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Why LEDs are key to the smart home revolution
If you said the words “smart lighting” ten years ago, you’d probably be met with a blank stare or a look of pity for your clear detachment from reality. Yes, lighting is “smart” - one of the most important innovations in recent centuries, no doubt - but their...
The lighting industry is experiencing an environmental revolution
In an historic turning point for the lighting industry, the UK government has decided to ban the sale of halogen light bulbs. From September this year, the sale of low-efficiency, high energy halogen light bulbs will be banned in an attempt to reduce the UK's carbon...
Why more people are turning to dimmable lighting
The benefits of LED lighting are escaping no one at this point. Since their mainstream arrival in the lighting market during the early 00s, LED lighting has become the obvious lighting choice thanks to its myriad advantages over its traditional predecessors; from...
Why cheap labour will cost you more eventually
An all too common occurrence in the electrical industry (and in the contracting world as a whole) is a client goes to tender for a job, gets a few quotes and goes for the cheapest one. This makes sense to them as a customer; they see a contractor with the same...
Five reasons why you need LED Lighting for your Business
When the first visible LED was created in the early 60s, little was known of how much it would change the scape of future lighting solutions. Traditional lighting (e.g. halogen, fluorescent, and incandescent) are beset by drawbacks that affect them and their...
Starting and scaling a company in construction
For my first blog on the site, I’d like to share the Cube Lighting & Design journey; from how I started it up, to how I scaled it both up and down, and all the lessons I learned in between. It started about 10 years ago when I was working in the hospitality...