The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is hosting a challenge at the House Next Door, situated in London's Jewish Quarter, which will give expert lighting designers the chance to attempt to light an entire house with just 100W of energy.
Taking place over five days, the event has been designed to give industry professionals the chance to show off the energy-efficient capabilities of innovative lighting technologies nowadays.
Lighting Magazine reported that the House Next Door has been rented out by the organisation for the week and the challenge will take place across three floors. Each team implicated in the assignment will be charged with lighting one room of the house, with five teams in total working together to light all of the rooms on a meagre 100W of energy.
In order to carry out the task, teams will be provided with LED tape amounting to 100 circuit watts, LED driver units, fixing methods, optical accessories, linear diffusers, linear extrusions to mount the tape and linear lenses to focus the light, as well as individual optics to create downwards lights or up-lighting.
The teams taking part will be comprised of designers from companies ARUP, LAPD, Kevan Shaw Lighting Design, Lighting Design International and Speirs+Major.
As the teams finish their work, visitors to the house will be able to come and admire their handiwork - and hopefully be inspired to give the lighting in their own properties a bit of a rethink.
While lighting your entire property on just 100W of energy may seem somewhat unfeasible to homeowners who do not have a wealth of lighting expertise at their fingertips, people can still draw on the basic principles of the competition - that everyone could probably install outdoor wall lights or ceiling spotlights, for example, in the house which would use a little bit less energy.
Not only could people benefit from a more energy-efficient lighting retrofit project by slashing their bills, but they could also rest assured that they are doing their bit for the environment - something which should be increasingly important to everyone the nation over.
