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LED luminaire shipments for outdoor and parking applications to reach 14 million by 2023, says Navigant
Press release; Alex Wolfgram, DIGITIMES[Friday 2 May 2014]
Outdoor lighting systems are a major contributor to global energy use. Today, the market segment is dominated by fluorescent, high-pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps. Over the next 10 years, however, LEDs will become the leading lamp type for outdoor installations. According to Navigant Research, worldwide shipments of luminaires with LED lamps for outdoor and parking applications will grow from 4.1 million annually in 2014 to nearly 14 million in 2023.
"LED outdoor area luminaires must compete with existing technologies that are relatively energy efficient and low cost, making lifetime cost savings more challenging in a market led by retrofits and replacements," said Jesse Foote, senior research analyst with Navigant Research. "With LED prices continuing to fall, however, the case for replacing today's most prevalent lighting technologies is becoming more and more compelling."
The growth of smart city initiatives is also driving outdoor lighting systems to become increasingly sophisticated. Smart lighting systems can make decisions in real time; a networked light in a city park, for example, can detect when an individual lamp burns out and immediately schedule a maintenance crew visit. Many companies in the lighting sector now refer to themselves as being at the center of the Internet of Things, rather than as pure-play lighting companies.
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Done right, outdoor lighting makes your home safer, more secure and more attractive. Lighting pros illuminated our team with the following list of outdoor-lighting trends:
Increasing use of low-voltage LED lights to accentuate outdoor focal points, including fish ponds, swimming pools, decks, patios, fire pits and fountains. LED lights use an estimated 75 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and last 25 times longer. Some homeowners create theme lighting by using different-colored LEDs on holidays.
Lamps that use oil or natural gas.
Fixtures installed in trees, accentuating plantings and flowerbeds.
Lighting to increase curb appeal. Landscaping lighting designers say that what looks good during the day can look as good, if not better, at night. A lighted water element can look especially pleasing when it's dark outside.
Increased concern about reducing excess light that might annoy a neighbor or contribute to "light pollution" that impedes our view of the night sky. The key to minimizing light loss and excess glare is to efficiently use and place fixtures, experts say. Tips include placing lights as close as possible to the house or landscape element, selecting the appropriate size and type of light for the purpose, and angling fixtures so they don't waste light into the sky or off the property.
ANGIE HICKS is the founder of Angie's List, a resource for local consumer reviews on everything from home repair to health care.
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Shedding some light on your exteriors
The City of Coral Gables Green Task Force is looking for a local landscape architect who would like to serve on this 11-member volunteer group.
The Green Task Force advises city officials on environmental issues that support a sustainable community and it requires the participation of a landscape architect, a planner, a person interested in historic preservation, an engineer, an architect, a member from the University of Miami, one from the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce and another from the Garden Club, as well as three city residents two appointed by the city commission and one by the city manager. Nominations have been received for other categories but are still needed for the Landscape Architect category.
If you are interested in serving, submit your rsum, along with a cover letter, to the Office of the City Clerk, 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, FL 33134. The information received will then be forwarded to the city commission for consideration. You must be a resident of Coral Gables to serve on the Green Task Force.
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FROM THE MOMENT he laid eyes on it, landscape architect Brooks Kolb was captivated by a unique property in North Beach. Garden paths, patios and walkways, as well as the house itself, were built of stone, timber and clinker brick found on site. The ambience was more Hansel-and-Gretel cottage than 21st-century Northwest.
Owners Maureen and Tim Brillon bought their 1925 Tudor and overgrown garden in 1999. The house was falling down, the garden was a jungle and the entry was as dark as a cave, says Maureen of the place when they first saw it. Yet they, too, were drawn in by its storybook charm.
The Brillons remodeled the house, then turned their attention to garden renovation. They interviewed several landscape architects, then selected Kolb, in part because they were impressed that he asked to look at the garden from inside the house.
While he left plenty of big cedars and firs for privacy and scale, Kolb opened up the cavelike entry by removing a number of trees and a huge Portuguese laurel. He designed the half-acre garden around the three remaining old lampposts. Yet this wasnt a period restoration.
The garden was a hodgepodge, explains Maureen. We wanted a thoughtful, well-planned garden with good lighting, safe walkways and low-maintenance plantings. She describes her husband as the gardener, a real do-it-yourselfer. But with a steep hillside and a mix of new and mature plantings to contend with, an easy-care garden was a major criterion for the renovation.
First, Kolb needed to deal with the infrastructure. Broken, heaving stones made the front walkway uneven. I call it anti-social paving, says Kolb of the treacherous approach to the house. He replaced walkways and patios with stone and brick that look as if they could be original to the place. He reused the old stone in new retaining walls around the entry terrace, capping them with thick slabs of bluestone.
Kolb added a layer of shade-tolerant plantings beneath the trees, including golden Japanese forest grass, nandina and lots of native foam flower (Tiarella trifoliata). Now that the curving new borders are filled with flowering shrubs, grasses and perennials, its hard to believe the property was once a cherry orchard.
What are Kolbs low-maintenance strategies for the garden? He left healthy, older shrubs like rhododendrons, azaleas and mock orange as a backdrop. Then he filled in with masses of small shrubs like mahonia, fothergilla and leucothoe, and low-growing evergreens such as Yak rhodies, sword ferns and hellebores. Ribbons of short, showy ornamental grasses and variegated brunnera brighten up all the green. Still, you have to keep on top of the weeding; you cant let it get out of control, Kolb cautions.
The garden is terraced down to where it drops away into a forested ravine, with lawn on the lower level for the kids to run and play soccer. Mountain beaver from the ravine have been working over the crisp line of hebes hedging the lawn. The chewed-up hebes have been replanted, and copper electrical lines strung around them to protect the plants from predation.
While the old house exerts a force field of European charm, the lower garden on the edge of the wild ravine has its own magnetism. The stone steps down into the garden are flanked with intensely fragrant variegated Daphne transatlantica Summer Ice. Grassy, mower-width paths meander down the slope. The little tool shed is shingled like the house, and Adirondack chairs beckon visitors to stroll the pathways down into this fairy tale of a garden.
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