The author of the new British Council for Offices (BCO) guide to office lighting has said the rapid evolution of LED technology complicated the process for producing a comprehensive and definitive document.
Speaking at the Designing the Workspace of the Future panel discussion organised by Lighting, The Architects' Journal and GE Lighting, Iain Trent, senior project engineer with property developer Land Securities, said: "No sooner have you written something than the standards have changed or the technology has changed and you've got to rewrite it. Of course it's still a very young market and people are still working out what the criteria they have to meet are."
Speaking at the same event, lighting consultant Andrew Bissell from Cundall Light4 said he thought the time had arrived for LEDs to take over from fluorescents in some office applications. "There's a role for LEDs to replace fluorescents in offices; I think that time is now. The efficiency is there, the design is there, the specification quality is there, the colour temperature, how long that's going to last, the lumen output, that's there now," he said. "Not for every installation, not for every occasion, but I'm sure we'll see more of that happening".
