How do we as lighting designers and manufacturers help to reduce the opportunity for crime and antisocial behaviour, give more confidence to the general public and, where offences do occur, ensure a higher chance of capture and conviction?

This article discusses best practice and lighting standards to help you design out crime in your projects.

Our Spanish street furniture partner, Escofet, is proudly sponsoring the European Prize for Urban Public Space. It is an innovative prize that truly recognises the impact of good landscape design on the people that matter - the citizens.

Priority is honourably given to architecture with a social vocation rather than to that with an aesthetic or spectacular accent.

This article shows previous winners featuring our products.

With the current focus on sustainability and energy use high on today’s agenda, it seems timely to holistically consider the issues affecting the carbon footprint of street lighting.

Is manufacturing, delivery or the operation of the light the key to the equation?

This article discusses the life cycle analysis and importance of each element.

Is there any point in taking a long-term view of signage, wayfinding & legibility strategy anymore?

Given the increasing affordability, function and adoption of smart phones, it could be said that the humble street sign is no longer a pertinent solution.

It’s hard not to agree with the above, but the future is actually much more clouded with uncertainty and is less definitive. This article discusses how signage must adapt to continue to add value in our public realm.

Woodhouse’s LED partners LEC, have collaboratively developed a range of submersible luminaires.

The products were originally conceived to fulfil the specific project brief in Lyon and have shown up to 43 times less energy consumption than their predecessors and can now be specified for submersible projects in the UK.

What is wayfinding and, more to the point, what might be classed as good wayfinding?

With evidence of exemplar projects thin on the ground and customers often bewildered by multiple stakeholders’ conflicting needs, this article discusses the true principles of wayfinding best practice with applicative advice.

This article discusses the practical considerations and implications for architects when specificying the Cor-Ten (Corten) material in the public realm and urban areas.

This post contains detailed material information, specification suitability and protection of the material for longevity.