April 2008

Clearvision wins Blink Point with Low Void Kallista

The developers of the new landmark development at 28 Park Street in Southwark have chosen the low void version of Clearvision’s Kallista luminaire to provide the ambient lighting at the highest levels of energy efficiency.

The criteria for the light fitting were very demanding – sub-70mm of void, BREEAM levels of efficiency, air handling, an integrated ceiling tile detail and good aesthetics, wall and ceiling light ratios. The Clearvision Kallista LV, supplied with MTX lens and frosted white end caps, was chosen for its almost unique ability to match these parameters. The fittings are being supplied with dimmable ballasts in 4x14w T5 format with prewired connector leads for modular wiring.

March 2008

Clearvision design EcoHome lighting for Ideal Home Show

Clearvision Lighting has created a lighting design for the Eco Home, one of the centre piece displays at the 2008 Daily Mail Ideal Home Show at Earl’s Court. The design of the lighting had to look good, but also cope with the requirements of the modular build structure, be very quick to install and provide an educational element on energy saving.

For practical reasons there are no wall mounted fittings, but otherwise the lighting is intended to be practical for use in a typical home. Clearvision chose to use ceiling based downlights as the core of the scheme, because they are popular, look good, are easy to install and provide a good platform for educational messages on the relative effectiveness of halogen, compact florescent and LED lamps.

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March 2008

Terra Firma has Clearvision in London

One of the UK top private equity firms – Terra Firma Capital Partners (TFCP) – has taken extra space at More London. As with its existing space TFCP has placed great emphasis on the quality of its lit environment.

A variety of architectural fittings from Clearvision were supplied including Sky 2 artificial daylight units, Kallista modulars, Vega suspended fittings together with other architectural fittings, such products were used primarily for their ability to create the high visual acuity and concentration environment required by an organisation dealing in multi billion investment projects.

February 2008

Virtual Daylight® for Perse School

Clearvision Lighting has supplied many of the light fittings for new buildings at one of Britain’s top private schools – The Perse in Cambridge.

January 2008

Clearvision provides new 1200 x 600mm version of Kallista
to BSkyB

Clearvision Lighting has provided its latest variant of the Kallista Virtual Daylight fitting in 1200 x 600mm format to the new offices of BSkyB in West London. The Kallista has proved very popular in 600 x 600mm, but this was the first time that the larger 2x28w format had been used. The fittings were mixed in with standard versions to create an attractive and cost effective solution across three floors of Great West House in Brentford.

The Optika II curved lens Kallista variant provides good LG7 ratios at around 10w/m2, whilst also ensuring a comfortable low glare working environment. The daylight lamps provide the high circadian factor (CF) associated with supporting better attention characteristics for people at work.

March 2007

Clearvision expands in the North of England

Clearvision products can now be viewed at the Komfort Workspace showroom in Trafford Park, Manchester. Clearvision has developed a number of good business partners in the North and continues to increase its presence with specifiers in the region.

Janine Sehne, Northern Area Sales Director, commented; “ In the past we have done some nice projects up here and maintain some good relationships across the region, but we are now making a more sustained effort to develop our business amongst specifiers. The workspace showroom is a convenient place for customers to meet and see some of our new products.”

January 2007

Coloured walls complement SKY2 fitting for training rooms

Clearvision has introduced RGB coloured wall washers to complement the walls on its latest project for Flagship Training at Gosport. The training rooms are lit with 1200 x 1200mm SKY2 fittings with 8x54w daylight lamps on 1-10v dimmable HF ballasts. Walls have RGB 3x54w Washington fittings to provide mood changes for the different activities. Some areas have Kallista MTX 4x14w dimmable Daylight fittings. The whole scheme is controlled through a Mode Evolution dimming rack with scene control.

November 2006

Kallista joins Carbon Trust ETL list for ECA Eligibility

The new Kallista fitting has been added to The Carbon Trust list of the most energy efficient light fittings on the market. The Energy Technology List (ETL) requires fittings to have a very high Light Output Ratio – in fact one that is significantly greater than that required by Part L of the current Building Regulations.

As one of a very few non-louvre fittings to achieve the ETL threshold the Kallista is almost unique in also producing wall illuminance in line with CIBSE LG7 office lighting design guidance.

The Kallista has a set of 4 standard interchangeable lenses – each suited to different types of space and appearance. Clearvision sees this as an ideal way to combine the need to reduce energy consumption with the critical demand for ergonomic lighting.

Clearvision is also keen to stress that it has produced its latest luminaires with the environment in mind – considering material content, component longevity and recycling as well as energy use in the design criteria.

For more information contact nperry@virtualdaylight.com

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October 2006

Sir Crispin Tickell opens The Pines Calyx

17th October 2006 sees Sir Crispin Tickell, President of the South-East Climate Change Partnership open the innovative and sustainable Pines Calyx conference centre near Dover.

Clearvision Calyx fittings were chosen and named after the centre for their natural type light and interesting appearance. The fitting was developed from and original concept by Mary Rushton-Beals of The Lighting Design House whose team was responsible for the lighting design of the centre. The fittings have Philips’ RGB T5 fluorescent lamps on individual DALI ballasts. The lens is a curved Optika II and the end caps are formed from locally harvested pine.

The Pines Calyx centre uses daylighting, innovative vaulting and walling techniques to create a minimal carbon footprint. For more information please go to www.pinescalyx.co.uk

The lighting concept and design of the Calyx fitting was developed from an original concept by Mary Rushton-Beals of the Lighting Design House whose team was responsible for the lighting design of the Calyx centre.

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August 2006

New Kallista has curved air

Clearvision has introduced an exciting new product to its range of recessed modular fittings.

The new Kallista fitting has the first curved Optika polarising lens. Clearvision's Optika lens is already the market leading polarising lens in the UK, but has always previously been flat.

However the Kallista has even more to offer. The lens has aluminium side rails and formed end caps making it a self contained structure that is completely removable form the fitting by any unskilled person. The Optika is thus interchangeable with three other lenses - Q45, MTX and Grid - to create a product with variable performance and appearance.

The Kallista does not slavishly follow the current fashion for hanging out of the ceiling, but uses it curved optics to achieve very high wall illuminance.

From a sustainability standpoint the body is designed to maximise recycling and refurbishment in the future with removable reflector wings and HF geartray as well optics.

"I think it's the nicest looking recessed fitting we have made - simple and very crisp" says Paul Stephenson, Managing Director of Clearvision.

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August 2006

New Lenses for Clearvision fittings

Clearvision Lighting has introduced some new high performance lenses to sit alongside its existing Optika polarising lenses.

Q4 series

The Q4 series of lenses use a multilayer construction and have a fisheye appearance. The Q42 lens is nearly transparent and makes a feature of the distortion of the lamp image caused by the concave prism structure. The Q45 variant has a diffuse layer, which creates a more 3D appearance not dissimilar to a glass block.

MTX series

The MTX lens series is manufactured using a multilayer construction, including layers of linear microprismatic copolymer. The material has considerable advantages against some of the traditional materials used in lens – fire, transmission and longevity are all good – and the microprism creates an attractive material.

July 2006

Clearvision Colour at The Calyx

Colour at the Calyx

Virtual Daylight® has been selected for one of Britain's most sustainable buildings - the new Calyx conference centre in St. Margaret's Bay, Kent. The new RGB fitting with curved lens will be named after its first home - Calyx. The Calyx centre has a host of innovative construction techniques that minimise its environmental impact, whilst maximising its use of local materials.

Calyx for Calyx

The new Calyx suspended fitting is the first with a curved Optika lens and is also being supplied with a DALI RGB T5 lamp arrangement.

The fitting is designed to provide good all round light distribution whilst at the same time being visually attractive and distinctive. The end sections will be from wood for the Calyx, but will be aluminium standard. On the Calyx project the wood will be drawn from local sources in keeping with the project principles of locally sourced materials.

The lighting concept and design at The Calyx is by Mary Rushton-Beales, IALD of Lighting Design House.

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