the scientists from 1924 were tr...

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The Extraordinary Pantheon

Travel to Italy and it won't just be the delicious cuisine or charismatic Italians that wow you, but the impressive ancient architecture of historical...

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Terminology Explained

Energylight's product suite are designed for various applications whilst meeting certain approvals. Below is an explanation of the term you may see sh...

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Tapuwae - Northcote Safe Cycle Route Bridges

Tapuwae (footprint) is the name given to the striking cycle and walkway bridges constructed on either side of the main road-bridge crossing the Northe...

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Meet The Team: James

Name: James Duder

Role: CEO of Sales

How many years have you worked in the lighting industry: 13

The biggest misconception about lighting that you ...

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How to enhance natural light in an office

5 benefits of natural light in an office

Office workers will spend approximately 90,000 hours of their lives in an office. 40% of office workers in New Zealand and Australia, who were surveye...

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Circadian Lighting: Evidence-Based Design vs Standards Based Design

If you read our 2022 wrap up, I was critical of our industry’s inability to capitalise on the demand for proper circadian lighting. Unfortunately, thi...

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Meet The Team: Holly

Name: Holly Hunt

Role: Lighting Sales Coordinator

How many years have you worked in the lighting industry: 7 months!

The biggest misconception of l...

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Media Release: Correction of Wellington Street Light Story

Media outlet Stuff published an article titled: “It's raining lamps: 15kg streetlights fall in Wellington with deadly force”. The story, dated Februar...

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Ewo Chameleon: Master of Transformation

Ewo, known for its high-quality lighting systems for public spaces, has pioneered the latest in ingenious lighting - the ewo Chameleon.

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Energylight Presents: Energyline Rocker Cover Racing

Game to take the title?For the first time in Energylight history, we will host our first-ever Rocker Cover Racing event in New Zealand. ...

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Westland Petrel Colony Tour

The Energylight Sales Team recently held its annual mini-conference on the West Coast of New Zealand. Part of the visit was in place to learn more abo...

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The Petrel Head Story

Light, be it natural or artificial, has an impact on all species, humans and wildlife alike. For many years across the world ecologists, scienti...

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Can we reverse the lighting brain drain?

Now with the current stage of the Global pandemic, New Zealands borders are opening up many kiwis or New Zealand residents will be looking overseas to...

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Draft Standard for comment on Lighting Energy

Currently there is a draft standard out for public comment which addresses the lighting energy use in Non-residential buildings.

This is a companion ...

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Healthcare Lighting Q&A

What is COI? COI Stands for Cyanosis Observation Index. It is a unit of measure that has been used in Australia and New Zealand since 1997 (with th...

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The Final Chapter

The last installment in our special “Ode to Otto” craft beers....

James Duder’s little dachshund Otto, a loved member of the office, has lived on ...

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What Is BIOS Lighting?

The Pioneers in Human Centric Lighting

Biological lighting technology to promote healing through circadian entrainment

We share with you the BIOS st...

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Psychiatric Lighting Innovation: The Salvalux Story

Developed through collaboration with internal and external innovation teams, Energylight continue to challenge incumbent lighting solutions for all ma...

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5 x Benefits of Vertical Trunking in Patient Rooms

Electrical outlets in hospitals are critical to the prompt care of patients by medical staff in patient rooms. They are installed to provide easy acce...

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The Connection: Biophilic Design & Human Centric Lighting

What is Biophilic Design? Biophilic Design is a building concept that encourages design that connects us to our natural environment. It’s not a new c...

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What is Cyanosis Detection?

To understand how to detect cyanosis, we need to firstly, understand what cyanosis is. Cyanosis is defined as the diffused bluish coloration of the sk...

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Recycled Aluminium in Energyline Linear

Did you know that our newly developed Energyline Linear is made with recycled aluminium right here in New Zealand?

Energyline has a strong commitment...

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How to understand IP Ratings Index for Lighting

What is IP Rating Index?

An IP rating index is shorthand for an Ingress Protection mark, sometimes referred to synonymously as an International (or I...

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Made in New Zealand... what does it mean?

A 3 minute article about stuff made right here.

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Learn the best practice for lighting green walls

Green walls are an impressive way to add life to a project, whether it be in a modern office setting or a retail space. Learn how to perfectly execute them here.

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Selecting the right luminaires for your sports lighting project

Sports played in indoor environments are broad and varied, with uniform light levels of 300lux suitable in many cases, while certain sports like squash require 500lux due to small ball size and velocity.

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How is the industry using maintenance factors?

We discovered how the wider industry are calculating their maintenance factors, how LED lumen maintenance data influence product selections - and more...

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What are Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) cables?

Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) cabling contain no halogen content, whereas the common choice of PVC does. Halogens are powerful oxidisers and are highly reactive.

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Introducing Casambi

The Casambi solution is based on a state-of-the-art Bluetooth wireless technology allowing you to control lighting via smartphones, tablets and even s...

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How important is an IP50 rating?

We conducted a test comparing an IP50 and IP20 recessed LED troffer in our Christchurch office.

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How can LED lights give you internet data?

By making a few modifications to the light fixtures in offices or at home, light waves can provide an internet connection.

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How does lighting impact our health and productivity?

As part of our journey toward learning about human centric lighting technology, we've installed tunable light in our Auckland office.

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