The LED lighting design gap between China and Europe

The lights along the way, with the development of human history has become the world an indispensable part of life and business applications. Both ancient torches, bonfires, and the feudal society all kinds of lanterns, all kinds of ceramic and metal lamps and lanterns, even to the modern incandescent lamps, energy-saving lamps, led lighting now, every time the light, is an important symbol of social productivity development, is the crystallization of human art and technology, but also an important component of human culture. In the information age, the understanding of the LED street lighting configuration, run out, the deduction of the technology of lamps and lanterns, lighting, already was a country prosperous or not one of the important technical indicators.
Throughout the development level of lighting design for more than 20 years in our country, compared with Europe and the United States, Japan and other developed countries, the development process is relatively slow. But because of the Olympic Games, Asian games, etc. The successful hosting of the expo, as well as the rapid development of China's real estate industry and urbanization, China's overall level of lighting design industry have improved significantly. In the process of this development, our lighting designers with international lighting design in developed countries as reference point, learning and practice application, gradually close the gap, with globalization and keep pace with The Times of thinking make Chinese people to enjoy light in a new era of life, feel the infinite charm of lighting technology.
The author had taken nearly 40 countries for more than a decade, involved in the design and application of many international architectural lighting industry summit and BBS activities, to the international advanced concepts and applications of lighting design industry experience more feelings and comprehension, plus th industry has an in-depth study and practice, learn in lighting design industry, both at home and abroad the gap is more obvious, embodies in the following three aspects:
Professional talent gap of lighting design at home and abroad
The development of an industry, needs to have a special man to do research, will be able to do better. At present, China's lighting industry is lack of professional designers groups, more than 80% of the lighting designers from electrical engineering related to lighting or researchers turned to interior design. Domestic professional lighting design training lectures, few and far between.
Lighting designers lack of professional knowledge of lighting, the concept of lighting products and light environment design is still superficial. Most understanding of lighting design, lighting designers, all by self-study through trial and error and the practice to complete the lighting design. Even engaged in lighting design professional designers, more than half only focuses on the technical level, application level rather than design.
The United States since the 1950 s, the lighting design gradually separated from architecture, interior design, and other industries, the formation of a single industry, by special institutions to cultivate professional practitioners, talent reserves sufficient, even absorb the global elite designer team. Professional lighting designers is in the service of the owners, in the service of interior designer, they consider is to have what effect, should use what class of the lamp, to use what the characteristics of the light, to the pursuit of environment, people, aesthetic feeling and the perfect combination of lamplight, which ensures that constantly improve the level of lighting design.
The professional force difference of the lighting designer
In Europe and the United States and other countries, lighting designers is an independent and professional by legislation. To the brand for the general lighting institutions to operate. Individuals to the development of expert, usually "do one thing, for a lifetime!"
A lighting designer must not only know the lighting design, but also for his responsible for design and supervision space lighting environment. If a company's staff is the lights (or on a computer screen reflection) damage to the eyes, he can pass legislation department complaint owner, the owner can be a civil lawsuit against the lighting designer.
China lighting designers mostly mid-career, "river lake field" model, level of education, generally do not have a high level of specialization and make systematic scheme and model is weak, so far no a lighting design professional college, nor professional organizations, and is only attached to the building design. So their design more belong to grope and practice for a long time, will design skills proficiency as the concept of lighting design and creativity.
At home, lack of complete industry chain, the industry as a whole lighting design is soldier more, ability is uneven. Therefore, domestic lighting design industry for team, specialization, standardization and internationalization direction development still has a long way to go.
Lighting design in the domestic and overseas market segment of the gap
From the perspective of market segmentation, European and American developed countries lighting design application in the market segment is characterized by: in various fields to distinguish, within each niche for fixed-point directional LED street lighting, high intensity lighting, pure color and color temperature adjustment, dimming control, reliability, etc all have clear positioning design, technical level is higher, more comprehensive technology, operation specification. Japan mineko iwasaki lighting, for example, the specialized is engaged in the lighting segment in the field of underwater lighting, has more than 50 years in this field.
And the Chinese mainland market for the application of lighting design features are: the price first, by feel, by experience, by relations, just work, in order to select the desired lighting lamps and lanterns; Then refer to some regulations of lighting design, intensity of illumination, color temperature, color rendering, etc.), finally formed a set of lighting effect. Whether it is day or night, whether indoor or outdoor, lighting effects are mostly machine-made.
Generally speaking, from the observation, the author of the Chinese and foreign lighting industry in mainland China market of the lighting design is not strictly a lighting design, but the lamps and lanterns of purchasing or lamp driver. Design modelling and design applications, more than half of the lighting design are not based on the actual application effect for light distribution, lighting, creativity is relatively inadequate.
2000 north American lighting engineering society IESNA "north American lighting handbook ninth edition, published by the editor MarkSRea is there's a phrase in the preamble of the manual:" over the past two decades, in the practice of the lighting, from engineering to the lighting design, lighting from the intensity of illumination computation to aesthetic evaluation, from quantity to quality."
The development trend of China's lighting design to follow the same rule. We see that China's lighting design has a long way to go. On this road, you must need the government, institutions, industry associations, the media, lighting and lighting designer of China's vast power jointly promote the ability to go on, believe in the context of a new era of international cooperation is increasingly close, in the change of information sharing, China lighting design industry decide to continuously explore, research and practice of getting rich experience of wealth, and be able to blaze a trail in accordance with the situation of China, has a unique Oriental charm of the bright road!

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